Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes story
A prisoner lands on an alien world the inhabitants of which wish to execute him in a grand pubic ceremony.
15 total · 7 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bureaucracy | major | Much was made of the needless filling out of forms. What is more, the aliens felt it necessary to go to the trouble of framing Score for rape in order that he might be executed without |
| cruel and unusual punishment | major | The criminal Score was going to be gruesomely impaled in a grad public ceremony. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Score landed on an alien world that was basically like Earth except that people are executed in televised ceremonies for public entertainment. |
| extraterrestrial civilization | major | We saw an alien society in which selected individuals are singled out as "heroes", allotted special privileges that induce them into committing crimes, which they are ultimately impaled for in live televised ceremonies. |
| facing one's own execution | major | Score was framed for having raped a minor and sentenced to be impaled in a grand ceremony that was to be broadcast on live television. |
| romantic love | major | Score and a minor named Once ultimately fell in love and escaped from planet Australia 458. |
| the instinct for violence | major | Score was going to be impaled on in a grand ceremony. |
| bank robbery | minor | Score held up a bank at gunpoint. |
| blindness | minor | A young woman celebrating her birthday was blind because of cataracts. |
| coping with unwelcome romantic attention | minor | Scope rebuffed the amorous advanced of a red-clad prostitute. |