Episode 5 Trailer, thoughts (Creepy!)
Well, I've watched it two times, and I don't want to watch it again before I go to bed. (Yeah, I'm easily scared. I refuse to play any horror game or watch any horror movie at all, no matter what.) What was funny was that the second I saw "The Internet" (who looks like The Director, eh?) I thought: "Hey look! It's SHODAN!" However, I saw some other things in there too. Here's a list of what I found:
In the video, there's a quick snapshot of Sam choking himself with his tie.
There's a striking similarity between The Internet and The Director (including the names). I can just imagine: "I'm the internet! THE INTERNET!" "Could've fooled..."
On the same subject, I finally figured out who Hugh Bliss reminds me of, in looks. He looks like Yuri! You know, that mind controlling psychopath from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.
Myra has a "+1" on her shirt. I'm thinking this is like a 1up 'shroom, and you get an extra life. (This may be a parody of Dungeons & Dragons, thanks Planeforge.)
On the same subject, Bosco's Inconvenience store's slushie machine is a "spawn point" as labeled by an arrow above it. This seems to be a monster spawn point, that releases blue goo, as labeled by the "Monster-O-Matic" instead of "Slushie-O-Matic". (Thanks yet again, Maratanos.)
I know this is obvious, but Sybil's new career must be blogging. "www.nauseatinglycute.com" LOL. This is an actual website, so please visit to tell Telltale that you love their games.
There's a screenshot in which the DeSoto is driving down a very Tron-like road, with a 2-D huge flame (and some kind of laser beam) following it. What is this? (This is a firewall! Nice one there, Maratanos.)
In the screenshot with the huge Hugh Bliss sticking out of the huge TV (with a witch's hat, lol) there are two small signs at the top right corner of the screen. The first sign says "Guns", and the second sign says "Beer" or "Deer". (This is a Hit The Road reference, to "Guns, Beer, and Baby Needs." Thanks again, Maratanos. Also, there is E's above those signs, taking a chip off of E-Mail. Thanks, Dangerzone.) In the same screenshot, there is a news ticker showing NEWS and then "Max Demo" with the rest of the writing being covered up by Sam & Max. This is certainly "NEWS: New Sam & Max Demo!"
In the screen shot showing Sybil's office, up in the top right corner there's a box showing "The Internet". This must be like GRAW's Cross-Com, only instead of your helicopter pilot or the president, it's "The Internet" or maybe even Hugh Bliss.
Another odd thing, "The Internet" says she's the host of Reality 2.0. Well not exactly, she says, "Welcome to Reality 2.0. I'll be your host." Or something like that. I assume, from how's she's going to be everybodies' "host", that, like SHODAN, she'll be controlling everybody and everything, except Sam & Max.
Since Nick wants everyone to know, there is a short where an Elf Bosco is shown with one regular ear and an extremely long neck. (Thanks, AdamG! According to Jake, this is a bug in the program, and they left it in because it was awesome.) On the same subject, there is a short showing Sam with no eyes. A person in another thread posted a screenshot of this, to which Nick replied, "Ahhh, the magic of video editing."
There is a short with Max jumping on the camera, with a "Control Room" shaped like an electrical outlet behind him. (Thanks again, Dangerzone.)
The questions remain (please try to answer these, or give your theories!):
How do you enter Reality 2.0?
What does the arcade machine with the radiation symbols and the demonic voice have to do with anything other than scaring the living daylights out of me? (Someone answer this, please!)
Are those earpieces of headphones covering "The Internet's" eyes?
Why is there a vent behind "The Internet"? What is behind that vent?
Why is "The Internet" so darn pale? Is she being hung or suffocating or something?
I notice how Reality 2.0 is a beta version, as Ms. Internet says. So some objects are missing. This could be an awesome puzzle.
Lastly, why can't we find out about this "total collapse of the economy and civilization structure of the west"? What the heck happened there?
Thanks for reading my extremely long post, and feel free to give any theories about any of the questions I asked, or post your own questions.
In the video, there's a quick snapshot of Sam choking himself with his tie.
There's a striking similarity between The Internet and The Director (including the names). I can just imagine: "I'm the internet! THE INTERNET!" "Could've fooled..."
On the same subject, I finally figured out who Hugh Bliss reminds me of, in looks. He looks like Yuri! You know, that mind controlling psychopath from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2.
Myra has a "+1" on her shirt. I'm thinking this is like a 1up 'shroom, and you get an extra life. (This may be a parody of Dungeons & Dragons, thanks Planeforge.)
On the same subject, Bosco's Inconvenience store's slushie machine is a "spawn point" as labeled by an arrow above it. This seems to be a monster spawn point, that releases blue goo, as labeled by the "Monster-O-Matic" instead of "Slushie-O-Matic". (Thanks yet again, Maratanos.)
I know this is obvious, but Sybil's new career must be blogging. "www.nauseatinglycute.com" LOL. This is an actual website, so please visit to tell Telltale that you love their games.
There's a screenshot in which the DeSoto is driving down a very Tron-like road, with a 2-D huge flame (and some kind of laser beam) following it. What is this? (This is a firewall! Nice one there, Maratanos.)
In the screenshot with the huge Hugh Bliss sticking out of the huge TV (with a witch's hat, lol) there are two small signs at the top right corner of the screen. The first sign says "Guns", and the second sign says "Beer" or "Deer". (This is a Hit The Road reference, to "Guns, Beer, and Baby Needs." Thanks again, Maratanos. Also, there is E's above those signs, taking a chip off of E-Mail. Thanks, Dangerzone.) In the same screenshot, there is a news ticker showing NEWS and then "Max Demo" with the rest of the writing being covered up by Sam & Max. This is certainly "NEWS: New Sam & Max Demo!"
In the screen shot showing Sybil's office, up in the top right corner there's a box showing "The Internet". This must be like GRAW's Cross-Com, only instead of your helicopter pilot or the president, it's "The Internet" or maybe even Hugh Bliss.
Another odd thing, "The Internet" says she's the host of Reality 2.0. Well not exactly, she says, "Welcome to Reality 2.0. I'll be your host." Or something like that. I assume, from how's she's going to be everybodies' "host", that, like SHODAN, she'll be controlling everybody and everything, except Sam & Max.
Since Nick wants everyone to know, there is a short where an Elf Bosco is shown with one regular ear and an extremely long neck. (Thanks, AdamG! According to Jake, this is a bug in the program, and they left it in because it was awesome.) On the same subject, there is a short showing Sam with no eyes. A person in another thread posted a screenshot of this, to which Nick replied, "Ahhh, the magic of video editing."
There is a short with Max jumping on the camera, with a "Control Room" shaped like an electrical outlet behind him. (Thanks again, Dangerzone.)
The questions remain (please try to answer these, or give your theories!):
How do you enter Reality 2.0?
What does the arcade machine with the radiation symbols and the demonic voice have to do with anything other than scaring the living daylights out of me? (Someone answer this, please!)
Are those earpieces of headphones covering "The Internet's" eyes?
Why is there a vent behind "The Internet"? What is behind that vent?
Why is "The Internet" so darn pale? Is she being hung or suffocating or something?
I notice how Reality 2.0 is a beta version, as Ms. Internet says. So some objects are missing. This could be an awesome puzzle.
Lastly, why can't we find out about this "total collapse of the economy and civilization structure of the west"? What the heck happened there?
Thanks for reading my extremely long post, and feel free to give any theories about any of the questions I asked, or post your own questions.
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A firewall! :rolleyes:
Almost CERTAINLY "Guns, Beer, and Baby Needs." A HtR ref.
The internet is holding people hostage in its video game, and might fail entirely as a result, apparently
-gives a toast for old memories-
Yeah, I was just going to say that. Bosco's freaking neck was stretched out to like 4x it's original length (at least) and nobody has mentioned it. I thought it was pretty freaky. It didn't scare me, but it was pretty freaky. He also had 1 elf ear, and 1 regular/or missing ear.
Bosco's insane neck is actually a bug from development, which Nick thought was funny enough to sneak into the trailer, and everyone else thought was funny enough to leave in. No stretch-neck Bosco will appear in the game (at least not in this episode), but it's awesome.
You guys are really picking at the trailer. Trailers like this become more spoilery the longer you poke at them.
I personally can't wait, Sam & Max can probably poke a lot of fun at distopian societies that are controlled by the internet (while some could argue that it's already happened...)
EDIT: 100 posts and i am still alive, how is that possible? (i have no life
Oh... I thought it was in reference to her large endowment. :rolleyes:
Maybe William Shatner was right...
"it's only a TV show, get a life!"
On a sidenote. At least it's not difficult to guess who Boscos is trying to hide from/who is out to get Bosco in this episode
so obviously sam and max have to free the other 4 players in the game before shutting it down sam and max style................. maybe that control room has something to do with one of your objectives as well
but something tells me that this is all we are going to get from the trailer untill a gameplay video comes out (i think i already mentioned the bill of rights on the dartboard, and that they finally changed the office calander)
i also think that there is more to the plot than what i mentioned above............... like the game may be training the hypnotised players to do something, like deliver crap to boscos, or fight for their side in a war or something
Some of that information is from the GameTap trailer, BTW.
silly me, I was already sitting the other day and thinking about when the second season will start: when will it be likely that they release the first episode of season 2? I was thinking "hmm... didn't they release the first episode in november or something like that? and then the second episode came once we entered the new year? but... this time it's the second season, so maybe there won't be a pilot? which means it may not be that break between the first episode and second episode... hmm... but then again maybe they will just wait until 2008 to start the season at all."
lol. This stuff could really drive me insane :rolleyes:
I am not sure what is worse, waiting between episodes and hoping they will release it a bit earlier or that the time will suddenly fly by. Or knowing the season is over and that you can forget all about it for some months(but can neither play any new sam & max episodes for a few months)
Oh my. I really should take William Shatners advice and get a life
meaning we will not see anything related to sam and max season 2 untill september of this year, and the season will once again end in may
and even though september seems like a long time away............. it really isnt, and keep in mind that other telltale games will come out in the meantime
Some shows have a single extra episode between seasons... but I doubt we'll be that lucky :P