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Reanimating Mummies

posted 19 years ago by groucho3710
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Maybe it's creeping senility, but I have trouble putting everything together on one run-through. Thank heavens for VHS. Anyway, I'm working on what went wrong with Aramis during the mummification process. He woke up roaring, Ammon had a fit, I wanted my son, not a simpleton, etc., then blasts Aramis back to sleep. Were they just supposed to put him into suspended animation until he could be brought back? Did they misunderstand and actually mummify him (great excuse to show someone lugging great bloody entrails around and stuffing them into jars--yech!) after they poisoned him? I mean, all that would have prepared him for the genuine (in their terms) afterlife, right? Not for coming back physically to earth. It looked like he was supposed to be knocked out until Ammon's "second coming," but they did it wrong, and when Ammon showed up, his presence magically reanimated his son way too soon. I got really confused here.

Are we to suppose that whoever hid the other 3 Nephilim did it right? If they're resurrected, they will be actual thinking beings that can do more than roar and swat helicopters out of the sky? Come to think of it, Aramis didn't sound like a great intellectual as it was--he wanted to stay and fight, not go into hiding. Sounds like that whole family had a rebellious streak in it... I'm also still working on how a normal human female could have given birth to someone who was going to be seven times normal size at adulthood, unless the Nephilim had tremendous growth spurts at puberty. And if Aramis was 42 feet tall, I'd like to see Porthos.

[–] groucho3710 19 years ago

Computer says I can't edit my own post, for some reason. Okay. Another brilliant bit of insight. The mummy had to be flawed for some reason because KVH loves monster movies and will never forget the scene where Igor gets all flustered and grabs up the wrong brain but doesn't think to tell Dr. Frankenstein about this little oversight. We just all know the mummy has to be deeply flawed, because, well, human error, you know, shouldn't play God, all that stuff. Obviously Ammon has no qualms at all about playing God.

[–] michelle_garci 19 years ago

I kinda assumed that it was the whole "when you make a mummy you perserve the organs but throw away the brain" idea that we all learn about in grade school history.

maybe this was the first case of the mummy ever comming back to life and showing that he kinda needed his brain.

(so the next time that guy has to perserve a gaint he would remember to leave in the brain)

lol

[–] groucho3710 19 years ago

I think someone said the poisons used to kill him damaged his brain, so they must have left it in?

I always figured the mummification process was to prepare for the afterlife, but never had the faintest notion how the spirit world was actually connected to the well preserved mummy. Anyway, that was what the process was intended for, whatever the logic. But Aramis was supposed to come back and actually inhabit the body and walk the earth, no? So maybe he required a different process than traditional mummification. I wasn't clear about that, but someone obviously made a mistake somewhere.

And it occurs to me that Christopher Lee's mummy, and presumably karloff's, were buried alive, so they weren't traditionally mummified at all. So how did they last so long? Just curious.

[–] polexia_rogue 19 years ago

oh! do you live in the pacific standard time zone? I got my friend to record it for me and there were 1-3 seconds of dead air covering what I think was a scene that explained the whole poisioning aspect.

Basically wat I saw was Aramis getting up then cut to the "I wanted my son perserved, not a simpleton" line.

[–] groucho3710 19 years ago

Three seconds? Talk fast!
Do I detect an Anna Paquin fan?

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(Saw that on a t-shirt once)

[–] polexia_rogue 19 years ago

oh yes definatly. :)

I hope sci channel releases the fallen ones on dvd like they did with the movie firestarter 2.