what did you mean when you said the Lonely is the worst fear? like... worst characters/avatars? worst written? least scary? i'd love some elaboration on that
thefredestfred:
martinblackwoodhater:
least scary + most boring + like just most the interpretations of the lonely that are at least semi interesting or scary could be covered by another fear so it just feels so irrelevant. it just feels like a filler fear to me how did this one get more popular over the actually cool fears of like Vast or Extinction or something 💔
it just doesn’t pull it’s weight i feel
THE VAST AND EXTINCTION FELT SUPER BLAND TO ME!!!! (the lonely and flesh are my favorite ones, specifically flesh) The flesh statements are always so well-written…
it’s like you’re going out of your way to have the worst takes how is this possible we’re like evil opposites. i feel like vast and extinction have a uniqueness to them that like the Lonely could just never manage though. like with the extinction there’s that unique sense of humanity and guilt that you don’t truly get with any other fear, and that’s why i like it as like most of the other avatars are dehumanised by their Fear whereas the Extinction has humanity’s flaws so deeply integral to it that like i don’t see how this dehumanisation could happen for an avatar and therefore it has more potential to be interesting and unique to me. and ya the Flesh is cool and i like it’s relationship with Extinction as being both like somewhat opposites (least human + most human fear <- oversimplification but basically). the lonely doesn’t have anything like that going for it tho bro stop glazing
leblogreblog:
The Extinction doesn’t need to have any Avatars.
The prospect itself that it exists and is an actual threat seems to be enough to cause abundance of fear.
It doesn’t need to have any Avatars, but it has.
They are the opposite of any other Avatars - they do the most harm by not doing anything at all.
The Extinction Avatars are the people who have the resources that would let them stop it.
But they won’t.
i feel like this is one of the reasons the extinction makes for an interesting fear that somewhat disrupts the whole system, because what you’re implying there I assume is that like billionaires or corporation owners would be extinction avatars, which, to be fair, feels like a logical step to make, but we see in the podcast how, to be an avatar of something, you need to at least have a passion connected to it, at least some kind of emotional investment to make the fear such an important part of your life that it consumes you to some level, and this just clearly doesn’t align with the apathy that you see in individuals that could incite real change - there is no fear there, because they have nothing to fear, and there is no real passion there towards the actual fear, moreso just towards profit. If there was the real passion or care towards the fear that is needed to become an avatar, they would not be in that position of power in the first place.
having said that, i suppose i could see potential avatars in the dehumanisation of one’s self in the chase of exponential growth and profit, which could be loosely linked to the fear, but no billionaire wants climate change, as a catastrophe would obviously lead to less money, and therefore im not sure how an avatar like that serving the extinction would form, unless you can become an avatar nonchalantly out of apathy, which i do think is a very interesting potential question that the show could’ve explored