| Pythagoras | 01-10-2004 05:01 AM |
I'm not quite sure if the show's writers are going for a complete Christian allegory but the arguments here on this thread have given me some ideas. For one, it does seem rather clear that Angel (not her real name?) has some sort of Satanic connection:
1) She has direct control over the world of Paradigm. The devil is repeatedly called by Jesus and Paul as "the prince of this world." What if the resets are bad and are part of a satanic control system?
2) Her director's place is located down below. Many sects (esp. Protestants) believe hell is located beneath the earth. (Though it never really says in the Bible where hell actually is.)
3) The director's controls are on floor 666.
4) In the passage from Revelations 12 I quoted above, Satan is said to have been cast down from heaven and is compared to a dragon. If we take the premodern belief that heaven is supposed to be above the earth (since the sky is often called the heavens), this would seem to indicate that after being cast down to earth, the devil wasn't able to return. Was this because his wings had been plucked?
Look at the book of Revelations, in there, there is someone called the false prophet who is said to serve Satan. I believe that this is Alex Rosewater. He wants to become the god of the new world and wants people to admire him for his wondrous works (see Revelation 13:13) on their television sets. But he is a false prophet and not a true dominus. Thus he must sell his soul to Big Fau.
Who is Schwartzwald? I believe that he is a combined version of the two prophets who are supposed to run around in Jerusalem (Paradigm) during the end times. Why? Check out this passage from Revelation 11:
The allegory isn't meant to be perfect but we see that they're clothed ver poorly (bandages), they use fire as a weapon, that they are compared to trees (a megadeus, Big Duo), that they prophesy (i.e. try to tell people about the truth that their lives are a lie), that they die (see Act #16) but miraculously, their bodies (Big Duo) are called upward to heaven (i.e. crash into the superstructure above the city). After Schwartzwald's mechanical body goes up to the dome, the city is wrecked in Act 26.
* I still am wondering who Roger is, who the Union is, who Gordon is, and why Roger is asking the prince of this world, Angel for mercy. I think it may be because Roger isn't meant to be a Christ figure. In Angel's case, perhaps the writers wanted to explore the idea that perhaps she is merely the pawn of an evil creator who asserts its control in the world through the Big Venus (called Lucifer in Japan) and Angel is perhaps the unwitting child of evil. Perhaps the end of Act 26 is meant to convey that she has broken the cycle of resetting contrary to the wishes of her real parent (the evil Creator). The authors may be borrowing from the idea of the rapture in which the world is turned over to Satan for a time prior to the second coming of Christ. Perhaps this is the reason why things in Paradigm are so bad all the time.
Or, it may be that Angel is meant to be shown as evil for her selfishness in continually resetting things. The third possibility is that they show writers just wanted to follow the vague outline I discussed above the asterisk and then change things to suit their own story.
1) She has direct control over the world of Paradigm. The devil is repeatedly called by Jesus and Paul as "the prince of this world." What if the resets are bad and are part of a satanic control system?
2) Her director's place is located down below. Many sects (esp. Protestants) believe hell is located beneath the earth. (Though it never really says in the Bible where hell actually is.)
3) The director's controls are on floor 666.
4) In the passage from Revelations 12 I quoted above, Satan is said to have been cast down from heaven and is compared to a dragon. If we take the premodern belief that heaven is supposed to be above the earth (since the sky is often called the heavens), this would seem to indicate that after being cast down to earth, the devil wasn't able to return. Was this because his wings had been plucked?
Look at the book of Revelations, in there, there is someone called the false prophet who is said to serve Satan. I believe that this is Alex Rosewater. He wants to become the god of the new world and wants people to admire him for his wondrous works (see Revelation 13:13) on their television sets. But he is a false prophet and not a true dominus. Thus he must sell his soul to Big Fau.
Who is Schwartzwald? I believe that he is a combined version of the two prophets who are supposed to run around in Jerusalem (Paradigm) during the end times. Why? Check out this passage from Revelation 11:
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| And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want. Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth. But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on. At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. |
The allegory isn't meant to be perfect but we see that they're clothed ver poorly (bandages), they use fire as a weapon, that they are compared to trees (a megadeus, Big Duo), that they prophesy (i.e. try to tell people about the truth that their lives are a lie), that they die (see Act #16) but miraculously, their bodies (Big Duo) are called upward to heaven (i.e. crash into the superstructure above the city). After Schwartzwald's mechanical body goes up to the dome, the city is wrecked in Act 26.
* I still am wondering who Roger is, who the Union is, who Gordon is, and why Roger is asking the prince of this world, Angel for mercy. I think it may be because Roger isn't meant to be a Christ figure. In Angel's case, perhaps the writers wanted to explore the idea that perhaps she is merely the pawn of an evil creator who asserts its control in the world through the Big Venus (called Lucifer in Japan) and Angel is perhaps the unwitting child of evil. Perhaps the end of Act 26 is meant to convey that she has broken the cycle of resetting contrary to the wishes of her real parent (the evil Creator). The authors may be borrowing from the idea of the rapture in which the world is turned over to Satan for a time prior to the second coming of Christ. Perhaps this is the reason why things in Paradigm are so bad all the time.
Or, it may be that Angel is meant to be shown as evil for her selfishness in continually resetting things. The third possibility is that they show writers just wanted to follow the vague outline I discussed above the asterisk and then change things to suit their own story.
