...how did Abra reach out to Dan when she was still so young (before the 8-year skip)? Dan was obviously keeping a low profile, hiding his 'shine', we know this because The True Knot were never able to detect him. Yet he comes back one day and sees "Hello" on his wall from however many miles away, directed to just him. Is it a plot hole, or am I missing something?
shareHis shine reemerged because he stopped doing coke and drinking alcohol. This fact was well established in the film that his addiction issues were muting his shine.
shareHowever, that does not explain how Dan was not discovered by the True Knot during his childhood. Considering how Rose was able to find kids with shine from 2000 miles away or more, I would consider Danny slipping through their fingers as a child as a plot convenience.
shareIt's worth pointing out that Rose didn't find Abra from all those miles away (not sure it was 2000, is America that wide?) but it was Abra that found Rose from that distance, a "Looker" as she termed it. With regards them not finding Danny when he was a child, I think he just kept a low profile. Unless someone reached out to them, they seemed to have to scout them out very locally (cinema, baseball game). Danny said that as a child they moved to Florida (they never wanted to see snow again) but also someone very small and quiet, they would likely never find him there. As an adult he moved around (his mother died when he was 20) but by then he was doing drugs and alcohol which muted his shine. On top of that, as he explained to Abra, he had encountered 'creatures' like the Knot before, so that awareness meant he was likely familiar with beings to avoid.
Still, this doesn't really explain Abra reaching out to him. It's true that she was a 'Looker' and after coming off the booze Dan's shine would have reemerged, but there were likely dozens of others with shine she could have contacted, she seemed to contact him specifically, like there was a connection. In the novel this is because they are loosely related (I think she's his niece? I've not read the book) so it makes sense, but here it seems contrived. I think the most likely explanation is that they abandoned the family relation in favour of diversity casting, but it still leaves this as something of a plot hole to me.
In the film there is is a scene with Rose and Crow where she describes feeling Abra and tells Crow she could be 1500 or 2000 miles away. Later, the astral projection scene shows Rose searching among the stars for Abra. The film clearly depicted this to be hundreds and hundreds of miles when she slides through Abra's bedroom window. So I disagree with you on this point.
shareIn the book this is fleshed out better and Rose can find Abra because Abra wanted her to (she laid out a trap for her as was the case in the movie which resulted in her hand getting crushed). In the book though Abra was careful not to reveal her location unlike in the movie where Rose sees very clearly where Abra lived.
It's also fleshed out in the book why Crow went to the house to kidnap Abra while the others went to the location in the woods where the ambush by Danny and Billy was waiting for them.
Just for information the US is not quite 2700 miles wide at its widest.
Not counting Alaska and Hawaii, of course.
NYC to Eureka, CA is 3,025 miles. Maybe you thought 300 miles of CA fell into the Pacific Ocean yesterday.
shareYou may be correct. The number I used I looked up. I would note, however, that Eureka and NYC on not at the same latitude so a line between them is diagonal. Also, is the number you used "as the crow flies" or by road. If the latter the mileage can increase due to the necessity of roads.
Either way, the main answer to the OP is that the US is considerably "wider" than 2000 miles.
Have not yet seen the film, but I've read the book, but I think it's at least in part because Danny is her uncle.
shareI think this might be the leftover reason. In the film he is not her Uncle, but if that was originally the case for the movie and they changed it later, it may have created this little oddity.
sharei was under the impression she found him, because he moved to the same city.
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