On the one hand, the slow ascension — from original pioneers like a Van Halen brother and Goldie Hawn to the godly apparitions known as Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg — is flattering.
The film went on to win the Oscar for best score and best original song, and it helped crystallize the ascension of Technicolor in Hollywood.
GamePro said it was "Kratos' tragic fall and brutal ascension to the peaks of Mount Olympus that made the original God of War so memorable".
So do other new releases that nod to the days of dial-up and Gak: "Shovel Knight" and "1001 Spikes" will remind you of the original Nintendo Entertainment System (better known as the NES), and games like "Towerfall Ascension" look like old games, even if they play like new ones.
"I say the things y'all can't," Mr. Mac said in "The Original Kings of Comedy," the concert film that paved the way for his ascension to the role of un-P.C. post-Cosby patriarch on Fox.
According to Mormons, a deviation from the original principles of Christianity, known as the Great Apostasy, began not long after the ascension of Jesus Christ.
Instead, original drummer Peter Criss and original lead guitarist Ace Frehley, who were part of KISS' 1970s ascension to stardom but exited in the early 1980s, will be inducted along with perennial frontmen Simmons and Stanley.
In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman that endeavored to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends, particularly the prophesied ascension of the seed of Banquo.
Lara realizes that the Ascension is not a ceremony to crown a new queen, but rather a ritual that transfers the original Sun Queen's soul into a new body; the Sun Queen had learned to become effectively immortal by transferring her soul into a young girl's body each time she grew old.
Panerai's ascension from instrument maker to style setter hides a larger irony about mechanical tool watches: As far as their original purpose goes, they've largely been replaced by quartz watches.
