Re: The Impossible Planet (spoilers)

stevesimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
thingemy wrote:

The black hole rather nicely doubles for both the pit and a metaphor for
death - recalling that any of us really could die at any time, and thus
speaking to human fears both of "who will save me from being killed" and
"who will save me when I certainly do die" - a sophisticated but simple
nod to Christian theology that is the source of the imagery for this
episode [that while a Hero(TM) may save this day, death does come for us
all eventually, reminding us that only God is our salvation].


Er, no. There is no God. Sorry. Nobody saves you. You just die. Tough,
but there you have it. At least the worms are happy.


I don't particularly care what you believe, Steve, but when someone writes a story using the imagery of Revelation as recalled by Dante, Milton, Marlowe, etc, that certainly is the theological metaphor it harks into, whether you like it or not.

Apart from that, I'll discard your demand that the newsgroup must believe what you believe as the pointless piece of flamebait that it is.

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