IsaacKuo wrote:
> On Mar 31, 3:18 pm, "Franklin Hummel" <hum...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mar 29, 2:37 pm, "Franklin Hummel" <hum...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> But then, to have an ending that gives no reason why it is going
>>>> away? Was the Army suppose to be doing it? That seems silly, as
>>>> nothing was shown about how this was happening.
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>>> I was guessing that it had something to do with the flame
>>> throwers or something, and the effect was temporary.
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>> Especially after you corrected me on which direction they
>> were going (see below), I don't think this was temporary. That
>> implies they were coming *from* the Arrowhead Project and it seems
>> very likely then they managed to shut-down wherever was there the
>> Mist was entering from.
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>> If you look at the flame-thrower, you will see it is being
>> used on a "spider"-webbed tree. Also, at the long shot at the end,
>> which looks quite aways back from where they came from, it is clear
>> of Mist for a long, long way.
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>> Given this, I would say the source of the Mist had been
>> stopped by the military and it was now falling apart.
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> That's what it looks like, I agree, but then it doesn't make any
> sense for the lead vehicles to be travelling ahead of the "front",
> and it makes even less sense for them to be evacuating the
> people away from the clear area into the mist...
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> ...oh.
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> I just realized a bizarre possibility. Mist wouldn't clear away
> like that unless it was being pushed away by something else.
> So, what if the Arrowhead project doorway to the mist world
> were closed, but the doorway were redirected to an even nastier
> world? This even more horrific dimension is now spilling into
> the world, pushing away the mist (possibly including airborne
> toxins and/or disease, based on the equipment of the
> soldiers).
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> Okay, okay, let's put aside that idle speculation. It does make
> for an interesting excuse for evacuating the civilians away from
> the town, though.
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There's an even more practical reason. We already know that buildings
were
being "infested", taken over as nest sites and dens by various flavors of
the Lovecraftian critters. It would take the military time to clear such
buildings and be expensive in terms of soldiers lost. Given the nature of
the problem the best solution would be to level everything. No town,
nowhere for the civilians to live, they have to be evacuated. Even if the
military goes room to room to clear the various cities and towns, there's
enough damage and enough dead and missing that the infrastructure has
collapsed. Even if there is enough shelter left to house the survivors,
there's no economy for them to get food, water, etc. All the necessities
of
life would have to be provided by the military and relief agencies. It
would be much easier for them to move the survivors out to refugee camps
than extend supply routes in to the affected zone (as well as clearing the
battlefield of unarmed friendlies which would make the military's job a
lot
easier).
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