Here There Be Tygers story
A group of explorers land on a distant planet and discover a virtual paradise. Directed by: John Laing. Story by: Ray Bradbury.
10 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ecological destruction | choice | At the center of the story was the idea that the space explorers had stumbled upon a virtual paradise, yet one of them in particular was bent on destroying it for the sake of mining metals. It was implied that financial interests on Earth would likely do the same, and so the remaining explorers came up with the idea to lie about the planet being safe in order to keep more humans from coming. |
| living planet | choice | The story revolves around a group of space explorers who discover a planet that caters to the every desire of the pure of heart. The planet evidently felt pain when Chatterton started drilling into it. Driscoll speculated that the planet was alive, and moreover that its purpose was to make people happy. |
| greed for riches | major | Chatterton was notably money grubbing and would not see the beauty and magic of the planet for his want to extract minerals. |
| interstellar space travel | major | The story concerns a group of space explorers sent from Earth to prospect on a new far-flung planet. |
| pleasure in nature | major | Driscoll and the other explorers, with the notable exception of the prospector Chatterton, marveled at the planet's natural beauty. |
| what if my thoughts became reality | major | The explorers discovered that they could make certain supernatural things, like flying, happen by absentmindedly thinking it. |
| Adam and Eve creation myth | minor | Driscoll likened the strange planet to the Garden of Eden. |
| creative writing | minor | In the introduction, Ray Bradbury shared with the viewer the wellsprings of creativity that inspire his writing. |
| flying ability | minor | One of the men dreamed of flying and became elated when he suddenly found that he could. |
| the nature of creativity | minor | In his introduction, Ray Bradbury gave his viewers an intimate window into his writing room, and some of the self-professed sources of creativity that lay about within it. |