#godzilla chaos theory

[dappercritter]

"Even as a child running scared with my family as it demolished our neighbourhood, I always wondered, 'Why?' Why does Godzilla exist? Why is he so angry at us?' I don't know if I'll ever find all the answers to these questions in my lifetime, but I want to try! As long as I'm alive and the kaiju are part of our world, I want to know and I want to share. That is my dream." - Audio excerpt from Akira Nakajima's job interview with KAMI's biology lab transcripted.

@iamthekaijuking did this sweet redesign for ChaosGoji a few months back but due to the two of us being preoccupied with less than fun things at the time we never shared it.

Since it's Godzilla Day and I don't have any major updates to share yet, I thought I'd change that and give you all a new look at our very own Godzilla!

(redesign details below)

In short, King just rid of goji’s chest protrusion to make him more hydrodynamic and gave him chest plating. I approved since I felt CG's underside felt a little bare before but I wasn't sure if I was being nitpicky or not.

(and I'm very nitpicky)

Anyways REMEMBER TO LIKE AND FOLLOW KAIJUKING'S TUMBLR AND SUPPORT HIM ON HIS PATREON

[iamthekaijuking]

Kiryu sketches for @dappercritter’s chaos theory fic

[hekapoofan91]

Hekapoo: Godzilla x Kong the new empire is now playing in theaters that is today and tonight to see movie right now so see it the film is starting now on Friday March 29th and ps Jurassic world chaos theory on may 24th only on Netflix

[skyllion-uwu]

My new joke theory for Deltarune is that the secret bosses are actually reflections of the levels from the Godzilla NES creepypasta. I have nothing to back this up except for Spamton referincing "Still the best 1973" and one of the level names, Entropy, means disorder (AKA chaos) in a closed system

[honestlytastygayasstrash]

I've been thinking about genre

I am a worldbuilder, and I have thought of a new world

so the world starts off like a typical fantasy world. I am basing this age off of: Middle Earth from Tolkiens writings , Faerunn from d&d, Greyhawk from d&d, Khorvaire from d&d, The Continent from The Witcher, The Young Worlds from Elric Of Melnibone and The Lands Between from Elden Ring & Dark Souls & Bloodborne, Tal'dorei & Wildemount from Critical Role, Cthulhu Mythos from HP Lovecraft, Dominaria from MTG, Innistrad from MTG, Ravnica from MTG, Alara from MTG, Arkhos from MTG, Cridhe from MTG, Fiora from MTG, Ir from MTG, Ixalan from MTG, Kaladesh from MTG, Kaldheim, Kamigawa from MTG, Kephalai from MTG, Lorwyn/Shadowmoor from MTG, Mercadia from MTG, Muraganda from MTG, Rabiah from MTG, Regatha from MTG, Shandalar from MTG, Tarkir from MTG, Theros from MTG, Ulgrotha from MTG, Valla from MTG, Vryn from MTG, Wildfire from MTG, Zendikar from MTG, Warhammer AoS by Games Workshop, Physical World from Berserk, Hyrule From Zelda, The Age Of Misrule, Discworld from Terry Pratchett, Runeterra by LoL, Westeros from GoT, Hybroria from Conan The Barbarian, 

then the worlds peoples will advance over time to a point were the world is in a sort of late 80s time when a sudden explosion of magic gives surtain people superpowers. I am basing this age off of: Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Gerard Ways Comics, Watchmen, The Sandman

then the peoples will advance more to sci fi type world. I will base this off of: Star Wars, Warhammer 40k, Blade Runner, Dead Space, Dune Universe, New Eden by EVE Online, Halo universe, Hyperion Universe, Mass Effect universe, Apex Legends & Titanfall Universe, Star Trek Universe, Chaos Walking Trilogy Universe, Cowboy Bepop Universe, Echopraxia, Overwatch

then a sort of apocalypse event happened across the whole universe. I will base this off of: Planet Of The Apes, Mad Max, The Hunger Games, Love And Monsters, Mortal Engines, War Of The Worlds, I Am Legend, Atlas Shrugged, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Chainsaw Man, Akira, V For Vendetta, Threads, Terminator, Doom, Tank Girl, Mortal Kombat, Independence Day, Resident Evil, Fallout, The Matrix, Y The Last Man, Godzilla Universe, Adventure Time, The Walking Dead, TLOU, Snowpiercer, Frostpunk, Horizon, Far Cry, Kipo And The Age Of The Wonderbeasts

Other World Inspirations That I could not fit in: Kingverse, Amphibia, Osemanverse, Owl House, Gravity Falls, Scott pilgrim Vs The World, Gorillaz+Power Puff Girls, Good Omens, the idea that every conspiracy theory (see wendigoon conspiracy theory iceberg series on YouTube) is true, all cryptids exist, The Old Testament Orthodox Version, McCarthyverse, Undertale

(I might edit to add more)

[tieuhuehue6789]

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory | Godzilla x Kong: New Empire | T-rex Chase...

[the-wild-card-hand]

//I know CoD can get written off a lot, but with the new universe I actually have a lot of theories and such on how things are done and how things crossover. I'm already putting together a small timeline of this Universe and how the games go. I'll put all of it under a read more if interested.

So the New Timeline I've figured out for main story goes CoD WWII, CoD World at War, CoD Vanguard, CoD Black Ops, CoD Black Ops Cold War, The Rumored Black Ops Gulf War, Modern Warfare (2019), Modern Warfare II (2022), and Modern Warfare III (2023).

The Dark Aether storyline in Vanguard already confirmed that there is some Overlap with the Chaos Storyline that was started in the beginning of Black Ops 4 before shifting to the Aether Saga once again where the Heroes end up nuking the already established Multiverse with a Singularity. I also think though its not confirmed, that also included things from other untethered Call of Duty games and previous Modern Warfares leading to the one 'Perfect' world. Or so those Zombie Heroes though, leading into the Dark Aether Storyline.

Now the Zombies and the Ghost Ship during Warzone around Black Ops Cold War Season 2, effectively taking place in the Modern Warfare timeframe. The ship leaving Rebirth Island back in the 80s to lose itself in a storm after some of the Nova Six gas gets out only to arrive around 2021, we can see that a lot of rust set in. A ship like that doesn't just get lost for decades without someone finding it so I think it must of gotten tugged into a Dark Aether breach, spending an untold amount of time there because we find a strange computer onboard the ship. Now reason why I mention the Dark Aether here and breaches is for two reasons: during Season Three Cold War a nuke gets detonated in Kravchenko's old facility on Mount Yamantau which we learn borders Kastova in this universe, and an intel you can recover from one of the factions that mention the dimensional fabric was damaged cause of a nuke that was detonated by a rogue faction called Perseus ((perpetrators being Wraith and Knight, two Operatives from that faction)) and around that time there was a storm off the coast, roughly around where the Gulag is.

Now how is Verdansk still standing after a nuke was dropped on it? Good question, considering everything I think this could end up being a retcon but a couple things stand out to me on how they could do it. Mauer Der Toten mentioned using a Nuclear Device to neutralize a Quarantine Zone in the middle of East and West Berlin, but we also were introduced to a Nuclear Bomb in Cold War that only targeted humanoids rather than leveling buildings and infrastructure. Could be that one of those types of nukes was dropped effectively sterilizing the infection while leaving the buildings intact for the most part, the fallout ending up being next to nothing because it canceled out both the gas an Aetherium in the air.

Now someone could ask, is it possible they could just strike it out of canon? Its entirely possible, if they didn't add that little detail into canon bio for Roze a Multiplayer Operator in Modern Warfare II specifically mentioning 'The Fall of Verdansk'.

Then we get to Vanguard, specifically when we hit the Warzone series on Caldera. It got slowly nutty when they introduced Attack on Titan things into Vanguard and I could kinda see and get it, then it got extremely batshit around Season Three when Kong and Godzilla were introduced onto Caldera, then the Terminator in Season Four, and then the return of Raul Menendez from Black Ops 2, Seraph from Black Ops 4, Gabriel Rorke from CoD Ghosts and Al-Asad. Al-Asad after Modern Warfare (2019) just drops off the radar and we don't hear from him but then in comes the other three and some could write it off as non-canon events there, but I'm starting to think Caldera was like something out of Twin Peaks, where it could of been an anomaly, where remnants of forgotten worlds found themselves after somehow finding a way out of the Dark Aether because the Perk Machines weren't something that was just made for the Dark Aether storyline, they were found and fixed up and brought into this new timeline, much like the Wunderwaffe DG-2 in Shi No Numa in Vanguard, now we see weapons like the EM1 from Advanced Warfare too. There are elements from previous timelines that get trickled into this new timeline and I think we're starting to see it slightly with the introduction of the Black Cell shadow faction because the operator 'Arthur' is straight up wearing a modified FTL Rig from Infinite Warfare.

That's not even getting to some of the leaks I've heard of content and things coming to Modern Warfare III, apparently around Season Three we could be seeing the return of the Atlas Corporation from Advanced Warfare, and I think with some of the cosmetics and gear we've seen in the shop during Modern Warfare II can set it up, some of them wearing Exo-Suits of similar design of the Atlas Corporation. Cause we have seen some call back to certain cosmetics that drop that come back later in the Warzone storyline part of Call of Duty: The Cultist looking skins for Ghost, Horangi, and Konig ended up being a shadow faction that unleashed Hellish forces in Al Mazrah and Vondel.

[saucy-mesothelioma]

Meso's Mixtapes: Vinnie

One of the characters I've been looking forward to doing with this is Vinnie from @zeddyzi's comic Ramshackle, which I highly suggest reading, because it's amazing. The art style is incredible, the characters are amazing, and I fucking love the atmosphere. She's my favorite character from the comic and I just had to do a playlist for her. I plan on doing playlists for Skipp and Stone as well, but since the crime gremlin is my favorite, I just had to do her playlist first.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ain't No Rest for the Wicked by Cage The Elephant Mustang Sally by Wilson Pickett Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon Girls by MARINA (I mean, come on. I don't think I have to explain this one.) Firefly Main Theme by Sonny Rhodes (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult Travelin' Band by Creedence Clearwater Revival One Jump Ahead from Aladdin (I'm pretty sure it's illegal to make a Vinnie playlist and not have this song, so I had to add it.) Free Ride by The Edgar Winter Group Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar (This song really resonates with her personality in my opinion. Just the "come at me" attitude represented here definitely screams Vinnie) Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister The Railroad by Goodnight, Texas (Because this is a Ramshackle playlist, I had to have at least one bluegrass/southern gothic song because I strongly associate those music genres with the comic. This is the one that I feel fit her best.) Tequila Song by Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane Roxanne by The Police (I can clearly see a drunk Vinnie as Britta in "Remedial Chaos Theory" from Community. I don't know why, I just do.) Wild, Wild West by The Escape Club Hound Dog by Elvis Presley Bamboleo by Gipsy Kings Godzilla by Blue Öyster Cult (It's a song about Godzilla. It's Vinnie. I feel like she would like it just because it's about a fucking lizard murdering people. It just fits to me.) Miserlou by Dick Dale Rock the Casbah by The Clash Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival Drikken Natten Væk by Østre Gasværk Teater (This is the drinking song from Skammerens Datter. I feel like the tone fits Vinnie well and I really couldn't pass up an opportunity to include it.) Tank! by SEATBELTS Brighton Rock by Queen Neat Neat Neat by The Damned Superperforator from Manitou's Shoe (I'm not entirely sure why this song came to mind, but I decided to include it anyways.) Henrietta by The Fratellis (Let's be honest, a lot of Fratellis songs could be associated with Ramshackle, and I have no problem with that. I just chose this one because of the art Z posted of the trio with lyrics to this song.) Emanuela by Fettes Brot Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry Rasputin by Boney M. (I feel like this would just be a song she would sing drunk, but then again, that's half of the songs on the list lmao) It's Tricky by Run-D.M.C. (Refer to my Rasputin note)

[talesofsonicasura]

Chaos and Order: Safi'jiiva and Altreon

Lately since I started playing my Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Game, I have been looking up missions on Kirianco and monsters on the Monster Hunter Wiki to get a better handle of fighting particular monsters. (Difficultly with G-Rank missions and Amastu along with grinding for material being the two main reasons).

Getting back into Monster Hunter also gave me an urge to write fanfics involving the title with the first being Unappreciated Hunter(can be found on talesofsonicasura if ya want to read).

Anyway, I was looking up some lore on Elder's Recess, an area found in Monster Hunter World before being led to look up Xeno'jiiva on pure curiosity. My first thoughts were 'reminds of a very aggressive parasite' considering how dangerous that it could throw whole ecosystems into disarray. AND THIS IS A DAMN BABY! Because oh boy when I decided to look Safi'jiiva did I learn it could've been so much worse.

Let me paint a picture in your head. Think of the most worst person you can: be it a figure from history or any fiction you've watched, read or played. Got that person? Now give them the unimaginable power like the Seven Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic Series or Ghidorah from Godzilla. That's Safi'jiiva in a fucking nutshell from hell. A Crimson adult Xeno'jiiva.

This is the type of monster that could mess up the entire world upon leaving the New World and doesn't give a flying shit. It attacks ANYTHING on sight and doesn't care about the destruction it can cause. Oh and it can suck the energy from its surroundings to heal or sustain itself too. It only cares for itself.

But it does have an opposition : Alatreon.

Alatreon is very aggressive but in a more territorial way. It prefers isolation and only attacks upon invasion of territory or being attacked. The attacks and how it fights is almost tactical in a sense, not how most monsters fight. A loner that only gets involved should the situation call for it.

A deep black dragon that could wreak the same amount of damage as Safi'jiiva whenever it could but it doesn't. It even went to fight Safi'jiiva during a particular arc in Monster Hunter World as the hunters were trying to keep Safi'jiiva from leaving the New World.

Upon reading lore on Nergigante, I have a little theory. These particular dragons only got involved in the events of MHW if the balance of the world was at stake. Nergigante emerged to try and stop Xeno'jiiva from gathering strength while Alatreon emerged to stop Safi'jiiva from leaving the New World to wreak havoc.

Nergigante and Alatreon are peacekeepers in a way. They only got involved when the particular issue could threaten the world's ecosystem such as the two dragons mentioned before. Each one appeared depending on the severity and what was assumed enough to handle the problem at hand.

So far, Alatreon looks like the last resort considering Safi'jiiva was a much bigger threat than its younger counterpart. I can definitely image Nergigante being at a huge disadvantage against Safi'jiiva, bigger than with Xeno'jiiva.

There's also the colors at play: Red and Black. These respective colors are often seen for checker pieces or a standard deck of cards. Safi'jiiva and Alatreon could be considered opposites with equal amount of power, just like the very pieces in checkers or playing cards all being equal in a way that only strategy determined the side's victory.

Just like Chaos and Order keep each other in check. If either one grows out of control then it's opposite will clash until balance is restored.

That's my theory anyway. It was just something I noticed and couldn't help but share with anyone whose interested in reading it. Hope ya guys have a good day!

[monster-or-man]

🎵 - Theme music

Bruce: Who Will Know - Shin Godzilla

I feel like this song encapsulates Bruce pretty well, nothing but a walking tragedy, a weapon used for man to rule over not only nature but themselves. Achim: Conspiracy Theory Music - Demise of A Nation 

This score, THIS SCORE perfectly encapsulates what Achim is about. His whole facility is a Conspiracy Theorist’s wet dream, he himself wants to plunge the world into chaos in order to rise on top

[dappercritter]

The older I get the more my ideal Godzilla story becomes less about Warriors with kaiju and more about the human characters as well as what kind of effect living with or studying these monsters has on them.

Or "Pokemon if it was a seinen" as my sick mind likes to think of it.

[iamthekaijuking]

Godzilla chaos theory sketches for @dappercritter of a possible destroyah design and Godzilla having caught a snack

[zerm1v0hg]

King Ghidorah’s REAL plan (KOTM Headcanon)

So, a new KOTM/Monsterverse headcanon theory from me this time, and again about my favourite three-headed CGI psycho dragon. :) This time, it’s a new headcanon I came up with after I read the ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ novelisation a while back.

When I was reading the novelisation’s expansion on Ghidorah and its whole strip-the-planet-bare-with-storms evil plan, a few things that really got me and I was curious about: why does Ghidorah just try to dominate the other Titans instead of killing them outright if Ghidorah is powerful enough to kill the whole world all on its own and if it’s really so sadistically evil? Is Ghidorah just using the Titans to speed up the process, does Ghidorah have a sense of humour in manipulating the Titans into destroying their own planet for Ghidorah, or is it something else? After all, another thing I’m thinking is, Ghidorah lives for killing, and the quicker the destruction of Earth’s inhabitants is the faster Ghidorah runs out of entertainment on this planet, so why use the other Titans to cut Ghidorah’s fun short?

There was a couple passages in the novelisation that really caught my attention.

First there’s Mark thinking about Ghidorah’s apocalypse: “It really did seem like Ghidorah was trying to tear the Earth’s ecosystem back down to the bones and start over.”

And then (and this did a lot for me to found this idea) there’s Mark wondering this about the Titans’ origins when he sees Rodan: “Maybe the Monarch scientists had it wrong. They kept telling him the Titans were part of the natural order, but he didn’t see it. How could that be natural? Maybe the Titans didn’t arise when the rest of life on Earth did. What if they weren’t part of life as we know it at all? What if they came from before, when there was no water or free oxygen, when everything was a volcanic hellscape, the atmosphere a perpetual lightning storm, when radiation sleeted from the sky and pulsed from the ground at levels that would strike a human dead in the time it took to draw a breath of the poisonous atmosphere. The Earth was like that for billions of years, before it started to rain, the sky to cool, seas to form. Before bacteria. Before the first photosynthetic organism started pumping oxygen into the air. Plenty of time for another kind of life to evolve based on some other chemistry that didn’t need water or oxygen. It was easy to believe, watching the terrible flaming bird gain on them, that life as they knew it was just a pale attempt to imitate what came before, those earlier creatures that mostly perished when the rains arrived.”

Based on these, I’m wondering, what if Mark is seriously onto something with his thoughts about the Titans’ origins? (I know ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ makes it look like the Titans really do come from the Hollow Earth, but it’s not the first time in the Monsterverse they’ve gotten a backstory-retcon revision, and I can’t be the only one who thinks the Hollow Earth still seems a bit too small an environment to host entire species of Godzilla-size and Behemoth-size Titans.)

What if the reason Ghidorah dominates the Titans and makes them help it is because Ghidorah doesn’t just expect them to die off once Ghidorah’s done reshaping the planet? What if Ghidorah still has plans for the Titans after destroying the Earth? My theory is that Ghidorah’s plan for the Earth goes like this: it’ll reshape the planet in a way that’ll strip the entire biosphere back to the bones like Mark said, making Earth more like it was during the Precambrian again, when the atmosphere was toxic and volcanoes were constantly belching gases and radiation. And the new conditions on Ghidorah’s new planetary kingdom will encourage more Titans and Titan-like lifeforms to evolve from the lightning and radiation and chaos just as the Titans did before. But with Ghidorah ruling the radioactive planet unopposed, any newly-evolved baby Titans that are born in Ghidorah’s kingdom, if Ghidorah thinks they could grow into rival Alphas, will be killed by Ghidorah in their crib (we can all safely assume Ghidorah wouldn’t think twice about killing Titan-babies); and the rest of the Titans and newborn Titan-creatures will be Ghidorah’s lifelong slaves, so that Ghidorah has subjects in its planetary kingdom for it to rule over (or torment for kicks when it gets bored) forever. A true, evil King of the Monsters lording over an eternal, hellish world of monsters.

[mylistofmovies]

2015

this is were i leave you

the disappearance of eleanor rigby

the spectacular now 

foxcatcher

the interview

interstellar

22 jump street

the one i love

men women and children

still alice

into the woods

wish i was here

the hobbit the battle of the five armies

the book of fife

camp x ray

whiplash

the imitation game

cake

divergent

gone girl

a million ways to die in the west

big hero 6

the giver

the aviator

penguins of madagascar

laggies

begin again

cbgb

st vicent

the theory of everything

if i stay

walk the line

the grand budapest hotel

the other woman

a most violent year

american sniper

birdman

fifty shades of grey

the hunger games mockingjay part 1

night at the museum secret of the tomb

godzilla

crazy stupid love

the maze runner

we’ll never have paris

insurgent

pompeii

dawn of the planet of the apes

the to do list

the lego movie

anchorman 2 the legend continues

into the storm

top five

white bird in a blizzard

black or white

blue is the warmest color

wild

dracula untold

dear white people

whitney

unbroken

palo alto

let’s be cops

are you here

inherent vice  

shaun the sheep movie

the wedding ringer  

the end of the tour

big eyes

zoolander

jupiter ascending

behind the candelabra

year one

kick ass

kick ass 2

clouds of sils maria

last vegas

love rosie

insidious chapter 2

boyhood

the dark knight

the cobbler

magic in the moonlight

the awkward moment

the other me

the boxtrolls

the way way back

fury

chappie

non stop

guardians of the galaxy

x men

seventh son

the family

the internship

sex tape

the last five years

anchorman

rush

just wright

transformers age of extinction

teenage mutant ninja turtles

annie

easy a

saving mr banks

10 things i hate about you

blades of glory

role models

r.i.p.d

a little chaos

footloose

unfinished business

edge of tomorrow

the book thief

delivery man

lucy

x men days of future past

the double

spare parts

million dollar arm

as i lay dying

the nines

blended

the angriest man in brooklyn

the falling

ghostbusters

30 minutes or less

cinderella

home

the 40 year virgin

jersey boys

kingsman the secret service

the age of adeline

paul blart mall cop 2

mad max

hot pursuit

get hard

spy

terminator genisys

avengers age of ultron

true story

brokeback mountain

while we’re young

welcome to me

minions

jurassic world

pitch perfect 2

ant man

san andreas

trainwreck

magic mike xxl

aloha

jurassic park

the reader

southpaw

accepted

the big wedding

fantastic four

hope springs

mortdecai

[chicagoindiecritics]

New Written Review from Mike Crowley on You’ll Probably Agree: 10 Reasons Why ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is better than ‘Blade Runner’

If you haven’t’ seen the movie, see it then read this. No intro, let’s jump right in.

1. K is a replicant

The reveal of K’s genetic code, or lack thereof, flips everything we assume the movie will be on its head. We are learning along with K what it means to exist. Do we as humans, live like replicants? Do we obey a society that treats us like trash but breath anyways out of the fear of death? Where we viewed “Blade Runner” mostly through Deckard’s eyes who didn’t have much of a personality, K’s lack of a character is his entire purpose for existing. For K to emote is to face death.

Where Harrison Ford’s Deckard entire arc was us questioning if he’s human or not (despite what Ridley Scott unequivocally says), there’s nothing much of substance to Officer Deckard. He gets drunk, retires replicants, that’s it. Name one thing that makes Deckard standout? I’ll wait. Ryan Gosling’s Officer K goes from a machine that is dying spiritually on the inside to someone wanting to have a purpose in life. All while maintaining his composure, if perhaps too much poise for the film. Anything with a conscious can feel. Whether or not how it was made is as relevant as where you were born or what skin color you are. The importance is that you’re here.

K doesn’t seek gratitude nor affirmation. He doesn’t suffer from a narcissistic personality. All he wants is not just to be another useless piece of metal.

2. Deckard has depth this time

Being a daddy changes you a lot. Rick isn’t just a slouchy drunk who likes to shoot robots out of legal obligation. He’s a man who’s principles and love for forbidden things cost him his life. What kind of soul did Deckard have in the first film? Who did he care for? Please don’t say, Rachel, we all know why he was attracted to Rachel. Like Winston in 1984, Deckard rejects Big Brother for a life of pain to gain a glimmer of happiness. 

3. It’s horrifyingly relevant

Denis Villeneuve based the imagery in 2049 on a planet that has become degraded with pollution. The buildings are extrapolating enormous amounts of water into the atmosphere, the sea wall at the end of the picture will be our new Mount Rushmore, the orange Vegas is happening now. Denis Villeneuve didn’t predict the earth looking like this, but his production team was still spot on. A picture that transcends its very style, developing a look that will be discussed on its merits separate from the ubiquitous original, is a stunning achievement.

Everything isn’t dystopian because that’s the way it was in the book. It’s what will happen to us in real life, why we’d look for colonies to live on if we had the technology or funding towards NASA to do so. God help us all.

4. The love story questions the essence of relationships

The story between K and Joi further examines the meaning of love, sex, and mortality, with the two being different versions of artificiality. When the default sexed-up version of a naked Joy pops up on the screen, we are emotionally mortified. Some of us may be repulsed to observe a character we care for utilized like a thirsty Godzilla.

The towering ad tries to seduce K tempting him to buy it, rendering everything Joi said to K throughout the picture questionable. Its manipulation solidifies his final decision in life to help another man. We’re not sure if she loved him or said what it thought it wanted him to hear throughout the narrative. Possibly Joi herself didn’t know her intentions. An unusual amount of nuance and uncertainty rests in the love story. Who do we love? Why do we love? Do we love by the heart or the heart of our designers whom we don’t know?

Meanwhile, Deckard was just drunk and horny when he bashed Rachel up against the wall. Sorry, that really was all there was to their passion despite what Wallace says.

5. The movie was an honest commentary about how the world views woman

Here’s a controversial one. A lot of women were disgusted by the way they were depicted in the film. Outwardly watching the movie, I can’t blame them. I’ll let Mr. Villeneuve speak for himself. “I am very sensitive to how I portray women in movies. This is my ninth feature film and six of them have women in the lead role. The first Blade Runner was quite rough on the women, something about the film noir aesthetic. But I tried to bring depth to all the characters. For Joi, the holographic character, you see how she evolves. It’s interesting, I think. What is cinema? Cinema is a mirror on society. Blade Runner is not about tomorrow; it’s about today. And I’m sorry, but the world is not kind on women.”

Villeneuve is right. Women today are still sexualized. Even with the Me Too movement, women are continually seen as sex objects or subservient slaves in a male-dominated society. Villeneuve isn’t interested in painting a rosy picture that Hollywood does for female roles to make the audiences feel comfortable. It’s an honest reflection on who we are. What we see is what we don’t want to see, but that’s part of the honesty of cinema.

6. The score is mesmerizing

Another point in which I may face some contention. Yes, Vangelis’ score is iconic, but it only works for the era it was composed in. Much of its mixture of bleeps, blops, and wind chimes are a product of its time. A lot of emotion is missing from the score other than the opening theme and “Tears In Rain.” Hearing much of the soundtrack while on the road, I sometimes thought I was listening to something from a porno. Take a listen to “Wait For Me” in the soundtrack and tell me otherwise. Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Walfisch’s score is timeless while also paying respect to Vangelis’ synthetic use in the original. It dives into the character’s mind providing a replication of something more human than what Vangelis composed.

7. It thematically ties more directly to “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” than “Blade Runner” does.

“Blade Runner” got the overall gist of Phillip K Dick’s novel. Replicants are scared, trying to find a way to survive as Deckard hunts them down. However, the Andies in the movie almost deserve to die. In their quest for more life, they torture and kill multiple civilians. What did the guy making the eyes do to deserve being frozen to death? What about J.R. Sebastian? He was nothing but pleasant to Roy and Pris. Did Roy eye gauge him when he was done with Tyrell?

Aside from Luv (Sylvia Hoeks), our replicants are fully rounded people. Sapper Morton is a watchful protector who was meant to be a NEXUS 8 combat medic; Joi’s true intentions come into question for herself and us. K’s inner conflict is the central core of the story. All of this revolves around the meaning of existence within a world that has forgotten about you. The introduction of Robo procreation is an evolution of Dick’s ideas, widening his notion of why life exists in the first place.

8. It doesn’t get lost in the scale

Many sequels love scope over characters. Remember “The Matrix”? Remember how they talked about Zion and all these other things we didn’t see? When the sequels brought in Zion, the focus got lost in the spectacle. “The Matrix Reloaded” was a bumbling CGI mess of Agent Smith Clones and cave orgies. “The Matrix Revolutions” was a glorified “Space Invaders” game. Shoot as many sentinels as you can before becoming overwhelmed. Amidst the sequels bumbling chaos, I missed the smaller scale of the Nebuchadnezzar crew.

The story of “2049” could have focused on the replicant uprising with thousands of robots slamming into humans. We could have gone off-world to finally see what all these other colonies we’ve heard about are like. Some have argued that the movie could have borrowed some of its source material from the later novels about replicants creating humans, so on and so forth. All of that sounds incredible in theory. In execution, you would likely get “The Matrix” sequels.

A movie that overreaches in scope, attempting to please fans by showing everything. What we got was an incredibly meaningful story that further explores the themes of the original while building upon its world without going too far. We see what’s beyond L.A. on the dilapidated west coast. The answer is not much. The film aims at minimalism over extravaganza.

9. We’re still talking about it

After being MIA for decades, “Blade Runner 2049” isn’t forgotten. I can’t say the same for “Superman Returns,” “Monsters University,” “The Incredibles 2,” “Live Free or Die Hard,” and “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull.” In fairness, people do talk about Indy 4, but not in a positive fashion. “Blade Runner 2049” returned to the limelight with disastrous box office results yet high accolades, even gaining the Academy’s attention. Ironically it seemed destined to live the life of its predecessor.

“2049” may have tanked because it was a multimillion-dollar art film that respected its audience’s intelligence. Maybe “Blade Runner” was too far gone amongst the public to gain an interest geared almost entirely towards comic books and Disney. I think the trailers after the reveal teaser looked too generic for my own two cents, turning me off from the film for a short while.

Here we are with Honest Trailers in 2020, making a video about a film that came out in 2017. Bloodsoaked orange skies from the headlines mention the atmosphere of this film. Somewhere, about 100 other people are writing their analysis of “Blade Runner 2049” as I type right now. Seven years from now, we’ll be talking about why the world is still like “Blade Runner 2049.” Villeneuve made a timeless sequel to be remembered.

10. It’s better than the first film and one of the best films in the last ten years

Here’s why you’ll probably agree with this one when you put your pitchfork down. Remove your nostalgia goggles. I know it’s hard to do, please, trust me. Look at the points I made above. Think about how ironic the love story is to our lives. The layers of meaning behind K’s existence is lightyears beyond the featureless Rick Deckard. The picture isn’t flawless. Niander Wallace is spectacularly corny in his scenery-chewing grim monologues. Dr. Eldon Tyrell had some ambiguity regarding the morale of his intentions. For that, I’ll give the original the benefit of my doubt. I understand Ryan Gosling was cast to be intentionally deadpan, but it’s okay to emote once. His distant stare in all of his other performances made it difficult for me to discern myself from the actor’s rather dull persona.

With this said, “Blade Runner 2049” understands cinema. Its atmosphere is why we venture into a dark room that takes us to a different place. Denis Villeneuve’s masterful follow up is one of the most orgasmic cinematic experiences I have witnessed in the last ten years that demands a re-screening in 2022 when theatres reopen at an entirely safe capacity. The style doesn’t overshadow its substance, which is far richer in detail than the original without grasping at blatant metaphors. “Blade Runner 2049” is slow cinema at its finest, letting us into the character’s heads, knowing when to be quiet and when to be loud.

Like “The Empire Strikes Back,” not everyone appreciated the movie at first. Time has been incredibly kind to it, though. I wish the Academy recognized “Blade Runner 2049” beyond its technical marvels in 2018. I suppose it wasn’t the type of picture that catches Oscar voter’s eyes. But it has acquired the audience’s to this day. Now, if you could just look up and to the left for me?

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I GOT TSUKUMOJUKUMATSU

AND OH BOY WAS THAT SOMETHING

I will maybe attempt to translate it, seeing as it's really short. Emphasis on "maybe" and “attempt”. I’m not sure how well that’d go, since there are references to stuff I haven't read, a lot of puns (of course) and changing personal pronouns.

Right now my reactions are the following [spoilers for this, Tsukumojuku and somewhat for Jorge Joestar]:

-- I am now emotionally messed up

-- "Fuck, I thought." ME TOO, TSUKUMOJUKU

-- *quietly adds 6 to the Dead Tsukumojukus Count*

-- considering how this Tsukumojuku talks about his different versions in this and other Maijo works ("various other mes having my name"), it seems they are all distinct people with different experiences and levels of meta awareness, but also they're all ‘Tsukumojuku’, er, conceptually? (Kinda like there are multiple different Karses in Jorge Joestar, but they're all 'Kars' and there's this thing where "that other 'me' counts as me", I guess?). So he's not that worried about seeing "his own" corpse -- it's him, but it's not him -- while considering the release of Tsukumojuku as the day he was born, despite likely having nothing to do with the plot of that book.

-- this Tsukumojuku seems aware of pretty much everything Maijo wrote, specifically mentioning Tsukumojuku, Jorge Joestar [see photo above], Suki suki daisuki cho aishiteiru, short stories in Faust, a Pluto O novel and the movie Neck. Similarly, he knows Otsuichi’s works, including Shousei Monogatari (highly relevant here) and The Book (another Jojo novel). Oh, and he knows that he's right now being written in a story called Tsukumojukumatsu meant to appear in a magazine Da Vinci.

-- remember that "waiting for death" pun from Seiryoin’s Cosmic? Maijo pretty much repurposed it here, and how

-- THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL. EVERYTHING HAS MEANING. *muffled sob*

-- tfw the narration suddenly switches from the familiar boku to ore and starts talking TO Tsukumojuku Kato and you realize that BEYOND HAS JUST BRIEFLY HIJACKED THE NARRATION TO RESPOND TO TSUKUMOJUKU OH GOD OH FUCK

-- (if you even count it as hijacking, considering that Tsukumojuku's narration is ALWAYS Beyond talking through him, seeing as, you know, one’s a character and the other’s his writer, they’re in a way inseparable)

-- the title Beyond is used towards both: 1) the guy writing Suki suki daisuki cho aishiteiru in 2003 that Tsukumojuku is observing (as in they exist physically in the same space), 2) the guy writing Tsukumojukumatsu in 2016, and so creating both this Tsukumojuku and the aforementioned 2003 Beyond as fictional characters. It's pretty clear from context that both Beyonds (one Beyond in different spacetimes?) here is meant to be Maijo, that narration-hijacking one being the real (?) Maijo, who is writing about his memories and so including his past self as a character in-story.

--

...so. I'm wondering if the title Beyond in Jorge doesn’t refer to just Maijo. I mean, y'all know how much I love my pet theory about Kandai+Seijitsu+Shoujiki beyonding in Jorge Joestar, but it is a theory, and the only real advantage it had over Maijo-Beyond was the clear Trinity aspect. But now we have an explanation for how Maijo could be a Trinity, symbolically -- just like with Seiryoin in Tsukumojuku, Maijo here is the Father that created the world (the story), the Son he put in that world (the ‘Beyond’ that Tsukumojuku's observing), and the Spirit that inspires the world’s movement (is writing the plot). Then again, you could counter that his Trinity status wouldn't apply as neatly to Jorge Joestar. But then again, it’d be nice to think that K+S+S managed to completely get outside the fictional world and never made another one, which. Good for them.

Basically I have chaos in my head and once more realize that attempting to put the Maijo meta together in neat layers is about as doable as making a cohesive Zelda timeline (i.e. impossible, since the individual works are just loose variations on the topic with a lot of common grounds, and weren't meant to fit together to this degree).

this got rambly so here’s a jojo-posing godzilla to end with, yes this is relevant to the story