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Filianore visually reminds me of Míriel Serindë.

"Miriel's hair was described as being silver in appearance, an unusual colour for one of the Noldor."

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Y’all fucking NEED to listen to Derelict I swear to god—interstellar corporation Maas-Dorian funds a research project on Earth studying a massive, ancient vault found at the deepest part of the ocean floor. Grieving mother Dr. Eva Graff becomes convinced that to put her own life back together, she has to open it up. The station’s AI Mac is disturbingly keen to help her. And Agent David Blayne is trying to figure out why researchers are hearing voices telling them just how they can do it.

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LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA'HOOLE (2010) dir. Zack Snyder

what if these two met...

sequel and prequel bitches

Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky

wow rogue one is really a love letter to the unnamed fighter. no act of help is too small, every deed causes a ripple. luke showed up to blow the death star, and there was the plan to do it–countless of people died to get him that, and luke knows none of them. how many rebel planes get shot down every battle? how many civilians die in explosions? how many died to get the plans to luke? rogue one says you. and you and you and you. every one of you. what will come of it? who knows. something.

i met a traveller from an antique land, who said—“two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. . . . near them, on the sand, half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, tell that its sculptor well those passions read which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: my name is Ozymandias, king of kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! nothing beside remains. round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away."

- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelly

Martin Mystery Ending Credits Promo

Here is a different version of the video. 

To go on with my list of the video’s content: 

# We see again the snowy mountains, but this time, the scene seems to be in bright day (while the Yeti scene was rather in the evening). The main team is on skis (well, Java is on a snowboard), followed by guys, dressed as Egyptian Pharaohs. That are also skiing (from the dialogue I guess Diana told Martin that these guys must be bad skiers, but when they reveal themselves to be good skiers, Martin mocks her by telling back what she previously said). The Pharaohs are armed with golden staff, with two eagles on top, and they use it to shoot energy orange rays. One of the Pharaohs is on top of Martin, hitting his head.

# We see the classic moment from the opening credit where the team, all smiling, ends up covered in slime. I don’t know if it was supposed to be part of the pilot episode, or just of the opening.

# The team is in front of the giant well I mentioned earlier. We see that it is filled with white light/energy/electricity, and from there electricity-made demons wriggle. The energy emitted from the well pulls back the team, Java having to hold on the bordure of the well with one hand (we see again the giant roots, this time on the border of the well).

# We see again the alien policemen, holding an alien gun. They are inside a black helicopter, floating on top of a city (again a modern one full of skyscrapers). The light coming from inside the black helicopter is red, while the one filling the city is orange-yellow, and the sky is blue-grey, like if it was night. It looks like the city that was overfilled with jungle, but I can’t see any vegetation. Java is holding to the hands of a giant clock, and the rest of the team is clinging onto him. Under them, there are people and cars. But more importantly there is what seems to be the source of this orange-yellow light: some sort of vortex trying to aspirate the team.

# We see Martin, crawling in dark gray-bluish brick tunnels, before they are flooded with green slime. We see the rest of the team being washed away by the slime flood.

# Martin and Diana, in the red temple, surrounded with orange energy/flames. Diana is on the back of a minotaur, holding its horns, while Martin is on the back of some fish-like creature.

# We see again the stone tunnels, with Java crawling inside of them, while the location trembles and dust falls from the ceiling.

# Another fight in the red temple. The team fights a bunch of mummies, Martin armed with a big stick. Each time the mummy are hit, they explode in a green slime.

# Another moment in the red temple. Diana gets up, angry-looking, and shouts “That’s it!” at the boys (who answer “okay”).

# Another segment where the team is covered in slime, but time from the slime is thrown from a different angle and the background is red instead of purple.

# Again, a ton of fighting with mummies. The mummies seem to obey a man wearing a golden mask (that looks like the giant stone face). To me, it looks like the bald priest/magician from earlier, wearing royal garments. People referred to this character as an “Inca god”, but I have to mention that, while the design looks like Inca, the red temple/pyramid also hosts hieroglyphs and sphinx, clearly Egyptians. Plus, anyway, the temple is apparently located on another planet, or maybe even another dimension, so… Diana is also seen carrying a staff similar to the ones hold by the Pharaohs earlier, but bigger, with top great wings on top, and it is shooting green electricity.

# The clip ends up with a reference to the “Twilight Dimension” TV show. Diana and Martin are on a plane, in holiday clothing. Martin sees a gremlin on the wing of the plane, destroying it. And when Diana asks “What is it?”, he says “Don’t worry, everything is fine” and closes the window.

 Some here are some of my personal thoughts on this clip and what may have been the plot :

The bad guy here is clearly the priest/magician, who is also the masked man residing in the alien temple. He seems to be the one behind most of the monsters: the Pharaohs on the mountains, the mummies and other monsters of the temple… The red temple is also where the green slime appears for the first time, and it is apparently what fills the mummies. My guess is that the green slime is some supernatural energy used by the priest-magician (maybe this episode was supposed to explain why there is green slime every time there is a supernatural activity involved). The fact that the temple is located in an alien landscape may also explain the involvement of the “alien police officers”. I guess the actions of the priest, from his alien world, ends up directly affecting our own world…

It may also all be linked to the well of energy and the light balls that fly from it. After all, one of them ends up roaming the “modern town”, and later it ends up filled with plants, monsters and aliens.

Talking about the “alien police officers”, have you noticed that they are in black helicopters? An obvious reference to the urban legend of the black helicopters (if you don’t know, it’s basically like the men in black, but with helicopters). The fact that they are here, alongside with other well-known or mythological beings, like the Yeti, mummies or a Minotaur, leads me to believe that the force of the priest-magician seems to have “brought to life” legends of our world, whether they are mythological or urban. This is purely a theory, nothing proves that (and there are beings I can’t fit in this theory, like the weird eye-tentacle thing). But it explains why for example there would be a gremlin at the end of the episode, and in such a “cliché” situation.

All in all, this episode reminds me a lot of the season 2 finale, “They came from the gateway”. A strange guardian-like figure in a lost temple, invoking and unleashing the fury of monsters? With a lot of portals and vortex, and strange light balls in the sky? (Bluish-green-white in the pilot, red-black in They came from the gateway).

Also, note a very important detail here… There is NO CENTER. We never see Billy or Mom or the Center. The team doesn’t use their investigator cards, like usually. And look at Martin’s wrist: THERE’S NO U-WATCH (Chronoscan)! In this pilot episode, the team is basically just a bunch of friends, led by the over-imaginative Martin into a weird quest. (It is mentioned that they are following a “legend”). It also may explain why Diana is so skeptical and obvious to the supernatural, and why in the end at the red temple she screams “That’s it, I’m done!”.

My very wild guess it that this pilot episode would have explained how the team got recruited by the Center. Again, there is no proof of it, it’s just me making theories. Given that Java was already here, I guess he must have had a different backstory at the time.