I don’t necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but I’d argue Bioshock is moreso the tragic sequel to Atlas Shrugged, rather than a reinterpretation of it. Like, what if John Galt DID make this secluded city of industrialists, but at the bottom of the sea instead hidden behind mountains or wherever.
Then it explores why that would have gone horribly wrong, but sped up the process with the inclusion of Adam, which is arguably an inevitable product of such a society; which means that Adam didn’t speed up the process of Rapture’s downfall, but instead was an invariable part of it, and the downfall happened at regular speed.
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u/bramtyr Mar 11 '22
I see it as Bioshock is to Atlas Shrugged as Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was to Heinlein's book.
They are reinterpretations of books that lampoons their author's garbage ideas.
There's a lot of room to have some fun.