Literally the plot of American Gods
A word for this is ‘backronym’
Don’t piss off Aten
Ya know what happened to Apep(the deity)?
He got his fucking ass kicked by Ra. Hell, if I remember right, he also gets his ass kicked by Horus at least once.
Basically, don’t fuck with the sun. It’s got hands. And a beak.
We stand for Sol
I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like “no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that’s crimson shepherd’s crooks, not sunbursts”
That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns
We stand against false gods.
Carter did blow up a sun…
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
Now Rodney who fired up that unstable energy chamber again after it had already fried one guy on the other hand…
Best show <3
Meh, imo compared to most of Star Trek or Babylon 5 it was kinda mid (even Star Wars - The Clone War was better). Just basically American mil-prop but in space.
Let me remind you of the original premise: A
conspiracy theorist nutjobeccentric professor (thinks aliens build the pyramids, but is somehow still allowed to lecture at an university) is hired by the military to help them explore an unknown world where they have to saveuncivilised savageshelpless slaves (using, you’ve guessed it: guns) from anevil dictatorall powerfull god (who still needs slaves tho).The more I think about it, it’s not even mid, it’s crap. It has no wonder for what’s beyond the stars, just a constant psychotic fear of anything that could even remotely be considered a danger to
AmericaEarth. And the only solution to it is shoot at it.The big sci fi win in stargate is how highly they rated internal consistency and having a scientific basis where possible. Apparently that was mostly because the actress playing Carter absolutely refused to tell bullshit gobbledegook and forced the writers to do it properly.
It’s subtle, and not always perfectly followed, but if you take the episode where they gate to the black hole, they have significant screen time justifying why the time dilation is so strong when the gravitational effects are so weak. It shouldn’t work that way and they acknowledge that explicitly, but obviously they wanted a fun time dilation story so they call it out and explain it as an unexpected side effect of the gate wormhole. So sure, they sometimes make science do what they need it to do for the story, but they try hard to justify it.
Star Trek meanwhile barely follows its own rules most of the time, let alone actually acknowledging real physics
it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
Boo.
Haters gonna hate Gaters gonna gate
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
Instructions unclear: Revolt, enjoy your new dictator, and ignore the CIA agents out back unloading cocaine.
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there.
That’s why they are always sending armed soliders first?
Milprop is often like that: Oh no we’re the diplomatic good guys forced to fight. Why are they making us do this? We could’ve been friends, if you just
allowed us to install our puppetsigned our trade agreement. Now we unfortunately have to raze your cities and salt your fields. I hope you’re sorry :'(I mean, that argument can be applied against Star Trek too, they always send an armed warship to make first contact.
They’re sending a robot with a camera first. Then it’s two soldiers + two scientists.
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
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Ah, okay my bad. Whatched that movie 10+ years ago and that’s how I’ve remembered it.
you certainly have very strong opinions about something you can’t exactly remember. It’s ok to be wrong though we won’t hold it against you :-)
It’s okay to be wrong =p
I know, I don’t hold it against you :D
If you watch too many episodes at once you realize they all end in shootouts, and then you feel sad.
“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode”
That was because we like shootouts. It’s sad yes, but also fun.
they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.
I’m still upset that this was canceled.
What is this show?
It’s called Raised By Wolves. It was on HBO Max before Zaslov took over. He scrapped it completely and pulled it off the platform. I think it’s on one of those free ad-supported channels now.
The show is produced by Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free Productions .
It’s quite hard to describe. At its core, it’s a sci-fi series focused on a couple of androids who are sent to raise human kids on another planet when Earth is destroyed by a religious war.
Beyond that, it’s like someone took LSD before writing the weirdest sci-fi shit they could think of. I mean like:
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androids giving birth to flying snakes, acid aliens storing babies in their chest cavity, and people turning into trees
I don’t even know how to describe it without spoilers because it’s so wild. I absolutely loved it.
As someone who did watch it on acid, fully agreed. I had to rewatch it sober because I thought the whole show had been a fever dream. It was even trippier sober.
Okay I think I might have watched the first episode or I watch at least the preview for it and it was one of those shows that I wanted to watch but I’ve got so many that it just hasn’t gone to that point yet. Guess I’m going to have to dig that out here soon.
Do give it a watch but don’t rush. They cancelled the show before ending it so it’s very unsatisfying.
I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?
Could anyone please name the show? Ppl in the know keep referring to it as the show but could the oblivious ones get into the inner circle as well, please?
Raised By Wolves
Thank you
No. The show is cancelled before they wrap up anything.
Personally, I’d still watch it anyway because the show is so goddamn weird you can’t find anything like it anywhere else.
For anyone reading who hasn’t seen it, I would describe it as the most metal (🤘) show I’ve ever seen.
ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird things like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
Raised by wolfs
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
I think this is from Raised by Wolves, which is a wacky ass scifi thing.
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
I’m fairly certain you’re right, I just can’t remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.
Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.
there’s probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that’s to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.
bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus’s cum that gets summoned from Set’s body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum
there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)
Look it doesn’t matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
Basically, don’t fuck with the sun. It’s got hands. And a beak.
the Romans knew the sun as Sol Invictus, or “The Unconquerable Sun”. Ever hear the story about the man who conquered the sun?
Me either
Mao. Why do you think the East is Red?
NASA has a huge history of nerdy names with mythological references, allegedly rituals too
Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn’t expect anything less
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Founded JPL and Aerojet He was also a Thelemite occultist
Oh wow! I just learned about this dude yesterday lmao
Atrocity Guide just posted a video about him recently, wild shit
He also got scammed by Elron Hubbard out of his mansion and fortune which Hubbard basically used to found scientology
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
The stache really sells it 😄
I think Thanos sells it. Mostly because he a gave fuck about Mani. Totally.
The tv show strange angel is about him and its wild.
One of the rockets sprays water at the sun.
This is to see what would happen, but is also an attempt at extinguishing the sun.
Didn’t Cyclops convince a Sentinel to do something similar?
This reminds me of: https://youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
Wouldn’t they hit the moon instead?
Yea extinguish that mf. Dude causes way too much light pollution already
The moon is super important because it shines during the night when it’s dark, while the sun is only ever in the sky during the day when it’s bright outside, so it’s much less important.
Thank you Terry.
I think tides might be important too
Not to me they’re not, I think we should stop giving tides so much attention. Ocean goes up, ocean goes down, blah blah blah, such a neat trick. Ridiculous.
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
So he shot at the sun with a gun
Sounds like fun.
But it weighed a ton and then some.
A prop of your such on the night’s bun wouldn’t matter despite the weight needed when done.
c/whatadamnmin
Apep… I mean… I get why they’d want to extinguish the sun, I can’t imagine they had a good time in grade school with a name like “Apep…”
NO.
