Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25140503-20150608014039

Everyone loved and still loves watching the Nickelodeon show, Spongebob Squarepants. Despite its flaws, such as torture to its own characters or its excessive amounts of gore, the show remains one of the best TV shows to watch. Since I have not seen Spongebob since the end of Season 7, I have not really cared for any of the episodes shown. However, only one episode has gotten a real reaction out of me: the TV movie aired in 2007, Atlantis Squarepantis. This movie is seen by the community as the biggest ratings trap in Spongebob history. Hell, they had a video game and Burger King toys for crying out loud. However, that is not the point. The true point is that while watching the TV "movie," I was left with so many unanswered questions that there had to have been a theory as to how all these events occurred. That's why I'm here. To explain exactly how these events were able to occur in the theory I created. Let's dive in.



The theory does not begin to kick in until the moment when Spongebob and friends piece together the Amulet of Atlantis. Once the two halves were put together, the Amulet caused a huge bus that looked like the Devil created it come from the sky. Spongebob and friends (and Plankton) enter the bus and are taken to what looks like Atlantis using the power of song as a resource for gas. But what if the gang hadn't really gone to Atlantis at all? What if instead, the bus was actually a time machine that took the group to a futuristic version of Atlantis? But how is this possible? In the movie, Squidward shows everyone a mural of what Atlantis "currently" looks like. But maybe it's just a representation of what it could look like in the future.





The futuristic Atlantis in the movie looks nothing like the Atlantis that we last saw, which was in the Season 1 episode Neptune's Spatula. Instead, it rather looks like an alien planet than a lost underwater city. Even the people of Atlantis look completely off. Instead of the mermaids, there were aliens that strangely resembled Yugopotamians (the alien species in Fairly Odd Parents, another Nick show). But what is perhaps the most mind-boggling thing of all is the leader of this new Atlantis, which is not King Neptune. Instead, there's this Yugopotamian looking fellow named Lord Royal Highness, or LRH for short. Exactly, how did this individual claim the throne as new ruler of Atlantis over Neptune? What the Hell is going on here?



According to the theory, a large group of aliens, led by Lord Royal Highness and his family, left their planet and crossed the galaxy to look for a new home in a different planet (possibly due to the destruction of the planet or sent off for an expedition to a new world). The only things that the travelers took with them were their families, some supplies and technological things such as weapons, and a bubble. The bubble, called The Oldest Living Bubble in the movie, is believed to be a type of contact to the home planet or a memorial piece reminding the travelers of home, which may explain why they cherish the bubble as their most valuable relic. After a long travel, the aliens reached the planet Earth and discovered an underwater area already inhabited by mermaids, which was Atlantis and was ruled by King Neptune. What if the aliens decided to take Atlantis from King Neptune by force and create a whole new empire for their race? There could only be one way to retrieve Atlantis: invasion. Using their adavanced technology and weapons, the aliens invaded Atlantis and attacked. And the Atlantians of course fought back. But in the end, it would be the aliens that would prevail. The aliens would kill off the Atlantian civilians, including King Neptune. Sadly, the Atlantis we know was no more. Where was Spongebob and friends when this took place? Gone. They did not live to witness the Atlantians being defeated by the aliens. Which means that these events took place after Spongebob and friends were dead and buried.





After the war, the aliens took control of Atlantis, named their new colony New Atlantis, and did whatever they had to do to survive in their new home. The new civilization felt that they would no longer need to carry weapons, believing that there would be no challenger or threat to them. So, they tore most of their weapons apart and using their technological advances, created new inventions and machines that would help them to survive, such as creating machines to create strawberry ice cream or fighting diseases. This would explain why Plankton's tank shot strawberry ice cream instead of something deadly, and would also explain how the high-tech gear that Sandy encountered came to be in the movie. Once Lord Royal Highness and his family settled in King Neptune's home, they discovered so many things inside. One example includes the discovery of King Neptune's vault, filled with so much gold and precious objects. However, the New Atlantians decided not to use the gold as their new means of currency, believing that the currency they have is worth more. So, they kept it in the vault until the person they deemed worthy of cherishing the money could keep everything, which became Mr. Krabs in the movie. Another discovery were the paintings and sculptures inside King Neptune's art room (now known as the Hall of Arts). The New Atlantians also praised and loved the artwork that was shown in the arts. So, they recreated everything in the room, making them so realistic that the viewer can literally step into the painting and be a part of it. This could explain how Squidward entered the painting he was thrown into in the movie. And finally, what about food and supplies? Thanks once again to the New Atlantians' technology, the inventions created were meant to make things faster, such as working and playing. It could also create any food that the civilians wanted to eat, so there was no worry for any desire.





There's still one more piece missing in this theory. If the Amulet of Atlantis was what could send anyone to the future, how did it end up in Spongebob's world? Well, a New Atlantian was sent in time to take the Amulet, split it in 2, and leave it in different places where anyone can find them. This may explain how the 1st piece ended up being in the Bikini Bottom Museum after being found and why the 2nd was left in a cave. Maybe it was the last place the time traveler was when he got sent back to the future, in hopes that someone worthy would connect the pieces together and discover the truth of Atlantis.  