btw i got tired of using the version with blurry text so i remade the live slug reaction thing with clearer text. also i made one facing the other way in case someone wants a live slug reaction to something on the right side of the screen
But now that our collective panic energies have at least slightly gone out of us, we can truly break down the BEVY OF STUFF that this trailer promises - and OH BOY, the parallels are A PLENTY.
As Julie Andrews says, though, let's start at the very beginning!
First of all, we've got A LOT of parallels within this trailer, but let's start off with the beginning one. We get introduced to the crew, which includes Pam (with white hair and in a snowsuit hm..), Chica (obviously the best one) and MatPat! And that crew shot with us all drinking does bear a similarity to the scene in WKM Part one, where we all drink.
Then we get on something strange - Mark in a red hat showing us a row of what looks like cryogenic tubes.
But we'll talk about those later, we've got the ship exploding, a HAL reference, people getting ejected, and...a whitish swirling void - huh.
But things are CHAOTIC - violence towards Mark, and a whole lot of glitching...there doesn't seem to be a break from it. Or from the constant motif of blue and red that seem to be all around the ship. But why would the ship be within Darkiplier colors? Why are there some red patches? Are there just danger or....is this Actor's attempt at control?
In fact, the whole trailer has callbacks to DAMIEN, WKM, WMW, and even our own 3SG. Buuuut we'll get to that later.
There are signs that say "Sleepy Head", and "The Captain Needs to Go to Sleep", deeply paralleling the lines of "Go back to sleep" that were said by Celine in DAMIEN.
Pamela, the actress of Celine, seems to be portraying someone who goes out into icy climes, like the Celine in DAMIEN who braves the icy forest dimension (she also slaps Mark in a red hat - oh yeah. This is Actor and Celine)
And there's a shot of a detective looking person (who seems like Mark from the back, but is also shown to be a woman in another shot? Must be two different timelines) that DIRECTLY PARALLELS the shot of ABE from WMLW.
There are so many other crazy new things - some kind of giant incubation pod thing, a flaming planet....but oh. We haven't even gotten to the best parts.
Within the audio, we hear Mark saying, raggedly,
"And I come back and I go and I come back and I go and I come back and I ALWAYS COME BACK!!!"
This definitely feels like Actor talking, either in desperation or anger at the situation he's in.
And last but not least - the parts that allude to 3SG lore.
There is also a ragged voice saying "Have we been here before?" - perhaps in the same scene
There is a massive door with a porthole (that, from other shots, look to be going into the swirling void we see at the end of the trailer). There are signs that say "Don't Open the Door", which is directly correlating to our eldritch dimension lore.
And in the void, as we pass through a blue void (tinged with rainbow aberration!) Mark fluxes between a multiple of animals with his head.
Kinda reminds you of something, doesn't it?
So what does this all mean? Bunch of callbacks, bunch of aspects from all across the lore, while everything's falling down around in shades of red and blue (and just red) and rainbow. How are Dark and Mark and everyone else involved in this story?
Well, we think that this could be things falling apart.
Timelines, and stories, seem to be colliding into each other. The detective role is being taken up by someone else, the snowy pocket dimension seems to be cracking in, there are voids and portals all jamming within each other, and Mark is struggling to keep a handle on it, even with the entity, as Dark has been possibly getting the upper hand.
This is why YN is told to go back to sleep - as Mark is struggling to keep things together, just like how Celine did the same to her brother as she tried to keep things together with what power she had. The only problem is how much bigger things have gotten for old Actor. The bigger the story, the more outstretched the dimension becomes.
If we can connect this back perhaps to the 3SG side lore, this could be why Actor is the EldritchPlier - not that that lore is set in the future, but that it has been happening before or at the same time as Space - in that Actor is cracking and able to draw a new power source from the dark void to keep things a secret from his public and to make more story adventures within the story dimension.
There is still so much stuff in this trailer that we probably haven't hit on, but we'd love to hear what you guys are theorizing about. In any case, we are going to have one heck of a final showdown.
i don't care if your theory is good or if you have great opinions about kris, if you use any pronouns that aren't they/them for them i automatically don't want to hear it from you
clarifying this post: this isn't about headcanons (if you hc kris as someone who uses neos that's cool) my problem is the fact that kris is a canonically nonbinary character that uses they/them and people still refuses to use their pronouns when talking about their character during theories/analysis/etc
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