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Study 041 - The Island of Doctor Moreau - Part 1 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-05-04 20:32:08
Edited:
2023-10-06 09:04:16
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2026-06
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Climb aboard as we mount our expedition to The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells!

Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman - check out the goods at The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society!

Learn more about The Raft of the Medusa and all its real-life horror!

That outro song? Why it's Going Down by Pitch Black Manor!

Comments

Jenny Richardson

Hooray- This is my favorite Pitchblack Manor track! 😍😍😍

Hayden Orr

Been waiting for this one since you guys covered the Time Machine and the Invisible man! This is probably my favorite Wells story. Let’s get Moreau’d!!! (Vivisected into awful hybrid creatures and brainwashed into living by a code thought morally superior by our creator.)

TheGoodHeathen

I can't wait to hear your thoughts about the Monreau's monolog about the limbless failure and it's rampage across the island. It was just about a paragraph but I still consider it one of the most unsettling monsters in all of fiction.

Drix

"We're just normal men...we're just innocent men." Get out of my head, that's been stuck in there for days!

Eldritch Golem (JPM)

So excited that you guys are getting back to H.G. Wells and covering The Island of Doctor Moreau. I'm going to have lots of comments to leave throughout the month but right now I want to respond with a quote that immediately sprang to mind as a rejoinder to Chad's comment that unlike the previous two Wells novels you guys have covered Dr. Moreau isn't "really a wish fulfillment story" since you "haven't spent a lot of time wondering 'What if I was able to make a guy out of a goat?'" To which I was reminded of this quote from Japanese cultural critic Toru Honda who said: "You can get a lot of pleasure from anthropomorphizing objects into cute characters. You can't have a relationship with an object, but if it is in the shape of a girl then there are more possibilities. A cat, for example, can be represented by a cute girl with cat ears and a tail. It's obvious that the cat-girl phenomenon began with someone thinking 'I wonder what a cat would be like if it were a human?' Then all sorts of desires get wrapped up in that image." (The Moe Manifesto [2014], p. 121) And considering the prominent role of the panther-women in Moreau that seems especially relevant.

superkeaton

Thrilled that Chad and Chris are covering this!

Andrew Brown

Great show! I really think Andrew is a key to the gravitas of the story. There’s a lot going on in the themes of the story. Vivisection fears (often legitimate) were alive and well in dawn of the modern butchering art as well as the discussions around evolution. It’s petty how these discussions are viewed now and we should be much more understanding of fears and concerns. But I’ll call again for a James White, not all advancement is evil and people can still be good and have technology. I think SFF can be too negative at times….

Jim Cannon

This IS a horror story, and I guess I was not prepared for that when I first tried to read it in junior high. Despite polishing off many a King novel, I balked at this one, perhaps because the premise made me expect a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles style romp. Also the vocabulary defeated me - at that time, the only "painter" I knew of painted things, for example. But excited for the rest of the month, and you guys have me reading this again, finally. Its really good... but you knew that.

Chris John

I've been wondering when you guys would tackle this one. Excited to give it a listen!

Nomnom De Gair

I listened to this on my drive to work this morning. A few hours later I listened to it again at home with headphones. I regret listening to this and every episode in my car!!!! Those subtle island sounds in the background so awesome *chefs kiss*

Steve

Pooma ;-)

KateSherrod

Just last year I read Sarah Cole's excellent biography of H.G. Wells, Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, which is one of the best literary biographies I've read in yoinks! I recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about this amazing man (whom I'll always picture as Malcolm McDowell). Warning, though: I wound up feeling compelled to re-read all of his novels in publication order as I did so, which was a big project but time VERY WELL SPENT. So glad to see the gents tackling this one at last. I think Moreau got a bit of a renaissance when Silvia Moreno-Garcia published her cool homage, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, which I also highly recommend. Also, can't stop thinking of that early episode of The Mighty Boosh when I try to picture Moreau's creations. "We are the mutant race/ Don't look at my eyes, don't look at my face" Also, the Pitch Black track at the end of this show is STUPENDOUS!

Daisy

Great episode as usual, Guys. I just wanted to pop in and say the music at the end has got to be one of my favourites of all Pitch Black time. Thanks for being awesome, Captains!

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

Any thoughts on why the story is set on an isolated island? Locating the action closer to a town or in the center of a city would, I think, up the danger factor quite a bit.

Ryan Thomas

Perhaps, just as tradition shortens Ma Donna Lisa to Mona Lisa, we can shorten Edward Prendick to Eddie Prick. Silly me. The character usually goes by his last name only, so Prick itself is better.

RebeccaR

Going Down is brilliant! (phnarr)