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No one: - Sacred Jellybean - 24th November 2020
Beanjo: Cybil Bennett is NOT the archetypal prophet of Silent Hill 1's story! Dahlia Gillespie is! She's the one who instructs Harry where to go, and informs him of what's happening in the town. Just like a prophet, her words are vague and foreboding. "Beware the Ides of March" and all that.
The name Cybil means prophet, sure, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. This video is kind of interesting:
But it bugged me batshit to hear the narrator say that Cybil Bennett means Blessed Prophet. Okay but how is she "blessed" exactly? She's a supporting character who's been swept up in the same fan-splattered shit-storm as Harry. She's no more a blessed prophet than he is.
I mean sure, she gives him a gun and tells him to be careful how he uses it. But in contrast to Dahlia, that's simple foreshadowing. Chekhov's gun comes into play in the 3rd act, but that doesn't make Chekhov's gun a prophet!
Post your dumb rants that nobody cares about and come out of nowhere.
RE: No one: - Sacred Jellybean - 24th November 2020
No one:
Beanjo: Man, it's a load of crap when people win an award of some kind and say they're "humbled". That doesn't make sense. You become humble by getting a beat down, not by winning. Humility is a great and crucial virtue to have, but winning an award and saying you're humbled is basically saying "I'm great and we all know it but it's not polite to say it outright, so I'm going to say the opposite." It's like the literal definition of a humblebrag. So you're either doing that, or were already humble to begin with, not now suddenly "humbled" because you've won.