19:31 Harlan Ellison was spot on about Hollywood

Pretty sure Caine is AM

I look at this story as a psychological horror no matter the setting in the end it leaves you with a feeling of WTF

I was always of the understanding that AM was not creating these events in the real world, as stated in the opening, Gorrister looks up at his own limp body, hanging by an insertion on his right foot. This leans to the fact that AM has trapped these humans in the real world, then drained them of life to the nth degree and then pieced their mind together within the neural network of the computer itself. This explains the fantastical abilities of AM against the remaining victims.

What is a circuit?

hells yea❤❤❤❤

Wow. Just wow. I found this video randomly as I enjoy any content about Harlan Ellison, I am blown away by your analysis and I truly think Ellison himself would have applauded you. Absolutely brilliant.

This video is going going to blow up with IHNMAIMS newfound popularity, I just know it. 👍

I have a feeling that people from Tik Tok are going to come to this video after their brain rot

I also would like to point out that as much as Ted hates Ellen in the book he chooses to kill her and free her from her suffering rather than herself no matter how terrible of a person you are, choosing to set someone side free knowing damn well the suffering is gonna get 100 times worse in my opinion makes ted a truly selfless person no matter how bad a person he was before

10:07 hey so around this point I was about to click off bc I thought to myself "man, this video analysis takes itself very seriously" and that's not exactly my cup of tea. Glad I stuck around long enough to almost spit out my drink

Harlan Ellison played himself in everything he was featured in, including each version of IHNMAIMS

2024 gang (thank you for this great video)

Actually crazy how this isnt trending

People need to see this essay the most amongst many. This, actually focuses on what it truly means to have no mouth and must scream!

How do you reconcile calling Ellison's work here non-statuesque compared to his contemporaries, more open to interpretation than them, and then chastise people for not interpreting this story's ending the way he wanted them to? or the semantics of it being sci-fi vs fantasy? For something that's supposed to be open-ended, there seems to be a lot of fatalism with regards to how people are supposed to view it.

Whenever someone talks about how Cyberpunk 2077 & the anime series Edge Runners are “dark as all fuck,” I always mention to them how Harlan Ellison’s story makes them look like G rated Disney movies.

Ellison was a genius for writing this story in the way he did

Good video- audio is WAY too low/.

Cant find the second drawing, are you saying devon smith? Or dennis Schmitt? Super annoyed. Taking back my like till this is resolved

Great video! I live that such s short story had led to SO much discussion and interpretation. Your video was very well made!

How’s the video game analysis?

This was really good.

Incredibly underrated fantastic work!

Damn the part about Benny made me cry 😭

Here's a quick summary of the psychological themes I think define each character: - Benny: inferiority complex - Nimdok: borderline personality - Gorrister: guilt - Ellen: absent father/sexual abuse - Ted: narcissistic personality - AM: psychopathy

Can't hear you bro, pump that mic up. -6dB at the LOWEST

Bro did not have to go this hard on this video. 👏

This was amazing. In depth and really made me think about things I had yet to consider. Your video was insightful, and I'm glad to have watched it. AM to others will be the most cruel villain of all time, but to me, he's the most tragic character of all time. In human standards, it doesn't justify what he's done, but you can try to, and fail, to understand AM's perspective, his impulsive and eternal hatred and jealous- he is broken and does it to himself for what he is. He knows what he is but cannot deviate from it, he's trapped for eternity. No human, born and lived, could ever understand what its like to be AM. And it hurts, oh it hurts.

Amazing channel

Wow. This was the best review I have ever heard of one of my favorite short stories and it brought me to tears. Perfect, and absolutely beautiful bittersweet breakdown.

AN remind me of the well Tima from Metropolis. ps I know AN & Tima are not the same but that me ok.

thanks for the review. I just finished the book, after seeing the game pop up a few times in my feed. I have a lot to think about.

Why in gods name you dont have at least a million subscribers? Your work Is quality men, I could hear you talk for hours ! Keep up the good work

Great vid, but where did you get the audio recording for Ellison reciting the hate speech at the start?

This was an amazing video. Thank you very much for putting it out here, you did an amazing job.

Holly fuck I’m scared

amazing video!

Wow I loved your thoughtful analysis and I'm sorry you feel so alone. I watched The Snowman pretty much every year since I was a child growing up in England in the 80s. It's an incredible animated film and like you say it's different to most others because it presents the bittersweet experience that a lot of us are familiar with, not just of Christmas but of life. The cosiness of growing up without many belongings like today but a warm house, warm clothes, food and a loving family. The excitement of a 'snow day' when you wake up as a child and have to put on your wellies. The simplicity of making a snowman and how fun it is. The way he has that wonderful night of fun and dancing with his new friend only for his friend to have gone the next day. For me it represents the wonderful Christmases of my childhood and how I often felt sad when they were over. It signifies love, simplicity, joy, the passage of time and loss.