The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: The Chronicler on February 02, 2008, 11:08:23 PM
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I was watching Life After People on the History Channel a few hours ago. As I watched it, I came up with a new theory about those Rainbow Faces from LBT 7. It's complex, but interesting.
Basically, this theory states that the Rainbow Faces, as a race, are not aliens but were once just like the rest of the dinosaurs on Earth. At one time, they became so intelligent, they began to develop civilization. Eventually, the dinosaur world resembles the human world, in place of humans are the Rainbow Faces. They eventually realize that by building civilization, they are severely damaging the planet. It soon becomes clear that the only solution is to end civilization. Instead of dieing off, they choose to leave the planet and become citizens of space. Nearly everything they leave behind disappears after only a few hundred years. Some Rainbow Faces chose to stay behind and abandoned civilization, explaining their appearances in LBT 9 and 11. Many dinosaurs become determined to not end up like the Rainbow Faces, so they limit their area of thought.
Like I said, this theory is very complex, but quite interesting. This theory might even inspire some fanfiction. What do you think of this theory?
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Well, I've always thought that they were just visiting aliens from another planet studying the species that existed on earth and they didn't disguise themselves very well. :p
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I actually had a conversation like this once with some friends while I was under the influence. It's not a bad theory, but the badly disguised aliens theory is also just as likely. :lol :lol
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Some things will never be known.
I'm leaning towards the aliens theory. (Because I just watched 2 straight hours of UFO Files on the History Channel!)
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If the Rainbow Faces had built a human-style civilization, it'd go without saying that that would be a pretty awesome place to live. Yet in most of the narrator's opening monologues, he talks about how the entire planet is harsh and dangerous, and "the one place" where dinosaurs can live in safety and harmony is the Great Valley. That would imply that there are no other dinosaur sanctuaries on earth, such as your city.
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Though if I recall corectly, and I do have the dvd now to check ( :DD ) Didn't Doc say there are places just as nice as the great valley?
It's possible the rainbow faces could be either aliens in a disquise, or former inhabitants of the earth who came back to check on the current inhabitants to see how they are doing, is there any sign of them developing a civilization ect. They may have left for any sort of reason, disaster, ect.
I like the way they don't really say, so one could say this or that, and have an equal chance of it being correct.
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Yeah, and I just realized that the Berry Valley from LBT13 could technically qualify as a haven also. Not to mention that, if what The Chronicler said was true, the civilization no longer existed, and therefore wouldn't be mentioned by the narrator. Guess I struck out with that theory.
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It could have existed, but if something happened say 1,000 years ago or even 300 years ago and 1,000 miles or farther to the east, or another continent then it is possible no one within hundreds of miles of the great valley, or on that continent has ever heard of it.
Any theory is just a possible to be true as any other theory when it comes to the rainbow faces, and certain other things about LBT also.
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(http://www.tonkawatribe.com/bofh/q.jpg)
I suppose I could have made a whole civilization if I wanted to, I never thought of that. Oh but what fun would THAT be, talking to myself was boring enough. Intelligent discussion is highly overrated you know. It's far more entertaining to speak with lesser lifeforms.
On that note! GREETINGS MORTALS! You know earth species of that time were so brainless and repugnant even I couldn't spice things up enough to prevent me from yawning! I'm saying to myself, Self? This species thrives on drama, hence the whole eating each other thing. I suppose I could have put them directly INTO another creature's mouth. But THAT would have been even less interesting. Was Picard REALLY the highlight of your pathetic planet?
And I meant for the water to dissolve the rock. At least then things might of gotten good.
Oh, the rainbow coloring on my faces? Purely to ridicule the populus. Once again my humor is wasted on peons.
Humans. PFFT!
*vanish*
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Q would do something like that, wouldn't he? That's probably the most reasonable solution I've heard yet. :lol
Except the male Rainbow face actually shows compassion, and helps the dinosaurs in need. That means Q's gotta be the female one. :blink:
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Or maybe Q took Picard with him, so it may have been Picard who shows compassion :DD .
I agree that this will never be solved unless we can get some extra canon info (which is unlikely). Who are the Rainbow Faces? they could be aliens or spirirts of the sky checking on the dinosaurs of the Great Valley, I believe they had the disguise of those kind of dinos for a reason, that's why we can see other Raiinbow Faces-like dinosaurs in later movies, but they are just people checking hoiw are things on Earth or they just wanted to be guides as a test was developing (that would explain that stone of cold fire) it wasn't really magical (at least this wasn't) but it was a test.
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There is also one that shows up often in the movies and has a spoken line that looks like a rainbowface but lacks the 2 extra bands of color around the blue spot on his beak or muzzle or whatever you call it.
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Can you give a specific scene from a movie that it appears in? I don't recall seeing it (actually, now that I think about it, I kinda do, but I can't think where).
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I'd have to go and watch all the movies and tv episodes to get the scenes, but there is one in a song on Pokeplayer984's youtube site near the beginning of the song Creepy Crawlies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmzznNWFFQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xmzznNWFFQ)
Sounds like a male to me, and he lacks the 2 color stripes so isn't a true rainbowface, maybe another variety or species. I don't recall anyone ever referring to him by name.
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That wouldn't surprise me. Barely anyone is given a name in LBT except guest stars (and occasionally just in the credits, like Kosh).
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True, and Mrs Mia in one movie, though she only had a cameo. It could be her in the amazing three horn girl. Most are never named.
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I believe they were aliens. A major clue is that flash of light and the camera panning up away from Little foot. We don't get to see them leave until the "meteor" flies across the screen. (If I remember correctly.)
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Possible, though some would interpret it in other ways. Also the forms we saw them in may, or may not, be their true forms.
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Hello there? Answer to your simplistic quandary speaking? I love how you label anyone not from that little dust speck you live out your minuscule lives on as "Alien". It's rather quaint by the way.
I wasn't ON the meteor, and I'm not telling who was either. I personally had a more pressing engagement than making a mockery of what could have potentially been your ancestors. And might I add they probably would have developed into something far more interesting than a bunch of snores like you.
Enough about you, lets talk about something less depressing. Something wondrous and full of grandeur, like me! You see, when you don't that oppressive thing called time around you can do fun things. Like... oh I don't know, this is just off the top of my head but something like go back and manipulate a bunch of naive kids into being something OTHER than brainless lumps of meat and bone. Or say, spoil wiseendwise's fun by telling them that the only non-platonic attention Petrie ever gets is from a horrifically ugly pachycephalosaur (Of course I couldn't tell as they're all ugly mind you) in the back of the short-bus, on what would equate to prom night.
~Q
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The Q speaks again!
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And this time he signed his post instead of vanishing!
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you can tell me everything but i stuck on the alien theory
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I think that is the one I go for most likely as well.
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While I wholeheartedly dislike the idea of aliens in the land before time I too agree that the departure of the rainbowfaces and their talk strongly suggested that the producers of LBT meant them to be visitors from some other planet.
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One can easily not watch the movie and say for them this, and even these movies and tv episodes are not cannon in my LBT. Though few people can think that independently.
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~Tobe
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It most certainly is not. :yes
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No more Motivational pics, I swear. :3 *finger cross*
~Tobe
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Porque no? I love motivational pics! :^.^:
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*spits out MD*
Dammit man, NO porque no! After 78 levels of hearing that everytime I PKed someone on L2. NO. NO MORE. IT BURNS US!
~Tobe
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Alright, I won't keep this silent anymore. Tobe, a lot of people my find your comments funny all the time but I don't. I do enjoy a good laugh every now and then, but too much humor in a single place and/or time actually annoys me. I'm not being offensive about this, I just think you should keep the humor in moderation.
Things are very off topic now (thanks to too much humor). What was this topic about anyway? :unsure:
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It was one person talking about their theory of the rainbow faces that appear in the 7th Land Before Time Movie: The Stone of Cold Fire.
Some have said they are Et's, some may have other theories, spirits, ect.
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Being a science fiction fan myself, I actually like the idea of them being aliens. Not to mention it leaves a great plot device if later in the series the producers want to actually get to the giant meteorite part and still rescue the main characters. (Land Before Time LXVI: The Great Mars Adventure) :lol
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They could return, especially in fan fiction, and I"m sure they have in some folk's fan fiction. Their seeming knowledge of science would seem to point to their being from some sort of advanced technological culture with advanced knowledge of science above that of the LBT natives.
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You didn't catch my joke, did you? I'm the one who started this topic and the joke was that I asked what it was about when, in fact, I knew what it was about.
Back on topic:
I think I'll clarify some parts of my theory. They could easily be mistaken for aliens because they left the planet so long ago, that everyone (except maybe a secret organization) has forgotten that their civilization even existed, let alone the fact that it started here. Also, they left so long ago, that their technology has advanced much more, to the point that it could be mistaken for alien technology. Just because they are very advanced doesn't mean that they are aliens.
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Actually, I only made one humor post here. I hope you're not referring to the exchange between LBT and myself and just selectively accosting me, as that would make me sad. The Q posts are entirely serious, and actually just as valid is any other points raised. In point, yours.
Now if you wish me to remove humor from my posts I can easily do that. But this forms another problem when that position is taken as discussed in another thread. I do find it rather embarrassing to discuss a children's movie seriously. I'm actually an author that failed and survives off the backup talent of being ridiculously gifted with object units and their nefarious spawn. As such I look at stories the way the creator would. And aside from the first movie all of these are irrepressibly lighthearted and obviously were made in that mindset, hence why I discuss them as such.
I will humor you as OP with a serious answer as noone seemed to catch any of my indirect explanations for a plausible theory to this topic. But, in point of fact, I dislike posting with seriousness immensely. I apologize if adding a humorous watermark to posts either offends you or is against the board rules.
I did indeed watch the section in question, and as Aves can already attest to I immediately made "The Q Connection".
What does this mean? It would seem you assumed it was making a satirical parody of the other users' inference that these prism pigmented prehistoric reptiles were in fact not native to earth.
I was not.
I likened these curious creatures creatively to the quite quaint yet quixotic Q. A race and character from another series and genre. This thespian of time tackles what I thought were the main points of the crazy characters in this canon. They are meddling, arrogant, and seemingly omnipetent. Yet while the character I compared to the creatures is one of extraterrestrial lineage, I did not mean to imply I was simply comparing these characters with robustly radical rainbows on their brows to a simple alien.
What I was inferring through my adequately auspicious antics was actually that I thought the creators of these cantankerously cute creatures meant for their creations to be likened to a form of diddling discommodious deity. That is to say a "Meddling God" if you will. While I myself have no belief in invisible entities controlling my life, the authors of this story seem to front this fact in every facet they could find.
Q was simply the easiest way to liken my list of reasons to one well know character. I'm sorry if my indirect inferences did not appeal to you.
~Tobe (If I can be funny, can I at least alliterate? I don't wanna take my ball and go home.)
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Didn't Doc say there are places just as nice as the great valley?
He did, for all it implies, it's interesting how little it's been pointed out on this site. :huh: