I may re-read the series in the meantime and see if I get that same feeling of inevitability for certain character deaths that you described.įinally, explicitly on the topic of spoilers, when I went to see ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ twice the other week at the cinema, on both occasions, the audience was treated to a six-minute preview of the tank chase from ‘Fast 6’ – which had a motorsports friend of mine gesturing angrily at the screen about the impossible physics. It certainly keeps me turning the pages, although, having recently finished the fifth book, ‘A Dance With Dragons’, I have to wait like everyone else for the sixth book, ‘The Winds of Winter’. Well, perhaps “like” isn’t the best word for it, but it’s refreshing to read a book with real jeopardy in it, where even main characters, whose story you’ve been following, are not necessarily safe.
I do like the fact that literally anybody could die at any time in ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’. In fact, on the subject of spoilers, I totally got that anticipation that another commenter on Facebook had described however, I think I’d still have been annoyed to have it spoiled for me. That said, it was still deeply harrowing to watch. Like Mike, I’d read ‘A Storm of Swords’ before series 3 aired, so I knew the Red Wedding was coming. I was also very pleased by the discussion of ‘Game of Thrones’.
Essentially, I try to take the path most likely to lead out of post-apocalyptia and into a new civilization, because the games have done such a good job of showing how awful the wasteland would be. In ‘Fallout 3’, I help make clean water available for the people of the Capital Wasteland, and in ‘New Vegas’, despite all its flaws, I still see the New California Republic as the best chance of restoring some semblance of civilization to this post-apocalyptic hell-scape. In fact, I dare say that’s why I always follow the “good” path in these games and try to help people as much as I can. It’s little things like that in the ‘Fallout’ games that show that, no, post-apocalyptia would not be fun you or everyone you know would probably be dead. Two of my favourite games are indeed ‘Fallout 3’ and ‘New Vegas’, which both really bring this kind of “after the end” dystopia to life for me, right down to finding an old abandoned house with a skeleton on the floor, its skulls in a dark pool of dried blood, while its finger bones still clutch a. Like Mike, I think it can be a fantastic storytelling vehicle, but by no means would I want to actually live in that kind of world. I must say, I really appreciated what the two of you, Mike and Casey, had to say about the current fascination with post-apocalyptia.
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