A Hopeful Hell: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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Publicado 2021-11-16
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Ryan's Analysis: • The Bleakest Depiction in Sci-Fi
Storymode's video game analysis (because it's funny): • I Have No Mouth And I Must Expleen
Graphic novel illustrations courtesy of John Byrne's "Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor" issues 1-4 published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994
Timestamps
Introduction - 00:00
About the Author - 5:03
Meet the Team - 10:51
A Series of Unfortunate Events - 14:51
I pretend to be smart for the duration of the video - 33:51
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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The cold, soulless, AI torture device when the indomitable human spirit walks in: 😮
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There is so much middle finger energy in the whole "yeah I am just a blob now but I really annoyed my tormentor at one point, which is big fat W in my book"
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This is true horror. Not the threat of death, but the inability to die.
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The most absolutely triumphant part of the story was as Ted was coming to grips with the fact that he saved the others from AM’s torture, he declared to himself that AM is not God and AM can’t bring them back to life now. He broke through his own delusions to spite AM and it was glorious
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“Benny is afforded moments of peace, even if it comes from a place of stupidity” Same
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the title/end sentence is also the representation of teds triumph over AM. the scream of humanity IS AMs only purpose, yet ted has no mouth and cannot fulfill that purpose anymore for AM
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Harlan Ellison sounds exactly like the perfect meeting point between a honey badger and the meme "God has allowed me to live another day, and I'm about to make it EVERYONES problem."
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I think Ted hates Ellen because she represents hope, and in an endless torture scenario hope is a trap. She tries to make them empathize for humanity and that just makes what is happening mean worse things. In Ted's opinion, it's better to be mindless because that means AM has less ability to torture you, especially emotionally. Ted sees Ellen as forcing them all to care which only makes their torture more tragic and painful.
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If Harlan Ellison was alive, and saw your interpretation of his story, his response would probably be along the lines of ‘No, and you smell like a French cheese’, even if you were correct.
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This whole story was an elaborate way of saying Ted became the immortal snail who has an infinite amount of time to find a way to kill AM.
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I think it's really powerful that AM's ultimate punishment, the very worst torture he can possibly think of is to give Ted a form and existence that mirrors his own. He finally got his revenge on humanity by making the last of us become the same way we made him.
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Ellison’s appearance on Scooby-Doo is so wild. He spends the entire episode feuding with their parody of Lovecraft, and then the two decide to write a book together.
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NOT ONLY DID HE PLAY HIMSELF ON SCOOBY DOO, he was a REOCCURING CHARACTER
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Something cool about the video game is that Ellison voiced AM himself after deciding that the original VA wasn't angry and spiteful enough.
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in the end, ted just single handedly took AMs only purpose away and no matter how much AM tortures ted, ted will always be there to remind AM of his failure in his single purpose of his existence
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Harlan Ellison is like if Diogenes resurrected himself just out of pure spite
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This story was like made for wendigoon to cover
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-kills all the remaining humans -becomes disgusting slugman -makes AM mald by leaving him without any way to vent his anger, not even torture is satisfactory -refuses to elaborate further absolutely based
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Ellison is the live embodiment of that meme that says "i be waking up real early to have extra time to be a hater"
