History Headscratchers / TheSecretOfKells

[[WMG: Why are the [[HornyVikings Vikings]] in this movie are Portrayed as big black horned Demons and they speak in a growling voice? what are the Animators Thinking?]]

* The stairs actually are there throughout the movie. There's a door in the tower, a dozen or two feet up from the ground. That's where the people are entering rather than Cellach's window, and they huddle in the base of it rather than Cellach's room. It's the same door that Spirit Pangur unlocks with the key. The door leads to what is essentially the ground floor of the tower (though it's well above the ground). Brendan's cell is underneath. Notice that his ladder is a long way down but he can easily climb to the window by standing on his bed. The best time to see the stairs is right after Brendan escapes his cell - he's standing on them when Aisling catches up to him and grabs him by the hand. The Vikings never break into the tower. They break into the church next to the tower.

[[WMG: Where did the stairs come from?]] At the end, the people frantically run up the stairs to the top of the tower (Cellach's workroom). They seem to be entering the room through his window--you know, the window Cellach peers through dramatically at several points of the movie. But... for the vast majority of the movie, there aren't any stairs outside the tower leading up. For example, when Aisling climbs up the tower, there are no stairs to help her. Why did they build those stairs? What were they there for? And, another thing... for most of the movie, they reach the workroom by climbing the interior stairs of the tower. We know the Vikings broke into the base--why didn't they find those stairs and climb up?

[[WMG: Why is it assumed that Aisling lost her human form? She seemed to change to it just fine in the ending. I always assumed that she simply took any form that fit her, as we don't see her human form until she notices Aidan. So when she was running with her pack against the vikings, a wolf form was more useful than the human one.]]

* Also, if it's strong enough a wall on its own could do the job; an attacking army has to worry about food (and other supplies) as well as weather, illness, injury, and moral. If your ravaging army saw a wall that would take weeks, maybe months, to get through, they may decide to seek their fortune elsewhere.

* Also, if it's strong enough a wall on its own could do the job; an attacking army has to worry about food (and other supplies) as well as weather, illness, injury, and moral. If your ravaging army saw a wall that would take weeks, maybe months, to get through, they may decide to seek their fortune elsewhere.

* Might be a bit of Fridge Brilliance, in that the abbot doesn't actually know anything about warfare. He might even have thought that the sight of the wall might be enough to deter any attackers. He wouldn't have been able to attain any information on the subject either, being surrounded by monks in a pre-hollywood society.

[[WMG: Why wasn't the wall manned?]] Okay, that's all well and good that he wants to build a wall. walls are effective defenses. But why does he not have anyone manning the damn things? I realize that he is a peaceful monk and stuff, but he could have built the wall to be the height of a skyscraper and all it'd have done was delay the Northmen if they have no one to actually repel the attackers from.

* The WMG page suggests the cat is also a fairy so maybe her magic works on her but not on humans? Or maybe the magic doesn't work on Christians? Or she can't cast a spell on someone inside a religious building?

[[WMG: If Aisling can turn living beings to ghosts and back, why didn't she do it to Brendan and allow him to escape instantly?]]

** But he was ''attacked'' by it, along with Aisling. That doesn't seem very imaginary.

** But he was ''attacked'' by it, along with Aisling. That doesn't seem very imaginary.

[[WMG: Was there a point in establishing Aisling as being completely unaware of the concepts of "ink" or "book"?]]
* Seriously, As soon as I saw that she was dropping buckets of berries on the walls of Kells, I assumed there would be a subplot where Brendan teaches her how to read and she aids in creating the Book. But there wasn't. It could've led to an awesome scene where she rallies the spiritual forces of the forest to help defend Kells!

** But he was ''attacked'' by it, along with Aisling. That doesn't seem very imaginary.

* ...because the Abbot told him that things like that aren't real? You don't exactly worry about things you're told are imaginary.

[[WMG: Why didn't Brendan tell anyone that there's a ''pagan god of darkness'' lurking in the forest?]] That seems a little more important than bringing Aidan the berries.

At first, when Aisling helped Brendan fight [[spoiler: Crom Crauch]], I assumed she looked at the Book off-screen. The FridgeBrilliance section mentions that she can't go into religious buildings, so she couldn't have seen the Book. Was she letting him risk his life just because he claimed the Book was important?

Why is it assumed that Aisling lost her human form? She seemed to change to it just fine in the ending. I always assumed that she simply took any form that fit her, as we don't see her human form until she notices Aidan. So when she was running with her pack against the vikings, a wolf form was more useful than the human one.

Why was there a secret passage anyway? Someone must have made or noticed it, and Cellach seems obsessive enough to check for that sort of thing.

** Then why didn't anyone other than Brendan and Aidan use it? You'd think that a few people would be shown heading towards it, at least...

At first, when Aisling helped Brendan fight [[spoiler: Crom Crauch]], I assumed looked at the Book off-screen. The FridgeBrilliance section mentions that she can't go into religious buildings, so she couldn't have seen the Book. Was she letting him risk his life just because he claimed the Book was important?

* It's possible that others were allowed to go to the forest, for lumber or food or other such things, and so they kept a direct passage to the woods for as long as they could.

Why was there a secret passage anyway? Someone must have made or noticed it, and Cellach seems obsessive enough to check for that sort of thing.

* Some people didn't see her at the end. Also, Brendan's voice turns young again -- that ''could'' have been seen as Brendan flashing back to his younger days.

Why is it assumed that Aisling lost her human form? She seemed to change to it just fine in the ending. I always assumed that she simply took any form that fit her, as we don't see her human form until she notices Aidan. So when she was running with her pack against the vikings, a wolf form was more useful than the human one.

* There's a scene where he's drawing some foliage in the woods and she takes the tablet from him and looks it over, so she had ''some'' idea of what was in there... but not that much. This bugged me, too. Maybe she helped mostly because she knew how important it was to Brendan?

At first, when Aisling helped Brendan fight [[spoiler: Crom Crauch]], I assumed looked at the Book off-screen. The FridgeBrilliance section mentions that she can't go into religious buildings, so she couldn't have seen the Book. Was she letting him risk his life just because he claimed the Book was important?

At first, when Aisling helped Brendan fight [[spoilers:Crom Crauch]], I assumed looked at the Book off-screen. The FridgeBrilliance section mentions that she can't go into religious buildings, so she couldn't have seen the Book. Was she letting him risk his life just because he claimed the Book was important?