Your favourite geek culture references in CoH?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-12-12 24:55 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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LOTR actually has both very specific cultural references (although Th Hobbit has many moe of them) there's a couple of times when Tolkien's "narration voice" explicitly compares things to the "real World"|
Originally Posted by Ironik
Not the way Sam means. He's talking about referencing movies or TV shows as an in-joke or as shorthand for a character's interests. There are plenty of works out there which have no cultural references whatsoever because they don't take place in our culture. Lord of the Rings, for instance, or Asimov's Foundation series.
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It gets less comon as the show goes on though.
And even so there are still a ton of cultral references there: Farmer, innkeeper, steward, king..
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The neighborhoods are all named after horror movie directors.|
Originally Posted by Willowpaw
Also sadly, I am not recognizing any of the DA references. |
Sam Raimi and George Romero are the only ones I recall offhand.
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Originally Posted by UberRod
All of the various Detectives are cultural references to every detective tv show.
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Rogers and Martins in Steel Canyon are references to Murtaugh and Riggs from the Lethal Weapon movies.
All fictional police references, but some of them are from movies too.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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That's reaching. There's a difference between "cultural" references and "pop culture" references. This thread and what Sam was referring to are quite clearly the latter.
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Originally Posted by Arilou
It gets less comon as the show goes on though.
And even so there are still a ton of cultral references there: Farmer, innkeeper, steward, king.. |
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Either you're being deliberately obtuse (my bet) or you are casting too wide a net when you say "cultural references."|
Originally Posted by Arilou
LOTR actually has both very specific cultural references (although Th Hobbit has many moe of them) there's a couple of times when Tolkien's "narration voice" explicitly compares things to the "real World"
It gets less comon as the show goes on though. And even so there are still a ton of cultral references there: Farmer, innkeeper, steward, king.. |
If Tolkien had put the same sort of cultural references in The Hobbit and LotR that we're talking about here -- puns referring to other fictional works and real-world brands -- then he would've done things like have a monster who kills by sucking things in and called it Hoover or called the sage elf Cronkite or named Tom Bombadil "Mr. Guinness." Beorn would've been from the village of Paddington. He would've named Elrond "Alfred" whose house sits at the top of treacherous Thirty-Nine Steps and the address would been Number 17. He would've said Sauron is the man who would be king who killed the "courageous Captain Kim" or instead of "Strider" Aragorn would've been known as "The Red Primrose." And so on. But there's none of that.
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It was more blatantly done, much later, by the Harvard Lampoon...|
Originally Posted by Ironik
If Tolkien had put the same sort of cultural references in The Hobbit and LotR that we're talking about here -- puns referring to other fictional works and real-world brands -- then he would've done things like have a monster who kills by sucking things in and called it Hoover or called the sage elf Cronkite or named Tom Bombadil "Mr. Guinness." Beorn would've been from the village of Paddington. He would've named Elrond "Alfred" whose house sits at the top of treacherous Thirty-Nine Steps and the address would been Number 17. He would've said Sauron is the man who would be king who killed the "courageous Captain Kim" or instead of "Strider" Aragorn would've been known as "The Red Primrose." And so on. But there's none of that.
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And how a piece of fiction without cultural references would be completely incomprehensible, right+
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