Adam wrote:About the cross, the angle looks different in different shots. All in all, the idea that it could be connected to Lilith came from the similarity to Lilith's fallen cross in 3.0, didnt it? And Lilith has died after all. The main Adam isn't really dead, is he? Still, the 5th cross can NOT be seen in half of the shots in 3.0+1.0 (the ones where only 4 crosses stick out of the rainbow gate), like WTF?!? This whole south pole setup doesn't make any sense except for it being a homage to Ultraman!
I think the idea is that the tilted cross corresponds to the 5th Adams, and it's tilted precisely because the Adams in question "isn't quite dead" (i.e., the cross didn't rise fully), however that is supposed to work.
Given the heavy tilt, I don't see why the
base should be visible along the other 4? IIRC, the upper part shows close to the other 4, but the base lies far, far away? (unless I'm missing something).
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The next idea contradicts everything we have seen on screen regarding "cross explosions" (whether they correspond to an Angle dying or not), It is possible that these crosses originate at the head, and "project" (grow) downward towards the base, while rotatating from an oblique position all the wat to "upright"?
So during 2I, each of the five crosses initially "spawns" somewhere high in the sky above the South Pole, and gradually grows (extends) its "pole" section downwards, in a diagonal direction (not completely vertically) until it reaches the ground. From there on, the base point slowly moves along the ground, seeking towards the epicenter, while the cross's "head" and "arms" parts rise even higher, but staying above the same initial point on the ground. Four crosses made it all the way to the "upright position", but the 5th didn't... It is quite involded of an idea, but explains the disparate base point of the 5th cross as a "partially erect" outlier...