New grade but the same teachers?
- Why is Mr Simmons still Arnold’s teacher if this movie takes place a grades later?
- It is not unheard of for elementary school teachers to move to different grades including the next grade level they did last year and even have some of the same students. And some schools lump a group of students for each grades with a few switching in and out. Of course why the exact same students are in the class with the same teacher, however, is another story.
Finding Lockjaw
- How did they find Lockjaw, and why did they feel the need to bring him to Arnold's party?
- Maybe Lockjaw continued to visit Hillwood after Arnold released him from the aquarium?
How did those comatose people not die?
- How did the Green-Eye people manage to keep all those people alive while they were in comas?
- If I recall correctly, the Green-Eye people apparently live in some area where time passes slowly, at least according to one Hey Arnold episode
Weird timeframe?
- The original series takes place in the 90's. The movie supposedly takes place a year later but Rhonda has a smartphone?
- This was likely done to make it feel less dated and to try and appeal to a younger crowd in addition to older fans. Technology Marches On and all that.
- The show could also take place in the mid 2000s as well because the show did end there, and smart phones probably popped up immediately around the time the special takes place, which is why only Rhonda has one because they weren’t mainstream yet.
- Well, Hey Arnold ended around 2004 and the first iPhone would debut in 2007, so, perhaps, canonically, the show's last episode takes place in 2006 and the movie takes place in 2007.
Weird school.
- What grade does P.S. 118 go up to? Most elementary schools go up to 5th or 6th grade. There was never any mention of 7th graders there before. Patty was seen happily running into the building at the end (Arnold and friends were starting 6th grade at that time,) so did she get held back again? Or does the school go above 6th grade? Wolfgang, Edmund, Ruth, and the other 5th and 6th graders weren't shown going into the school at the end, just Patty who was in 6th grade during the rest of the series.
- Maybe Patty failed a grade?
- Elevator School?
- There are some schools that delay and/or speed up students going to the next school building if there are issues with the building itself. So you might get 8 graders with high schoolers if the middle school building is too small or 6th/7th graders still in elementary school building due to the middle school building being unable to fill everyone. Some areas also don't have middle school buildings, keeping the kids in elementary school building until 7th or 8th grade then moving them to high schools. However, they typically try and split up the middle school kids into different sections of the elementary school to make sure the elementary school students do not interact with the middle school students all that much.
Everyone turning on Arnold.
How in the world, besides "because plot", does
anyone buy the whole "Arnold was in league with me this whole time and fully intended to lead you to your doom!" thing? Especially best friend Gerald and Helga. Arnold has proven repeatedly that he is almost unhealthily dedicated to helping others so "oh; this guy must have tricked him!" is an
obvious leap.
- They have been through too many adventures together and then being hit by a man who is a master manipulator, the children and Simmons along with Olga have emotional trauma from being betrayed that caused them to be blinded by negativity. The San Lorenzo trip doesn’t help their mental health either, it’s like them reaching a breaking point and having enough of Arnold Phillip Shortman’s shenanigans. They just want to go home and they got it. Hopefully everyone is receiving therapy for not only the San Lorenzo trip but also the FTI Invasion and the Original Series events. Also, worth noting that they need to confess their sins to the right people including the police because secrets and lies only create more pain.
Finding Arnold
- How did Lasombra know where Arnold lived, let alone what school he went to?
- The deep web maybe? He does have wi-fi in his hide out, which is not smart for privacy unless the internet is needed.
- He also obviously knows a good bit about Arnold's parents. He may have gathered tons of information about them over the years, including their hometown. As for finding out what school Arnold attended, he very well could have used the internet to find out what schools were in the area.
- He didn't. That's why he needed the contest: to find out where Arnold was. If he had known where Arnold was all along, he could have done something a lot sooner.
- That would also explain why he bothered to invite Arnold's entire class over to San Lorenzo, even though Arnold is the only one he wants. Had Lasombra known where Arnold lives, he likely would have targeted Arnold specifically with some fake story or contest so he'd come to San Lorzenzo alone. Since he didn't, he made the fake competition into one where entire school classes can participate, thus increasing his chances of finding Arnold.
- Simple, La Sombra is obsessed with the two Shortman people that stole his Corazón before he gets the chance to open it. La Sombra is vengeful as a result and have spend the over the next 10 years secretly planning for the moment when he will finally get what he wanted. La Sombra is a hunter, a genius and very resourceful, he just needed a cover to not raise suspicion. The computer is just confirmation/validation not that La Sombra needed it anyway because he already have them at his fingertips like a game of Chess. When something that is precious to you gets stolen, you won’t forget about it and get revenge driven thoughts as a result.
Eduardo not warning the Shortmans.
So, Miles and Stella presumably fell victim to the Sleeping Disease not too long after traveling back to San Lorenzo. Then why did Eduardo, their supposed friend, never contact Phil and Gertrude during the next ten years to warn them what had happened to their son and daughter-in-law? He knew where they were living since he came to visit Miles and Stella in Hillwood. And yes, Eduardo himself was at some point taken captive by Lasombra, but it's implied this was fairly recently before Arnold and his class arrived in San Lorenzo.
- Maybe it is out of guilt and trauma over the fact that he is the reason that Miles and Stella are in a coma. Maybe he moved on after he made peace with his past. Maybe it slipped his mind because of the trauma he went through his entire life. There should be a backstory about how Miles and Stella become the people they are in “The Journal” before they have their son. More importantly the tale of both La Sombra and Eduardo along with their history of the Green Eyes. Their stories are very interesting to explore. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another, if I prefer to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice. It can be anyone one of them but that doesn’t make a difference except from the creators and writers themselves.
