ALL SCI-FI

[Robert (Butch) Day]

It's all because of a Morlock advert:


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[Custer]

Here's the Palace of Green Porcelain, as rendered in the Classics Illustrated version of The Time Machine:



"Lost museums, even those abandoned for millennia, have power. That’s one moral of perhaps the most striking lost museum, the one portrayed in H. G. Wells' Time Machine. The time traveller spots what he calls The Palace of Green Porcelain, a place different from any other building in that distant future. He visits, taking a long and difficult trek to find it, “seeking a refuge” from fear there, as well as weapons, and fire." Or at least that's what the page I visited, here, says...

[johnnybear]

I think maybe the Eloi were becoming too lazy for their Morlock masters! They no longer made or repaired their own clothes and the majority of the males no longer had the need to mate with the women of their tribe! Indolence among the men was running riot and they weren't even perturbed by one of their own people drowning right in front of them!

Now that sounds like the theme running in cities today! So if George hadn't turned up when he did then maybe both races would have become extinct within the next forty years!

[Bud Brewster]

[johnnybear]

Bud, Bud! I think the idea of both races becoming extinct is a good one! The Eloi probably weren't always so lazy but in the recent years they've become too self absorbed to care about even one of their number perishing! That or maybe the Morlocks were not producing offspring down in their underground eden!

Strange how in a lot of sci-fi stories it's the humans on the surface who become the monsters or the mindless zombies after a nuclear apocalypse or some other disaster, while the underground dwellers retain their intellect and human appearance even if they might not always be the good guys!
JB

[Bud Brewster]

[Robert (Butch) Day]

George (both Producer and traveler) KNEW what they were doing. He envisioned that the co-dependent Man/Morlock situation was doomed failure but taking hints from the novel had this pre-production painting:



Granted in the novel it is about 1 billion years past AD 802,701, sequel would have been set in a more realistic 10 billion years in the future.
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[Maurice]

[Robert (Butch) Day]

Assuming one uses our understanding of stellar evolution as of the late 1950s.
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[Eadie]

[johnnybear]

That Morlock looks like some woman I've been trying to catch my eye!
JB

[Gord Green]

I think you also have to keep in mind that Wells meant the Eloi/Morlock relationship to be somewhat of an allegory.
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's a thought.

Suppose that the underground complex really was extracting crude oil, then refining it and storing it. This would just be one small installation created for that task, and it would be crewed by workers of low intelligence (even for Morlocks) who were trained for this work.

An underground pipeline would carry the refined fuel to a more elaborate underground Morlock facility that received the fuel from other facilities similar to the one we saw in the movie.



All these underground complexes would serve a much larger Morlock society in an underground city close by. But it's not especially large or technologically advance, and it certainly doesn't have a population who are much more sophisticated than the crude, cannibalism creatures the movie presents.

That's all I've got on this idea right now. Can anybody build on it or modifying it?
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
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