I've seen when people write Reader and Ghost as Life and Death, Ghost is always Death while Reader is Life. Which is fine, no hate to them, but imagine with me: Life!Ghost and Death!Reader.
I know it sounds a little out there, but Ghost's entire job as a soldier is to help ensure people in his country are safe. He's fighting for Life.
Also like, who says Life can't kill? If we look into mythology, gods of death don't take people's souls, they just guide the souls to their respective afterlives. If anything, Life is the one guiding the circumstances that kill mortals while Death is the one who guides their souls to their resting places. Life is the one killing them.
And I know someone can say "Oh, but Ghost is gloomy and Life is supposed to sunshiney." Who says? I think both Reader and Ghost can be gloomy people together, in two different ways. Reader just appears out of the shadows, gently taking the dead soul via however they transport souls to afterlives while Ghost is his snarky self.
Imagine, an enemy soldier seeing Ghost corner them in a battlefield and is like "Have you come to take me, Death?"
And Ghost just responds, "I'm Life, actually. They're Death."
And as the enemy soldier turns to face Reader who walks out of the shadows that had encased them, Ghost stabs the enemy soldier. And when they're dead, Reader silently takes them to their designated afterlife.
I don't know if any of this actually made sense to anyone except for me. But if you see the vision, I'm glad.
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I wish we got more moments of the Walkers being Family like. The opening of “Brave New World” where Hesh says he let Logan sleep a bit longer because he figured he could use the rest set the bar too high for the rest of the campaign. You don’t really get anything like that line again - there’s the “Sin City” and “The Ghost Killer” cutscenes as well but those are both high tension, ‘holy shit don’t hurt my brother/I am dying son but I’m proud of you’ lines. And honestly Hesh’s “All or Nothing” Rorke File where he talks about his misplaced guilt after losing Elias…it’s almost a bit weird that he doesn’t reference how Logan is handling it at all (especially considering he was the one manhandled into shooting their father).
I guess the first unlockable Rorke File where Elias talks about taking the boys to the beach counts, and Hesh’s “Logan’s got my back, and I got his. He’s my brother.” but it just feels a bit stilted compared to the natural tenderness of the “Brave New World” opening.
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The thing about young Lottie and Misty in the wilderness is that for all the impromptu amputation and accidentally becoming a cult leader, the way they're treated by the group feels very true (at least to me) of the experience of neurodivergent alienation, especially at that age. Fundamentally, they're scared, unprepared teenagers same as everyone else, but because they don't react to their circumstances in the same way as the others, they're treated as if they're insulated from the trauma of the experience, and as a result are held up as key to the group's survival in a kind of dehumanizing way.
Lottie's untreated psychosis is interpreted as evidence that she has a special connection with the wilderness. She's made into a religious icon more or less against her will, a position that forces her to not only keep everyone calm but see herself and her mental illness used to justify the group's increasingly violent actions. And that perception of Lottie as something more than human extends to her physical limitations, too: they send her out in temperatures far below freezing with no weapons, expecting her to come home with food, and allow Shauna to beat her nearly to death because they see it as some sort of mystical ritual. She has the respect and affection of the group, but she has it as a conduit for the wilderness, not as Lottie, the scared teenager in a terrible situation.
Misty never gets the same reverence as Lottie, but she does get the expectations. She seems to experience (or at least express) emotions differently than the others: she's relatively unbothered by their circumstances at baseline, punctuated by moments of panic when members of the group in which she's found some tentative respect and companionship are in danger. The fact that she can react calmly in a crisis and has an unusual amount of medical knowledge makes her valuable to the group, but it's also used as evidence of her otherness: Mari and Gen admire how well she kept it together while Shauna was in labour, and then immediately switch to talking about how creepy they find her as a result — even though they were generally irritated and unsympathetic when she was initially panicking.
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Just a heads-up peeps: Society of the Snow is a great movie, but the plane crash sequence will probably be legit traumatic to watch for some people.
It's v well done! But it's stark and not sterilized at all. Keep that in mind if you decide to watch it!
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Does anyone else feel a faint stab of dread when you board a plane and notice that the closest emergency exit is in first class? Don’t get me wrong, I’d certainly like to think that if we crashed, the experience would bond us as a group to the point where class differences would melt away and we’d all see each other simply as humans, as fellow survivors, but also I am genuinely worried that even if the craft was quickly filling with seawater, some fancy businessman would be all, “sorry but your bit of rapidly sinking rubble is behind you, actually” and then I’d have to swim for the far exit, so embarrassing.
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Jackie is the ghost that haunts the narrative and her death is a turning point (the turning point?) for the team, but Laura Lee’s rescue attempt and death was the catalyst for everything
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