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Fictional

Frankenstein: Prometheus (Part 1 of 2)

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.96K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A lurching green monster that's afraid of fire with bolts in his neck. A hunchback assistant named Igor. A menacing, mustache twirling doctor. null of those things are in this episode.

Instead, we have an eight-foot-tall introspective giant, a thoughtful, if dangerously ambitious child who doesn't understand the enormity of the task he's undertaking, and a world that's not ready for the consequences of one young man's thoughtless genius.

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Music:

"Anxiety" by Kai Engel

"Plate Grayscale" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Delirium" by Kai Engel

"Morbid Imagination" by Kai Engel

"A Catalog of Seasons" by Blue Dot Sessions

"Tolls Folly" by Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0

Captain Walton groaned.

0:12.0

The men were yelling.

0:14.4

Why were the men yelling?

0:17.0

He had been up for nearly 40 hours straight, and it just closed his eyes.

0:21.2

The only thing he wanted to do was keep them closed.

0:24.9

Why were the men yelling?

0:26.5

The captain breathed deeply, stood from his cot, and threw on his coat.

0:31.3

He rubbed the sleep from his eyes, and lumbered up to the deck.

0:34.8

The midnight winds of the Arctic stung his eyes, as he found his way to the edge of the

0:38.4

ship, where his whole crew was playing a man-a-board.

0:42.0

Then the sleep dropped from his eyes like a weight.

0:45.8

Playing a man-a-board, they were days, hundreds of miles from anywhere, sailing in the Arctic

0:52.4

sea.

0:54.0

How were they playing a man-a-board?

0:56.2

He rushed to help his crewman.

0:57.8

He looked down at the man fighting him vain against the sailors.

1:01.2

He didn't want to be saved.

1:03.4

He raved about needing to carry on his journey.

1:06.1

He didn't see his final task through to the end.

1:08.7

The captain grimaced.

1:10.3

The man wasn't going anywhere.

1:12.4

Not only because his dog's leg was marooned on a piece of ice, drifting in the sea, but

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