>>6145527That is a very astute juxtaposition and comparison Reptoid QM I had not thought of it that way before! I suppose establishing that "Anglosphere versus the PURPLE exotic / orientalised / DIFFERENT foreigner OTHER enemy" is probably a basic way to create the MORAL PURPOSE the motivation to fight or impetus for conflict / culture clash etc in games and settings, I don't think there is anything wrong with it I really really enjoyed all of the Halo games hehe. I think also (very insightful of you to emphasise it) mention the dimension of THE HEROIC RELATABLE MODERN people vs THE VILE ANCIENT ANCESTRAL TRADITIONal enemy people, that is also a moral purpose dimension (the hero-enemy roles can be reversed etc)
I wonder what other dimensions of MORAL PURPOSE / conflict exist beyond these two that Reptoid QM identified?
-familiar vs foreign;
-modern vs ancient tradition etc
I do think the "cultural resonance" of Halo has passed, Halo lost the moral purpose underpinning the setting, it was really a product of that Iraq / War On Terror era, just as I think (lamentfully) vampires and THE GOTH also a very specific product of a certain 90s 2000s era (I am thinking Blade 1998 and Kate Beckinsdale Underworld lol not Twilight) of course you can endlessly NFLX recycle and regurgitate the visuals themes and aesthetics, we will see what Robert Eggers does with his upcoming Nosferatu film, but the "cultural resonance" or MORAL RELEVANCY is often subsequently lost, I don't really know how to describe it but sometimes some games some fiction (either explicitly or subconsciously) capture a certain moral resonance with the contemporary era, anxieties/prevaling themes trends, Halo had it during the Iraq war etc but that era is gone now
>>6145209A lot of the academic analysis on Dracula always likes to dwell on the foreign vampire etc (usually comparing it to Byronic themes or the Ahasuerus / Wandering Jew type archetype from 18th century Gothic literature etc) I always thought Dracula was less a Gothic / Romantic thing (Oscar Wilde is far better at this, see Salome, and Dorian Gray) instead Dracula is extremely (at times cringe lol) mundane
The plot of Dracula is about a foreigner trying to buy a house in England (essentially, the opening is Harker as lawyer / estate agent travelling to Transylvania). It is entirely about estate agents and the housing market lol. Similarly, the plot of Halo is about these ancient apocalyptic Forerunner ringworld superweapons that annhiliate the Flood (er, Flood of ... immigrants? Fire a nuclear weapon somewhere to... stop the immigrants?)
>>6145526I am a real woman though, look, pic related
