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* I wonder what would have happened if Sarah failed to safe her little brother toby from Jareth? Would the goblin king even let Sarah go back home? He clearly had a thing for her and [[Foreshadowing Sarah did say when she was telling Toby a story that the goblin king had fallen in love with her]]

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* I wonder what would have happened if Sarah failed to safe her little brother toby from Jareth? Would the goblin king even let Sarah go back home? He clearly had a thing for her and [[Foreshadowing there is Foreshadowing when Sarah did say when she was telling Toby a story that the goblin king had fallen in love with her]]her
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* I wonder what would have happened if Sarah failed to safe her little brother toby from Jareth? Would the goblin king even let Sarah go back home?

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* I wonder what would have happened if Sarah failed to safe her little brother toby from Jareth? Would the goblin king even let Sarah go back home?home? He clearly had a thing for her and [[Foreshadowing Sarah did say when she was telling Toby a story that the goblin king had fallen in love with her]]
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*I wonder what would have happened if Sarah failed to safe her little brother toby from Jareth? Would the goblin king even let Sarah go back home?
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* When Hoggle is being petty about the questions Sarah is asking, he finally helps after Sarah asks "how do I get into the Labyrinth?". I always thought that Hoggle should've replied "through the door", conintuing with the badly asked questions.

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* When Hoggle is being petty about the questions Sarah is asking, he finally helps after Sarah asks "how do I get into the Labyrinth?". I always thought that Hoggle should've replied "through the door", conintuing continuing with the badly asked questions.
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*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K5T0AqVlY Here's the scene]

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*** https://www.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K5T0AqVlY Here's the scene] scene]]
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** And it's an added insult to the stepmother's dig at her for not having any dates and assuming she'd be home to watch the baby. On top of that, she sees either the stepmother or her father (likely at his wife's instruction) taking one of her things to give to the baby - again assuming she'd be okay with it. As the baby is the subject in all this, Sarah gets angry at him.


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** Sarah has also never been in a situation like this before, so marking her way might have seemed like a good idea without much thought.


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** I believe Jennifer Connelly was 15 when it was filmed and 16 when it came out. So the inconsistencies might have just been going off Jennifer's age. People might also subtly age her up to 16 to make a potential romance with Jareth somewhat legal.
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** That had occurred to me as well, but then I realizd that since Luto asked the rocks to do it, maybe the rocks can remove the stentch-water from them, so they are dry (or dry enough) when they walk across them. It's not the weirdest thing rocks have done in that movie.
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** Because he considered that the right question. He's not being petty just to be petty, he's pointing out that she hasn't actually asked a full question. Now that she's asked a complete question, he's willing to help.
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**Its seems weird that Sara would wrote a book about herself about something which at the time hasn't happened to her. Then you add to the fact Hoggle says "of course you're Sara"/ "They're all Sara" which seems to imply that this happened more then once before and it will happen again..similar to both Mary Poppins and Peter Pan.

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*** A shortened version to help clear it up. If the same piece of information goes through both characters, the result MUST be a Lie. Either a liar corrupted a truth, or a truth teller reported a falsehood. Either way, the reported answer was false. The answer was binary, so once one piece is determined to be false, the other MUST be true.
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** IIRC the novelization states she's 15.
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* How old is Sarah? New to the fandom, and I've been finding a lot of contradictory answers. Most say she's fifteen, but I've also been reading that she's sixteen, and some even say she's as young as fourteen. So what's the official age?
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** And have the parents already gone out at that point? So when Sarah discovers that one of them has taken something from her room to give to the baby, they're out so she can only direct her anger at the baby.

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----> Coo, if she'd kept on going down that way, she'd've gone straight to their castle.

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----> Worm: Coo, if she'd kept on going down that way, she'd've gone straight to their castle.


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*** I'd also like to point out that Sarah said she was trying to get into the labyrinth, NOT that she was trying to get to the castle. So the worm directed her down the path that led to the labyrinth, rather than the one that led to the castle.
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** And she's acting alongside puppets and other special effects for the majority of the film. We all know from the ''Star Wars'' prequels how too many special effects can compromise someone's acting.


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** Perhaps the parents wouldn't hear it since they don't believe in the fantasy creatures. So only Sarah can see or hear them. Or Sarah isn't necessarily ''really'' partying with her friends. She's just imagining she is.


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** It's a trick disguised as something attractive. He offers himself to Sarah, trying to fool her into thinking she can rule him. But if she gives in, she will be the slave.
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** Also in her defense, the commentary mentions that this was her FIRST major acting role; she was working as a model before this point. How many people without acting experience could have (mostly) held their own in a feature film?
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**** One guard tells the truth. The other one lies. One door leads to certain death, the other leads forward. Clearly she can't just ask which door is which; whichever guard she asks could be lying or not, so the answer would be meaningless. Instead, she asks if the other guard would say this door leads to the castle. Lets say the guard she asks is Guard One and the other Guard Two. There are two possible scenarios; Guard One is lying, or Guard Two is. Each of these has a sub-scenario; the good door is behind Guard One or Guard Two. If Guard One is lying, and the good door is behind him, the other guard would truthfully say that that is the good door. Guard One would then lie about his answer and tell her that he would have said it was the bad door. If the door behind G1 is the bad one, the other guard would say so, so G1 would falsely tell her that it is the good door. Now, if G1 is the truth-teller, and the good door is behind him, the other guard would lie and say it was the bad one. G1 then truthfully reports that he would say that. If the bad door is behind G1, then the other guard would say it was good, and that is what Sarah would hear. As you can see reading back, if the good door is behind G1 he will always say it isn't. If it isn't, he will always say it is.
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**** That doesn't really make any sense in context of the scene, as the worm says it after she heads off to the right (from the camera's perspective), with "that way" clearly meaning the path she was taking.
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*****If worth something for your peace of mind, Connely is 16 at the time and UK's consent age is 16.
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** It's the eighties.


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** That's the point; Jareth's promises are all hollow and empty, saying things that seem nice on the outside but really make no sense.
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* Do as I say and I will be your slave. Does that line seem a little contradictory to anyone else?
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* How ''did'' Sarah explain all the noise from the party at the end to her parents?
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** People also seem to mistake her falling to the center of the Labyrinth as her picking the wrong door. The wrong door leads to certain death, which didn't happen to her. I've heard some people say that she only falls through the ground because she says "it's a piece of cake" - and she gets a curveball thrown at her whenever she says this elsewhere in the movie. It does reinforce the theme of not taking things for granted - as Sarah assumes that she's now found the right door and that everything will be easy. When she brags about making the right choice, the Labyrinth decides to punish her for it.


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** In her defence, she ''was'' only sixteen. And Sarah is a naturally hammy character anyway - since she's obviously very theatrical. I'm guessing some of her tantrums were meant to come across as over the top to show her immaturity.
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*** [[TheCatReturns He's Cheating!]]

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** I felt the same way. I tend to find '80s media quite cheesy and overacted on the whole, so while I didn't think it was Academy Award-nomination deserving, there were only a few parts that I thought were so bad.
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**** Your solution is a waste. The goal isn't to determine which guard is the liar, the goal is to figure out ''which door to take''. I'll never understand why people think that just asking either of them a simple question with a factual answer would solve the puzzle. Congratulaions, you now know which guard is the liar! But since you used up your one question, you can't ask the honest one which one is the correct door.
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* Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. I saw the books in your room. Creator/HansChristianAndersen, [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimm]], [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]], you obviously know your fairy tales and myths very well. And YET, you, when transported into a magical realm, given a fruit by someone who has admittedly been working for your enemy and whose honesty is suspect, without hesitation bite into it, not thinking it might, I don't know, cause you to never be able to leave, invalidate your claim to Toby, poison you, something like that? Why not make it a [[GreekMythology pomegranate and complete the bloody metaphor]]. Really, you should not be this GenreBlind when it's obvious you've studied the genre you're somehow fallen into a story of.

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* Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. I saw the books in your room. Creator/HansChristianAndersen, [[Creator/TheBrothersGrimm Grimm]], [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]], you obviously know your fairy tales and myths very well. And YET, you, when transported into a magical realm, given a fruit by someone who has admittedly been working for your enemy and whose honesty is suspect, without hesitation bite into it, not thinking it might, I don't know, cause you to never be able to leave, invalidate your claim to Toby, poison you, something like that? Why not make it a [[GreekMythology [[Myth/GreekMythology pomegranate and complete the bloody metaphor]]. Really, you should not be this GenreBlind when it's obvious you've studied the genre you're somehow fallen into a story of.
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*** And it isn't clear, but I think she wrote that one, and she could never remember the most important line. Not everyone remembers every single thing they read and write, especially not in circumstances like these.
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