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* [[It Gets Better]]: Fifty pages of description of how their scientific expedition was meant to go. How it actually went starts around page sixty. |
* [[It Gets Better]]: Fifty pages of description of how their scientific expedition was meant to go. How it actually went starts around page sixty. |
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* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: Giant albino penguins! |
* [[Nightmare Retardant]]: Giant albino penguins! |
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** YMMV on exactly the grade of [[Nightmare Retardant]]. They are described as six feet tall and eyeless, shambling about and squawking loudly, a far cry from [http://www.oceanadventures.co.uk/images/Adelie-Penguin--Q.jpg this]. A bit unsettling depending on the reader. |
** YMMV on exactly the grade of [[Nightmare Retardant]]. They are described as six feet tall and eyeless, shambling about and squawking loudly, a far cry from [https://web.archive.org/web/20120226224551/http://www.oceanadventures.co.uk/images/Adelie-Penguin--Q.jpg this]. A bit unsettling depending on the reader. |
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* [[Values Dissonance]]: The reader is meant to sympathize with the "upper-class" Elder Things over the "lower-class" Shoggoths, which were manufactured en masse by the Elder Things to act as their servitors. Admittedly, it's easy to do when one is rational and ill-fated and the other is a formless mass trying to rip your head off (literally), but still. It's like a biological ancestor to the [[Robot War]]. |
* [[Values Dissonance]]: The reader is meant to sympathize with the "upper-class" Elder Things over the "lower-class" Shoggoths, which were manufactured en masse by the Elder Things to act as their servitors. Admittedly, it's easy to do when one is rational and ill-fated and the other is a formless mass trying to rip your head off (literally), but still. It's like a biological ancestor to the [[Robot War]]. |
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- And the Fandom Rejoiced: Guillermo del Toro is making a movie of it? And James Cameron is producing it?! And they won't succumb to Hollywood standards!?!
- And sadly, too good to be true. The studio cancelled the film due to the Wolfman's failure at the box office a week before shooting was to commence.
- It Gets Better: Fifty pages of description of how their scientific expedition was meant to go. How it actually went starts around page sixty.
- Nightmare Retardant: Giant albino penguins!
- YMMV on exactly the grade of Nightmare Retardant. They are described as six feet tall and eyeless, shambling about and squawking loudly, a far cry from this. A bit unsettling depending on the reader.
- Values Dissonance: The reader is meant to sympathize with the "upper-class" Elder Things over the "lower-class" Shoggoths, which were manufactured en masse by the Elder Things to act as their servitors. Admittedly, it's easy to do when one is rational and ill-fated and the other is a formless mass trying to rip your head off (literally), but still. It's like a biological ancestor to the Robot War.
