[Yar! There be spoilers ahead]There’s something about exploration science fiction (for
lack of a better term) that really appeals to me. Some of my favorite sci-fi is
just about people going out into the unknown and looking around and poking at
things. There’s something that’s just so
cool about that: some ragtag crew (with something to prove! And hidden
agendas!) flying out into space and landing on an new planet or spaceship or
whatever and throwing on the ol’ spacesuits and walking out there all slow and
cautious and scanning everything. I love it.
I love that feeling of the unknown. It’s so crazy because
even though you don’t know what you’re going to discover inside that crazy
temple building, just discovering that it’s there has already completely
changed the course of humanity. Just seeing the thing has reshaped the world,
but everyone has to focus on what else is in there to find out what happens to
them. It makes everything so tense-you know every weird picture or strange
button they see is going to be important later and you’re trying to piece
everything together just like they are.
