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Why did Alison dislike Elliot in these wishes...


In Wish One, why did she dislike when he was the drug lord...and why did she dislike him when he was the basketball player?

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I think because having all that money and power as a colombian wasn't enough for her and she shunned him for Raul...IMHO it says more about womens fussyness in choosing and seeing what they like in a guy than Elliots attempt to woo her lol.

Seems to me Elliot was a jack of all trades in personality and characters BUT he was a MASTER of ONE!!....Rich & powerful, Mr Sensitivity, Mr Articulate, Mr Sporting etc etc

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i think that it also had to do with the fact that these wishes were granted by someone honesty was never "its" forte.Otherwise if things were great,he wouldnt have to ask for 6 other wishes. "it" was playing with him all along till he ran out of wishes and then "it" would cash in.

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The real reason she was never happy was because he wished for her to love him, against her will. That and the devil was evil and twisted it up so that Elliot wouldn't be happy because, well c'mon, it's the Devil.

I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar.

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Same.

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She wanted his soul and if he was happy he never make another wish. She would lose.

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IMHO it says more about womens fussyness in choosing and seeing what they like in a guy

I think it's a massive improvement from the original movie where the reason why she's sleeping with another man is simply because she's a slut. (Not just my opinion. The dialogue strongly hints in the original movie that she's cheating because of her high sex drive - as if she just can't help herself. It's very misogynistic.)

I love how the whole drug lord thing explains her view properly. It's not an unrealistic level of fuss. Don't we see the same thing in The Sopranos where Tony Soprano's wife is always on the verge of leaving him for moral reasons?

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She was really into him in the basketball one until she sees him naked and finds out that has a comically small penis. It's implied that she's more of a sports-star-groupie than a good relationship prospect in that one. After seeing his winkie she says that she had to go because she's got to work on a "big, huge" story about the NFL.

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Because the wishes were granted by the Master of Lies, the ultimate abject serpent the Devil who is known for being a heinous malignant dealer. The wish may be granted but the Devil manages to find a way to screw the person because the Devil isn't called the Master of Lies for nothing. All of it was a game to get him so raging so that he'll keep wishing thinking his next wish will turn out well until he runs out of wises, and the devil get's his soul.

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My thought exactly:
The Devil purposely engineered each wish to have a less-than-satisfying outcome to make him use them all up so that she could claim his soul.

All of us have seen the same idea in deal-with-the-Devil stories for ages. Remember the old "Twilight Zone" episode, "The Man in the Bottle"?

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"Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me!"
"Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not."
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SnowFairy, I could be wrong, but here's what I think...when he was the drug lord, she hated him for the same reason Tony Soprano's wife hated him...all that money and power and how corrupt he was. And when he was the bastketball player, she at first was into him, but turned him down when she saw how small his...member was.

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Oh I don't know, maybe cause the wishes are being granted by THE DEVIL !!!




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The obvious point in the first wish is that Elliott asked the Devil to make him married to Alison, but forgot (or didn't cosnider) wishing that she LOVED him (which he later does). Therefore, in wish 1, they're married, but unhappily because she doesn't love him.





Cluck cluck, gibber gibber, my old man's a mushroom.

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Because the devil messes the wishes up so he has to make more. Even Elliot said at one point he knew Alison wasn't really like how she was portrayed in the wishes. I always looked at these wishes as a sort of self-contained invented reality so that while Eliot is in whatever scenario he wished for, the rest of the world is actually still going on like normal. So you have fake Alison in the wish and real Alison in real life.

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Never make a deal with a Demon.

We should learn from our past mistakes, so that we can make new ones.

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remember how these wishes dont only change his life of the present, but his past and everyone around him change as well.

example:

Elliot´s life as the drug dealer, we dont know how he came to be as a drug dealer nor how he married allison, for all we know, elliot´s alter self (himself in the wish world) had forced her to marry him, maybe his alter self was also abusive, we dont know. as we see, elliot does not remember anything prior appearing in the wish world, so his past (in this world) even to him is a mistery

example 2:

Elliot wishes he could be the most sensitive man in the world cause he thinks thats what allison wants, this is in fact an example of how people dont always know what they want and how to much of something is a bad thing

as for the basketball scene, she didnt want elliot cause she saw his, well she saw that his junk was too small, maybe smaller than a pinky, because it freaked elliot out, hell any guy would get freaked out if they woke up and saw their mini-me´s have shrunken to an insignificant size.

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Columbian Drug Lord-She became bored with him and more than likely the off camera Elliott was probably a douche to her. People of his power ar enot usually good to their women. Just watch Scarface.

Sensitive Elliott-She initially fell in love with a sensitive man but Elliott proved to be TOO sensitive. What she really wanted was what she got in Bob and that's someone to get into her pants.

NBA Star Elliott-She was enamored with him at first until she got a good look at his, erm, equipment. This was an instant turn off.

Rich, Successful Raconteur Elliott-She became instantly attracted to him but as it turned out he was gay(not a flaming homosexual. That would be his boy toy played by Toby Huss).

Elliott Lincoln-As historically inaccurate this scene was(Mary Todd was at his side at Ford's), Alison was enamored with the president.

That's the relationship in a nutshell.

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It wasn't really Alison in any of the wishes. They were just scenarios designed to be painful and destructive by the devil.

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Because Alison is a selfish shallow narcissic conceited BITCH!

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