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APK · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:08 pm Post subject: Atlantis Drama

Remember when those rumors spread about Atlantis's ideas being stolen from a Japanese Anime? There was a whole website dedicated to proving it. Well, the owner of the website came out and said it was all made up--a propaganda study he was doing. The similarities he pointed out were superficial or exaggerated. And not to mention both Nadia and Atlantis got a lot of their ideas from the original Atlantis story. He wanted to study how fast people can fall for hype like that. Rolling Eyes

I wish I could find the article again, but the internet is too big! Rolling Eyes

::goes for mad hunt searching for article::

Jas · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

I didn't hear about that, but how would you steal something from anime that is a legend?
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APK · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

APK · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:

OK, I couldn't find the article again but I found the actual website that started it (Michael Hayden), and it has the guy's email address.

http://www.oldcrows.net/Atlantis/ (original site)

Hayden's site has a link to Marc Hairston's site that debunks all of the "similarities" between Nadia and Atlantis. Here it is:

http://utd500.utdallas.edu/~hairston/atlantis.html (debunking site)

Also according to people who watched both Nadia and Atlantis, they weren't the same movie at all.

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, totally thought this was about something else when I saw the thread name Laughing

But this sounds like the Kimba/Lion King claim..or the Thief of Bahgdad/Aladdin claim. Lots of claims Laughing

Husse · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:25 am Post subject:

People on the internet that have no brain swallow much garbage, says I... Cool

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Jas · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry - I didn't word what I was trying to say very well. Laughing

What I was saying is that Atlantis is a myth, so there are some things that are going to be the same among any stories that deal with Atlantis.
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APK · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject:

...sure. We'll go with that answer Laughing

Husse · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:43 am Post subject:

I thought Atlantis WAS too soap-opera-ey. Blech. Couldn't connect with it at all. And it was a little too suggestive for my sister.
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Jas · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject:

How was it suggestive? *tries to remember, but the last time she watched it, she was too busy laughing at the Shepherd's Journal*

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Husse · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:29 am Post subject:

Lot of bathroom humor, which my sister isn't allowed to watch. Rolling Eyes

Lot of New Age stuff, which I won't LET my sister watch after what's known in our family as the Pokemon incident. Laughing

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APK · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

Husse · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:42 am Post subject:

Well, my mom is really, and I mean REAAAAALLY sensitive to any and all things fantasy or new age-ish, whatever. She HATED Pokemon, and my sister loved it...thanks to me, hee hee.

Anyway, late one night, she was running around our house, singing, "I'm Mew! I'm a psychic Pokemon!"

My mother nearly KILLED me when she heard that one. Rolling Eyes

I had to explain, "Mom, it's not a medium, it's a little FAKE creature that attacks by giving other little fake creatures a headache or levitating them or something."

She didn't like that. My sister was banned from ever watching it again until I got Mommy to lighten up.

She's also not allowed to watch Teacher's Pet or Digimon. Apparently, they're both REALLY demonic. Sssssh! Big secret! Laughing

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APK · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject:

My lips are sealed Laughing

What must she think of Aladdin? Shocked