Talk:Starman (film)

O.R. Removed
Moved the following from article, speculation/original research is not encouraged in Wikipedia, all opinions need sources, if you can find a way to cite and/or support these assertions (e.g. published critical analyses) then they should be included in a NPOV way. Lexor|Talk 09:40, 22 October 2005 (UTC)


 * It is the belief of the contributor that this last plot device was included for a couple of reasons: 


 * Reason 1 (the internal reason): Jenny was devastated by the loss of her husband, who was taken from her too soon/suddenly. Also, she has (had?) a medical condition that prevented her from having children with the real Scott, and so does not even have some sort of reminder/continuation of him that could have kept her going. Now that she has gotten Scott back, she has fallen in love with the new Scott as much as if not more than with the old Scott, and is about to be abandoned by him as well. In order not to hurt her too badly with his departure, Starman bypassed her medical condition in order to give her the child the old Scott could not. Since it is Scott's DNA that was used to create the body for the Starman, then it will be Scott's child as well, but because of Starman's alien influence, the child will also be his, becoming a "great teacher" sometime in the future. 


 * Reason 2 (the external reason): This is a good open-ended situation for any sequels that might want to be written. This did not actually take place in movie form, but there was a television series of the same name made in 1986, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes.

DC Comics Starman
I had heard at one point that they had to license the DC Comics character in order to make this film for rights reasons. Is this true? ChrisStansfield 22:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Starman film poster.jpg
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Citations/References
Gee, this article needs some work! I dearly loved the movie, so I'll work on it as time permits.

I added a RefImprove template.

I've pulled a questionable "reference" to a Youtube video. However, there are a couple of claims someone inserted that only cite an entry in the Trivia section of an IMDB article. Is this an acceptable reference?

Regardless, there is one editor who appears to believe Wikipedia is a personal publishing house for original research. I intend to try to get him to change his ways because he seems to have a great deal of time to devote to the project. UncleBubba (Talk) 10:17, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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