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Yeah, but it made no sense! I mean, usually “saving the world” movies have the good manners to explain exactly what the world needs saving from. I get that the point of the movie was about wormholes and time travel and stuff, fine. All that—everything after they left Earth—made perfect sense to me. Why do people act like that was the confusing part? I had trouble enjoying the whole second and third acts of the movie, because nothing of what was going on on Earth made any sense. When is this set? Why has some technology advanced greatly, and some not? What the hell is the Blight? Etc.
How does that make any sense? The leader of the Necromongers (before Riddick killed him) was described as a “Holy Half-Dead.” If anything, that makes him sound even more like the God-Emperor, not less. You've kind of undermined your own argument. But whatever, @Lèse majesté gave a good answer. I don't see how the Necromongers are anything like Chaos, really… but I guess it's all in your interpretation, seeing as how they have been portrayed in rather different ways at different times… though still, Chaos was never a unified empire like the Necromongers, so…
Alright, well… that does actually answer my question in quite exquisite detail, so… I'm satisfied. The Necromongers and Imperium of Man do in fact draw from different sources of inspiration, so… I guess I'm just seeing things that aren't really there. Though they are both inspired somewhat by Dune… so, there is something to my question, you gotta admit…
@Omegacron No, not really. The Empire from Star Wars is certainly an aggressive civilization from a sci-fi universe, but fits comparatively very few of those attributes. The only other works that feature things really that similar are maybe Mutant Chronicles to an extent, Nemesis the Warlock from 2000 AD, and maybe Dune and Fading Suns a little bit. But not really. It seems obvious to me that the Necromongers and the Imperium of Man are really similar.
@Omegacron Seriously? You don't see any similarities between two civilizations which both purport to conquer or, if not possible, exterminate, all worlds of man, both use extensive skull/death cult imagery and gothic-type architecture in their ships, armor, etc., both are highly religious Imperiums on a great crusade, both value martial prowess to an extreme extent, both have a tendency to hook partially-dead people up to their computers, both destroy planets they have no further use for, etc. etc.? They don't seem like almost exactly the same to you? Really?
@suchiuomizu Yeaaaaah, true. I don't think that was ever explicitly stated in the films though, so I guess Jackson was counting on the casual audiences not even knowing that specifically?
@Yann And that makes all kinds of sense, of course. Everyone thinks they can handle the ring. Thanks for linking me through to that. Tolkien's skill as a worldbuilder, his level of detail, the thought put into each tiny bit of minutiae, was really something else, wasn't it? Peerless.
