The Wall story
A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. After sending one team, the Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate, where he finds an idyllic planet. He has to decide whether to stay or go back to his old life. Directed by: Atom Egoyan. Story by: J. Michael Straczynski.
5 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| duty vs. conscience | choice | Should Major Alex fulfill his duty and allow humanity access to a peaceful little utopia that we would undoubtedly wreck havoc upon? |
| kumbayah utopia | major | The community on the other side of the portal lived in peace and the community members had no possessions, no religion, and no laws except to be kind to each other. |
| neo-Luddist utopia | major | Alex described the community on the other side of the wormhole as a totally agrarian society, and they seemed to get along just fine without and machines. |
| traversable wormhole | major | General Slater explained that the portal appeared at a time when a research team was running an experiment on wormholes, so it stands to reason that the portal was such a thing. |
| nuclear weapons | minor | A man discussed the possibility of using such portals to launch tactical nuclear weapons. |