Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Yitzi on December 02, 2014, 01:23:10 AM

Title: An interesting thing I noticed.
Post by: Yitzi on December 02, 2014, 01:23:10 AM

Watch this movie and note the first image (after the Firaxis logo):

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=035cpHEowS4#ws)

Then watch this movie and note the last image:

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Ascent to Transcendence  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evs0nFCufNM#ws)

Title: Re: An interesting thing I noticed.
Post by: ete on December 02, 2014, 02:39:52 AM

huh, I wonder whether it's just a cool image they put in both, or if not what message they were sending exactly..

Title: Re: An interesting thing I noticed.
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 02, 2014, 02:58:04 AM

It's storytelling symmetry and dramatic unity, innit?

Title: Re: An interesting thing I noticed.
Post by: Lord Avalon on December 02, 2014, 03:35:23 AM

Is that not Alpha and Beta Centauri viewed with some kind of distortion?

Title: Re: An interesting thing I noticed.
Post by: Yitzi on December 02, 2014, 04:13:25 AM

Quote from: BUncle on December 02, 2014, 02:58:04 AM

It's storytelling symmetry and dramatic unity, innit?

Something like that.  And then you consider the last words of the quote for the Ascent, and compare the quote from the opening cinematic to the end of the Transcendence epilogue...