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Death Stranding 2 - Episode 7: Sam Reads Moby Dick, Frankenstein and The Voyage of The Beagle
Jul 5, 2025
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Death Stranding 2 - Episode 7: Sam Reads Moby Dick, Frankenstein and The Voyage of The Beagle
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The gathering of storytellers
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that spawned Mary Shel's Frankenstein
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gave rise to yet another legendary
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creature of horror fiction. I speak, of
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course, of the vampire. A physician
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named Polydori was also in attendance
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that evening, and he later unveiled his
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creation in a new novel. As I may have
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mentioned before, the summer of that
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year was unusually cold. In Europe
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alone, 200,000 people are said to have
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perished as a result. Could it be that a
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widespread fear that the world might be
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coming to an end served as inspiration
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for two classic monsters?
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I find it a compelling theory.
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The Voyage of the Beagle, written, of
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course, by one Charles Darwin. Speaking
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of which, before the Death Stranding,
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there was a city in the northern part of
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Australia called Darwin, named as such
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after the Beagle made a brief stop
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there. Darwin was able to devote so much
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time and effort to his research of
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evolution because he enjoyed the support
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of the elite, specifically the Wedgwood
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family, pottery makers to the royal
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household. In fact, Darwin's maternal
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grandfather was the founder of Wedgwood.
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You can't get a better patron than that,
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now can you? I suppose if you think
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about it, Wedgewood was to Darwin as
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Charlie is to us.
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Certain parallels can be drawn between
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Captain Ahab's pursuit and the
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Prometheus myth. Prometheus is a deity
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said to have stolen fire from the
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heavens in order to give it to humans.
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In essence, he bestowed upon them the
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power of the gods themselves.
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This power manifested as technology.
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Humans crafted tools and with them
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brought nature to heal and built great
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civilizations.
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Perhaps the author intended to frame
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Ahab's pursuit of the white whale as one
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akin to mankind's struggle against the
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forces of nature. We ourselves are
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arguably living out our own Prometheus
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myth as we fight to overcome the death
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stranding. No, we definitely are. And
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we're not about to lose.
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It should be noted that the monster's
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name is not Frankenstein, nor was it
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ever given a proper name. Frankenstein
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is the name of its creator and the
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story's protagonist, Victor
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Frankenstein. Through its many movie
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adaptations, the image of the disturbing
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and unstable Patchwork creature has
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grown ever more vivid, and in the
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process, the misconception that it was
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called Frankenstein was born. In the
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original novel, however, it was an
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intelligent human-like being that craved
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acceptance. A clever, gentle giant
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cobbled together from others, not unlike
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our dead man, don't you think? And while
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he doesn't appear in Shel's original
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work and several movies, Frankenstein is
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joined by a rather memorable assistant
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named Igor. Igor and Victor.
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Now, where have I heard those two names
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before?
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Apparently Darwin always had a strong
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interest in geology. He was fascinated
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by the way continents and land forms
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change leading to the creation of new
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habitats for organisms. This led him to
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surmise that organisms adapted to their
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new environments in order to thrive. And
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that logic eventually became the basis
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of his theory of evolution. The world
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around us continues to change even now.
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The continents are in flux due to the
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shifting tar currents and the emergence
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of plate gates. Is it possible these
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changes might also spur life to develop
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and adapt in unforeseen ways?
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Oh, reading that one again, are we? It
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must be quite the page turner. The HMS
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Beagle, which was instrumental in
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Darwin's development of his theory of
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evolution, eventually came to symbolize
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adventures and explorers of new worlds.
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spaceships in science fiction novels
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would bear the name as well as actual
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ships developed in real life. You know,
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Sam, when our Australian journey is
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finally complete, we could ask Charlie
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to build us our own personal vessel.
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Yes, we should. Let's Let's do that.
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It'll be fun. It goes without saying
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that we'll have to call it the Beagle.
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Oh, and and you must let me be the
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captain. All right. I won't budge on
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this. I refuse.
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All right, Sam. What do you say we head
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out and get to work?
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