Did anyone else notice that a lot of the voodoo (well the serious parts) was REAL VooDoo?? I was a little suprised and a little concerned when I saw that TTG (and presumable LA - not played those games but I asume they're the same) were both invoking real VooDoo...
Did anyone else notice this? Or am I the only one that researches odd and irrelevant forms of magic?
Well, Nor Treblig is definitely real. Maybe it is real voodoo after all.
Nor Treblig certainly is real. As real as saying "Ron Gilbert" backwards.
Secondly... Ashton, WTH are you on about with "concerns" about Voodoo being portrayed in the MI games? Your first post says you are "surprised and a little concerned," but later posts seem to indicate that you almost revere it. Besides that, "invoking real voodoo?" (define invoke:"to summon into action or bring into existence.") I mean, COME ON now... there's something to be said for the writers to have done some basic background research into stuff to make the plot devices of the Voodoo lady more eerie or true to form for such a character, but actually invoking Voodoo? I highly doubt they would turn the mere basics of background research (for the sake of credibility) into actual practice.
I had a friend of mine from college who told me that her father said the Harry Potter books are evil because the characters in the story use actual magic spells with real magic words. I know that's a lie, because then who's to stop me from taking a stick, poking a horse hair down into the middle, waving it and saying "Lumos," which means "light" in Latin... is my stick going to light up on the tip? No. Don't be ridiculous. It's the exact same with Voodoo in the Monkey Island games. If I were to, theoretically,
reach the "crossroads into the afterlife," and place my own or my wife's wedding ring at the center of it,
would I return from the dead? No. Of course not. Give the writers of the games some props for being at least credible in their portrayal of the Voodoo Lady, though. They did a great job.
Now, with all that being said, my Father in Heaven will protect me from your silly Voodoo, even if it is real.
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Nor Treblig certainly is real. As real as saying "Ron Gilbert" backwards.
Secondly... Ashton, WTH are you on about with "concerns" about Voodoo being portrayed in the MI games? Your first post says you are "surprised and a little concerned," but later posts seem to indicate that you almost revere it. Besides that, "invoking real voodoo?" (define invoke:"to summon into action or bring into existence.") I mean, COME ON now... there's something to be said for the writers to have done some basic background research into stuff to make the plot devices of the Voodoo lady more eerie or true to form for such a character, but actually invoking Voodoo? I highly doubt they would turn the mere basics of background research (for the sake of credibility) into actual practice.
I had a friend of mine from college who told me that her father said the Harry Potter books are evil because the characters in the story use actual magic spells with real magic words. I know that's a lie, because then who's to stop me from taking a stick, poking a horse hair down into the middle, waving it and saying "Lumos," which means "light" in Latin... is my stick going to light up on the tip? No. Don't be ridiculous. It's the exact same with Voodoo in the Monkey Island games. If I were to, theoretically,
Now, with all that being said, my Father in Heaven will protect me from your silly Voodoo, even if it is real.