{"id":1517,"date":"2018-05-03T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsuenglish.com\/dlr\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2018-05-03T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:30:50","slug":"no-tomorrow-and-the-uplifting-apocalyptic-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/2018\/05\/03\/no-tomorrow-and-the-uplifting-apocalyptic-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Tomorrow&#8221; and the Uplifting Apocalyptic Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0<em>Abigail Gelopulos<\/em>, Ball State University<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1518\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1518\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/dlr\/dlr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/04\/unnamed-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoilertv.com\/2017\/01\/no-tomorrow-episode-113-no-sleep-til.html\">www.spoilertv.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evie Covington, the main character of the Warner Bros. apocalyptic television show <em>No Tomorrow<\/em>, is a nervous perfectionist who lacks the confidence necessary to implement changes in her life that would make her feel more on track to who she wants to be.\u00a0 Xavier Holliday, her male counterpart, is introduced as her crush from the Farmers\u2019 Market.\u00a0 As their relationship progresses, Xavier inspires in Evie the necessary confidence for her to go after what she wants in life.\u00a0 The changes Evie makes to her own life inspire those around her to start changing their lives as well.\u00a0 The direction this story takes deviates drastically from the traditional apocalyptic storyline because it encourages engagement with a flawed society in an attempt to fix it rather than forsaking the current society and starting over because it\u2019s flawed.<\/p>\n<p>When they meet, Xavier makes the offhand comment, \u201cI\u2019ve gotta live life while I can\u201d (\u201cPilot\u201d 00:08:23-00:08:28), which then leads to his overwhelming explanation of the asteroid 2000 WX 354 and its trajectory toward Earth. He finishes by explaining to Evie that \u201chumankind only has twelve days and eight months left on earth\u201d (\u201cPilot\u201d 00:08:37-00:08:38).\u00a0 His reaction to the impending apocalypse is to try to live life as limitlessly and fearlessly as possible\u2014 \u00a0and to encourage others to do the same before it\u2019s too late.\u00a0 He explains that he has an \u201cApocalyst\u201d (\u201cPilot\u201d 00:11:54) where he has written down \u201cevery fantasy [he\u2019s] ever had.\u00a0 Every regret [he wants] to fix, every wrong [he wants] to right. Every last thing [he wants] to do before things go kaput\u201d (\u201cPilot\u201d 00:11:59-00:12:09).\u00a0 He inspires and encourages Evie to make a similar list, and they spend the majority of the show crossing items off their lists.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Xavier\u2019s and Evie\u2019s reactions to the idea of the apocalypse are very different.\u00a0 Xavier reacts by using it as an excuse to no longer contribute to society saying, \u201cWe\u2019re all liberated! No more flossing, no more separating whites and colors.\u00a0 I\u2019m racking up parking tickets and they\u2019re never gonna get paid.\u00a0 It\u2019s great\u2014I\u2019m living life exactly on my own terms\u201d (\u201cPilot\u201d 00:10:51-00:11:03).\u00a0 Xavier evolves as a character when he eventually stops using the apocalypse to avoid life\u2019s ugly realities and tries instead to stop the asteroid because he wants a future with Evie.<\/p>\n<p>Evie\u2019s initial reaction was to think that Xavier was crazy, but she begins to believe that \u201c[his] way of life is positive and contagious\u201d (\u201cNo Doubt\u201d 00:39:52-00:39:57). The influence that Xavier\u2019s Apocalyst mentality has on her shows when she tells him, \u201cI\u2019m in the best place of my life. I got my own dream job.\u00a0 I went after exactly what I wanted, and I got it\u201d (\u201cNo Sleep Till Reykjavik\u201d 00:30:36-00:30:46).\u00a0 She goes on to say, \u201cbecause of you, I took risks I never would\u2019ve taken, I quit my job, and I learned to carpe the fig out of my diem\u201d (\u201cNo Sleep Till Reykjavik\u201d 00:35:04-00:35:13).<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cseize the day\u201d message is meant to inspire the audience to change their own lives as well. When Evie gave Xavier the opportunity to spread his theory to the public, he chose to make the apocalypse hypothetical instead by asking \u201cwhat if you gave yourself permission to seize the day?\u201d (\u201cNo Truer Words\u201d 00:33:41-00:33:45) because he realized that it was more important for people to change their lives than it was to prove that the world was going to end.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, his intention is still to just let people know so they can \u201cchange their lives\u201d (\u201cNo Doubt\u201d 00:07:22-00:07:25), meaning that they can live outside societal expectations as well. By the end of the show, Xavier has gone from a social reject to realizing that he wants to have a future with Evie, and, to do that, he needs to work with the government to find a solution to the impending apocalypse. He starts as being a parasite that only engages with society to get what he wants out of it\u2014like maxing-out credit cards and travelling\u2014 and encouraging others to do the same. He grows to be a member of an elite governmental task-force put together to save the world. Xavier sparks the change in Evie, but she makes that change her own and influences those around her to follow her example.<\/p>\n<p>If more people followed their dreams in the way that Evie does\u2014in order to help society rather than hinder it\u2014then the possibilities for social improvement would widen indefinitely. In his book After the End, James Berger argues that \u201capocalyptic and post-apocalyptic representations\u2026put forward a total critique of any existing social order\u201d (Berger 7). In No Tomorrow the critiquing character is Xavier, who completely rejects the social order. This show deviates from the traditional portrayal of an apocalyptic story because Xavier evolves into a character that embraces social order. He begins to reintegrate with society, through Evie\u2019s example, and by the end of the show, he is working with the government. In her article \u201cChoosing Fear or Freedom: Apocalyptic Thinking as a Danger and an Invitation for Christians,\u201d Mary Steinmetz argues that the traditional apocalypse \u201cleads to a dead-end of alienation, separation, violence, and hopelessness\u201d (Steinmetz 9). Apocalypse stories have a tendency to steer the audience in a direction that isolates them from society, most often because the societies they depict are fundamentally flawed. No Tomorrow doesn\u2019t argue that contemporary American\/Western society isn\u2019t flawed. Instead, it argues\u2014through the portrayal of Evie\u2019s approach to the apocalypse\u2014that society should be fixed, not abandoned. The show\u2019s portrayal of Evie\u2019s actions as superior to Xavier\u2019s gives the message to the audience to fix what\u2019s broken in society rather than abandon it\u2014which is not a common message for an apocalyptic storyline. Deviating from the traditional apocalyptic narrative puts an uplifting new spin on a downtrodden old narrative\u2014counteracting the societal disengagement that Berger and Steinmetz argue is intrinsic to apocalyptic narratives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Work Cited<\/p>\n<p>Berger, James. <em>After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse<\/em>. University of Minnesota<\/p>\n<p>Press, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><em>No Tomorrow<\/em>, Warner Bros. Television, 4 Oct. 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmetz, Mary. &#8220;Choosing Fear or Freedom: Apocalyptic Thinking as a Danger and an<\/p>\n<p>Invitation for Christians.&#8221; <em>Journal of Ecumenical Studies<\/em>, vol. 45, no. 4, Fall2010, pp. 591-603<\/p>\n<p>EBSCOhost, proxy.bsu.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/<\/p>\n<p>login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=aph&amp;AN=57459217&amp;site=ehost-live&amp;scope=site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Abigail Gelopulos, Ball State University Evie Covington, the main character of the Warner Bros. apocalyptic television show No Tomorrow, is a nervous perfectionist who lacks the confidence necessary to implement changes in her life that would make her feel more on track to who she wants to be.\u00a0 Xavier Holliday, her male counterpart, is introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;No Tomorrow&quot; 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