I'm one of the folks who loves alternate worlds/histories, and am always contemplating what that might do or mean for the modern age (one of the reasons I started watching Fringe in the first place was the introduction of the alternate world).
That's one reason why, in my world, real magic is referred to with specific terms--such as "mage" for a real, magic-using person, as opposed to an illusionist or stage magician, which do still exist. Magic as a science and magic as a craft both exist but only a few people are aware of the former, and what I did was have the church be responsible for that--in early centuries they went after magic in this world, I just made it real in my own.
Thus I could easily see things just going overboard in worlds where magic is real -- take the palm reader on the corner and double it. My biggest theory on writing is that, no matter what time or place they're from, people are people. They love being scared, they WANT to believe, and they are skeptics. Put it all together and I don't think it's a far stretch to see Hammer films in a world where terrors are real, because all you have to do is make them EVEN BIGGER, EVEN SCARIER, EVEN MORE GRUESOME.
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Date: 2012-07-28 07:36 pm (UTC)That's one reason why, in my world, real magic is referred to with specific terms--such as "mage" for a real, magic-using person, as opposed to an illusionist or stage magician, which do still exist. Magic as a science and magic as a craft both exist but only a few people are aware of the former, and what I did was have the church be responsible for that--in early centuries they went after magic in this world, I just made it real in my own.
Thus I could easily see things just going overboard in worlds where magic is real -- take the palm reader on the corner and double it. My biggest theory on writing is that, no matter what time or place they're from, people are people. They love being scared, they WANT to believe, and they are skeptics. Put it all together and I don't think it's a far stretch to see Hammer films in a world where terrors are real, because all you have to do is make them EVEN BIGGER, EVEN SCARIER, EVEN MORE GRUESOME.