A Hopeful Hell: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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Published 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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All Comments (21)
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“Benny is afforded moments of peace, even if it comes from a place of stupidity” Same
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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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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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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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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 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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Love the irony of Ted murdering 3 people being the most selfless thing he's ever done
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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’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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I love the ending. No matter how awful things got, Ted still used that last moment to take away the suffering of another so that they could rest. In reality they could have killed each other at that same moment…but he didn’t allow even a second to pass and risk not being able to be the one thing that AM could never be..which is human. Because once we stop caring for each other, even on the most basic level, we are no longer human.
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The most horrifying thing about this story to me, is the loss of the concept of time. The idea of what you perceive as a brief time being a span of years, something about that terrifies me. Maybe it's because, as I grow older, I become more aware of how quickly time can just slip away.
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I wonder if AM hated Ellen particularly the most, because she's the only one with any sense of morality, it means he couldn't break her spirit either.
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Harlan Ellison is like if Diogenes resurrected himself just out of pure spite
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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"
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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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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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I always love stories where the "sacrifice" is to continue living
