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Post by stclair on Jul 25, 2016 12:39:46 GMT
Because your great grandma rarely looks this identical to you. Yeah, that's true, but many movies act like the chances are pretty high. (There are like dozens of movies were for no reason a man or woman looks identical to his/her grandparent.) Maybe Tom just followed that trend. ("trend" for lack of better word) Of course, there's actually a very good reason: so one actor can play both parts. |
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Post by youwiththeface on Jul 25, 2016 22:41:59 GMT
....This is the comic where a vengeful ghost guards a ravine from any of the animals, fairies, humans or gods who might try to cross, and the only kids who might be able to stop her are a half-elemental girl with pyrokinesis, a girl who can bap and a boy with all the luck in the world at his fingertips. And that's without getting into Kat, Paz and the robots. The important thing here is internal consistency. The only case of "fantasy genetics" so far is Annie and her ancestry, but this is justified because of Annie's etheric nature. Other than that we have no reason to assume that non-etheric genetics in Gunnerkrigg Court work in a fantastical manner different from the real world. Just because dragons exist in this story we shouldn't wave away questions with "it's magic, get over it". We haven't seen any ancestors though. It isn't as if it's an established pattern that long ago relatives look nothing like our main characters. And lot's of stories that don't have magic in them play the 'generation xerox ' card. It's just not weird enough to dismiss, either in Gunnerkrigg or any other comic. |
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Post by warrl on Jul 28, 2016 7:18:11 GMT
In any sort of visual fiction that spans multiple decades, where family connections are important, having members of one family clearly resemble each other is also a way of helping the audience keep track of who is descended from whom.
Heck, with a sufficiently large number of generations Whoopi Goldberg could play Michelle Pfeiffer's ancestor - but how many viewers would recognize the connection?
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