Headscratchers / The Pagemaster

• When Richard takes shelter from the storm in the library, he tells Mr. Dewey that he wants to use the phone. Again, there is a massive thunderstorm going on. Wouldn't our neurotic hero be aware of the dangers of talking on the phone during such a storm?
  • He's also more aware of how worried his parents would get if he was out for too long. He's also neurotic enough to know he'll be in the library for a while until the storm ends - he might catch a cold if he goes out before the rain has definitely cleared up.
• Makes you wonder why they didn't or if they couldn't get LeVar Burton a role for the movie, given that he is a strong advocate of reading (and hosts Reading Rainbow to boot). This movie would be right up his alley, plus his colleagues from TNG got roles for the film.
• Adventure is a swashbuckling, courageous type, exemplary of the daring and bravado his genre. Fantasy is a fairy godmother sort, exemplary of the magic and wonder of her genre. So why is Horror a coward? Shouldn't Horror be a master of fear and fright, exemplary of the terror his genre seeks to evoke? ...but then, I guess that doesn't work for a kid's movie.
  • Fridge Brilliance when you consider what happens to characters of horror stories.
  • It could also be that the books are basically the representation of the attitudes of people who read the books rather than the characters in the books; Adventure and Fantasy readers enjoy the thrills, but Horror readers enjoy the opportunity to feel scared.
• Whoever heard of a library where you can only check out two books at a time?
  • Maybe it's a restriction on kids or brand-new card holders
  • The librarian is the Pagemaster. It's one final test to see if Richard is loyal to his new friends.