stephtastrophe said:
I still don't get how there can be a limit of questions ... and so the scub coral were aliens who landed on Earth and wanted to learn and ask questions but had no way to communicate so just merged with everything until humans, the only ones they could possibly converse with left .... and they asked too many damn questions.
Yeah, Eureka and the other one created to learn and ask questions from humans ... yeah it does seem like the scub coral, and not military forces who want to destroy it should be the villians.
That was quite the info dump there, all very interesting. One thing this show very plainly asks, is are the scub coral malevolent or are they simply existing the only way they know how? Even they don't know where they came from how/where/why, they simply ended up on earth, and "woke up" in the ocean and did the only thing they can. They just walk to communicate/talk, is that so bad? Looking at Renton's sister and the rest of humanity that fused/absorbed with the Coral, doesn't seem like they mind. A giant pooling of all knowledge and information? Some people might describe that as heaven, true enlightenment. But to sacrifice one's own individuality? That's an ages old philosophical question.
The idea of a "Question Limit" is interesting. It's either the limit on the amount of lifeforms, intelligence, consciousness, or "knowledge" that can be possessed. I guess if the sub coral get big enough, they just know too much info and that causes some sort of collapse of reality/our universe. Kinda sounds like a black hole/singularity. The laws of reality are really weird around those so I guess this sort of idea could work. Very interesting. The part about the "other universe" existing on the other side of the tear. Dianne's talk seems to suggestion that somehow the fused consciousness of humans/coral could survive this, and move to the new universe? But any non fused humans would die. I wonder if we will see more about that.
So you can definitely see Dewey's point of view. With his weird upbringing (Sacrificial king), individualism and sacrifice are a big deal to him. Hard to really get exactly what happened to him as a kid, as one of the characters said, you need a therapist to figure that stuff out.
The idea of the scub coral being young/nascent when it absorbed all life on earth, and eventually growing to be "lonely" and possibly regretting (or at least wishing for a different way to communicate) seems pretty neat. Many characters on this show have followed a similar ark, becoming more matural so it's kinda appropriate that the Scub coral would do the same thing.
Molding part of themselves into two Humanoids, as best they could, to try and better communicate. Starting from nothing. Interesting that the first attempt spawns a religion, is viewed as a diety, and is given the exact opposite treatment that the Coral wanted (silence, no communication what so ever). The second one is coopted into the War machine, taught to kill innocents, and used for experiments causing great calamity. Real opposite ends of the spectrum. Bit it's interesting how Eureka seems to be more successful than Sakuya. Perhaps that was the whole point (to fully understand humans, you really need to get the whole experience, warts and all).
Not sure if Dianne or Adroc are "real" or not. It's interesting that for Renton it's Dianne, but for Eureka she has to seek out Adroc. He's there to ask questions, she is there to deliver her "message" (love: the heart in the book). Either way, the serve the purpose of providing a new option other than the "lets just absorb all of humanity so we can survive" default Scub Coral plan. Sounds like a good message. lets hope it works. |