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[SPEC - QUESTION] - What was in the tanker?
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JimiJons
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It would definitely help that your efforts are being acknowledged... at least we can speculate that we're not doing this for nothing.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 10:31 pm
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Rogers
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What's in the tanker?
the portal theory revisited

Didn't see it suggested: Portal to another world is in the tanker.

Pros:
it could explain why the monster is undetected until it capsizes the boat. Also could explain why something so big and terrestrial could come out of a boat from the centre of the ocean. [the scene in the bodago has large impact tremors (tremours in Canada) indicating that the monster steps around on feet.]

Cons:
doesn't seem to fit with the 'ultra-realistic' tone that appears to be what they movie-makers are gearing towards. Could the 'realistic filming strategies' make sci-fi stuff like portals more probable to movie-goiers?

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:15 pm
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VioletColleen
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Well, here is my educated guess:

Since it wasn't picked up on sonar and was following the tanker, I think the monster was following a currently undiscovered network of tunnels a long depth under under the seabed or maybe it can burrow under the crust. The Earthquake was the monster emerging from the burrow below the tanker, which created a burst of water/trapped gases underneath the tanker which causing it to capsize. Moments later, MGP finally crawls out of the hole he's made and explodes the tanker and goes crazy.

This theory helps explain:

1) why there was an earthquake
2) why the tanker was capsized. It has been confirmed that trapped gases can capsize large ships
3) why the monster was unnoticed along its trip from Chuai to the harbor

It may also help to explain why the monster's roar suggests breathing vocalization rather than something with gills. If the creature lives under the seabed, then it rarely has to interact with the water above it.

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Itsumo
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VioletColleen wrote:

This theory helps explain:
1) why there was an earthquake


Yea I don't know how the earthquake can be explained, and I had mused over something about the creature interacting with the earth's crust somehow. It's just straight boggling.

The creature isn't anywhere near enough to the party to shake the building by just walking around the harbor, there's no explosions/impacts that early, it just doesn't make sense how that much energy could be delivered into the ground around Manhattan without it being seismic in origin.

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VioletColleen wrote:

It may also help to explain why the monster's roar suggests breathing vocalization rather than something with gills. If the creature lives under the seabed, then it rarely has to interact with the water above it.


Unless he's holding his breath while he's on land, he must be able to breathe air, and some animals can breathe through their skin, without gills or lungs.
I think the main reason he has a loud roar is because he's a monster Very Happy

Burrowing explains a lot of things about the monster suddenly appearing, and the roar we hear in the clip might not be played at that point in the film. (They don't say it sounded like an animal anymore)*

*I don't think so anyway

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or this could mean that they made the monster
which is why it can growl
because it never lived in the water

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