So I told my Faust Teacher about 205...
During the summer semester in my school, we offer a class about Satan. It's basically a Survey Class where we are introduced to the various representations of Satan and track where and how he started his decent into pretty much being the butt of contemporary culture's jokes. The class starts with his early representations (we're talking The Book of Gensis here) and then wanders through recent cartoons and movies.
Tonight at the Graduation Art Show, I told him about 205 and how TTG represents Satan. He finds the Hell LLC fasinating, as well as the idea of Satan being
Anyway, I was able to talk him into using TTG's representation in his next class this summer and is going to collect images for him to use in the lecture. If anyone can help--including the staff--with this information gathering, please do not heistate to ask.
And CONGRATULATIONS, TELLTALE GAMES! You are now part of Academia!
Tonight at the Graduation Art Show, I told him about 205 and how TTG represents Satan. He finds the Hell LLC fasinating, as well as the idea of Satan being
"Middle Management" (I didn't tell him that the person more evil than Satan was a group of hated celebrity figures.)
. He got a kick out of the idea of enternal damnation being forced to work in a cubefarm as the clock forever ticks away at 4:59 and never advances to quitting time. He's got some issues about it always being Monday, however, since he believes it would be more torturous if it was eternally Friday at 4:59 PM. He understand the choice, however.Anyway, I was able to talk him into using TTG's representation in his next class this summer and is going to collect images for him to use in the lecture. If anyone can help--including the staff--with this information gathering, please do not heistate to ask.
And CONGRATULATIONS, TELLTALE GAMES! You are now part of Academia!
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Why? What's the big thing about that date?
re: the Monday/Friday thing, I'm with Zeek's teacher. The Monday's not as bad because it's eternally 4:59 anyway, so they're not going to see the rest of the week.
But if it's Friday, they're always 1 minute away from the weekend.
I'm thinking an eternal April 28th, 2008 at 11:59 PM would be the worst torture of all. *coughGTAcough*
My... employer... yeah, employer... needs a free signed copy of Surfin' The Highway for... erm... studying the dangers of surfing on highways...
If you guys have a demo reel or some kind of cutscene reel that you've put together, that would be best for the packet I'm making for him.
you lucky son of a b****... hippies make the BEST teachers! (lol!! but true)
We don't have a cutscene reel yet, but we will be making one for the Season Two DVD. When do you need it by?
Right now, my cutscene reel consists of The River Styx, most of Hell LLC's corporate identity, and some jokes from the "employees" of Hell I feel are appropriate for his class
That, and I'm still hunting for Faust and Divine Comedy jokes. You guys just loaded this episode with them!
That they do. If it wasn't for him, Intro to World Philosophy would be another "nap class."
I was all set to burn my packet on to a CD for my teacher when I was suddenly bombarded with "File Corruption" errors on everything. My active files, my back-up files, even the back-up of my back-up files that were saved at an earlier phase in the project! Nothing I can do about it; the FRAPS portion of the packet apparently got possessed and doesn't want any part of it.
I guess I'll wait until next semester to give him the material after the Season 2 DVD comes out.
Fixed!
He got back to me today (I'm on the school's computer here in the design lab
He said that he finds the idea of Hell being a corporation unique as a subtle reference to the 80's when the big villian of the time was big corporation. The fact that Hell as been aggressively downsizing and out-sourcing jobs is a great commentary about the problems facing American workers today, which in his opinion makes Hell as a corporation even MORE evil than before!! He loved how the office is plastered with motivational posters for the seven deadly sins, as well as that picture-window view of what he believes is the city of Dis from Dante's Inferno. He liked the Tim Burton aesthetic of the design in particular. The various torture elements in the office were very interesting to him, particularly the pre-printed soul contracts. While he found the idea of The Living having a perminate record a bit cliche, he loved the new twist TTG put on it where the file gets thicker the more you sin. In past representations, he said it's never really stated what kind of information goes into your perminate record in the afterlife or even how much physical space it takes up.
He was very surprised as to how well thought out TTG was in designing the role of Satan as Middle Management. I can't remember exactly what he said, but he was praising you guys for your comprehensive understanding of how the power of the devil has been dropping in contemporary social and religious views. He also said that he liked the fact that Satan politely scolds the workers underneath him, linking it to how it's more hurtful to a person to be told that someone is disappointed in them rather than being told that someone dislikes them. Especially in a polite tone of voice!
I also included in the presentation the changes to the river Styx and to the two stories from the creation myth.
The only question he asked me was who where the three people in the stone slab behind Satan's throne/chair. He just wants to know if they are The Great Betrayers from Dante's Inferno or the traditional cameos from the game programers. I told him that it's not really said who they are, as the joke for that environment element is a reference to Star Wars. But he did get me wondering about that.
Either way, he did find the presentation and representation of Hell brillent and will definately use it now in his class this semester! Major kudo points to you guys, TTG!
I did mention it, however, but got no reaction from him yesterday. Didn't bring it up today when I saw him this morning. I'll bring it up again when I see him this summer. Hopefully by then the Season 2 DVD will be in my possession, so I can just pop it in and show him the trailer.
Man, that joke completely went over my head! I'm surprised I missed it.
Another joke to the creation myth.
Hehe, yeah, I did manage to pick up on that one. Although I hope that was the last we've seen of Naked Bosco, but given the fact that he's apparently snapped... I fear we'll be seeing plenty more of him in his birthday suit.
Due to a lack of student enrollment, this year's course of the study of Satan's representation in art and contemporary media has been cancelled.
The good news is that my teacher will now have time to adjust the course to give TTG more than a single class "touch-and-go" style meantion of their representation of Hell and Satan. Here's hoping you get a full three-hour session instead of just twenty minutes!
*grin!* Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Technically, you can take it as a Liberal Arts Elective, which was my case, but since they only offer it in the summer, a lot of people don't know about it. They rather just veg for three months instead of take a five week course that meets four days out of the week for three hours (most of the later classes involving watching movies). Strange, I know.
And yet, for some reason, we had a Lord of the Rings class which studied the literal structure of the mythic hero's journey that fell during the Fall semester...
And the year before I was accepted, they had a Spring class titled "The Ethics of Star Trek" where, according to the class description, they would watch the first season of the original Star Trek TV show and then discuss the morals the show presented both in the context of its original air date and in contemporary society as we knew it back in 2002....