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Fridge Brilliance

  • Dr. Weir's name encapsulates his character. Weirs (or low-head dams) are known as "drowning machines" among kayakers and rafters as the hydraulic jump on the downstream side can pull a person down and hold them underwater almost indefinitely, and escaping the circulating turbulence is extremely difficult and even outright impossible in most cases. Similarly, Dr. Weir is trapped in his own guilt, past, and obsession with the ship and he's unable to escape it even before the more supernatural aspects of the ship manifest in earnest.
  • The "Layman's Terms" explaination of the FTL drive is so complicated because a layman in such a field would still need to be a Doctor of Theoretical Physics.

Fridge Horror

  • The entity possessing the Event Horizon has the power to revive the dead (in Weir's case) and warp reality. When Miller blew up the ship as it entered the portal, who is to say that the entity couldn't reconstruct the ship and revive Miller, Weir, and the others, to torment for eternity?
    • Or worse, resurrect the ship completely, wait a while and then have the ship mysteriously reappear intact after reports its partial destruction to draw in more potential victims looking to salvage it.
    • According to the novelization, the real Weir died being blown out into space, and the Weir Miller later fights is an entity wearing his form. If nothing else, once Miller dies, he'll stay dead.
  • The lifeboat section? Still part of the Event Horizon, cut off from the core or not. With people in stasis aboard to play with, even if getting them to hurt themselves is not immediately an option... No wonder they have nightmares. And, possibly, it acting like the good little liferaft until rescuers come aboard, too.
  • The last time Starck sees Weir his skin is carved up and his eyes sewn shut. When she sees him at the end after coming out of stasis he looks like he did in the final fight with Miller, it wasn't a dream.

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