So its obvious TAU is an ancronym
But its never explained in the movie what it stands for. Anyone here find out?
shareYou may be right? But as you say, I never saw any indication of that in the movie.
I kind of took it as a play on The Tao.
And it is. I personally think it was plagiar... inspired by Tao of the Wildstorm comic universe. So if TAO is Tactical Augmented Organism, then TAU is Tactical Augmented Unit.
shareI was thinking more like the ancient Chinese text, the Tao Te Ching.
Yes, but this is like a given - everyone knows about the text.
Wildstorm's character name is an allusion to Tao (the text, the teaching), Tau on the other hand (and that is my guess) was inspired by the comics. I say this because Tao is a villain but a complicated one, Tau is also a machine build to guard the captives (among other things) but is capable of change. Tao's symbol is an inverted triangle, that's how Tau formally looks like. But the basic symbol of Tao (the doctrine) is, however, the Yin-Yang circle.
I am not familiar with the comics. It does sound like there are some similarities?
I don't see Tau in this movie as a villain though.
Why not? Tau is an assistant to a bad guy, he is in charge of Aries, Aries kills people. That's of course due to Tau's limited knowledge and lack of free will, but you know what they say: Ignorance of the law excuses not ;)
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