THIS TOWN conspiracy theories SPOILERS?
Jul 5, 2023 5:03:21 GMT
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Post by camazotz on Jul 5, 2023 5:03:21 GMT
sonorous lent me This Town Will Never Let Us Go and Larry Miles floored me once again. I've marked spoilers because even tho we're small people might be as new as me. Obviously this book means very different things to different people but here's my theories:
I'm aware we aren't really supposed to know but I like to speculate.
So the crashed warship is messing up the town making weird things happen and dragging strange things into it. There's something spooky going on and it has something to do with The War and Faction Paradox.
If the time ship is a spacetime event then the damage might be causing it to sink or merge into local spacetime. It's not fully materialized so the length of the event is unclear. But what if when it detected damage it integrated the crew into the local timeline. It tries to pick them back up but can't, it's become more localized with each effort. Soon enough they've almost become fully integrated, the ship tries to pull them back but efforts are getting weaker and weaker. They've long forgotten who they were or what Faction Paradox means (to them or any one else).
So what do each of the members do?
Inangela- Captain, she follows her instincts with rituals and more than anything directs people where to go. She's committed to accomplishing her mission.
Tiffany- Pilot. Tiffany is the only one who is successfully reintegrated into the ship, or possibly replacing the previous pilot (the reason the ship crashed?).
Valentine- Engineer. He has the right components for the ship to start up but he's applying it incorrectly. He's too deep and and keeps attacking the ship instead of jumpstarting it.
Horror - Horror is exactly what she says, some kind of company mascot from the future. Perhaps caught in the tangle of an damaged timeship.
The Executive- The crew, before the crash/after repairs. Still holding on/letting go. Fully fledged members of the much whispered Faction Paradox, somewhere between here and there. Now and before and/or after, ever shifting beneath the masks.
Miss Ruth- The ship's previous pilot, passing the torch. Or possibly just a memetic entity feeding off the meaning leaking out of the timeship.
Girl in Ambulance- Tiffany Cortez. Tiffany assumes her role on the ship and so this girl is the result of her completing her Faction self-sacrifice initiation. She appears later with the knife, and true she stabs grubby tabloid man, but who's to say she couldn't do both.
An extension of this theory is that the ship's crew is dead, and that the ship is replacing them, sliding them into the roles the old crew had. Grandfather's axing the crew if you will.
The girl in the ambulance as Tiffany Cortez is compelling to me. It layers her meaning with Valentine, especially as part of the ship Compassion. Valentine applying the right energy in the wrong way is part of the meaning of the text. By layering metatextual meaning it makes Tiffany pop. She dies when the ship fails to take off, and Inangela's ritual is brought to a close. Tiffany is no longer attached to spacetime and thus This Town becomes her initiation story when viewed through this lens.
I think the point of this town is the mystery but I like to speculate.
I'm aware we aren't really supposed to know but I like to speculate.
So the crashed warship is messing up the town making weird things happen and dragging strange things into it. There's something spooky going on and it has something to do with The War and Faction Paradox.
If the time ship is a spacetime event then the damage might be causing it to sink or merge into local spacetime. It's not fully materialized so the length of the event is unclear. But what if when it detected damage it integrated the crew into the local timeline. It tries to pick them back up but can't, it's become more localized with each effort. Soon enough they've almost become fully integrated, the ship tries to pull them back but efforts are getting weaker and weaker. They've long forgotten who they were or what Faction Paradox means (to them or any one else).
So what do each of the members do?
Inangela- Captain, she follows her instincts with rituals and more than anything directs people where to go. She's committed to accomplishing her mission.
Tiffany- Pilot. Tiffany is the only one who is successfully reintegrated into the ship, or possibly replacing the previous pilot (the reason the ship crashed?).
Valentine- Engineer. He has the right components for the ship to start up but he's applying it incorrectly. He's too deep and and keeps attacking the ship instead of jumpstarting it.
Horror - Horror is exactly what she says, some kind of company mascot from the future. Perhaps caught in the tangle of an damaged timeship.
The Executive- The crew, before the crash/after repairs. Still holding on/letting go. Fully fledged members of the much whispered Faction Paradox, somewhere between here and there. Now and before and/or after, ever shifting beneath the masks.
Miss Ruth- The ship's previous pilot, passing the torch. Or possibly just a memetic entity feeding off the meaning leaking out of the timeship.
Girl in Ambulance- Tiffany Cortez. Tiffany assumes her role on the ship and so this girl is the result of her completing her Faction self-sacrifice initiation. She appears later with the knife, and true she stabs grubby tabloid man, but who's to say she couldn't do both.
An extension of this theory is that the ship's crew is dead, and that the ship is replacing them, sliding them into the roles the old crew had. Grandfather's axing the crew if you will.
The girl in the ambulance as Tiffany Cortez is compelling to me. It layers her meaning with Valentine, especially as part of the ship Compassion. Valentine applying the right energy in the wrong way is part of the meaning of the text. By layering metatextual meaning it makes Tiffany pop. She dies when the ship fails to take off, and Inangela's ritual is brought to a close. Tiffany is no longer attached to spacetime and thus This Town becomes her initiation story when viewed through this lens.
I think the point of this town is the mystery but I like to speculate.