Your opinions of the GEOSTIGMA - Page 2

September 6, 2007, 8:50 PM

Geostigma is a result of Sephiroth/Jenova (I forget which) 'fusing' with the Lifestream, which happened when Holy caused the Lifestream to cover the planet when it destroyed Meteor. The infectious Lifestream infected (lulz) people with Geostigma. It's described better in Case of Denzel.

September 6, 2007, 8:50 PM

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Originally Posted by eisprinz

Haha, Jenova-Herpes.

Lulz

How bout, it was a cheap way to make a shoddy FF movie out of a brilliant game...i mean, the idea was prettty lame, and fitted into the story too nicely.

September 6, 2007, 9:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Cactuar

Lulz

How bout, it was a cheap way to make a shoddy FF movie out of a brilliant game...i mean, the idea was prettty lame, and fitted into the story too nicely.

Meh. I thought Geostigma was a good idea. What wasn't a good idea was making three clones out of thin air solely for the purpose of eye-candy fight scenes and a Sephiroth cameo.

September 6, 2007, 9:10 PM

Advent Children in general was a piss-poor film, storywise. Graphically, it's stunning. As for everything else, the only films I've seen that're worse are Open Water and United 93.

September 6, 2007, 9:11 PM

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Originally Posted by eisprinz

Meh. I thought Geostigma was a good idea. What wasn't a good idea was making three clones out of thin air solely for the purpose of eye-candy fight scenes and a Sephiroth cameo.

On frickin motorbikes if i may add...LAME, and yeah i didnt know where the hell Sephiroth came from xD

September 6, 2007, 9:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Cactuar

On frickin motorbikes if i may add...LAME, and yeah i didnt know where the hell Sephiroth came from xD

Yeah... I think the Geostigma plot was underdeveloped, but it got pushed aside to put all the fan service that makes no sense into the limelight. Not to mention, some of the cameos purely don't make any difference.

They revived Rufus and decided to make him somewhat important. Stupid, but whatever.

But then they revive Tseng, but hardly show more than his silhouette? If they were gonna do something as drastic as contradict the earlier plot, they ought to have at least made him important to the movie.

October 1, 2007, 4:04 AM

I always saw it as a disease and not a virus. As it’s already been said, it was caused as Holy overflowed the life stream covering the planet and infecting everyone. So no, it seemed plausible to the story and no, I didn’t really see it a situation that sprung up out of nowhere. Lol, I thought it conveniently tied in with the original game.

November 13, 2007, 8:31 AM

well i suppose they had to use some new idea for a world wide problem

December 5, 2007, 4:59 AM

Thought it was a good twist. Reminds me of Poison (the spell) on steroids lol.

December 9, 2007, 2:52 AM

Mmmm, I agree about the Remnants. They were pretty random, and how they appeared wasn't explained in the movie at all.

In truth, they're supposed to be 'shards' of Sephiroth's will made into flesh. Thus why Kadaj at the end just 'evaporated'; he's just Lifestream that's controlled by a very powerful spirit. However, in this case, that spirit was unable to become a whole, thus the 3 Remnants. Each Remnant embodies something of Sephiroth.

I completely forgot what they were exactly, but I only remembered one: Loz was supposed to be the embodiement of Sephiroth's masculinity.

Now doesn't THAT tells us something about Sephiroth?! LMAO. He's such a pansy.

Geostigma, right. Anyways, ya'll remember the part of the game, in the big flashback in the Lifestream? Okay, remember the part where Cloud gets stabbed by Sepansy--I mean, Sephiroth? Good. Cloud lifts Sephiroth and throws him into the Mako below, right?

Okay, now that we've got that established, I would like to say that the material Sephiroth ceased to exist after that point. All the times you see Sephiroth in the game isn't really Sephiroth. It's actually Jenova's body, which Sephiroth is controlling. Well, if his body is gone, he should be dead, right?

Wrong. His will was so strong that his.... spirit? soul? whatever, continued to exist in the lifstream. He became a conciouss, nothing more. But he could control Jenova's body and make it shape-change to look like him.

What's this to do with Geostigma? I'm getting there, keep your pants on.

So, anywho, in the very end of the game, Cloud defeats the 'conciouss' form of Sephiroth. Well, oh crap for Sephy. See, this is were the 'spirit' of Sephiroth is shattered, resulting in the three-way split we see in AC. Sephiroth's will is still so strong that it colaces into a material form, even if shattered. Cool huh?

Moving on....

Well, when Sephiroth and Cloud & co. fought in the Northern Crater, they were in the Lifestream. So, when Jenova's body was defeated, all those cells spread throughout the lifestream. A part of Sephiroth's will later uses those cells to attack humans. Children are a prime target because they were just recently endowed with the life-giving powers of the Lifestream. The other prime targets are any 'sephiroth-clones' of which there is only one, Cloud. The rest were killed off.

See, Cloud was experimented on by Shinra, and had Jenova cells injected into him. This makes it doubly easier for him to get Getostigma because the cells are already inside him! Creepy.

Anyways, these alien cells set to work attacking the body. It's sorta like when a baby is born with a different blood type than the mother. See, after going so long with one kind of blood (the mother's) the baby's body doesn't recognize it's own blood. And so it attacks its blood. This is quite fatal. Well, the same kind of situation here. The body is trying to eliminate the Jenova cells, but is only attacking itself. Meanwhile, the Jenova cells are making the body confuse itself with a foreign substance! It's pretty clever really.

Anyways, that's my opinion on Geostigma.

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Advent Children in general was a piss-poor film, storywise. Graphically, it's stunning. As for everything else, the only films I've seen that're worse are Open Water and United 93.

Okay, dude, you're going too far. Either post something relevant to the thread or hold your tongue. United 93 was a very well done movie and was very emotional for many people. For you to describe it as such is insulting, and I ask you to please not do that again.