What happened to the Roger Smith clones?

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Originally posted by Anarky I just got this idea, maybe others have had it too, but here's my theory. Those Roger-clones weren't clones at all. They were action figures. You know, the whole Paradigm thing is a TV-Show, and TV-Shows have merchandise. So my guess is that you got a quick look into the marketing industry of "The Paradigm Show".

DAMN! Why didn't I think of that? Oh-well. I guess that is a possibility, even MORE like the Truman Show... But why make action figures so highly advanced in their skeletal structure? Why not like a Ken figure? Unless these were ment to ether:
--- 1. Make us think they are androids.
--- 2. A bit like the dolls with wire, bendable, skelingtons like we get now, but more advanced.

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Originally posted by Lost_Cyborg DAMN! Why didn't I think of that? Oh-well. I guess that is a possibility, even MORE like the Truman Show... But why make action figures so highly advanced in their skeletal structure?

Because they can? I mean, when you can produce something for cheap which is that advanced... why shouldn't you do it? And besides, they can build really big domes, why shouldn't they be able to make cool action figures.

Well, maybe they aren't action figures but little statue-thingies. You know, like McFarlane's Movie Maniacs or something.

Yeah, good point.

What is the interest to make a so crazy scenario for 'The Big O' ? Why do we use people to make a show ? Ok, every one are androids ! But why ?! Who had that crazy idea ?! Why do 'they' use New York City to change it into Paradigm-City ? Why do 'they' destroy PC every time to rebuild it every time ?!

Angel ?! Is she a real angel ? Is she the real master of PC ? Has she the right to play with the PC 'citizens ?

What happened to the rest of the world ?

HOW CRAZY 'THE BIG O' IS ? That's 'The Matrix'+'The Truman Show'+'Evangelion', but with a sad end .....

Posted by Anarky:
Those Roger-clones weren't clones at all. They were action figures. You know, the whole Paradigm thing is a TV-Show, and TV-Shows have merchandise. So my guess is that you got a quick look into the marketing industry of "The Paradigm Show".

THE BIG O ARCHITECT SHOULD CALL THIS: THE BIG O EXPERIMENT
First things, first. We have to assume that nothing in Paradigm is real; the name says it all: "Paradigm" which is a synonym for the word protoype means nothing but an experiment or a test place to run things on before launching a main product. This explains the "stage of Paradigm" explained by some characters in the story.

Ok so now to get a test going you need to know what to test right? Well we can easily say that it must have something to do with violence right? so why not test human nature? Including LOVE?

Kool so we have an idea to which to test what now? we need subjects; why dont we get together crowds of people robots and humans alike and mix them together in a huge melting pot.

But wait how will these people comply and get along with the requests? easy erase their memory......and if something goes wrong easy reset them again.

Ok so now we need to be able to controll the situation. How do we get some sort of order to go with these test subjects? Well first we pick a leader for them to rule over them. Sure enough well pick a guy named XXXXXXXXX that should be good enough; but wait what if he gets too cocky and has too much control? easy first well erase his memory, but not too much for hell need it to build and manage a city; next well need a failsafe so what do we use if things get out of hand? well a superweapon of course! BIG VENUS (for smaller problems you send clones to kill off undesirables). Ok thats all set now we have people to run the show without them having a clue of why they do this. But ok these people need a guide of whats going on right? Ok instead of us coming from the heavens like a god; well leave a few words wriitten down for them to begin a journal; much like the bible and jesus. Ook so now we got the bible Metropolis and the manager to write on it...........FAST FOWARD IN TIME...........Ook so this is our 217 test and the new manager will be Gordon Rosewater, sure enough he has no freaking clue of what has happened but all he knows is that he must continue on that freaking journal and carry out his destiny of REbuilding paradigm as its manager. So he does all that his descendants have done..... collect the chosen minds and implant them memories to carry on the everpassing loop.

Ok so now we have a perfect system set up. We need now test subjects ok lets get a human guy named Roger smith and a robot girl name R Dorothy Wayne Right lets see if its possible for them to love each other. How do we do this? well we put them in miserable situations... well lets kill Dorothys creator, lets make Roger Smith live a solitary life engulfed by money. Lets see if this rich man poor girl mix up works after all.

Ok lets go and run side tests as well while were at it. Lets test a guys sense of being, after he feels incapable of protecting the people that he cares for. Lets see if he will ever truly love someone that is not willing to be protected (french girl that he shoots), lets see how that works out.

Ok and so on we run other test. So now how do we make this world miserable? well we have to give the lab rats a reason to kill each other right? lets make them build their world and destroy it for no apparent reason. Well lets get giant robots in the picture; but wait lets get hundreds of thousands of them; were going to need these to last for a few tests anyway right? ok so we start all of these robots up; theres a catch though how do we get these thousands of robots to mess up the prototype world? easy we get AI pilots. well so who will control Big O? of course Roger Smith, why? well we want to see what would a man do when he has the power to do what he wants when he has the power to be the god of his world and save or not save the ones he cares for. So we will give Roger this priviledge, so all Big O will only be able to be operated by the ORIGINAL ROGER SMITH. oops oh snap theres only one real human roger smith in this world and hes a drunk stoner. So what do we do? no problem we clone the living crap out of him. We make a few thousand robot copies to operate the psycho Big O's that will mess up the city and the human ones... well we will just keep cloning him successively each and after every reset. Who does this you ask? well the manager of course he was the one that implanted the memories for this clone or TOMATO right?

Ok psycho big o's f***ed up the city now what do we do with them? well make the destroy each other or send big venus to shut most of them down. I mean who wants a robot roger smith walking around? just send the super weapon to exterminate them. Oh and as you do it record all the suffering and agony of the destruction of the city and destruction of the Big O's and other things; it would make excellent memories for those who will be implanted by them, it would make them want to kill each other to collect them all ALL IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE.

Ok so we now have a few robots and Bigs lyrin around after the big battle between each other. Just let them lay there to see what subject will find and what they will do after finding that treasure.

Excellent weve got all the core things developed but we need a back up of the memory, i mean the manager can die cant he? if he does we'll be screwed and then Big Venus will have to come to fix things up. What better place than to make a successor already right after the cloning of roger smith. Well well implant memories into Angel and use her to reactivate the experiment for her to become the next manager.

......OK finally everyone got screwed and no one behaved well time to get big venus back again to kick everyones ass. Ok everyone gets screwed except for angel who is spared at least to some degree of her memories.

THEN BLANK JUST LIKE A FLASH FROM THAT MEMORY ERASER FROM THE MIB MOVIES THERE YOU GO A RESET

...so what now what do you remember manager? angel? well i dont remember crap, all i know is that i have a freaking book to follow and it dictates for me to get another roger and another dorothy. The sad thing is that the recording made by the architect of the last reset is still playing and its sad to see that this all has happened for nothing, for these human lives in this experiment were useless, and that all that has remained is that freaking video of the "show must go on" which is sad and makes her cry. All around her are posters of the experiments name "Big O" that she is running. Not to mention little designs and projects of roger and dorothy that are models for the experiment.

NOW HERE IS THE QUESTION I CANNOT ANSWER ROGER AND DOROTHY WALK IN THE ROOM THE ROOM THE MANAGER IS RUNNING DOES THIS MEAN THAT DOROTHY AND ROGER ARE THE ARCHITECTS OF THIS FICTION WORLD IN A FUTURISTIC SOCIETY????

that one is for you to find out reader

we have come to terms.

I was just looking at a picture that was posted to elaborate on a point that I was making, and I noticed something: look at the wall behind Roger, am I the only one who notices that there's a Big O movie poster behind Roger?

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Originally posted by snakemarcato13 I was just looking at a picture that was posted to elaborate on a point that I was making, and I noticed something: look at the wall behind Roger, am I the only one who notices that there's a Big O movie poster behind Roger?

It has been commented on. Search for "Big O poster" in this forum and you'll see plenty of speculation about it.

Pygmalion