Yet paradoxically, pretty much all of the Quatermass stories display a lingering hope in Humanity's goodness and knowledge as much as its defeatism and negativity. Experiment has Earth saved by an appeal to the last remnants of humanity in three astronauts, Pit ends with an act of self-sacrifice combined with knowledge, and even the Mills one ends with a heart-rending reconciliation and joined action by two individuals of different generations to end the threat - at least for now. Kneale could come across as very cynical and embittered about the mass of the human race in his work, but ultimately the Quatermass stories always give that crucial shard of hope. That last inch that refuses to give in, to put it in V For Vendetta terms.
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Date: 2009-07-15 11:23 pm (UTC)