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Post by Mamakat on Oct 12, 2004 15:50:05 GMT -5
I didn't find anything on this though I'm sure it exists somewhere here!
In the hall of mirrors, when watched in slo-mo, the blasts from the two pistols (and maybe the machine gun too, I'd have to watch again) are in tetragrammaton shape. Cool!
Or not?
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Post by JenGe on Oct 12, 2004 18:12:38 GMT -5
I'm not sure if we've actually discussed this one before or not but yes, that effect is throughout the film. I made a graphic with a few shots of it to go on my Libria page...BTW, I think it's beyond cool!! I think that it's also symbolic. I loved it so much that I even added one shot of it to my avatar. |
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Post by Kate on Oct 12, 2004 19:04:31 GMT -5
It is really cool, but you'd think in a world without emotions they wouldn't really need to make them that way. I mean, what's the point? I don't think the Tetragrammaton would spend time on something to make it "look cool".
But obviously the special effects team the powers that be did. ;D
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Post by LoneClericCobra on Oct 21, 2004 10:24:07 GMT -5
It's not just "cool". It's devised to inspire awe.. and fear. And I don't have to remind you, sense offenders know fear!  It basically says:"You're looking at a Grammaton Cleric firearm from its barrel. Boy, are you screwed.." |
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Post by JenGe on Oct 22, 2004 10:07:37 GMT -5
Well, here is a little interesting detail I noticed while doing my recent scans. In the original drawing by Kurt Wimmer the blast is actually in a "T" shape while in the film it's the tetragrammaton cross. Interesting symbolic change there...see... Original drawing by Wimmer...  |
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Post by Libby on Oct 22, 2004 12:03:57 GMT -5
That is interesting Jen...I think the TG cross is much more effective. ..and I used it in one of my sigs.   |
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Post by Witcher Wolf on Oct 23, 2004 5:42:19 GMT -5
The rest of Libria may have nothing to fear from a specialised gunblaze, but as LCC points out, Sense Offenders are capable of emotions, especially fear.
Bear in mind that DuPont and his cronies are not on their dose, so it's yet another big pointer that something is amiss.
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Post by LoneClericCobra on Oct 23, 2004 6:09:11 GMT -5
There's more. I may be reading too much into eq (...naaaah!;D) but as a cleric treats his/her gun as a total weapon, s/he grows a bond with it that somehow has to be manifested in the Tetragrammaton iconography. A gun for a cleric is like a katana for a samurai. A lightsaber for a Jedi knight. A data disc for a tron programme.. I could go on forever  Somehow, I can picture an expert weaponsmith implementing the T-blasts with a feeling of.. rightness, that even prozium can't deny. |
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Post by Witcher Wolf on Oct 23, 2004 6:33:34 GMT -5
Well, remember that Prozium only blocks the highs and lows, so you could in theory have that kind of bond develop between a Cleric and their gun.
It's an odd quirky idea, but certainly not out of the realms of impossibility.
The weaponsmiths of the TG might also be Clerics that are off-dose along with DuPont's higher regime.
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Post by LoneClericCobra on Oct 23, 2004 14:32:21 GMT -5
I can offer you another motivation: the Tetragrammaton is an oppressive regime, and an integral part of every oppressive regime is the iteration of its symbols. I'm thinking about nazi germany here: swastikas were _everywhere_, even on teacups. So the Grammaton Council has probably decided that the TG-blast is more effective, not to mention more visible, of a TG sewn on clerics' cassocks.
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Post by Witcher Wolf on Oct 24, 2004 16:36:07 GMT -5
Bingo |
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