1. i dont think there is a particular reason as to the date and time the "raining of fire" happens, but just that it happens because Elizabeth is 'destined' to wage war the United States that Comstock hates so much. as for the Paris tear, i was thinking because Elizabeth is so obsessed with Paris, she was WANTING to open a tear there, and the 1983 timelime was just a random time frame. I really dont think Comstock has beef with the entire world as much as he does with America. good observation!
2. Songbird *could* be a man, but i think it's more important HOW the Songbird is there. yes it is synonymous with Big Daddy, but i think in a tech sense. being that Elizabeth and Booker take a brief trip to Rapture, perhaps whoever built the Songbird had gotten the idea and/or blueprint from a tear that lead to rapture.
3. I think the Lady Comstock is from Comstock's universe and has nothing to do with Elizabeth's birth mother. (after all, the whole reason why Comstock wants Elizabeth is because he cant knock Lady Comstock up due to being around all the tear experiments)BUT with that said, the ghost you battle could very well be another alternate universe where Booker doesnt come to save Elizabeth.
im not really sure, it doesnt really give too much info about Lady Comstock OR the lady Booker had a child with in his universe.
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Kolben32
11 years ago
1. Thanks. I think this could go either way. The tear doesn't show zepplins or buildings on fire, but it's within the same time frame. ROJ (titled "Revenge of the Jedi" on the theater) didn't premiere in Paris till October of 83. It's also possible it could be the same day, but without disturbance in France. I suppose they couldn't go too much further in to the future as Elizabeth is 91 years old in 1983.
2. Well I'm almost positive that Songbird must be some kind of intelligent life encapsulated in a mechanical bird. If you look at the other mechanical AIs in Bioshock Infinite they are all quite primitive. The motorized patriots for instance are prone to repetitive, programmed, behavior, even in 1999 mode. At the same time we know that Fink can merge man and machine. Like in the case of the Handyman. Also there is a voxophone recording where Fink is talking about the man-machine merger technology and how Comstock might find it useful.
3. Quite true. There's not really a whole lot of information about Lady Comstock and quite less about Elizabeth's mother. It's just an impression I got.
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coop82
11 years ago
it makes me wonder why the Handy-Man are so clumsy, clunky and dumb but Songbird is intelligent, calculated, and sometimes even gracefull. the technology HAD to have come from Rapture. perhaps, Fink created the Handy Man from Rapture technology from a tear, and maybe the twins helped Comstock perfect it?
either way, i really hope the DLC has more with the Songbird!
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Kolben32
11 years ago
Yes. I think you are quite right. Fink said in one of his voxophone recordings that he was watching a genius biologist through one of the tears. The biologist could quite possibly be Yi Suchong who in Rapture created both the Plasmids (Vigors) and the big daddies. Both technologies manufactured by Fink.
I'd also like to see more about Songbird's past ;)
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still_ichyn
11 years ago
1. Also, New Year´s Eve 1983... 1984 being the famed dystopian novel by George.
2. It is heavily implied in that voxophone that was mentioned that Fink saw a Big Daddy through a tear (a perfect merge of man and machine or something to that effect), hence the inspiration for the Songbird technology.
3. I have no idea, I didn´t really get what the deal with LC was in the game.
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