#it’s not a coincidence that all the antagonists will not shut up abt how individual people don’t matter in the grand scheme of things | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

apple-of-my-pie · 2 years ago

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Something about how Wolf 359 is primarily character-driven rather than plot driven. Something about how all the villains extol the value of the ‘big picture’, the grand cosmic happenings that are more important than any people’s lives or desires. Something about the contact event mattering because of the way the characters react in the face of it. Something about an immortal alien empire reaching out to mankind for the first time by having a chat with one man alone in a room. Something about how, as aliens judge whether the human race deserves to live and a megacorporation plans world domination, the story is about a group of people stuck on a tin can together and the way they feel about their lives, the world and each other.

#w359 actively refusing the Big Picture on every level fucks so hard #we never see much of goddard’s doings on earth. we never see the rest of that vast intergalactic civilization the dear listeners belong to #because that’s not what matters! what matters is the love and fear and hope and anger and grief and want of this tiny handful of people #small in the great cosmic scale #it’s not a coincidence that all the antagonists will not shut up abt how individual people don’t matter in the grand scheme of things #(and therefore hurting people is justified if you can claim some higher purpose)#and then the story goes yes they do!!! look at them!!! the big picture is not important what’s important are these small petty human beings #that’s what we focus on that’s what we develop that’s what MATTERS #hilbert and kepler and cutter and pryce going ‘individual human lives aren’t worthy of consideration’#jokes on you bitch the narrative says the opposite #wolf 359 #w359 #bay’s originals

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