Beyond the Alley of the Dolls Speculation Thread
The Narrator wrote:We'll have answers, of a sort, to these questions in our next chapter. Until then, my friends, sleep well.
Every phrase that the Narrator has said in the trailers to the Devil's Playhouse episodes was actually lifted from the very end of the games; All those phrases are actually teasers to the next episode. My question is, what does our enigmatic host mean by "Sleep well?" Will Sam be hit in the head with a blackjack and dragged to a laboratory (perhaps like the image in the leftmost painting in the trailer), and tied to an operating table before a mad scientist takes his DNA to develop the Sam clones? Or perhaps the Sam clones have already been developed, and are dormant in cryogenic chambers until the next episode?
It's never too early for speculation, my friends, and we'll have some more evidence to go on once Max's Brain is available online. In the meantime, let's investigate and speculate together, and see who will reach the truth first, about the Playhouse of the Bizarre...
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I don't think it all comes from the end though. I think some of it comes from the beginning of the episode, some from the end, the way it was for Tomb of Sammun-Mak.
I think Kane has the idea
Sorry, I meant "every phrase from the end of the trailers" is actually used in the end of the episode. "Prepare yourself for an epic comedy saga delivered in five monthly episodes" was used at the end of The Penal Zone, if I remember correctly, and "Keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times. The ride's about to get...twisty!" was used at the end of Tomb of Sammun-Mak (This I remember correctly).
Also, I heard The Highway has a review copy of They Stole Max's Brain. Does this mean we should take his comment about the knock-out gas seriously?
actually, that would be a pretty cool idea, like unhypnotizing Sam in 101 but on a larger scale
I think it's New York, after all... Who would sleep in that city?
Also, a speculation thread is to early at this point, we have no content for Episode 4 and no information from Episode 3 to give us some slight hint what's going to happen "Beyond the Alley of the Dolls".
fixed.
I slept in it every night for ten days >.>
So did I, but I meant if you were living in a unstable neighborhood like Sam & Max do, after all; explosions, giant robots, inhuman space gorillas attacking the city with giant laser eye canons.. Insurance Men. I don't think I'd sleep through any of that!
I don't get why you had to go with everyone else? Couldn't you get a ticket to something different at the same time or just sit it out? We did that all the time when I still lived with my parents.
But I'm also the kind who prefers going the restaurant alone, because if I'm with other people, I want to have a nice homemade meal. So I guess I'm weird
(Just bumping the thread up now we have something to talk about it. And, What the hell is Papierwaite? Appart of still been somewhat awesome =P, a bug like Sal but altered by Norrington?)
Aside from random guesses and wacky theories, I don't think there's any way that we can figure out where Telltale are going with this. But I doubt that's going to stop anyone trying!
AND, Moai Better Blues did NOT have BLUES!
...>->
...Well, I think it's worthy to be speculated that there is the word 'dolls' in the title and there are a bunch of Sams. Maybe they're not clones, but dolls that are animated by some sort of magic.
It IS weird that there are a lot of Sams as since this point, Max had all the importance and anomaly. I mean, if one could make clones -or dolls- and wanted to use them, they'd do Max clones instead. I wonder what makes Sam so special right now. Is it his bodily strength? If so, why not making Skunkape clones? I'm not bitching about it, instead I REALLY want the writers to give something more special to Sam, and I feel like I'm about to get what I want.
Oh, yeah, that's true. Why Sam's clones? Why not someone else? I'm thinking is maybe a confusion about how he can keep Max under control for a while, considering Max is supposenly to destroy the universe and what not.
I LOVED try to depress everyone. But the reason goes in the support group thread. I mean, he was so *AWWWWWWWWWW*
After Skunkape lets his guard down, Sam did pummel the crap out of him. Sure, he was knocked out cold, but still, he's not affected by bullets and all that. Even being able to punch him hard and twisting his neck a little counts as something.
Magic, or someone. I still say that Charlie Hotep is alive and is controlling the clones/dolls as a villain.
I hope so, I kinda miss the office for some strange reason...
We never saw Max even using the box.
That's a good point. I think it's also worth mentioning that Sam is one of the most powerful puzzle-solving forces in the universe, so cloning him would be handy.
But hm, how does
Also, does anyone else think that
If you are a character which are that medium aware, I guess you should know the "Player Character" is the powerful puzzle-solving force in the universe and cloning him will make no effect, because the clones will be NPC. And the Sams aren't that bright as far I can see. But I guess that character isn't that medium aware anyway.
I found hilarious the fact Papierwaite was basically running for his life when the clones appeared, shouting "The Sam's are here" or something among those lines, indicating those Clones aren't recent, but they were made some time ago. Also, I'm wondering if the Toy Store from "The Penal Zone" has something to do here. Maybe those clones are actually dolls like some people was saying some time ago.
(Thank goodness we still have Puzzle Agent for the rest of this month. The waiting for the Episode I was actually waiting for is killing me now!)