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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."
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Sounds like the start of a cosmic horror story
That episode and that scene was amazing.
Absolutely. Having worked in emergency services, I struggle to watch it but always find it cathartic afterwards. I don't normally drink much but you damn well know I open a bottle of scotch in solidarity
I agree, but also I think JD should have been way more concerned about Cox rather than asking that and walking away with him.
Yeah but it was made for me a bit more dramatic scene
My friends and I just finished a Call of Cthulhu adventure that involved a special telescope that did exactly this.