Through the Hooded Bridge

Part IV: The Horror in Truth

As a shout out, I want to thanks Kitt again for the marvelous job of editing she did for this story.

Now onto the main event, can you imagine seeing the end of the world in a perfect 3D image from something like an Oculus Rift or a HTC Vive system. Photo-realistic images have been around for a decade and 3D video for at lest 2-3 years in mass consumption, so a 3D video from a drone is not that far off in our future and I recall watching some documentaries where researchers already employs similar extreme condition drones for scientific reporting.

Beyond just the science or actual hardware, I think a picture in this case is worth a thousand words or almost 4 thousand. Desolate cities and hellish landscapes, watching the world burn itself away due to mankind's own transgressions and our own foolish behaviors, its a shock.

Adam can't come to grip with the futility of the scenes, nor can he live with the knowledge of surviving this Apocalyptic future. Afterward, his mind is jumbled and guilt ridden even more so than before. In a way, you can see what I was aiming at with Adam's character, he's a man of Conscience and a conscience is a double edged sword, we may think we're doing good by our values and beliefs, but it could easily be wrong in different contexts.

In the end, it was the same issues of conscience that led the world to end in fire as humanity burned ourselves out of history along with the rest of this world in a haze of dust and fiery scenes.

The ending scenes in the lab is a repudiation of something you guys may find weird about my thought process. If this world is akin to "Paradise", I could easily have gone the traditional Judeo-Christian root and have Adam "cast out" like his name sake ( ), but instead I wanted Adam to stay behind and take responsibilities, while his former friends ran off to their fate. (By the way, I did warn in this chapter and earlier that there were reasons why you can't cross the wormhole/bridge without assistance or training including magnetic interference)

By letting Adam be left behind , I am repudiating the Biblical sin of Pride by offering a contrast with responsibility and acceptance. Humanity is in such a rush to go off and run with emotions, sometimes being left behind to contemplate is far better than to go off.

For this world to survive, its society must not live under the same tragedies as humanity, it cannot run away from its mistakes. Adam did break a lot of rules in the end, but he did do something right that proved he could be a member of this community at some point, he stopped running away from his mistakes and confronted his errors with humility.

Anyway, that's the miniseries, it's a mix of sci-f and horror, love and regret, and it has some new features I am adding to storytelling.