So I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the 2012 trailer we watched in class, and how it embodied what I pictured Hammerfall to look and feel like. I know that thus far we have not encountered the actual disaster, but I can’t stop thinking about “the end…is just the beginning”…how would we as human beings be able to function without all of the red tape we’ve tied so tightly around ourselves? How will the characters in Lucifer’s Hammer unveil their true colors after their world is turned upside down?
We keep talking about binary opposites in class, and how many of them will swap once the comet strikes, but I keep thinking that a lot of opposites won’t even matter. I also think it’s really interesting to try to imagine what will happen without law enforcement or government. Why in the face of 9/11 did the country unite in order to fight terrorism, but in the face of the world ending, does the situation become every man for himself?
It’s impossible to know what you would do if the world was going to end tomorrow, so I finally get why disasters are such an interesting subject matter. Whereas before Lucifer’s Hammer I would have never wanted to read about or watch disasters because they were all too real and therefore too scary to watch, now I understand the intrigue. It is really interesting to think about the way people will act after they have nothing left, when money, status, property, even looks don’t mean anything.
I find Tim Hamner to be a complete and total weenie as well as a whiner, so I cannot wait to see how that turns out for him after his comet ruins his life. It would be quite the juxtaposition to have the one thing that Hamner felt made his life complete, to be the one thing that brings him down.