Maybe that's because it's pretty much always the popo who shows up to be the representation of consequences The MacVenture Deja Vu titles where shooting anybody who kinda deserves to be shot pretty much teleports you to jail Order violently asserting itself over chaos
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Like man I don't want the justice system to win. Fuck that If consequences are synonymous with the carceral state then like nah I don't want that in my fiction that's not satisfying
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I come back to this example a lot but this is why every moment of the final act of Cabin in the Woods is so hilarious and liberating Slamming your fist on the big red button to irrevocably bust open Pandora's box
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I really think there is something more powerful about that scene than just the novelty of deconstructing the horror/slasher genre (or the Foundation parallels) Like it winds up being more relevant than it expects to be
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It's about the white men (with a few women) sitting in their comfortable offices casually planning and executing atrocities for the greater good suddenly forced to experience them
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There's something deep about the idea of deconstructing a deconstruction Like for the first part of the movie it almost felt like the point is the horror movie is just a simulation, everything is faked with technology and cleverness and movie magic
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But no The "simulation"-ness of it was itself a simulation, and very fragile The thesis here is that horror MOVIES are fake - hilariously, blatantly so - but horror itself is the realest thing there is
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The cabin in the woods is real The monsters are real The chaos and the terror are real It was the comfortable office on the other side of the fourth wall that was the illusion
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Haha it's literally the horror movie coming out at you from the screen
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It's the Scream thing of murdering the kids while they're hanging out watching horror movies Scream 3 escalating to stabbing someone while she's watching someone be stabbed in the theater
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Knowing that you watch this stuff - and write and make this stuff - to feel a sense of power over it, and telling you that that power is wishful thinking
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