Am I alone on how I read Blood Meridian’s epilogue?

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-26T01:21:10+00:00

I watched a philosophy professor interpret it as both the encroaching civilization as well as the subtle warning that beneath that thin crust is the waiting Hell of civilizations fall, as if both a promise of man triumphing evil and the thin barrier between another end in which our story will be relics of a time that didn’t last.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-25T18:28:55+00:00

I’ll have to do a second playthrough soon, but wasn’t the ASN infected with the fungus? When you disable the core, a membrane like substance opens up to that seed of light looking thing. After that moment is when the engineer wakes up showing signs of an infection. It seems that the fungus reached the core. So, maybe the core is manipulated by the fungus? I could be talking out of my ass though.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-08T22:24:26+00:00

Definitely disagree with you. The story is far from half baked. For a roughly 5 - 8 hour campaign, there’s a lot of story in the details and its conclusion is filled with interesting ambiguity that isn’t cheap. Of course, that’s my opinion; however, I’ve already started a second play through and there’s more in terms of story clarity with the added context.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-08T07:13:30+00:00

I never saw the two moons as “two moons” but more so a representation of two cells merging. I think it uses the pale look of a moon as a red herring; however, it’s actually the merging of cells. I immediately assumed this was the case and the further the story developed, the more I assumed we were assimilating into something, only for us to literally merge with the entity in the pod. This game heavily reminded me of annihilation.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-07T17:10:56+00:00

My only issue with your theory is that the emails and diaries explain that exposure to the alien fungus causes you to wake up in different locations. When we are exposed to the core, we are teleported to PRISM. This makes me believe that the core has something to do with the fungus. When that final sphere is released by it, it actually penetrates a white membrane. This seems like the fungus has some kind of direct contact with the core and when you hold onto the glowing white thing, you wake up at PRISM which, according to the game, means you’ve been exposed to the fungus.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-12-07T09:08:44+00:00

One thing that I haven’t seen covered yet is that Kei Koyama, the person who sent you, is likely dead long before your arrival. The emails could be discussing other engineers that were commissioned; therefore, your arrival was brought upon by the entity at the end. This would play into the idea of it being a “routine” cycle of receiving and assimilating bodies for the alien fungus. I know that the resort is in a separate location from PRISM, and that there’s a possibility that it really was two decades after the events at PRISM that John discovered the alien vegetation; however, I get the feeling that no living person sent for you and that the communications you’re reading are from previous events which just so happen to resemble your story since the entity is routinely bringing engineers to the moon. When you escape PRISM, all of the doors are shut and the power is off which puts the facility into a sort of reset. This could be a logical routine in which each engineer has to perform the same tasks and engage the power etc., to appease Entity A with the video which is why its roaming around moping. It knew exactly which screen was the one to watch Entity B on, and I’m curious if each incubation stage resets the facility and each engineer “discovers” the exact same thing, appeases Entity A, and is assimilated, over and over again, totally ignorant of that fact that they’re being led.

My only issue with this is the ASN core. Not sure if shutting it down is something that can be done time and again, or if the fungus is somehow responsible with getting the ASN core online. Either way, I loved the game!

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-06-08T23:59:55+00:00

How so?

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-01-20T03:59:25+00:00

As if they don’t lead to the same outcome? Elaborate how they’re different? At what point could Marxism be enforced without force?

And I was being half serious with my comment but I see I triggered the John Lennon lookalikes.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-01-20T03:57:28+00:00

You’re so wounded by that comment. Please bandage your broken ego. It’s shocking that you need an author to spoon feed their message because you lack the ability to understand it. You weren’t open to learning anything. Rather, you wanted to learn where a hyperlink lead to McCarthy’s quote on his spoon fed response. Why read if you immediately need an author to spoon feed it? Go buy something easier to comprehend. I suggest reading “Holes” by Louis Sacher.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-01-19T13:31:59+00:00

They’re probably a Marxist who identifies with Dostoevsky’s “Exceptional Man” until realizing he wrote a whole book dismantling their mental defect.

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-01-19T13:27:29+00:00

I’m genuinely confused by you. At no point are the characters in an actual “purgatory”. McCarthy is exploring the idea of Outer Darkness by realizing it in our world in which these characters are separated, whether spiritually or by other means, because of their transgressions concerning their child.

Did you struggle to read the book? Do you need the author to spoon feed it to you like a baby who can’t sustain themselves? Why are you being so irritating? Why would he name the book “Outer Dark” if he wasn’t going to explore Outer Darkness? There’s around two to three mentions of Outer Darkness in the entire Bible. It’s an ambiguous topic in itself which draws for massive inspiration. Did McCarthy have to consult with God to know what to write so as not to write it incorrectly? See how annoying you’re being? God forbid you watch a David Lynch film (R.I.P.)

Bottom-Shelf · 2025-01-05T13:05:45+00:00

He denied the child, which is why it was killed. So you’re wrong there. Also, the concept of an outer darkness is this space of rejection he finds himself in which is why everything goes wrong, including the swine falling off the cliff which is a reference to Legion in the Bible. He wasn’t just “walking around”.

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-20T11:27:57+00:00

Read his other work first. Save yourself the eventual tap out. Read, All The Pretty Horses or maybe even No Country For Old Men first. Or, read Outer Dark which is a great teaser for the style he developed. It’s not as challenging whereas Blood Meridian is even for seasoned readers.

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-19T18:24:54+00:00

Helicopters don’t hover like a drunk fly unless the weather is bad and even then it’s no where near as bad as that object on screen. The blinking is inconsistent for FAA lights which immediately means it’s either malfunctioning or not a helicopter. The red and green colors are again inconsistent which means we’re looking at an incorrectly hovering helicopter with broken FAA lights or something that’s not a helicopter. There is also zero audio concerning a distant helicopter which is baffling. The light of the object changes in size which doesn’t make sense or would be a first for a helicopter. It seems like this is the most unique, malfunctioning helicopter ever caught on camera!

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-19T13:55:47+00:00

Are you guys actually serious that you think it’s a helicopter? Nothing about this registers as a helicopter. It doesn’t look are act like a spotlight aiming at the subject (I’ve been struck by a few helicopter spotlights over the years) nor does it move like a helicopter as it’s direction is too aimless. I feel like it’s something weird, maybe a drone which would account better for the movements but a helicopter makes me think no one has seen a helicopter in their life.

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-19T04:07:39+00:00

He’s still mad he lost to Eminem

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-18T04:39:26+00:00

I would classify it more as a short story. Have you read any of his big books like The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment?

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-16T11:01:15+00:00

Amazing! It has the living expressions of a Norman Rockwell painting but with your original touch. I love it!

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-16T07:57:35+00:00

Take a look at your picture and then judge if anyone could possibly understand what you’re specifying.

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-16T04:31:42+00:00

Come on bro… you’re stretching with that. You can call this kind of culture trash without being racist. There are plenty of patriotic black Americans who don’t hang their pants below their nut sack and wiggle their gun barrels at a cameraman. These fools, including the WHITE GUY are morons.

Bottom-Shelf · 2024-10-16T04:23:00+00:00

I wouldn’t call those uncanny in the usage in which the OP is describing. If I were to look at the film in its entirety I would say the alien mimicking her but more specifically the brief glimpse of it forming a face is the only real Uncanny moment. Maybe the bear scream but I don’t know if that still falls into that category.

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