Spoilers that Ahaseurus2000 wrote:
I had a little difficulty at first understanding the relationships between the Proxies, Ergo Proxy, The Creator and the Dome City. I think Creator and Ergo Proxy are different beings, I know the Regent speaks of Ergo Proxy as the Creator, but Other Ergo Proxy explains that they are the "Agents of the Creator", even though Ergo Proxy is responsible for creating the City-Dome. that leaves the issue of the "Malice implanted by the Creator", which I misunderstand. Does the creator hate humanity for it's destructiveness? is the Malice a form of self-hatred, or a natural product of an imperfect-being (human) attempting to create a god-being (proxy)? Is Other Ergo Proxy a form of evil twin, or a physical manifestation of Ergo's potential psychosis (reality is he has no memories of a former life to forget, yet he is convinced he has them)? And what of the room of writings in the destroyed Dome? Could all this be an expression of the Malice? And I misunderstand why Monad Proxy and Ergo Proxy fought, when Ergo Proxy loved Monad Proxy (The Regent mentioned that). And finally I need some explaining of the Kogito Virus' purpose and relation to the Proxies, beyond being both an alternative and obstacle to them.
Hmm, some interesting thoughts and questions, Ahaseurus2000. Here is a short summary of some of the details as I understand it...
Spoilers that mystyc wrote:
At some point in the future, mankind begins to mine methane hydrate ice as a new source of energy. They mined too much, and it uncontrollably released into the atmosphere, wiping out 85% of the population, and destroying the ecosystem. The surviving humans then started the proxy project to restore earth back to normal, but it would take a long amount of time. Thus concurrently they created the Boomerang project in order to survive during that time. I think the Boomerang project was a giant ship that could travel at relativistic velocities, so that the passengers would experience time dilation. 1 year on the ship might have been like 100 years on earth. Most likely the ship did not really go "anywhere". Rather, it probably traveled around the solar system in a giant circular orbit, really fast. Thus, in a sense, the surviving humans were always "near-by" and not much time had passed for them.
As part of the Proxy project, the surviving humans created a bunch of proxies and compelled them to create a new race of humans. From the perspectives of the proxies, they thought they were recreating humanity, but their first creation was completely inhuman. The blue humanoid creatures that they found in the cave were the first creatures created by the proxies. The proxies thought they created those mutant humanoids of their own free will, but in reality the purpose of those mutant humanoids was to process and break down the harmful pollutants in the air. That is why they had to stay in the cave, because by the time of the series, most of the pollutants had already broken down, and they could only find enough to survive on in isolated places, like deep inside caves.
The proxies then made another attempt at creating more accurate copies of humans. This is Real Mayer's race. Real is not the same type of human we are. Her entire race is in fact infertile and incapable of child birth. In fact, they are related to the blue humanoid mutants. Some of the blue humanoid mutants were converted into "birthing chambers" and are thus the real parents of the "humans" in the domes. These birthing chambers required the pollutants in the air to function, and some of the "humans" in the dome required it as well (but to a much lesser degree). Thus the true purpose of the domes was to clean the air on earth.
The real humans in space merely thought of this plan as the best way to fix the environmental damage on earth. They did not actually want any of these creatures to survive when they returned. All the fake created humanoids would die off once all the pollutants were gone, but the proxies were made such that they would die when exposed to the sun. But the humans in space wanted a safeguard just in case things did not work out perfectly. They needed a sort of "clean up crew" to finish off the last few remaining stragglers on earth. Thus somehow they compelled the first proxy, Proxy 1, to try to clone himself. In so doing, he inadvertently created a clone that could survive the sun. This is Vincent Law, Ergo Proxy, the true emissary of death. Additionally, the humans in space created the cogito virus as part of the "clean up crew" in order to get rid of the remaining fake humans and domes.
What do you think?
06 Dec 2008, 2:02 am
