Where is Paradigm City?

quote:

Originally posted by Zopwx2 I still don't think there is a superdome. Meaning I don't think there is any place in their world where it eventually touches the ground. The lights are just up there........

I'm not convinced that the lights are there all the time, either. They may be a sign and a portent that appears when the cycle is nearing its end. Another example of a portent is the appearance of WINTER NIGHT PHANTOM in the theater.

quote:

Originally posted by Captain Maw woa, big duo was found intact? i find that strange that an intact Big would be just sitting in a hangar (cough).

Watch Act 17, you see Schwarzwald dancing around a complete (and un-mummified) Big Duo in a hanger at JFKmark towards the start of the episode. Since no one really goes to JFKmark, it woudn't be surprising if it just sat there for 40 years. One would imagine Paradigm's memory-hunters would try and go there, but perhaps it was in a hanger that was somehow cut off and only Schwarzwald risked going to it.

Also, in regards to Big O's origins, it was presumably waiting intact and ready for action for the better part of the 40 years between the Event and the Show. If we're to take anything in Roger the Wanderer at face value, I think the badly acted play between Roger and Norman is it.

in act 14, roger's house is a bank, isn't chase manhatten bank where 72nd or w/e is???

quote:

Originally posted by Captain Maw in act 14, roger's house is a bank, isn't chase manhatten bank where 72nd or w/e is???

I happened to be in New York City last year and walked the length of West 72nd Street, looking for a ten-story banklike building. The two banks I found were Chase, half a block from Central Park:


and Citibank, on Lexington and 72nd:


There were no buildings exactly like Smith Mansion on 72nd, although there were some similar ones on 71st. I didn't have time to explore East 72nd, but my impression from driving down it was that it was all built up into apartments much taller than ten stories.

Pygmalion

quote:

Originally posted by Pygmalion There were no buildings exactly like Smith Mansion on 72nd, although there were some similar ones on 71st. I didn't have time to explore East 72nd, but my impression from driving down it was that it was all built up into apartments much taller than ten stories. Pygmalion

More or less. I have been in that general area more than once (E 72nd), and to the best of my knowledge I do not recall seeing a bank (or bank-like building) which would have matched Roger's apartment. Personally, I'm not surprised we have not found Roger's mansion as it is in modern-day New York; I would have been more surprised had we found it existed at all!

For one, it is only our assumption that the street numbering has remained intact from modern-day New York to the numbering system used in Paradigm; for all we know, it could be different. Even then, I think it would be too much to expect the animators had gotten New York's city plan down perfectly in the Big O: taking artistic liberties here and there does not seem all that unreasonable.

quote:

Originally posted by The Fallen Phoenix More or less. I have been in that general area more than once (E 72nd), and to the best of my knowledge I do not recall seeing a bank (or bank-like building) which would have matched Roger's apartment. Personally, I'm not surprised we have not found Roger's mansion as it is in modern-day New York; I would have been more surprised had we found it existed at all!

Me too; the animators were drawing a Paradigm City that was more like New York of the early 1960s, so buildings constructed in a later style (and I think that Citi building was built in the 80s) wouldn't exist in the show.

Pygmalion