Dear Johnny Fanboy,

After seeing The Core at the cinema at the weekend, I was a little puzzled as to why so many people seem to have pacemakers in the opening scene. I know that pacemakers are not uncommon these days, but would there really have been that many in such a small area?

I know this was done to quicken the pace (ha ha) of the movie, but it does seem a little unrealistic (mind you, so does the whole premise of the film).

Yours,

Pedro Klutts

Johnny Fanboy replies:

While we can assume that all of the bodies in the morgue sequence are deceased pacemaker users, that needn't be the case with all the victims depicted in the earlier street scene. Perhaps some of the vehicles that are seen to have crashed did so not because their drivers wear pacemakers, but because the drivers were swerving to avoid those who wear pacemakers. And maybe some of the people who collapsed on the street had died of shock, or merely fainted, having witnessed such sudden carnage.

Now, what I want to know is... where were all the cave-people that are supposed to live at the Earth's core!

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