Talk:Cthulhu

From doktorsleepless

Does anyone think it's possible that the whole Scartop Mountain incident may have been an accident involving biological, nanotechnological, or radioactive experiments? Perhaps the tentacles are just one feature of some horrible abomination created there that killed (or somehow caused the disappearance of) John Reinhardt's parents, thus giving him this fascination with The Darkening Sky and Lovecraft. Any thoughts? --Sarck 12:45, April 19 (EST)

Oh, I do think anything is possible. The "angels" themselves look more like a manifestation of the technological rather than something overtly supernatural to me, though that's just an impression. I guess the question is whether it is likely. Based on what I have read of the story so far, I have to wonder if there is a rational explanation for the Cthulhu-like manifestations that scarred our pro/an -tagonist's psyche. Ellis seems comfortable for now allowing us to be tantalized by the possibility at least of the supernatural. That may be part of the point, though. At some point in technological development / evolution, many of our capabilities that are technologically based are going to at least appear to be magical. Perhaps we should extrapolate from what the Doktor says on the air in issue #1: "Stop looking for something that isn't there. You live in the future and you don't know it." Maybe we should give up on a supernatural explanation for what's happening and accept that the little things... the biotech, the IM lenses, etc.... are the explanation. Truth told, Lovecraft himself was a complete rationalist and his "gods" like Cthulhu weren't gods at all but alien entitites imposing themselves upon our world and our severely limited understanding of "reality." I guess another question is whether we're dealing at all with alien entities here or using Cthulhu beasties as a metaphor for the sundering of a staid reality accepted by the residents of Heavenside. --Wells 14:29, 19 April 2008 (PDT)