![]() This has mostly to do with the fact that I am, in fact, a scaredy-cat, but as it turns out, COVID-19 is far, far scarier, and much more difficult to control than my ability to consume horror-related content. I still read my other, usual genres, but this intense interest in horror is rather new. Continue reading “Deus Ex Machina, In More Ways Than One – A Review of The Outside by Ada Hoffmann” →Įver since the start of the pandemic, my interest in the horror genre has gone up considerably. This isn’t meant to discredit the technological miracles created in order to explore other planets, of course, but even the scientists who rely upon these technologies will admit that even the most advanced rovers are poor substitutes for real live human scientists actually doing the work themselves on location. We believe we understand and know what’s within our solar system, but everything we know so far has been based on information sent to us by cameras and satellites, not firsthand knowledge. ![]() It is almost a dimension unto itself, one which we may never be able to completely comprehend, no matter how many resources or brilliant minds we throw at it. ![]() (Provided, of course, that our species can get its act together long enough to do so, and without killing ourselves through war, capitalism, or climate change before then.)īut for some people, even if we find ways and means of getting around the dangers presented by space travel, space is still quite scary. One day some day, humanity will be able to comprehend it enough to minimize the risks of going there, and our species will travel space in much the same way it travels the surface of our planet now. This view is also supported by a considerable amount of actual science: seen through the eyes of the scientists both on Earth and currently in orbit, space might be dangerous, but it isn’t necessarily something to be scared of. This isn’t usually how most people see space nowadays both Star Wars and Star Trek have altered the view of outer space, turning into a grand stage for epic drama ( Star Wars), or a literally never-ending frontier of exploration and discovery ( Star Trek). Please be aware that the page may contain spoilers. And after she spoke to her brother and got permission, we felt we wanted to use it in the series, because we thought it was a really fascinating physical manifestation of a teenager's grief.Trigger warnings for this novel can be found here, c/o. So that was hard to resist as something to talk about. In researching it, this is something that happens to people, particularly young people, sometimes after trauma. And then, all of a sudden, they started working again. And brother, after her parents got divorced, had about four months when his legs were paralyzed. ![]() about love and sex and all of that-and we were both really interested, because we had parents that died unexpectedly, in talking about grief and how grief manifests itself. "When we were talking about the series-there are so many teenage series. During an April 2020 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program "Fresh Air," Mindy Kaling said that the element of the series's plot in which Devi develops temporary paralysis in response to her shock and grief over her father's death was a true story from the real life of the brother of the show's co-creator, Lang Fisher. ![]()
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