The world has terminate , culture has collapse , the undead hordes have invade everything . We’veseen the apocalypse so many times , even Roland Emmerich is bore with it . So what comes next ? We ’ve still got some apocalyptic picture to look forward to next year , and post - revelatory TV show like Revolution and walk Dead are coming back presently enough .
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But here are eight sign that pop culture is get over its fixation with the Revelation of Saint John the Divine , and we ’re seem beyond the end .
1 . Book publication is over it .
The Scripture industry is sometimes a leading index number for pop acculturation as a whole — and in the case of post - revelatory / dystopian young grownup novel , Book supply a lot of the pipeline for film and goggle box . And whenwe asked people in publishing late , the consensus was that the young - adult post - apocalyptic novel craze was pretty much over , and a post - apocalyptic novel could n’t get arrested in this townspeople . That could mean a ripple issue , propagate to other media .
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2 . We had The route , now we have comedies
This retiring year , a lot of the post - apocalyptic picture were either big comedy ( like seek a Friend for the End of the World ) or small self-examining indie movies . And 2013 ’s revelatory comedies admit Seth Rogen ’s The End of the World , not to be confound with the very like The World ’s End by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost . There ’s the Brobdingnagian zombie boondoggle World War Z come next year , but most the great unwashed seem to be more excited about the zombie rom - com Warm Bodies . It often feel like a trend ’s twist down when it becomes more comedy - oriented .
3 . The world is n’t go to end .
This is sort of a gimme , but deserving cite anyway . The thing about the apocalypse is , it never arrives on agenda in real life history — we ’ve fancy multiple predictions of the Rapture or the end of day in the past decade or so , and they never seem to pan out . Assuming the world does n’t end in a few days , we may last be ready to give the Revelation of Saint John the Divine a rest .
4 . Post - revelatory telly is mostly a huge letdown .
Of all the genres that movies can do well than television set , the post - apocalypse is probably one of the most illustrious . believably the good post - apocalyptical show was Jericho , and its unrelenting grittiness give out to gain ground it a sizeable audience . ( Also , Battlestar Galactica , for a few time of year . But BSG was post - apocalyptical in space , and thus less close to our own genuine - life reverence of apocalypse than Jericho . ) Of the late harvest of post - apocalyptical shows , only The Walking Dead has cope to tackle the essential themes of the literary genre in a meaningful , grip way . electronic web video ca n’t , or wo n’t , do this diddly jurist . And why should they , when fairy - tales and police procedurals are huge ?
5 . We ’re coming back to Earth rather of go out it .
watch out the trailer for 2013 ’s moving-picture show , and one thread jumps out at you : report where people have abandoned Earth , and now we ’re coming back for some rationality . In Tom Cruise ’s obliviousness , nobody lives on Earth any more , but Cruise lives in orbit , until he ’s forced to go back to the aerofoil . In Will Smith ’s After Earth , people abandoned Earth after war with some alien , but Smith and his son crashland on Earth and have to make their way across the surface . In Elysium , starring Matt Damon , the rich have left the aerofoil of the Earth for the riff - raff . I ’m pretty sure I saw some news show items about a yoke smaller picture show with similar themes in the pipeline .
In these movies , you get the sense that there ’s a emblematical return to Earth , or reclaiming of Earth , or at least a inquiring of the decision to abandon the Earth . or else of being concerned with the straightaway aftermath of an apocalypse , these films are looking at the long - terminus consequences of world-wide collapse . And they seem to be say that it ’s time to go past the apocalypse and start looking for raw tale about the time to come .
6 . The Revelation is a matter of timescale .
One thing that the aforementioned movies seem to have in usual is the whimsey that the apocalypse materialise a good long time ago , and the dust has settle enough that maybe things are re - emerging . If you wait around long enough , thing tend to fall into dimension , and an apocalypse becomes just another upshot in history — assuming anybody survived at all . Even Revolution , for all its many misjudgments , had a CVA of brightness in set up the primary action 15 years after the blackout , so there ’s almost no moping about the fall of the erstwhile edict . ( Well , some . But not a crazy amount . )
7 . We might finally be ready to trade with our real problems .
Okay , I have it away that ’s crazy public lecture . But after a year in which massive droughts threatened our food supply and New York was oversupply , masses might at least be ready to front up to the possibleness of mood change . And even though at first glimpse , consume apocalyptic stories seems like a fashion of dealing with our substantial - spirit nightmare of environmental disaster ( and peak vegetable oil , and economical collapse ) , dreaming about the apoclaypse is in reality a agency of giving up . And not just because the Revelation means we ’ve lost . Part of the solicitation of apocalyptic tale is that we get to imagine the whole slate being wipe sporty by something so monumental , that all current problems are rendered irrelevant . The apocalypse defies problem - solving — but also rescues us from having to call back about actual disaster hang over our heads . It ’s much , much harder to imagine facing a Brobdingnagian problem , and clear it . Which brings us to …
8 . We are reckon being powerful in the face of the apocalypse .
cogitate about movies in 2012 that sport New York being scrap — the independent one that total to mind is probably The Avengers . Unlike premature years ’ crop of New York - have - tear apart films , this one featured a gang of superbeings campaign back . And next year ’s crop of adult tentpole movies let in aggregate destruction , being battled by jumbo mecha ( Pacific Rim ) , Superman ( Man of Steel ) , and the Starship Enterprise ( Star Trek ) . We ’re not dwarfed by the scale of the wipeout in those movies , we ’re liberal enough to weigh in . Idris Elba even declaims in the Pacific Rim trailer that the Revelation of Saint John the Divine is cancelled .
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