Hello escapists, Pegghead here if you're Harold the mutant and you just have to read my words.
In today alone I've:
-Discussed zombie apocalypse films
-Watched a bit of "When the wind blows"
-Listened to various tracks from Fallout 3 with images
and I'm planning on replaying Fallout 3 later on. This got me to thinking (And yes, I realize this question was basically already asked by Moviebob and there's an apocalypse type theme around here at the moment) why do we love thoughts about the end of the world so much? Be it the brother in the land kind that, through nuclear war, turns regular people into savage warriors and destroys the landscape and most of its inhabitants, the 28 days later kind that sees society broken down and many people dead due to monsters and disease or even the 2012 kind that sees nature tear the world apart.
So a few questions are
1-Why are we so fascinated by this?
2-What is your favourite kind of apocalypse and/or apocalyptic work of fiction?
3-Hypothetically, if the world were to come to an end what would you like to see/how do you think it would end?
For my two cents I suppose
1: In most forms of apocalyptic fiction there are survivors which, let's be honest, probably isn't going to happen to everyone. So now that you've been granted the luck of not-death a whole new world awaits, a world free of rules and responsibilities, a world where nobody cares if you take a leak in the fallout riddled Sydney Opera house or spend a night in the zombie proof Luna park (I can't help it, I'm a Sydney sider).
2: My favourite kind of apocalypse is a nuclear one where it seems that fallout means the difference between normal healthy living and coming down with the sniffles and there's apparently enough food and clean water left to keep everybody going, where cities have been conveniently reduced to foundations that just look awesome and provide much opportunity for sniping those pesky raiders and mutants. In that respect my favourite works of apocalyptic fiction would have to be Fallout 3 for video games, Z for Zachariah for books and Mad max 2 (The road warrior) for films.
3: I would love to see the world go out with a bang, specifically a nuclear holocaust level bang. In terms of how it might actually end I think we're smart enough to avoid nuclear war and it's going to be a while until they perfect the T-virus (All I need is some plutonium!), to me if it were to come to an end it would have to be by some sort of natural disaster, probably by an asteroid hitting the earth.
In today alone I've:
-Discussed zombie apocalypse films
-Watched a bit of "When the wind blows"
-Listened to various tracks from Fallout 3 with images
and I'm planning on replaying Fallout 3 later on. This got me to thinking (And yes, I realize this question was basically already asked by Moviebob and there's an apocalypse type theme around here at the moment) why do we love thoughts about the end of the world so much? Be it the brother in the land kind that, through nuclear war, turns regular people into savage warriors and destroys the landscape and most of its inhabitants, the 28 days later kind that sees society broken down and many people dead due to monsters and disease or even the 2012 kind that sees nature tear the world apart.
So a few questions are
1-Why are we so fascinated by this?
2-What is your favourite kind of apocalypse and/or apocalyptic work of fiction?
3-Hypothetically, if the world were to come to an end what would you like to see/how do you think it would end?
For my two cents I suppose
1: In most forms of apocalyptic fiction there are survivors which, let's be honest, probably isn't going to happen to everyone. So now that you've been granted the luck of not-death a whole new world awaits, a world free of rules and responsibilities, a world where nobody cares if you take a leak in the fallout riddled Sydney Opera house or spend a night in the zombie proof Luna park (I can't help it, I'm a Sydney sider).
2: My favourite kind of apocalypse is a nuclear one where it seems that fallout means the difference between normal healthy living and coming down with the sniffles and there's apparently enough food and clean water left to keep everybody going, where cities have been conveniently reduced to foundations that just look awesome and provide much opportunity for sniping those pesky raiders and mutants. In that respect my favourite works of apocalyptic fiction would have to be Fallout 3 for video games, Z for Zachariah for books and Mad max 2 (The road warrior) for films.
3: I would love to see the world go out with a bang, specifically a nuclear holocaust level bang. In terms of how it might actually end I think we're smart enough to avoid nuclear war and it's going to be a while until they perfect the T-virus (All I need is some plutonium!), to me if it were to come to an end it would have to be by some sort of natural disaster, probably by an asteroid hitting the earth.
