Fire and Ice: How God of War Thematizes its Doubled Combat

But in the aftermath of that feeling, I realized something else—that the euphoria I'd felt in the wake of that fight came alongside the dropping of the game's initial facade. Kratos is not redeemable. He is a monster, and those blades represent that. Only a monster can wield them as he does. Only a monster can descend into Helheim and fight his way back out. Only a monster can harness that fiery maelstrom to survive those hordes of ice.

A Tribute, to the Redemptive Science-Fiction of Person of Interest

There's a lot of advice floating around for would-be writers, ranging from the omnipresent (read always, write always) to the niche (write at this time of day, always write this many words per day, etc.), but the two best pieces I've ever received both dealt with what is probably the hardest of all moments to … Continue reading A Tribute, to the Redemptive Science-Fiction of Person of Interest