thread: 2010-11-15 : Scifi vs Horror x3
On 2010-11-17, Vincent wrote:
"Does the protagonist change?" is sometimes the point, but not always, in either horror or SF. That's just one way it can go with a protagonist.
In horror, the protagonist's meaningful world is being destroyed, and the protagonist's humanity, however it's embodied, is under direct threat. In SF - at least in Social SF a la Shock: - even when the world is being destroyed, the meaningful world isn't, and even a transformed person is still a person. In our Human Contact game, for instance, the Higher Machines' weird FTL communication nodes were just a technology we didn't have, they weren't an assault on rationality - look into one and you don't see Ogdru Jahad staring back!
