Name: 《Scavenger's Reign》為何感覺如此「異星」？🪐 (Why Scavenger's Reign Actually Feels Alien)
Uploaded: 2026-01-15T17:01:46.000Z
Duration: 6 min 47 s

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The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here.

It's like a curse weighing on an entire landscape.

這就像一個詛咒，壓在一整片土地上。

And whoever goes too deep into this has his share of that curse.

任何深入探究這件事的人，都會分擔這個詛咒。

So we are cursed with what we are doing here.

所以我們在這裡所做的事情，都帶著詛咒。

While I was watching the stellar new animated science fiction show Scavenger's Reign about human beings stranded on a beautiful, terrifying alien planet, I kept thinking of Werner Herzog.

當我觀看那部精彩的全新動畫科幻影集《Scavenger's Reign》時，劇情講述人類被困在一個美麗又可怕的外星星球上，我腦海中一直浮現 Werner Herzog 的身影。

Specifically this famous clip of him from the documentary Burden of Dreams where he talks about the Amazon rainforest taking a close look at what's around us.

特別是他在紀錄片《Burden of Dreams》裡一個著名的片段，他談論亞馬遜雨林，仔細觀察我們周圍的一切。

It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

那是壓倒性、集體謀殺的和諧。

And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming for Nicolas and overwhelming lack of order.

We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no real harmony as we have conceived it.

It's easy to laugh at Herzog with his German accented intensity and grave, sometimes grandiose language.

But he's conveying what I think is ultimately a profound perspective on nature and humanity's relation to it.

A perspective that's evoked by his own movies and by Scavenger's reign.

Burden of Dreams documents the making of Fitzgerald.

我們必須對這種壓倒性的悲慘、對 Nicolas 的壓倒性以及秩序的壓倒性缺乏感到謙卑。

Herzog's film about a man's determination to drag a massive 360 ton steamship over a mountain in the Amazon jungle.

我們必須習慣這樣一個想法：我們所理解的真正和諧並不存在。

A feat that Herzog, his crew and local indigenous tribes actually accomplished.

嘲笑 Herzog 那帶著德國口音的強烈語氣和嚴肅、有時又顯得宏大的言辭，是很輕鬆的。

As the doc shows, making Fitzgeraldo was a punishing experience.

但我想他傳達的是一種對大自然以及人類與之關係的深刻觀點。

The never ending hardships of living and working in the jungle running parallel to the never ending hardships of the characters in the movie.

一種由他自己的電影和《Scavenger's Reign》所激發的觀點。

Only a real confrontation with nature, he felt, could capture its immensity and volatility and brutality on film and then transfer those senses to the viewer.

他覺得，只有真正面對大自然，才能在電影中捕捉到它的浩瀚、多變和殘酷，並將這些感受傳達給觀眾。

In Fitzgeraldo and Herzog's other film set in the Amazon, the wrath of God.

在《Fitzgeraldo》和 Herzog 在亞馬遜拍攝的其他電影《上帝的憤怒》中。

Colonial explorers and would be conquerors are confounded, defeated or driven mad by the jungle.

殖民探險家和準征服者被叢林困擾、擊敗或逼瘋。

Herzog doesn't present nature as an antagonist to his characters, but

Herzog 並沒有將大自然描繪成他角色的對手，而是

as something that exists outside of human attempts to conceptualize it, which is ultimately more terrifying and awe inspiring.

將其描繪成一種獨立於人類概念化之外的存在，這最終更令人恐懼和敬畏。

And that is exactly how Scavenger's Reign presents the ecosystem of its alien planet, Vesta Minor.

而這正是《Scavenger's Reign》呈現其外星行星 Vesta Minor 生態系的方式。

Scavenger's Reign tells the story of maroon space travelers, the surviving crew of a downed interstellar cargo ship who are fighting to stay alive and searching for a way home.

《Scavenger's Reign》講述了被遺棄的太空旅行者的故事，他們是一艘墜毀的星際貨運飛船的倖存船員，正在努力求生並尋找回家的路。

But as much as this crew is central to the show, the main character is really the planet itself.

但儘管這個船員是節目的核心，真正的主角其實是這個星球本身。

The artists and animators spend a lot of time showing the plant and animal life of Vesta Miner and how they interact in a complex ecosystem.

藝術家和動畫師花了很多時間展示 Vesta Miner 的動植物生命，以及牠們如何在一個複雜的生態系中互動。

What's equally complex are the interactions between the planet and the humans.

另一個同樣複雜的是行星與人類之間的互動。

The characters use nature and are used by it.

角色們利用大自然，也被大自然利用。

他們互相威脅，也互相被威脅。

They're terrified and bewildered, delighted and astonished.

他們感到恐懼和困惑，也感到欣喜和驚奇。

They form symbiotic relationships with alien animals.

他們與外星動物建立了共生關係。

The the AI robot Levi is nurtured and enlightened, while the crew member Kamen is exploited and literally consumed.

AI 機器人 Levi 得到了滋養和啟迪，而船員 Kamen 則被剝削，最終被吞噬。

The show skillfully avoids simplistic readings of nature.

這部劇巧妙地避免了對大自然的簡單化解讀。

這顆行星既非敵人，也非朋友。

Vesta Minor isn't just a Garden of Eden, and human beings aren't just avaricious destroyers.

Vesta Minor 不僅是伊甸園，人類也不是單純的貪婪破壞者。

Instead of a mawkish environmental message, the creators of the show opt for something more sublime.

這部劇的創作者們沒有選擇矯情的環保訊息，而是追求更崇高的意境。

You know, viewers and critics keep coming back to this point that Scavenger's reign actually feels alien.

你知道，觀眾和評論家們一直強調，《Scavenger》的統治確實感覺很異星。

Personally, I don't think that's down to the bizarre and gorgeous, gorgeous creature and landscape designs, which are really no more bizarre than what you might see in a David Attenborough documentary.

我個人認為，這並非來自奇特又華麗、非常奇特的生物和景觀設計，這些設計其實跟你在大衛·愛登堡紀錄片裡看到的差不多。

I think it comes from the presentation of a world like Herzog's presentation of the jungle, that is indifferent to the human need to understand it.

我認為這來自於對世界的呈現方式，就像赫爾佐格呈現叢林那樣，它對人類理解它的需求漠不關心。

In this respect, there's something essentially alien about Earth as well, something that fills us with dread and wonder, something that makes our values look absurd.

在這方面，地球本身也帶有本質上的異星感，有些東西讓我們充滿敬畏和驚奇，有些東西讓我們覺得自己的價值觀很荒謬。

It reminds me of this great scene from Aguirre, where the leader of the conquistadors, who are days, hours away from being fully destroyed by the jungle, suddenly announcement.

這讓我想起《Aguirre》裡一個很棒的場景，征服者們的領袖，他們距離被叢林徹底摧毀只剩幾天、幾小時，突然宣佈。

叢林會對這個可笑的宣告做出什麼回應？

The jungle's response to this ridiculous pronouncement is silence.

And that unfathomable silence is what's alien, what's foreign to us?

而那種難以理解的沉默，才是異星、才是我們感到陌生的東西？

As Herzog says, there is no harmony as we have conceived it.

就像赫爾佐格說的，並沒有我們所想像的那種和諧。

The key word being conceived, there is a reality beyond our conception, one we can never access in daily life.

重點在於「想像」這個詞，存在著超越我們想像的現實，是我們在日常生活中永遠無法觸及的。

Humanity loves its illusions of control and understanding.

人類熱愛他們對控制和理解的幻想。

One of science fiction's great strengths is its ability to peel back those illusions and confront us with a radical strangeness.

科幻小說的一大優點，就是能剝開這些幻想，讓我們面對一種徹底的陌生感。

This is what Scavenger's reign accomplishes by foregrounding the ecosystem of Vesta Minor.

這正是《Scavenger's Reign》透過凸顯 Vesta Minor 的生態系統所達成的。

In that ecosystem, in that strangeness, we feel our limits, which is humbling, even a little disturbing.

在那個生態系統、那種陌生感中，我們感受到自己的極限，這讓人謙卑，甚至有點不安。

But that feeling is also the closest we can ever get to the real.

但那種感覺，也是我們最接近真實的時刻。

I love this show, so if you haven't checked it out, I highly recommend that you do.

我超愛這部影集的，如果你還沒看過，我強烈推薦你去看。

This episode was brought to you by Squarespace if you don't know, Squarespace is the all in one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online.

這集節目是由 Squarespace 贊助的，如果你還不知道，Squarespace 是一個全能型的網站平臺，讓創業者在線上脫穎而出並取得成功。

Whether you're just starting out or or managing a growing brand, Squarespace makes it easy to create a beautiful website, engage with your audience, and

無論你是剛起步，還是正在經營一個成長中的品牌，Squarespace 都能讓你輕鬆建立一個漂亮的網站，與你的觀眾互動，並

sell anything from products to content to time all in one place, all on your terms.

在同一個地方，按照你自己的方式，銷售從產品到內容到時間的一切。

Their templates are flexible, their blogging tools are easy to use, and

他們的模板很靈活，部落格工具也很容易使用，而且

Squarespace provides you with all the analytics you need to iterate and grow your business.

Squarespace 提供你所有需要的分析工具，讓你能夠迭代並發展你的事業。

Head over to squarespace.com for a free trial, and

前往 squarespace.com 進行免費試用，然後

when you're ready to Launch, go to squarespace.com nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase.

當你準備好上線時，前往 squarespace.com nerdwriter，你的首次購買可享 8 折優惠。