The rocks don't want to multiply if you don't touch them the right way. And whisper sweet nothings in their ears. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Uhhh, this is the stuff that's in those Do Not Eat packets. And yes, it absorbs water.
#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#monsterdon there’s a joke here about geologists knowing good cleavage and silicon implants…

"Ladies, prepare yourselves...I will have to experiment on this child"

Brings out a Jazz album...

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Anyone want to ask out basic humidity? Nah? Nah!

Godammit, this a boring script

#monsterdon

we know that the body contamination only seems to happen with extra water so i'm taking all this rock handling as proof that none of these people have _ever_ washed their hands

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Oh schist! They're gonna need a bigger rock hammer

#Monsterdon

Better lick them to be sure #monsterdon

Oh! It's *not* turning people to stone per se. (I mean, it's a silly result, but hey)

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

How high were the writers? #monsterdon

Silicon vampires! #Monsterdon

He sniffed the sand.

#monsterdon

How the hell do they know the rocks have multiplied?

#monsterdon

They're very careful not to mess-up each other's makeup

#monsterdon

They figured out it's a meteorite pretty quick.

#monsterdon

Hang on, I need to change out of my science trenchcoat and into my traveling blazer. #Monsterdon

Stony iron meteorites don't work like that, I think?

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

More than centuries dude, millions, possibly billions of years....

#monsterdon

The only way we can defeat this rock is with PAPER #monsterdon

they should have read the Nethack wiki. Everybody knows the best way to avoid turning to stone is by carrying a lizard corpse
https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Stoning #monsterdon

Sure, let's slap her in the iron lung. That'll fix this. #monsterdon

I'm just waiting for the Dr. Hendrix guitar solo. He is after all a rock legend

#monsterdon

Does she have a weird alien hand?

There's always one in the spaceship crew, isn't there? And they never tell anyone else until it's too late...

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon A specialist in WHAT?? Post petrification syndrome??

It's the Rocky horror picture show! Quick, cue the music
#Monsterdon

oh yeah, people can't resist rocks

#monsterdon

"Negative Cleavage", I guess you're talking about Twins of Evil. #monsterdon

Negative cleavage eh? Like me in high school? 🥺

#monsterdon

Quick someone hold some formic acid under the kid's nose. #monsterdon

it's the Ice-9 of rocks

#monsterdon

yeah that family are all nano fuel now, the rocks have control of the situation

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon this rock is digging the soak!

Lick the rock.

Geologists swear by it.

Do it....

Do it....

#monsterdon

@bunnyhero #monsterdon
It won’t matter so it’s fine.

"I'm a newspaper man and this is news!"

So you're not the WaPo or NYT then?

#monsterdon

My god, it's full of quartz #Monsterdon

The only thing holding him together now is tobacco tar #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh no! She brought the rock home! That’s a big responsibility, kid, you’ll have to feed it.

I see we’re already bathing it.

@gnomon my sediments exactly!

#monsterdon

The teacher picking up all the kids in her car is almost sounding like socialism, she should be careful of the FBI....

#monsterdon

I can only hope Ginny is the next victim.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon hello sweet children, now, EXPLODE! Each of you! Wetly!

The real monster here is seat-belts

#monsterdon

lol, that Child is nano-fuel now

#monsterdon

You can't do the vaseline lens trick with 2 people in the same shot! Come on...

#monsterdon

Now that's a land cruiser! #monsterdon

What's that there, Jenny?

Lizard!

And we've passed the Bechdel test.

#monsterdon

I think that geologist has been dropping acid

#Monsterdon

Poster on the wall:

Make Geology Interesting Again

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon i wonder how the rock's doing

Really tempting fate there with the News guy, I like it.
Mock Hubris, spit in it's face

#monsterdon

Turns out this is filmed in Lucerne Valley, California, says #Imdb

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon I take it back. He can’t identify obsidian, he’s no geologist.

Mark Twain?

#monsterdon

Seriously though, I'm a white guy and the whiteness of this town is making me feel unwelcome....but I guess that was the point, wasn't it?

#monsterdon

So far we have two noteworthy characters: the rocks and the soundtrack.

I wouldn't mind more of this.

#Monsterdon

lol @ reasons to get the rock wet by accident

#monsterdon

Is this set in Mayberry?

#monsterdon

Raging obsidian!

#monsterdon

dramatic rock music. er, not that kind of rock music

#monsterdon

That rock was really pissed off

#monsterdon

Are the Monoliths like Mogwai's, you can't get them wet?

#monsterdon

If you see something, say something. Unless it's a rock.

#monsterdon

Flintstones font #monsterdon

Good Monolithic font! It’s a bit like the Flinstones
#Monsterdon

FROM INFINITY AND BEYOND: METEORS

#Monsterdon

Sounds like a geology class gone horribly wrong. #monsterdon

well the meteors start coming
and they don't stop coming

#monsterdon

Talking about asteroid impacts (and atmospheric effects) in 1957 is pretty forward looking.

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@ottaross I think someone realized they needed a reason for her to be in this film separate from the Ginny Simpson story which just petered out #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial In my science project? None. They were all as guilty as sin. #Monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai
The municipal and government leadership were all reasonable.

Today, half the town would blame the government, and demand the right to stay on their land and defend it against the obvious fake news nonsense giant rocks.
#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@blogdiva Right? For a 50s film, there wasn't much "red menace". But it definitely set up a black and white conflict. #Monsterdon

@kcarr2015 I think it's all taken relative to the complete lack of an ending we usually get

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou Yeah, in Ben's case he did have that crummy overheating vehicle, and the parents were old, so not worth worrying over #monsterdon

@raindrops_and_roses @cheribaker I endorse this statement! 👍

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I dunno why everybody is so happy with this ending, as there are still a bunch of killer rocks just laying around that damn mountain waiting for the next rainfall! 😖
#TheMonolithMonsters

@himbovoorhees You have a solid future in 1950s science. You're a natural. 😃 #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial (they were Poor)

#monsterdon

@brooke At least there *was* a monster (of sorts) this time

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou I think he was just implying the repairs are coming out of his paycheck from now on #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Damnit, Dave blew the dam and washed away all those cool miniatures!

@blogdiva
Yours is the most plausible read I think I saw tonight, so like a morality tale where the kids need to drink their silicon/saltwater tonics to keep on the straight and narrow #monsterdon

oh it's not! these are actually good miniature destruction shots! :D

#monsterdon #TheMOnolithMonsters

Epilogue: Ginny turned out just fine after her ordeal. In fact, she married a Supreme Court justice #monsterdon

WOW! Destroying the miniatures with a flash flood was nicely done. #Monsterdon

Ha! Monoliths not so monster-y NOW, eh?
#Monsterdon

The moral of the story is that if you're in the middle of a crisis and don't want to be bothered by cute kids you can send them all on a fake mission and never have to deal with them again #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
Come to that, there's not really much indication these things are even alive -- just some wacky geochemistry.

They don't even seem to have the obvious armchair philosophical conversation about that (yet, anyway).

The monolith advancing scenes are cool...

#monsterdon #themonolithmonsters

I gotcher salty flood right here

MY TEARS

YOU MONSTERS

#monsterdon #monolithmonsters

@foolishowl No, the reason they were so concerned about reaching the governor was so the writers could set up a cheesy joke at the end. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon rocks fall everyrock dies

#Monsterdon So can't the rocks like dry out and get rained on again and back to being a problem???

@jonny Though #Monsterdon kind of pushes the limits there

So the reason they were so concerned about reaching the governor was just to avoid the legal consequences of blowing up the dam?

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

And the monoliths fuck off into the ancient sea I guess?

Well, I feel a bit better now.

Thanks @Taweret for hosting, as ever, and @ryan for the stream!

#Monsterdon

also the miniatures of the monoliths are fucking stellar, the composite shots are really good, and the other models aren't bad at all, particularly the farm we see get rocked over. visual fun for me ^_^

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@rebeld Shh! We’re not supposed to think about that. #Monsterdon