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 * Why does Kracauer stand still and let Kane kill him?
+:: He is, to pardon the pun, frozen with fear.
 * Why does Stellar run around an ice planet in a dress?
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 * How is it possible for the ice cream parlour's milkshakes to even exist? Wouldn't alcohol be more realistic, as milk would be frozen solid?
 ::Since humans and humanoids are living there, the temperature cannot always be below freezing.  The places where people live are covered and heated.  Much like a large shopping mall.  The ice cream parlour itself is warm inside, and they use a more or less standard milk shake machine.
+::This was also being broadcast on a science fiction show aimed in large part at children. As this is essentially a children's TV adaptation of ''Aliens'', it was presumably decided by someone somewhere that showing the characters drinking alcohol either wouldn't really fit the vibe they were going for or would be considered inappropriate for their audience.
 * Considering Ace is now millions of years in the future from her own time, how does Glitz intend to get her home? Before she leaves Mel makes the obvious point that the Doctor would be the better one to bring Ace home yet neither he, Ace or Glitz seem to acknowledge this.
+:: Well, the Doctor subsequently asks Ace to join him for exciting adventures around the universe, so this presumably counts as an acknowledgement. As for Glitz, since he clearly either isn't aware that Ace is time-displaced or doesn't care that much, he presumably considers taking Ace to Perivale in their "present" (i.e. at the time the events of the story are taking place) to be good enough. And Ace may not be aware that the TARDIS is also a time machine until the Doctor asks her to join him, and may also be a bit too polite/wary/insecure  to essentially ask the Doctor to take her home.
-:: Well, the Doctor subsequently asks Ace to join him for exciting adventures around the universe, so this presumably counts as an acknowledgement. As for Glitz, since he clearly either isn't aware that Ace is time-displaced or doesn't care that much, he presumably considers taking Ace to Perivale in their "present" (i.e. at the time the events of the story are taking place) to be good enough. And Ace may not be aware that the TARDIS is also a time machine until the Doctor asks her to join him, and may also be a bit too polite/wary/insecure to essentially ask the Doctor to take her home.
 *Stellar is meant to be a stand-in for Newt, the little girl from ''Aliens'', right? But, Newt never wore a dress in ''Aliens'', let alone one that's so impractical it shows Stellar's knickers when she crawls under a table in the cafe during the zombie attack.
+:: She's a stand-in for Newt in a narrative sense, not necessarily a carbon character copy; that is, she basically fills the same narrative purpose (a cute little girl in a dangerous adventure), but it doesn't follow that in doing so she has to resemble Newt down to the last detail. Since ''Aliens'' also does not take place in an intergalactic supermarket and the Xenomorph didn't turn out to be a child-loving cyborg with a glowing crystal in its head, we can simply assume that some things were changed in translation either intentionally or because some of those involved didn't fully get the intended reference.
-:: She's a stand-in for Newt in a narrative sense, not necessarily a carbon character copy; that is, she basically fills the same narrative purpose (a cute little girl in a dangerous adventure). Since ''Aliens'' also does not take place in an intergalactic supermarket and the Xenomorph didn't turn out to be a child-loving cyborg with a glowing crystal in its head, we can simply assume that some things were changed in translation.
 * Why is Mel hell-bent on convincing Ace not to join forces with Kane when she has absolutely no idea who he is or what his motives are?
+:: Because you don't have to look very hard at Kane or spend a lot of time with him to realise that whoever he is and whatever his motives are, he is clearly not a particularly benign or trustworthy individual. Especially since he orders Mel turned into a zombie halfway through his job pitch to Ace, which is hardly something that a particularly nice person offering someone a job in a position which is totally above board and legitimate would do.
-:: Because you don't have to look very hard at Kane to realise that whoever he is and whatever his motives are, he is clearly not a particularly benign or trustworthy individual. Especially since he orders Mel turned into a zombie halfway through his job pitch to Ace, which is hardly something that a particularly nice person offering someone a job in a position which is totally above board and legitimate would do.
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