Interestingly, Neathery starts us off again with a moral compass, a conundrum on humanity. Lyn was not just walking down a corridor before he attacked by a monster. He was performing an act of great bravery and fell to its consequence. Knowing the dangers, he cautiously investigated a scene where a fellow person – Law Enforcement Officer, as it hapened, but a person more importantly – was in potential distress and need of help. For that alone, we as an audience were saying to ourselves: “Brave and heroic, but stupid to put himself at risk. I wouldn’t’ve done that.” You could see the look on his face. “This is dangerous, but it has to be done. If I don’t risk my life, someone else may pay with his.”If the is the way the first mutations showed, up, then there was going to be a whole lot more misery in the world over the years to come. And indeed, in the current day, there’s almost nothing BUT misery. Almost. What we see here at the beginning, and what we see in glimpses of hope in Endtown, is the spark of humanity that occasionally reminds us what it means to be a human, truly a human, the noble human again which we measure ourselves. By this I am referring to the quality that makes us choose to stick our neck out for someone else. To save, or equally to choose not to harm. The victory conditions for the remnant race in Neathery’s universe:1) Survive2) Retain your humanitySuccess in only one is not sufficient.This restarted, post-hiatus opening story is not just a typical horror story. It’s classic, six-cylinder Neathery. I am loving it.
Interestingly, Neathery starts us off again with a moral compass, a conundrum on humanity. Lyn was not just walking down a corridor before he attacked by a monster. He was performing an act of great bravery and fell to its consequence. Knowing the dangers, he cautiously investigated a scene where a fellow person – Law Enforcement Officer, as it hapened, but a person more importantly – was in potential distress and need of help. For that alone, we as an audience were saying to ourselves: “Brave and heroic, but stupid to put himself at risk. I wouldn’t’ve done that.” You could see the look on his face. “This is dangerous, but it has to be done. If I don’t risk my life, someone else may pay with his.”If the is the way the first mutations showed, up, then there was going to be a whole lot more misery in the world over the years to come. And indeed, in the current day, there’s almost nothing BUT misery. Almost. What we see here at the beginning, and what we see in glimpses of hope in Endtown, is the spark of humanity that occasionally reminds us what it means to be a human, truly a human, the noble human again which we measure ourselves. By this I am referring to the quality that makes us choose to stick our neck out for someone else. To save, or equally to choose not to harm. The victory conditions for the remnant race in Neathery’s universe:1) Survive2) Retain your humanitySuccess in only one is not sufficient.This restarted, post-hiatus opening story is not just a typical horror story. It’s classic, six-cylinder Neathery. I am loving it.