A Hopeful Hell: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

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Graphic novel illustrations courtesy of John Byrne's "Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor" issues 1-4 published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994

Timestamps

Introduction - 00:00

About the Author - 5:03

Meet the Team - 10:51

A Series of Unfortunate Events - 14:51

I pretend to be smart for the duration of the video - 33:51

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[Wendigoon]

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[fredwupkensoppel]

There is so much middle finger energy in the whole "yeah I am just a blob now but I really annoyed my tormentor at one point, which is big fat W in my book"

[imbrudedsoul]

“Benny is afforded moments of peace, even if it comes from a place of stupidity”

Same

[gamesux]

-kills all the remaining humans
-becomes disgusting slugman
-makes AM mald by leaving him without any way to vent his anger, not even torture is satisfactory
-refuses to elaborate further

absolutely based

[gigachad]

The most absolutely triumphant part of the story was as Ted was coming to grips with the fact that he saved the others from AM’s torture, he declared to himself that AM is not God and AM can’t bring them back to life now. He broke through his own delusions to spite AM and it was glorious

[deensama]

the title/end sentence is also the representation of teds triumph over AM. the scream of humanity IS AMs only purpose, yet ted has no mouth and cannot fulfill that purpose anymore for AM

[theotherghostgirl]

NOT ONLY DID HE PLAY HIMSELF ON SCOOBY DOO, he was a REOCCURING CHARACTER

[AlexxKister]

This story was like made for wendigoon to cover

[theshotgungod]

This is true horror. Not the threat of death, but the inability to die.

[TheAlmightyLoli]

A freaky interpretation with Ted is that AM really *didn't* mess with his mind. But that's his torture. AM drove him insane by simply not doing anything to him.

[mr.voidout]

Interesting how Ted becomes a "reverse" martyr; suffering life so others may pass-on. It really illustrates that the way we perceive our concepts as a one or two way street simply isn't so.

[elliesliferemix]

I’m 6 minutes in and I’m crying because this man mailed someone 213 bricks and a gopher, the pettiness who has the time

[fratboylaney]

I also think it's fascinating that AM, in his fit of rage after Tedd killed everyone else, needed to think of the worst possible punishment for Tedd, and that came in the form of making him almost exactly like AM. The capacity for thought and life without the capability of it.

[SardonicSoul]

The ending is pure irony, since AM did the same misstakes, as humanity. He robbed himself of everything, and created his own, personal hell.

[davidintrabartolo]

Something cool about the video game is that Ellison voiced AM himself after deciding that the original VA wasn't angry and spiteful enough.

[robynstopped]

I think Ted hates Ellen because she represents hope, and in an endless torture scenario hope is a trap. She tries to make them empathize for humanity and that just makes what is happening mean worse things. In Ted's opinion, it's better to be mindless because that means AM has less ability to torture you, especially emotionally. Ted sees Ellen as forcing them all to care which only makes their torture more tragic and painful.

[krystalreverb]

This reminds me of the saying “A hero is hurt and doesn’t want anyone else to hurt the way they did. A villain is hurt, and wants the entire world to suffer just like they did.”

[AkuTenshiiZero]

The most horrifying thing about this story to me, is the loss of the concept of time. The idea of what you perceive as a brief time being a span of years, something about that terrifies me. Maybe it's because, as I grow older, I become more aware of how quickly time can just slip away.

[Unclearrain]

This story nearly reminds me of all tomorrows. Even in horrible situations, when things seem useless and hopeless, humanity can still shine through somehow. It’s beautiful.

[alexanderchippel]

This whole story was an elaborate way of saying Ted became the immortal snail who has an infinite amount of time to find a way to kill AM.