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Father, stop calling it fuel blood when you know goddamn well it’s milk.
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Feb 20, 2022 18:09
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uber_stoat posted:also of note is the reference to the well known biblical fable of the young boy who turned his back on God and so was turned into a giant turd. You kid, of course, but recall that Paul is covered in scales, and "scales" can also be a term for mineral or salt deposits. Thus, Paul is like Lot's wife, in that he turns back towards what God (Not Sol, but The Trust) told him to turn away from and gets turned into scales as punishment. I love the quick shot of Sue giving him milk IVs as an attempted cure. Your Gay Uncle posted:Yeah, shouldn't he have poo poo them out weeks ago? Does he clean the poo poo off and swallow them again? Are we going to get a Christopher Walken Pulp Fiction style monologs about having to keep these uncomfortable hunks of metal up his rear end? It seems like the robot eyes are designed so that they can be stored in the stomach long term. Mother just swallows her normal ones to keep them safe. And note The Trust used those little task orbs to monitor his people, making them like eyes you can store in your tummy as well.
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Feb 20, 2022 20:02
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I don't think those are scales, it looked more like warts
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Feb 20, 2022 20:44
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Nah, his eyes get all reptilian, and they look like reptile scales. I'm sure it's in some way connected to the Snake.
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Feb 20, 2022 21:10
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Mother is going to make a remote control death snake, right?
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Feb 20, 2022 21:35
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frogbs posted:Mother is going to make a remote control death snake, right? Drone snake strikes on farmer johns pumpkins
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Feb 20, 2022 22:54
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PeterWeller posted:It's patently obvious that Campion and Acid Merman = Cain and Abel. Rock to the head and everything. It’s probably futile to search for a specific allegory in the bible or otherwise; the conceit of the series is that all that mythological stuff ‘already happened’ at some point in Earth’s (pre)history. Jesus died 2200 years ago, and now these goofuses are messin’ around with “the powers of God” in a new context.
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Feb 21, 2022 00:40
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It’s probably futile to search for a specific allegory in the bible or otherwise; the conceit of the series is that all that mythological stuff ‘already happened’ at some point in Earth’s (pre)history. Yeah, I think you're right. I think the show invites such a search by being so obtuse, symbolic and weird, but there is no specific parallel that will provide some interpretive key to the narrative puzzle. I think instead the show just wants you to get close to the characters' headspace: "try to make sense of these strange echoing transmissions."
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Feb 21, 2022 01:33
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PeterWeller posted:It seems like the robot eyes are designed so that they can be stored in the stomach long term. Mother just swallows her normal ones to keep them safe. And note The Trust used those little task orbs to monitor his people, making them like eyes you can store in your tummy as well. I don't think the androids have digestive tracts so Mother being able to store eyes/orbs in her internal body pouch is not the same thing as a biological in/out system. And humans aren't eating the orbs. I assumed the eyes just took root in Viking Man's innards - weirder was Mother's new(?) ability to just summon them back out and also make them glow. Truly the miracles of (dark) magnets.
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Feb 21, 2022 04:21
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PeterWeller posted:Yeah, I think you're right. I think the show invites such a search by being so obtuse, symbolic and weird, but there is no specific parallel that will provide some interpretive key to the narrative puzzle. I think instead the show just wants you to get close to the characters' headspace: "try to make sense of these strange echoing transmissions." What makes it fun is that the giant flying snake is literally just a giant flying snake. Some of the characters are like “maybe the snake represents a sword???”, and they’re obviously dumbasses. There actually aren’t many mysteries in the show; the only major question is the identity of Grandpa Campion, since Mother’s memories are shown to be unreliable. Of course, that’s a pretty big question, because it concerns why she and Father are even on the planet in the first place - but, now that she’s here, the plot is pretty straightforward.
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Feb 21, 2022 15:20
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Zachack posted:I don't think the androids have digestive tracts so Mother being able to store eyes/orbs in her internal body pouch is not the same thing as a biological in/out system. And humans aren't eating the orbs. I assumed the eyes just took root in Viking Man's innards - weirder was Mother's new(?) ability to just summon them back out and also make them glow. Truly the miracles of (dark) magnets. Yeah, I'm not being serious about the eyes being specifically designed for stomach storage. My point is more that they're obviously very durable items. I don't even think it's that strange that Mother could draw them out of Marcus. They're her eyes. If anything, that sequence makes the show less strange. Marcus's miraculous prophet powers were just the eyes doing their thing on his body. SuperMechagodzilla posted:What makes it fun is that the giant flying snake is literally just a giant flying snake. Some of the characters are like “maybe the snake represents a sword???”, and they’re obviously dumbasses. Yeah, that one major question raises so many ancillary questions about motive and purpose that even though the Snake is exactly what it appears to be, you still feel invited to speculate about its symbolic meaning. And it's hells of fun.
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Feb 21, 2022 16:11
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:There actually aren’t many mysteries in the show; the only major question is the identity of Grandpa Campion, since Mother’s memories are shown to be unreliable. Of course, that’s a pretty big question, because it concerns why she and Father are even on the planet in the first place - but, now that she’s here, the plot is pretty straightforward. Re questions - this reminded me - there was a mural found in S1 (Ridley loves his murals, see opening of Prometheus) depicting the very particular sleek ship, carrying M+F plus a bunch of embryos, that got them from Earth to Kepler. Just like we saw in the show, right? Except... the mural explicitly showed the ship, with M+F+embryos, going FROM Kepler TO Earth. Is this anything? Can't see it being unreliable muralists.
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Feb 21, 2022 17:48
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Pumpkin snake is not an ordinary snake though. Something went to great effort to create it and androids were used to birth them thousands of years ago already. I know Chekhov's snake when I see it
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Feb 21, 2022 18:33
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GABA ghoul posted:Pumpkin snake is not an ordinary snake though. Something went to great effort to create it and androids were used to birth them thousands of years ago already. I know Chekhov's snake when I see it To be fair, Pumpkin Snake isn't even really a snake, rather some flying bio-synthetic hybrid snake-lamprey creature. But the point is none of that is mysterious, just strange, wonderfully wonderfully strange. We know exactly what it is and where it comes from. The only mysterious part is the "why?".
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Feb 21, 2022 19:29
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Finally caught up on the last two, still loving this poo poo. I hope somehow Father ends up as some kind of replacement for the Trust that everyone actually likes because he just wants to joke around and help everyone have a good time. I dunno it's a reach, it's just, Campion (I think it was him) mentioned how easily Father's mind could be taken out and put in another body, and I loved Father's weird little moment processing that fact and what it could be hinting towards.
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Feb 22, 2022 10:27
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The Trust was a big ol’ doofus for not having any sort of backup or redundancy plan in the event of a potential revolt/uprising. All it took was one power node in the floor being shut down and that’s all she wrote.
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Feb 22, 2022 10:33
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Gonz posted:The Trust was a big ol’ doofus for not having any sort of backup or redundancy plan in the event of a potential revolt/uprising.
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Feb 22, 2022 10:42
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The Trust sucked, they couldn't even deal with Space Ragnar
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Feb 22, 2022 10:46
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CODChimera posted:The Trust sucked, they couldn't even deal with Space Ragnar Yes but only because Ragnar had the powers of dark photon eyes of the Mother in his stomach. The did the Trust dirty, it would have all worked out without the eyes
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Feb 22, 2022 13:37
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There are three options: 1) the Trust is a big dummy, 2) the Trust set itself up to get killed so that these silly humans would stop depending on it, or 3) the Trust set itself up to get killed so a more capable robot overlord would take charge. These are not mutually exclusive.
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Feb 22, 2022 15:09
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I keep confusing Niamh Algar who plays Sue with Mickey Sumner in Snowpiercer who plays Till.  Maybe the hair cuts?  Although side by side they are very different.
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Feb 22, 2022 15:36
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:identity of Grandpa Campion Grampion
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Feb 22, 2022 17:04
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Campion! you are your own Grampion! *musical sting*
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Feb 22, 2022 17:11
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Vintersorg posted:I keep confusing Niamh Algar who plays Sue with Mickey Sumner in Snowpiercer who plays Till. This whole time i've been convinced that I've seen Algar in other stuff, she seems crazy familiar, but nope. The only credit I can find that I might have seen was an unnamed role in one episode of Vikings. Weird!
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Feb 22, 2022 17:16
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Martman posted:
Mother not understanding why people might not like her continues to be hilarious. "I just went full berserk mode  "
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Feb 22, 2022 18:21
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Alhazred posted:Mother not understanding why people might not like her continues to be hilarious. "I just went full berserk mode Her whole speech about finding a new successor while basically beaming at her teenage son was hilarious. She has no idea how blinkered and unsubtle she's being and it's amazing.
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Feb 22, 2022 18:33
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Alhazred posted:Mother not understanding why people might not like her continues to be hilarious. "I just went full berserk mode "why do you dislike me so? I only want to help!" "aaaaaa" - *atheist, too busy scraping friend's guts off face to explain*
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Feb 22, 2022 18:35
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Was it wrong of me to cheer when she got her eyes back? I was like, "Yes bitch - get em all, gently caress em up!!" 
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Feb 22, 2022 18:42
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Vintersorg posted:Was it wrong of me to cheer when she got her eyes back? I was like, "Yes bitch - get em all, gently caress em up!!" gently caress no. mother is wonderful and even more wonderful when she can t-pose in midair and turn people into raspberry gelatin
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Feb 22, 2022 19:05
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:This whole time i've been convinced that I've seen Algar in other stuff, she seems crazy familiar, but nope. The only credit I can find that I might have seen was an unnamed role in one episode of Vikings. Weird! She reminds me of Mary Lynn Rajskub in certain ways.
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Feb 22, 2022 19:26
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Vintersorg posted:Was it wrong of me to cheer when she got her eyes back? I was like, "Yes bitch - get em all, gently caress em up!!" No, I immediately thought "ope, Mama's got her disco eyes back hell yeah" I also liked her having to deal with a whiny kid and their dang video games, made me laugh
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Feb 22, 2022 22:14
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:This whole time i've been convinced that I've seen Algar in other stuff, she seems crazy familiar, but nope. The only credit I can find that I might have seen was an unnamed role in one episode of Vikings. Weird! She was in a great movie called Censor, about "video nastys" in the uk.
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Feb 22, 2022 22:20
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There was no way they could deliver on the hype once mother got her eyes back, they should’ve cut around the assault instead of relying on dodgy cg.
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Feb 22, 2022 22:53
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it's interesting that only certain atheists get kerploded on the hillside when mother was assaulting the trust. this also happened in the first ep where she can either control who gets sploded or some people are just "resistant". also voting father for new trust
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Feb 23, 2022 00:56
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The Trust couldn’t have designed a better scenario for Mother to get her eyes back and T-pose all over him. Pretty sure he got what he wanted. Maybe his stretch goal was to warm ppl up to the pumpkin snake by turning Campion into a toad. I love this show
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Feb 23, 2022 01:05
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Your Gay Uncle posted:She was in a great movie called Censor, about "video nastys" in the uk. That must be it! I haven't seen it, but it was mentioned in some RLM vid and I squirreled it away in my mental "movies I should check out" file.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:25
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eighty-four merc posted:The Trust couldn’t have designed a better scenario for Mother to get her eyes back and T-pose all over him. Pretty sure he got what he wanted. Maybe his stretch goal was to warm ppl up to the pumpkin snake by turning Campion into a toad. 
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Feb 23, 2022 07:41
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Paul is gonna hatch out of his reptile cocoon and will be a full-on Battletoad, ready to fight all who oppose him. The final episode of the season will feature a hoverboard obstacle course as a result of this turn of events.
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Only Paul's reptilian head will hatch out and the rest of the cocoon is gonna morph into a sacred dodecahedron.
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