![]() ![]() Yes, if we colonize in a distant star system that just happens to have an Earth-like planet before our sun dies, and even then, the universe will die, be it by the Big Rip, Big Crunch, Big Freeze, or just heat death, and even if it is revived in a Big Bounce, all of human achievement will have been lost and the short-lived activity on the skin of a tiny rock orbiting a tiny star in a tiny galaxy will have been for nothing. Until that time we should just relax and enjoy the adventure, even if we find ourselves in the scary movie sometimes, as a human race we will come out fine at the end. I've learned that death is the only certainty in life, until we develop technology to avoid that. Jacky720 ( talk) 19:36, 7 September 2016 (UTC)Ī similar reference has been made before(by Randall).09:22, 22 February 2013 (UTC)ĭid you mean to post the ep602 link against the previous comic 1176? DD ( talk) 11:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Probably 6 52. Lego movie: "Come with me if you want to not die". David y ²² 11:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC) And you should see them sometime. ![]() Is this a Terminator reference? (Never seen the movies) Alpha ( talk) 05:20, 22 February 2013 (UTC) Cueball: We all will.Īdd a comment! ⋅ add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ refresh comments! DiscussionĪ lot of Randall's recent comics are quite poetic. Cueball: Anyway, uhh - come with me if you want to live for a while. Cueball: I hear its metallic footsteps in the relentless rhythm of the ticking clock. Transcript Cueball: I'm from the future! Cueball: You're being stalked by an unstoppable robotic assassin! Cueball: Of course, in a sense, we're all being stalked by an unstoppable robot. The theme of the inevitability of the ravages of time is underlying 926: Time Vulture. In the Discworld novels, Death's voice is always depicted in small caps.Ħ52: More Accurate is also riffing on Kyle Reese's introductory "Come with me if you want to live" line to Sarah Connor. It is also a reference to the character " Death" in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. In the final panel, "come with me if you want to live" is a famous phrase from the movie, but in this case, amended with the facts about the inevitability of eventual death.Īlso, the title text is a play on a quote from The Terminator, where Sarah Connor starts to believe that " There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.". The clock visible in the third panel features a red light in the place of a 3-hour marker, which is a reference to glowing red eyes of a Terminator. ![]() He goes on to point to the similarities between the time and a Terminator. However, in the following panels, Cueball explains that, even if he succeeds protecting Megan from the killing robot, we all are hunted by an unstoppable enemy trying to kill us – time. A human, Kyle Reese, also travels back in time to protect her (and he acquires a sawed-off shotgun which Cueball holds in the strip). In the movie a killing robot (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, the main female protagonist of the movie. The comic starts with a scene similar to one in the 1984 science fiction action film The Terminator. Title text: NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT ![]()
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