I think what's telling about genre discourse is that the Nerd Genres, fantasy and science fiction, act like the definition of a "genre" is having "rules" about what's "allowed to happen" in the setting, and nerds think all genres work this way when mostly they don't
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I mean come on the intentionally retro Rocky Horror Picture Show has "horror" in its own title but its introductory theme song is titled "Science Fiction Double Feature"
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Anyway the attempt to build a hard barrier between "science fiction" and "horror" came from within the SF community, a lot of whom were really ideological and snobbish This was a whole theme of Joseph Campbell's deliberate push to change the genre during his career at Astounding
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Wells used the horrific across his fiction. From the Selenites of the First Men In The Moon to the crab creature struggling up the beach on a dying Earth in The Time Machine, all that's left of a million years of history. We draw barriers today that weren't there for the first.
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The Time Machine was an incredibly bleak and nihilistic story and is a story about how *this kind of story must be incredibly bleak and nihilistic* ("I'm just gonna keep going further and further into the future until I see how it all finally ends")
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It's also really only "The Invisible Man" because they're using the name for branding - the actual movie is a fake-haunting gaslighting thriller where the bad guy is Tony Stark.
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Despite the plot and setting and details all being wildly different from Wells' original novel, it is *very clearly* a remake of Wells' novel because it's *about the thing* Wells was writing about (which is the Ring of Gyges from Plato, the terrifying power of "invisibility")
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