I just got into this show and freaken love it! but as i watch this i wonder a few things.. Blind Mag says "you have your mother's eyes, her hair." but Shilo wears a wig due to her *illness* so does that mean Nathan fixed up with one that looks like Narnie's hair? it fits with "i remember when i gaze apon her/she looks just like you" My second question is who is the Largi childrens mother? cause if i dont think for a second they have a bit of Marnie in them or rotti wouldnt hate them so much. From a first marriage...maybe she died and its what spured Rottie to start GeneCo? or am i thinking way to much in to this!? haha love this show cant get enough if it..so happy i found it. its is as i have read...Rocky horror meets Sweeney Todd!
1) so does that mean Nathan fixed up with one that looks like Narnie's hair?
My answer to this is sort of twofold. In the movie we do see glimpses of little Shilo & she does have a similar type of hair to that of her wig. I don't think that Nathan really started poisoning Shilo until later on, when she became harder to control, so that'd be her real hair color back then. I do believe that when choosing the wig, Nathan probably also chose a hair color closer to Marni's (Shilo's kid hair was similar, but the wig is a bit darker) because he's so obsessed with his dead wife.
2) My second question is who is the Largo childrens mother?
It isn't Marni, that's for certain. She's too young. I believe that each of the Largo kids had a different mother. Rotti had a tendency to fall for women, romance them, then discard them when he was done with them. I think that's part of what pushed Marni to Nathan- she knew that Rotti's love was only temporary & that what she felt with Nathan would last much longer. Of course, nobody really knows what happened to the ex-wives, so it's entirely possible that Rotti had them killed or had them suffer an "accident". As the most powerful man in the world, he could do that & not suffer any serious setbacks. It would help to explain the attitudes of the Largo children as well.
3) Rotti hates his kids...
Not really. He's disappointed in them, but he doesn't entirely hate them. At least not initially. He spoiled them & gave them everything they wanted, which backfired horribly. As a result of growing up under such a person, they became horrible people capable of murder, deception, & addiction. He's more angry because he thought that since he is such a keen mind & go-getter, that his kids would grow up to be more like him. If he really hated them he could have had them murdered at any point in time, yet he didn't. It suggests that deep down Rotti still had some tiny spark of fatherhood for them. You can really see his love for his daughter Amber in one part of the film just before she reveals her botched surgery. Of course he gets angry at her in the song, but remember- he still pays for her surgery to get corrected.
4) maybe she died and its what spured Rottie to start GeneCo?
Nobody really knows what caused Rotti to start GeneCo... or what caused the massive organ failures. It might be that the two are linked together, but until the creators release more info about everything, we'll never know for certain. I doubt that any of the children's mothers were the reason for Rotti starting GeneCo- it's been very heavily hinted that he's divorced each one of them after he lost interest in them. (And that they were otherwise killed off when they irritated him, same as how he killed Marni when she spurned him.)
---------------------- Supposedly this film is the second in a story trilogy & originally the creators wanted to film a sequel & a prequel, but the movie did far too poorly in theaters to warrant doing either film. There's tons of theories as to what would have happened, though.
"He spoiled them & gave them everything they wanted, which backfired horribly."
The reason they turned out so horrible is because: 1. Rotti was an awful role model. 2. At least two of them had to be clinically insane from birth. The "organ failure", in their case, was the brain. I doubt simple "spoiling" alone could make someone turn out THAT bad.
This is a world where it's legal to kill people to get back the organs. It also seems the father can kill anyone he wants even a DR. that gives him bad news. It is possible the extent of spoiling them is covering up their messes when they do bad things that start out from assault and forced sex and cosmetic surgery and light drugs to the point they are now.
I agree that he was an awful role model and it is possible that either they was born insane or just became insane "The whole nature vs Nurture debate".
I also think what he was most disgusted about was that they was doing all of this in public and giving GeneCo a bad name. He probably allowed them to do what they wanted and kept it out of the media but then he couldn't control them.
I always kinda had a demented idea about the hair. It wouldn't surprise me if the wig is actually Marni's hair. It would give the line "her have her hair" a literal meaning.
Then again i'm demented enough to think that!
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There was definitely some evidence either in the movie or in the deleted scenes that said the wig was Marni's hair. At some point (in the deleted scenes, I think- it's been a while since I've seen the movie itself), right when Shilo gets set up by Rotti, there's a woman sitting in a chair- which she finds out is Marni's corpse (which has been on display in the house previously) and at some point, it shows the corpse has no hair. Either that's the case or I'd read a really thorough explanation stating it. But that's the impression I got too.
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