History Headscratchers / TheRing

* What if several people watch the video at the same time and are in the same room when [[IncrediblyLamePun they hit the deadline]]? Does Sadako/Samara kill them sequentially or duplicate herself so she can kill them simultaneously? Does the number of TV sets in the room have any effect (e.g. two people who will die are in the room which has two televisions, will she come out of both)? What if they are in different places when their time comes? Can Sadako/Samara kill them all at the same time? If she can appear in multiple places simultaneously, what if one of her clones gets "killed"? Does it affect the rest?

*** People don't seem to be affected unless they actually ''see'' the tape. After all, in the openning sequence of ''The Ring 2'', a girl sits right in front of the tv while the video is playing. This is well within hearing range (and-ahem-grabbing range), but her eyes (and ''only'' her eyes) are closed. She remains physically unnaffected, even though Samara apparently crawled right out of the tv and attacked the boy she was with (who had watched the film).

* They really didn't think out the whole, "Watch the tape, and a week later a crazy bitch comes out of your TV and kills you" thing, did they? I mean, what if, on the seventh day, you're camping or something, nowhere near a TV? Or, what if you had watched the tape at a friend's house, and didn't actually own a television? Yes, I know how absurd that would be, but these are hypothetical questions, OK? With hypothetical questions, I could suggest any situation, such as, if a dog watches the tape, does it turn into a gorilla? So, anyway, [[LeftFielder how about those Red Sox? They sure a baseball team, aren't they?]]

*** This bugs ''me''; how the hell does she do it? Where the heck does her power come from? Is she the only eldritch thing in the world, and if not, why is there no defense against her? What's with the tendency of horror movies in general to make their villain a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere?

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* I understand that Sadako/Samara kills people through fear (right?). But aren't there always SOME people who are just not to be shocked, and who would survive the attack?

*** This is ItJustBugsMe. You are supposed to ask in the Mass Speculation page.

* Ok, the book's general use of bad biology in the original books, especially the ways in which smallpox is involved. It would be much less of a wallbanger just to say that AWizardDidIt (which is probably why both movies take this approach).
** Considering that Sadako is said to have ''genetically modified'' the smallpox virus with her PsychicPowers, doesn't that pretty much say "AWizardDidIt"?

* An AIS woman cannot impregnate herself, and neither would she have visible testicles. AIS women have vaginas, but no wombs, fallopian tubes, or ovaries, and therefore cannot bear children; and although they have testes instead of ovaries, there is no external evidence of the difference - their gonads stay undescended, tucked up inside their lower bodies like ovaries. Basically, the entire idea of book-Sadako's "hermaphroditic" ability to self-impregnate, not to mention the idea of the doctor who raped her discovering her condition by finding physical evidence of a scrotum/testicles, is the purest case of research failure.
** That depends. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome is a spectrum ranging from a woman with no uterus and testes instead of ovaries to a man with low sperm count. If she had complete AIS, the books would be a wallbanger, but it is entirely likely she had an incomplete form of the condition (the description seems to be pretty clear that she had only partial AIS, and the condition itself is poorly explained in the book). After being resurrected, however, she deliberately altered her biology into that of a self-impregnating hermaphrodite, and did not have this ability previously (thus fulfilling her desire to reproduce... ''herself'', [[BodyHorror again and again]]).
** Or, more simply, AWizardDidIt.

* Can you just tape over Samara with ''Series/AmericanIdol''? Sure, you might die, but you'd remove Samara's evil forever...

** [[spoiler: This question becomes the main premise of the film's second sequel ''Film/{{Rings}}'', where Samara managed to digitalize her video so that it reaches the Internet and distribute to multi-digit numbers of people]].

** [[spoiler: This question becomes the main premise of the film's second sequel ''Film/Rings'', where Samara managed to digitalize her video so that it reaches the Internet and distribute to multi-digit numbers of people]].

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* Can you just tape over Samara with ''AmericanIdol''? Sure, you might die, but you'd remove Samara's evil forever...

* In the second of the American films, The Ring Two, Rachel and Sarah move house, move home, to a smaller town and all. The film opens with them picking up new furniture. Why do they have a TV with a VCR? After everything they've been through, all of it, they'd move home, and have a TV and VCR in their new house? At all?
** Aidan was a really big fan of ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and Rachel had just rented ''Film/DonnieDarko''?

** The 2016 film ''Rings'' seems to imply this is the case. The video is now received through email, and it's confirmed that Samara can now come out of HD TV's [[spoiler: and the ''in flight entertainment systems and cockpit displays of airplanes.'']]