#unity of opposites babey

[roxannepolice]

Just read someone saying thoschei is endgame and cousin in Omega I see what you mean, except. There is no endgame here. Like, if there was a Doctor Who endgame, they would be it, but there isn't one. It's not even the case of BBC coming up with the ultimate milking the brand potentially forever mechanism, at least not only that, but of "if they haven't got there by now, they never satisfyingly will".

They aren't doomed by the narrative, they are doomed by the absence of the narrative.

[prismartist]

predictions time babey

karl mentioned the next tales is around the same time period as mizu, and i admit that may not mean much, as the wild west and the masquerade were also set around the same time, and all we got out of that was that ranbutler was a kidnapped orphan from the western town.

but then again, mizu did have heavy references to current lore, and seeing as the upcoming episode is going to be similar in tone, i assume that will probably be the case as well. besides, this new location also exists in a period long after the dream smp, so who’s to say it doesn’t have connections too?

here’s a few things i’ve noticed in the images that karl posted on his private acc

there’s some greco-roman inspiration seen in the colosseum and what seems to be a platform in a plaza, plus the braziers

there are blue flags hung around the town, indicating a celebration or festival of sorts

the prominence of the colosseum indicates something along the lines of gladiator fights or even olympic-esque challenges, like in mcc

there’s a bit of nether material in the background of the picture of the image with the brazier; i spotted a potential nether wart farm, which is relatively normal, and a crimson root, which is definitely not. 

note that i’m going to refer to the next episode’s location as a polis, aka a city-state in greece

so, imagine some possible scenarios with me:

the slight ancient greco-roman inspiration of the next episode’s city-state contrast to mizu’s slick modern look

mizu’s oversimplification of some members, the exaggeration of others, as well as straight-up getting facts twisted, contrast to a city less isolated and surrounded by more resources, letting them learn more about them and not getting as many stories wrong

mizu praising and idolizing the characters, contrast to a polis that celebrated their eventual downfall.

a polis that knew too much about the server’s never-ending wars, the cycle of pain and abuse that its inhabitants went through, or perhaps just how cruel everyone in it was, and villainized them

or a polis that glorified those violent actions, and commemorated them through bloody fights to the death

perhaps, if we tread a bit off the train of thought here, a city that celebrates the overtaking of the dream smp through sports that act as blood sacrifices, commemorating the acts of a specific empire, similar the one it gets its architectural cues from.

an eggpire, if you will. 

one of its goals when it started out was, after all, to restore unity and peace in a way; if the polis is ruled by the eggpire it would make sense for it to view the past dream smp in a negative light

(a fun fact: gladiator battles may have descended from blood rites at funerals of aristocrats, wherein slaves or criminals would fight to spill blood, so that the deceased’s soul would be purified by it; in a way they served as human sacrifice. now i wonder where we’ve heard that before.)

mizu being inhabited by a follower of dream, and the polis being inhabited by followers of the egg.

but on the opposite end of the spectrum, there is the chance that while mizu cares so much about history, the polis cares so little

i am a little more hesitant this time to conclude the egg has anything to do with this; last time we did that with the haunted house we got jebaited lmao. though there might be a higher chance since it’s more lore-heavy this time around? but i’m not gonna get my hopes too high up. nonetheless, im excited :>>