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True Art Is Incomprehensible is now an in-universe trope as per TRS.


*** There's a lot they could do with such a premise, but since [[Main/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible good fiction is confusing and vague, especially when coming from the creators of ''Lost'']]. don't expect it to ever be explored.

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*** There's a lot they could do with such a premise, but since [[Main/TrueArtIsIncomprehensible good [good fiction is confusing and vague, especially when coming from the creators of ''Lost'']].''Lost''. don't expect it to ever be explored.
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** Presumably the military would take pains to concentrate Hammerdown's detonation on Central Park, which was Clover's location at the time their last-ditch attack was launched. Maximize damage to the monster, minimize devastation to the wider metropolitan area. The other boroughs are probably still standing, albeit without power or phone service and overwhelmed by wounded and traumatized Manhattan evacuees.
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*** Grabbed some socks from the ruins of Beth's apartment, maybe? Those, at least, don't have to fit perfectly.

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*** Grabbed some socks bedroom slippers from the ruins of Beth's apartment, maybe? Those, at least, don't have to fit perfectly.
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* Why on Earth would Rob (much less anyone else) assume Beth would still be alive by the time they reached her? Given what the group had witnessed by that point it should be pretty reasonable to assume anyone you haven't heard from in the last 15 minutes is gone...

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* Why on Earth would Rob (much less anyone else) assume Beth would still be alive by the time they reached her? Given what the group had witnessed by that point it should be pretty reasonable to assume anyone you haven't heard from in the last 15 minutes is gone...gone...
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* Why would the monster eat tiny, puny humans like the cameraman at the end? To him, they're as small as insects and probably not very nutritious.
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** Also remember that the evacuations have been going full force since right after Lady Liberty's head got parallel parked out front of the apartment building. After an entire night of frantically getting people out of the city, odds are that the military decided that waiting for anyone who hadn't left yet wasn't worth the chance of Clover getting a second wind and heading for the mainland.

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** Also remember that the evacuations have been going full force since right after Lady Liberty's Art/LadyLiberty's head got parallel parked out front of the apartment building. After an entire night of frantically getting people out of the city, odds are that the military decided that waiting for anyone who hadn't left yet wasn't worth the chance of Clover getting a second wind and heading for the mainland.
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* DOES the monster have a canonical name? There's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Names a lot of controversy]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki about this.

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* DOES the monster have a canonical name? There's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Names a lot of controversy]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki about this.
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* Hey, it's me, the dude from earlier who was confused at the Brooklyn Bridge scene. Now, looking over Wiki/TheOtherWiki's map of New York, I can't help but wonder if it would have been a better idea to just go through the Bronx (YOU ARE HEREBY ORDERED TO LEAVE THE BRONX) and then to whatever's north of NYC? (... Westchester County?)

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* Hey, it's me, the dude from earlier who was confused at the Brooklyn Bridge scene. Now, looking over Wiki/TheOtherWiki's Website/TheOtherWiki's map of New York, I can't help but wonder if it would have been a better idea to just go through the Bronx (YOU ARE HEREBY ORDERED TO LEAVE THE BRONX) and then to whatever's north of NYC? (... Westchester County?)
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* What bugs me are the interruptions when the camera stop recording and show those TastesLikeDiabetes moments. My reason is that right at the begging we are told that the recording was found and that is, IIRC, from a SD memory card and not form a video tape, and some how the new video is recorded over old video, and i don't think that, if the SD card had suffered damage, the process to recover the data would have overwrite one video over the other.

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* What bugs me are the interruptions when the camera stop recording and show those TastesLikeDiabetes SickeninglySweet moments. My reason is that right at the begging we are told that the recording was found and that is, IIRC, from a SD memory card and not form a video tape, and some how the new video is recorded over old video, and i don't think that, if the SD card had suffered damage, the process to recover the data would have overwrite one video over the other.
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* What's going on in all of the neighboring boroughs? The Brooklyn Bridge was destroyed, but Brooklyn is far enough away to not be affected by the Hammerdown, but what of The Bronx and Queens? Do they get destroyed as a result? It's terrifying when you think about it.

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* What's going on in all of the neighboring boroughs? The Brooklyn Bridge was destroyed, but Brooklyn is far enough away to not be affected by the Hammerdown, but what of The Bronx and Queens? Do they get destroyed as a result? It's terrifying when you think about it.it.
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* Why on Earth would Rob (much less anyone else) assume Beth would still be alive by the time they reached her? Given what the group had witnessed by that point it should be pretty reasonable to assume anyone you haven't heard from in the last 15 minutes is gone...
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*** And if they'd actually seen her demise up close and personal, how plausible is it that even Rob would have the nerve to set foot on the streets again? Marlena graphically dies, Hud and the others go into HeroicBSOD, camera watches them huddle in a corner for a while, Hammerdown kills them all. The End.

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*** And if they'd actually seen her demise up close and personal, how plausible is it that even Rob would have the nerve to set foot on the streets again? again? Marlena graphically dies, Hud and the others go into HeroicBSOD, camera watches them huddle in a corner for a while, Hammerdown kills them all. all. The End.
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*** That, and civillians seeing their friend explode like a [[{{Film/Alien}} chestburster]] is definitely gonna be dangerous. Judging by the actions of the hazmat team, they've dealt with this before. If Marlena did explode like that, either it was a MercyKill, or the parasite's bites are similar to the xenomorphs of Alien. No one wants one of those things running around the quarantine area.

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*** That, and civillians civilians seeing their friend explode like a [[{{Film/Alien}} chestburster]] is definitely gonna be dangerous. Judging by the actions of the hazmat team, they've dealt with this before. If Marlena did explode like that, either it was a MercyKill, or the parasite's bites are similar to the xenomorphs of Alien. No one wants one of those things running around the quarantine area.
*** And if they'd actually seen her demise up close and personal, how plausible is it that even Rob would have the nerve to set foot on the streets again? Marlena graphically dies, Hud and the others go into HeroicBSOD, camera watches them huddle in a corner for a while, Hammerdown kills them all. The End.

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