The year is 2015. At the beginning of January 2015, many people on social networking sites like Tumblr believed that the world was going to end this year, due to the hit ’90s animated show Neon Genesis Evangelion which predicted that the world would end in 2015. How will it happen? When will it happen? Have any of our favorite shows predicted humanity’s fate?
The trend in post-apocalyptic fiction has entered into entertainment, and the majority of current hit TV shows show our infatuation with what happens after the world ends. As bleak as it may sound, today’s audience has a devout interest in doomsday–but mainly, our survival after the apocalypse.
In a popular series called Adventure Time the story takes place in a world created from a nuclear fallout. Some episodes of adventure time show how people and landscapes are changed due to nuclear waste. With recent speculation in the news that Russia and North Korea might launch nuclear bombs, this theme becomes a relatable–although far-fetched–reality for children. “I like Adventure Time,” said junior Alicia Givens. “I think the creators are going in the right direction. No one remembers the world how it used to be except for the few survivors.”The zombie apocalypse is probably the most popular right now.
With shows and videogames like The Walking Dead and The Last of Us; the story revolves around a zombie apocalypse occurring sometime in the main characters’ lives. The Walking Dead series shows how humans can be t than any zombie, and that there is no way to make things the way they used to be; and in The Last of Us, which had a slightly brighter story that showed hope and proved that there was a cure to the zombie apocalypse. Despite the main character’s final decision. “ I enjoy the show. I try to not compare it to the comics because they are completely different now. I beleive that shows like the Walking Dead are created by a human fascination with the end of time.” said Mr. Cavazos, history teacher, who is an avid Walking Dead fan.
In the movie 2012, people believed in 2011 and 2012 that the world was gonna end that year. People believed that when it happens that we would have no chance in surviving. Some people thought the movie was just terrible, and mediocre. The movie showed a lot of things that caused people to think that like water floods, volcanoes, and earthquakes. “It really wasn’t a good movie. It was very far fetched” replied Chris Sarang, freshmen. Will the world end like how the movie 2012 was? We will have to wait and find out.
The video game, The Last of Us, is an action-adventure survival horror game developed by Naughty Dogs and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 3 on June 14, 2013; an updated version, The Last of Us Remastered, was released for the PlayStation 4 on July 29, 2014. The player controls Joel, a man tasked with escorting the young Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States. “ It was a ok game. I thought it wasn’t to trilling to play when I first saw it” replied Chris.
The show Last Man on Earth is about a man who is on Earth by himself and does whatever he wants. He was once just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank – now he’s humanity’s last hope. Will he ever find another person alive on the planet? The Last Man on Earth is almost like a apocalypse show because the show tells and shows what happened to all the people and what it feels like to be the last person on earth.“It has pretty good shows so far. It’s kinda funny” Chris said.
All of these have showed us when the world will end and how it would end through their points of view. There is a lot of ways the world will end. People see movies as if it was real life sometimes. in the future people will create and show us more movies like 2012 or the Walking Dead. All movies have things in common and all movies are different. Some movies show us how the world will end in the future. But the question is, will the world end tomorrow?