Post by bulldust on Sept 8, 2021 15:03:38 GMT
Moo, I say!
The Bullmeister has just performed his daily ritual of checking the status of the Atlantic Hurricane season. He LOVES Saharan dust. But Bessie keeps reminding him that their days in the country's genital region is temporary. Any day the planet will send us to hell with flooding, sink holes, and hurricanes.
Bessie has been on the Bull to move for years. Fuck you, global warming!
This brings us to our cap Strange Coherence.
It’s a dark little ditty about glacial melting, isolation, and madness. It has a buildup reminiscent of At the Mountains of Madness but doesn’t take that turn toward horror as one would expect. The flow and mood suggest something bad is going to happen, but the VC doesn’t commit. It almost a tease.
It’s not that all stories in the isolation of Antarctica should always be a psychological horror, but this one seems to indicate it’s going that way than leaves the reading cutoff midstroke.
The main character, Charlie, is investigating a potentially and predictably viable glacial melt that would impact the planet in horrific ways. And if that’s not frightening enough, he’s all alone, hearing weird metallic sounds on the glacier.
We get a little character development in his recollection of conversations he’s had with his friends about his suitability for this project, but he’s painted as a two dimensional thrill seeker, who just seems to conveniently be chasing adventure in the name of science. His motivations are wishy-washy at best. I mean, he chooses the frozen solitude for science but justifies it with stating his accomplishment climbing a mountain, mostly alone. It seems like a pride thing.
This had the potential for some great nail biting, but…
The end kind of let me down. It went from creepy, to some 80s style B movie in a few paragraphs.
Maybe I'm just not getting it, but no.
The Bullmeister has just performed his daily ritual of checking the status of the Atlantic Hurricane season. He LOVES Saharan dust. But Bessie keeps reminding him that their days in the country's genital region is temporary. Any day the planet will send us to hell with flooding, sink holes, and hurricanes.
Bessie has been on the Bull to move for years. Fuck you, global warming!
This brings us to our cap Strange Coherence.
It’s a dark little ditty about glacial melting, isolation, and madness. It has a buildup reminiscent of At the Mountains of Madness but doesn’t take that turn toward horror as one would expect. The flow and mood suggest something bad is going to happen, but the VC doesn’t commit. It almost a tease.
It’s not that all stories in the isolation of Antarctica should always be a psychological horror, but this one seems to indicate it’s going that way than leaves the reading cutoff midstroke.
The main character, Charlie, is investigating a potentially and predictably viable glacial melt that would impact the planet in horrific ways. And if that’s not frightening enough, he’s all alone, hearing weird metallic sounds on the glacier.
We get a little character development in his recollection of conversations he’s had with his friends about his suitability for this project, but he’s painted as a two dimensional thrill seeker, who just seems to conveniently be chasing adventure in the name of science. His motivations are wishy-washy at best. I mean, he chooses the frozen solitude for science but justifies it with stating his accomplishment climbing a mountain, mostly alone. It seems like a pride thing.
This had the potential for some great nail biting, but…
The end kind of let me down. It went from creepy, to some 80s style B movie in a few paragraphs.
Maybe I'm just not getting it, but no.
