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* So in Book 3, every car that Hazel had been in was considered corrupted and got ejected to the back of the train, which should also include The Cat/Samantha's car. But the relatively short time it took Simon to make his way back to her car and then back to confront Amelia suggests it was still more or less in the spot where they left it. Why is that? It can't be that it was still waiting for ejection since the Color Clock Car was ejected despite Hazel entering it after Samantha's car.
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** It's less that therapy doesn't exist and more that the Train caught the Passengers ''before'' they could get it: Tulip ran away from home, Jesse was still reeling from hurting his little brother, MT was stuck on the Train due to being a Denizen, Grace's parents would rather look at other things, and Ryan and Min-Gi were snatched ''while inside another train''.
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** Didn't the entire fight between Simon and Grace do that too? They probably believed her due to a combination of both the shock of said fight, and Grace just having proved herself to be more trustworthy than Simon. They seemed reluctant to follow him, so they'd quickly jump ship to someone who's not a megalomaniac.
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* After all the lies that Grace has shoved down into the Apex's throats, why do they suddenly believe her when she reveals that the Conductor is Amelia? Doesn't it just suddenly go ''against'' everything she said of the Conductor being a giant merciless robot?
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* Does therapy just ''not exist'' in the world where the show takes place in? Many of the problems characters face could easily be solved with a counselor, therapist or a trusted adult to lean onto.
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** Presumably it can be removed from his mouth. And with the evolutionary dial they could, after removing it, make him small enough to fit through it before restoring him.
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* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train? (And to forestall the obvious answer - if point total shifts are percentage-based or something, shouldn't it be easy for Amelia to get her massive total down, too?)
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* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shifting her by what looks like trillions of points, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train? (And to forestall the obvious answer - if point total shifts are percentage-based or something, shouldn't it be easy for Amelia to get her massive total down, too?)
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* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train?
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* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train?train? (And to forestall the obvious answer - if point total shifts are percentage-based or something, shouldn't it be easy for Amelia to get her massive total down, too?)
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** It's possible The Cat didn't know back then. It was years ago. Even if she knew, she tends to like being mysterious - she didn't ''know'' she'd be separated from him or that he would become the sociopathic co-leader of the Apex.
* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train?
* Why do numbers seem to increase or decrease by entire digits at a time when you have a lot of them? Every additional digit requires a shift of 10x more points to increase or decrease your total, yet people with extremely high numbers seem to regularly have their numbers increase or decrease by enough to move it by a digit or more. The first time we see Grace's number shorten by a digit, she's reduced her total by roughly ten times the remaining total she needs to leave the train. That is to say - if sympathizing with Hazel once is enough to reduce Grace's total to roughly 10% of its former value, shouldn't sympathizing with Hazel a second time immediately reduce her to zero and let her leave the train?
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** Keep in mind that it was probably made by One-One, whose grasp of reality can be tenuous at best. The ''intent'' is clear - it's supposed to present the passenger with a moral quandary which will drive them to reflect on their problems. (And, in fact, it did help Jesse a tiny bit; his problem was that he was yielding to peer pressure too easily, and MT pressuring him to kick the toad drove that to the forefront.) That said, it's also clearly intended to be a joke about "hard moral question" moments in personal-growth stories like these.
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** Amelia's weapon is shown to change objects and denizens to ascribe new format to them, as shown the Corgi ball changed every object to be corgi shaped. So the Ghoms had to be something the train created in the first place for a ball to correspond to them, but it's possible that the high number of them in the plain outside of the tracks is due to Amelia's destruction of several wagons.
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* If The Cat knew what numbers meant, why did she never tell this to Simon back when he was just a little kid in socks and sandals? Doing this would've prevented him from becoming the sociopathic co-leader of the Apex!
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*** A valid theory. But the initial question was wherever or not the Mirror Universe is real or a creation of the train. Even if the train gave the reflections the passengers memories, then why does also have another dimension for the reflections to inhabit? There's also the fact that Tulip no longer has any reflection, further hinting, the that the mirror dimension at least, is real.
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** Amelia said that the cars were to be quarantined, not destroyed; presumably that means sent off to the end and locked away from passengers. The initial quarantined car was Amelia's big project, but every other car was tainted by the presence of Hazel.
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** We know you can't leave the train except through your door, so presumably you can't enter it except through your door either.
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** Because it doesn't have an infinite amount of ''carts''. But rathee because it runs on a looping railway.
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** Because it doesn't have an infinite amount of ''carts''. But rathee because it runs on a looping railway.
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