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Why would you put your head in the Pain Sphere seven (7) times? disregarding the blueprints because there were definitely other less brain-damaged people who could’ve stuck their Heads in the Pain Sphere if that was the only goal. ontologically i realize the existence of the Pain Sphere implies a sort of time-is-a-flat-circle interpretation of time travel so it happens because it already happened but that sucks it should be motivated. were the hallucinations even because of the Pain Sphere or were they just an unrelated phenomenon? could this subplot not have been resolved in, say, three scenes rather than seven (7)? […] was it because of Galena?

Edited (text which only makes sense if you've seen leviathan domination multiple times) 2024-10-22 02:08 (UTC)

[...] You know I can't say anything that would spoil the next movie.

i could die before that hits theaters

Never stop having hope.

[...] Anyway, obviously the universe operates on block time theory, but the whole point was that my actions were my own. I put my head in the Pain Sphere seven (7) times to prove that I have free will. Yes, seven is a cosmologically significant number to the aliens, but who's to say that that number originated with the Zostrals and not with me? My human choices, echoing both directions through time.

Maybe you should stop having hope. At this rate if you ever get it made i'm going to be your studio exec

Oh my god. it is not that serious

We don't actually know what state LA is in. If anyone could survive ravening undead and still be making money, it's my agent.

I suppose you also think I should've died. (My character, not me. Although...!)

it's in california

I figured you would eventually. Little surprised you didn't go for it already. Wouldn't the greatest demonstration of free will be to die for the cause?

You're from California, aren't you?

I don't have any control over the script, but if I did... I'm skeptical that anything is worth dying for.

I'm from Los Angeles.

the future of the human race, lorenzo

We really could've gone to the same parties. How'd you end up here?

Well, they saved the human race without Lorenzo's death, so clearly it wasn't necessary. You know their first draft pitch for the sequel originally ended with me having to carry a bomb to the kaiju nest and dying in the explosion because there was no other way to activate it?

no way. i hung out with nerds. you'd have gotten mobbed at those parties

camping trip. you think we would have died if we'd been in la?

with your human hands i assume so everyone could see you emote through it

The Comic-Con set? Explains your deep knowledge of Leviathan lore. Did someone force you to watch my movies?

I would've, certainly. You seem more tenacious than that.

I'm a professional; I was prepared to make the whole theater cry. [...] Still a stupid plot, but in hindsight, maybe it would've been better for my career if I'd died there.

yes. repeatedly.

~~it would've taken a lot to get me out of my house. Maybe Greg save my l~~

I can't believe you're still ruminating about your movie career. it's over. it's all gone.

I always knew you were a fan.

I'm still alive. It isn't gone until I am, and even then... it's all on DVD somewhere.

i am fucking not

okay, so in a way, Leviathan Domination was extremely good for your career in that it got you banished to the ass-end of the central valley (low population density, high guns per capita, demonstrably survivable). franchise creep saves lives

Not banished. It was a planned career pivot. But alright, it's a remarkably cursed demonstration of the butterfly effect that we're both here now because I made too many movies in five years, and you were camping during a pandemic.

are you religious

Loaded question.

I'm not usually but i've been feeling that way about art lately. a bad movie, it's like, sacrilege

A lot of sinful people in Hollywood, then. [...] Any time a good movie is made, it's a literal miracle. You've got anywhere between dozens to hundreds of people pulling together to actualize this thing that's only existed in someone's imagination, and even with the strictest captain on the tightest ship, the end result can't be totally controlled by anyone. What people see in it, what people take from it, can't be controlled by anyone.

Am I religious? Even the most commercial, cynical movie... I feel something in there trying to transcend.

You need money to make art, so you need your art to make money. A balancing act that always tips in favor of money eventually. It ruins everything.

I want artistic control.

Well, now we live in a world where money doesn't exist. Except yours, of course.

Is this a general statement, or...?

Money's older than history. It's not going anywhere.

it's negotiation

If I objected to that, we wouldn't still be here.

I think bad art has a right to exist.

extremely brave of you to, when entirely unfettered by executive meddling, create the exact same bloated franchise reboots you'd be making otherwise save with slightly more homoeroticism

you need someone to tell you no sometimes and I can't do that if you don't let me read your scripts

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