Suspension of disbelief

[owlmoose]

Hanging out and watching bad television with amybang. It's telling, I think, that out of all of the ridiculous things that have happened in "The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines" (librarian as fact machine and action hero, magical books, plot twists that a five year old could see coming, the book of Solomon being written in English, various crazy coincidences, obvious editing mistakes), the thing we can't get past is that the main character, Flynn, somehow managed to complete five PhDs by his 32nd birthday.

Comments

[amybang.livejournal.com]

There _is_ only so much disbelief I can suspend.

[friede.livejournal.com]

I dunno -- if they were UK PhDs/DPhils (ie, requiring only a thesis, minimal or no coursework), you could possibly pull it off -- those things are supposed to only take 3 years a piece, and if they were in closely allied fields, I suppose it might be possible if you started young.

There's a dumbass somewhere who collects degrees and has for years -- he's young still, if memory serves (my Google-fu is failing me)

[amybang.livejournal.com]

Do not defend the bad movie

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

The character was clearly American, but I suppose it's possible that he got at least some of his degrees in the UK. But at this point, I suspect we're putting more thought into this than the writers did. :)

[concertinette.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining him doing 3 simultaneous PhDs at 3 different universities and convincing each department that he's a full-time student... because if he were trying to two-time on the same campus, the departments would just give him a joint degree.

Of course, they don't mention that the reason he needs the treasure of King Solomon is to pay off his student loans.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

If we were someplace with a high concentration of universities, like Boston or Philadelphia, that might be doable. Assuming he didn't need to sleep, or one of those degrees involved inventing time travel or something.

Of course, they don't mention that the reason he needs the treasure of King Solomon is to pay off his student loans.

Yeah, you know, somehow that never came up. :)

[amybang.livejournal.com]

Obviously he'd have a lot of student loans, because from what I heard, none of those degrees were in any of the sciences. Of course, at some point in the last movie, he said he had a degree in every natural language, not meaning "natural languages" as a blanket. So, I think we might have to recalculate the number of degrees he has...

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Maybe he got some more between the second and third movies. You know, in his copious spare time. Or perhaps with some help from the time-traveling ninjas.