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[Patrick Star]

Could be, that looks like a Heli-Pad to me. A massive one at that. I wonder if the beast was on the ship and broke out? Tankers like that can be as large as 900 feet.

[DougBThree]

[Slusho Addict]

[im a lion, AND im huge]

i dont think the tanker is holding Grumpy, or Tagruato.
It is a device to imply(confirm) water is the means of travel for our beast.
remember the tanker from Godzilla with the big claw marks? Grumpy took a swipe at the tanker, the proceeded to chuck it into the city.

As far as the SOL head goes, something tells me that grumpy is not so smart. Have you ever seen a dumb animal just kind of carry something around for a while like and dick with it until finally it loses interest and hauls it away? Thats what i think happened.

I love you all deeply. My girlfriend doesnt get it.

"Why cant you just wait for the movie why try and spoil it?"

[Euchre]

Helipads don't usually have dark centers. They usually have a full white field with a big H in the middle. Rarer is that they are 'branded' - like a Tagruato tanker with a Tagruato logo on it's helipad?

[Nighthawk]

Just out of my own curiosity, is it even physically possible for a tanker to capsize on its own?

[Slusho Addict]

[im a lion, AND im huge]

in the calm waters surrounding Manhattan? not likely!
it was Big Grump. Also i should note that i think he attacked
Lady Liberty thinking she was protecting the City. And im the first one who ever thought that.

EDIT: this refers to the question of the possibility of a capsize on its own

[Slusho Addict]

[Caerwiden]

[tinytim]

Late to the aprty

[Marauder2001]

Just a few things I noticed:
The tagline "Something found us" vs the Tagruato voicemail of "and a representative will find you" which stuck out as strange. A subtle clue that the Tagruato corp. is somehow responsible for the monster? And the Slusho! websites: "We are coming" as well perhaps..

As for the SoL head, it seems to me like the smoke is coming from the gouges and holes in the metal, if it was just friction heat from bouncing along the road, the head would come from the points sticking out on the head, not the holes. The Explosion when it hits might be a bit of artistic lisence, I think.

Rob and the other guy in the appartment seems to know more than they let out after the newscast. "That is close"?? Its a local news station, and broadway and the harbour is not THAT close are they? And the whole "maybe we can see it from the roof?" Unless they are in an extremely tall building it would be pointless to look for a sinking tanker in the harbour... at night as well, with the lights from the city destroyng your night vision.

Also on the roof top, Rob seems to be scanning the horizon in just the right direction before Hud interupts him with the "guess you should have moved earlier" quip. The rest of the crowd seem to be milling about, but Rob looks like he's trying to see something he know is there... I used to think the slusho 6(7) wasn't a part of the plotline in that sense, but Im reconsidering that...

Even though the temperature is no longer on the newscast, it seems very temperate for mid january... everyone has thin clothes (also the bystanders in the street).

Finally, yes, it looks to be the Tagruato-logo on the helipad of the sinking tanker. Haaving a logo on a helipad is not that uncommon, I know many of the oilinstalations in the North Sea use the operators logo as centerpoint on the helipads. As for the ship being a "cage", if anything the size of the monster had broken out of the tanker, it wouldn't just list heavily to one side, it would probably sink pretty quick... But maybe it was carrying not oil but DSI, and the monster followed the smell?

[im a lion, AND im huge]

[Slusho Addict]

Dun Dun Dun....


Thanks for DougBThree for orignally pointing this out.

edit: this doesn't rule out collateral damage of course, as Tagruato are an oil company in this universe, but it's interesting.

[Caerwiden]