| Robot7290 | 10-24-2006 07:32 PM |
OK, now I was just thinking... when I watched the last episode of the Big O, I saw Roger spread his arms out and thought Jesus! Cross! Christ!
But now after thinking on it for a bit, it is my opinion that Roger spreading his arms out was not to signify him being Jesus on the cross, but him giving his all to Angel (I think he even says that too). I know when I first watched it I thought it was something Christian, just making the link from the 3 Beasts, to 666, to Paradigm = Babel, Angel = Lucifer, whatever. But I keep thinking back to what Schwarzvald (I'm not spelling that right, I know it) said, well what he often said. Not quoting here, but you know, humankind's fear of the unknown.
Recently, I've been connecting that as an allegory to religion and existence as a whole. Most people have fear of where they go when they die. Religion is a way to subdue that fear (Schwarz. ever-comforting presence of God, only to see blah blah...). Now this (in my mind, I'm NOT stating absolutes here) is contradictory torwards Roger's pose at the end. Basically, I think the whole series is a big allegory to existence (or religion, or whatever you wanna call it). Roger had a pre-determined "role" set down by the Director, and he changes his role by negotiations with the director, just as Gordon Rosewater said he would.
Look, to all you people who are going to make stupid responses to this post, this is my OPINION. OPINION. This is how I feel, it is not fact.
But now after thinking on it for a bit, it is my opinion that Roger spreading his arms out was not to signify him being Jesus on the cross, but him giving his all to Angel (I think he even says that too). I know when I first watched it I thought it was something Christian, just making the link from the 3 Beasts, to 666, to Paradigm = Babel, Angel = Lucifer, whatever. But I keep thinking back to what Schwarzvald (I'm not spelling that right, I know it) said, well what he often said. Not quoting here, but you know, humankind's fear of the unknown.
Recently, I've been connecting that as an allegory to religion and existence as a whole. Most people have fear of where they go when they die. Religion is a way to subdue that fear (Schwarz. ever-comforting presence of God, only to see blah blah...). Now this (in my mind, I'm NOT stating absolutes here) is contradictory torwards Roger's pose at the end. Basically, I think the whole series is a big allegory to existence (or religion, or whatever you wanna call it). Roger had a pre-determined "role" set down by the Director, and he changes his role by negotiations with the director, just as Gordon Rosewater said he would.
Look, to all you people who are going to make stupid responses to this post, this is my OPINION. OPINION. This is how I feel, it is not fact.
. And what I am trying to say is that currently I think it isn't.