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Marauder2001 · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

[SPEC] The Lovecraftian angle.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:38 pm

tinytim · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 95

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bang Head

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:40 pm

Marauder2001 · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 79

And yes, I did search to see if there was any decent threads I could necromance:

Your search - lovecraftian starspawn stars are right - did not match any documents. [/i]

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:46 pm

Melampus · Unfettered Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 653

Because we'll probably get most, if not all, of the backstory online, anything's possible. Whether they actually use names from Lovecraft or not, there could still be something Lovecraftian about the backstory that's eventually revealed. Why not? In fact, given the total implausibility of a bipedal land animal that's the size of a skyscraper, something Lovecraftian would be more 'believable' than a Slusho-induced mutation or some such; b/c once you accept that it's from another dimension, anything goes! It would also allow the thing to just disappear after attacking NYC (if they wanted to make the story go that way).

If there are any such elements, I'd think it would be better if Tagruato was just a drilling corporation out to make money - not overly evil, but just a standard big corporation out to make profits and do potentially helpful research along the way, etc. TIDO is also just a run of the mill environmentalist group, perhaps prone to taking more drastic methods than others, but that's all. That way, we could start to get wrapped up in a fight between TIDO and Tagruato and then all that would become meaningless compared to the apocalyptic hell that's unwittingly been awakened... Surprised

I just think that'd be cool.

But, yeah, Lovecraft was American, so JJ could certainly be drawing upon that whole 'mythos.' And, he did say he wanted his monster to be "insane and intense" so that also fits w/Lovecraft. Wink

TBILL · Veteran Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 116

I'm starting to think that this Cthulu angle is actually Cthulu trying to drive me mad. We know he loves to do that. And so he keeps bringing it up in these threads...DAMN YOU CTHULU

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:54 pm

mhovis

not to be an ass....but TIDO....not TIGO....

oppps i'm an ass.

Smile

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:54 pm

Melampus · Unfettered Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 653

What are you talking about mhovis?

Ha! The power of the EDIT! Wink

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:57 pm

Ivo

Anyone else think this "game" isn't going anywhere? I don't think this thing was very well planned. It seems to have overgrown the PMs expectations, or it was never meant to do anything more than create buzz for the film. Thoughts?

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:58 pm

sOuLii · Veteran Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 95

plush cthulhu says: "epic fail"

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:00 pm

Melampus · Unfettered Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 653

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:32 pm

casemyo

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:46 pm

Clover · Decorated Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 218 Location: TX

Aww, you mispelled "R'yleh." : (

And yeah, as much as I'd like it to be a Lovecraft movie (the Shoggoth are being harvested for Sluho!), it's not gonna be. Just a hunch.

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:09 pm

Professor Jackass · Boot Joined: 05 Dec 2007 Posts: 21

Hey-

There's a bookstore in wrigleyville by my apartment that has a copy of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu . Also, in the very same bookstore, a Lost poster and a rare copy of James Joyce's Ulysses.

Perhaps JJ is planting subtle hints in Chicago? Rolling Eyes

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:24 pm

tMan930

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:08 pm

casemyo

**Posted:** Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:42 pm