SarracenianKaijin

And this... just beautiful. This is the greatest thing made by human hands. I could kiss you, if my filthy mortal presence didn't taint the sheer artistic genius of this magnum opus, a magnificent celebration of Art and True Will. Please forgive me, for I have sinned.

This is the best thing in this board, hands down.

... Why was this linked in my topic. Anyway, actually looks pretty decent. The colour scheme could be a little better. Softer hues.

Interesting experiment, though one I hope doesn't only use sprites as its vehicle of storytelling.

Almost anyone but Grest and Skralls. Have Bohroks there or something. Thse are atleast big-name guys.

Some guy who got killed off in my comic Incidentially, read my comic.

It seemed way too ambitious and rather sterile and artistically lacking anyway.

If its a TV show, it probably would work better as something that is not set in any kind of set time or place in Bionicle, but a completely new story based of the general ideas but with new stories and character. The only which I can see this working is by not making the Toa as the heroes. In fact, Toa should be kept as far away from the main cast as you can possibly do with a hero-god like them. Focus on Matorans. The story should completely and utterly be about the Matorans. Say, a format of an adventure serial starring this company of heroes exploring the strange mystical lands. That way, we both have can identify with the characters, and offers a good audience proxy. We learn of the world as they do. And of course, since action has been done before and Bionicle has legendarily bad experience with doing action scenes, the characters will solve their problems through smarts, through plans and through well, teamwork. Basic 101 right there, but its a formula that works. I would almost say make it like Doctor Who, where each story can be doing its own thing. Think of scifi with detective story in the cities, western in Zakaz, corporate espionage in Xia, or straight-up psychedelic horror with the Makuta, all treated with appropriate amounts of mythical and mysticism. MNOG, in TV form, essentially. Also, obviously, keep whoever people are working on TLR and Hero Factory as far away from this as possible. Away with that banal junk-food with its equally dull visual style. This is something that needs imagination! Evoke the same level of mythology as the pre-2005 era. Now Miramax movie trilogy isn't perfect visually, it lays a good basis on what this TV show should look like (albeit, the matoran designs could do with a little rework. Those legless orangutan armed freaks...), by being loyal to the base ideas but taking enough liberties to make the characters organic and lively. Not like those 1:1 visual boredom of TLR and Hero Factory that only further drives home how lame the sets its marketing are and thinks Matorans look like Agori clones.

Anyway, as to how reality works, I think it should be noted how gravity seems to work differently within Mata Nui as well. How else don't the islands just slide off when Mata Nui is standing. proceed message from bonesii that will surely leave you wondering just what happened:

I never knew friendly jabs and encouragement of more imaginative thought is now "imposing of personal taste". And how was I out-of-topic, when my post clearly had to do wih the conversation a hand. Let's keep an open-mind about this, surely now?

Because Red Star, as it is, is a respawn hall and inside it holds the algorithm that has written down the lives of every single living thing on the world. Decisions are not actually by the people. Characters can't die unless they fulfill this vague "destiny". Warrior who has lost everything cannot make the final, desperate decision to end his suffering. Red Star is a cold machine, designed by the insane and sadistic lords of science, to be the judge of who lives and who dies. The higher power that controls everyone and everything. No one knows or can do anything about it. Everyone are basically puppets for the amoral Beings. No free will, no decisions. Only destiny.

It is called antidermis. Though Teridax called it nothing, but that was a lie. "I bore you. For I am nothing." Well, yes it's called antidermis, but Biosector01 states that it was the Piraka who gave it that name. How well known that name is among the MU inhabitance well, that's up for grabs lol While Teridax said that he was nothing, I'm pretty sure that was an analogy or something, cuz the makuta are *definitely* something. They were created, they lived and they can die. Simple as that. Surely you must have some idea of god-images, representations and avatars? Doesn't take too long to figure that one. Besides, you are focusing on the insignificant details that does nothing for the greater narrative.

People please, with your spaceships and robots. Let's not be so mundane and boring about this. Was Discworld just "a place on some turtle"? Didn't think so.

If Antidermis is not what its called, why then is it such an appropriate moniker for Nothing.

Yes. "Hau" literally means protection or shielding in Matoran. Although Teridax probably chose it more to emphasize his acting as Mata Nui's brother, and the protection symbolism mainly comes from Mata Nui. But in MOL Makuta does build on the idea by saying he's protecting Mata Nui. Yep, just as what I've been saying.

Forgive me for misunderstanding but where are you getting Nothing from? The Makuta were created from Antidermis, so there was definitely something there, housed inside their armor shells, and then after a few hundred thousand years they all "evolved" into a state where they could live without having to worry about food, air, or any mundane things. They were given more abilities (easier kraata production) as well as the ability to possess any non inhabited robot shell or body. It's not that far fetched really. Unfortunately, that is not how evolution works. Not even close. And when you are made of something called "Antidermis", as in the diametrical opposition of everything that the world is built of, why would even need anything provided by the "material" in the first place? Stands to reason that Makuta never truly needed to worry about food or air or all that anyway, because they are not part of our understanding of "something". Thus, they are "Nothing". As suggested by the magnum opus.

Makuta don't have two faces. The Kraahkan (or Mask of Shadows) was just given that feature so that the Mask could be used by both a Makuta and a Toa, and also applies to the fact that the mask could change shape whenever Teridax wanted it to. And when he took the form of a Matoran he did so because the matoran was the one thing that the Toa were sworn to protect, so in disguising himself as one, he took them off guard so he could gain the advantage of surprise. That's the easy answer that actually doesn't answer much. Shape-changing mask also doesn't disprove my reading of it exactly, kinda enforces it even (though the clever "two-faced" gimmick is gone by then). And isn't matoran's Hau symbolizing one of protection here? The Hau here only further adds to the masquerade here. I don't see how that blanket statement actually disprove what I said either. Actually, this also works when you think of this using the idea of Makuta's two faces, which one of them sort of resembles a Hau. Remember, Makuta's former duty was to protect the god and its world. So yeah. Hau.

... I'm not sure you are really understanding what I meant by "arbitrary notion of material rules".

... If you do "I probably understand even deeper things than you ", you would have realized by now then that I have not trolled nor flamed, nor have I not stayed out of topic and in fact, brought it back to where it was. That is, the interesting fact that Makuta themselves have two faces, or are represented by a mask with two faces, both of which beneath them hide something very horrifying. If canon idea that something beneath Makuta's kanohi is very extraordinary is to be believed. Also interesting is how when Makuta chose a sickly Matoran in his form, his mask was of Hau, the symbol of protection and growth. There is something more beneath to the idea of shapes correlating with their powers here. The classical alchemical idea of symbols interchangeable with the reality. And here I am creating these ideas through "simple canon story factoids", so you are mistaken.

If this is an "Expanded Multiverse", where all is open-source and stories belong to everyone, surely I can have follow other material rules not of your one design?

No. It just means that there is no real canon. Everything is real for all are stories. All is truth and half-truth. Reject this arbitrary notion of material rules and focus on the nature of your stories.

Olmak never created gates to material realities, because there was never any. It was a key to something much higher. Not a bearded Spock, but a Gandalf's Garden. EDIT: ??????? ???? ?????? ???? ??? ???? ? ???? ????? ????? ???? Okay, now your edits are just getting bizarre and frivolous. Insults, seriously now?

How quaint to talk of missing the points and superficial realities, when you have not penetrated into the meanings themselves and have, in fact, created your own "face" on top of another. A shield to which uses to guard a dwelling meaning that is in fact, not the one below the surface level, rather a false level. A trap. Much like the Kanohi of Makuta. The nothing that gives nothing and takes nothing.

?? Since I'm the one who gave that analogy, I can only imagine you're responding to me. It is meant only as an analogy, and the idea conveyed by it is canon fact; the shapes are labels. I also didn't see what in your post was meant to lead up to the "so" here. Why do you say this? Also, why do you call it "unimaginative"? As opposed to what? It was invented with the imagination, so I would say it is pretty imaginative. And why "preposterous"? (And are you just talking about my choice of analogy? Or about the fact that the shapes function like labels?) Your analogy, through which I mean your figure of speech, is in fact, in support of a very fatal banality, that is, meaning it conveys negation of the living through the dangerous mundanity of the nothing. It is in fact, the label of the most self-destructive parts of the material reality. It is an ideal that by itself is anti-ideal. An negation of oneself and mind, and a practice of symbolic manipulation that serves a deathly hierarchy. An excessive and all-encompassing non-thought that kills the thoughts it perpetuates. Thus, by its nature, forgettable and replaceable by the greater progress of history, which it had spread its insidious influence on, like a ripple.

Red Star commands life and death. In many ways, Red Star is Destiny. So yes, there's your answer.