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- You have so much sci-fi
in your background,

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so this is obviously an alt
reality, so it's kind of there,

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but did you find yourself missing kind

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of sci-fi tropes when you're making this?

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Or what was it like kind of being

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outside of your comfort zone?

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- The reason I really love sci-fi,

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and there's various reasons I love sci-fi,

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but if I was gonna reduce it to one thing,

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it's because sci-fi has always
permitted big ideas into it.

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It's like not like
embarrassed of big ideas.

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And they exist in Forbidden Planet.

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They exist in Star Trek.

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There would be clear
discussions or metaphors

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or literary analogies or
whatever it happened to be.

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It was just allowed and Sci-fi audiences

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were kind of open-minded,
and they actually liked that,

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and I liked it as well as
someone who likes sci-fi.

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Whereas if you did that
in other kinds of genres,

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people would kind of raise an eyebrow,

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like get a bit arch and a bit
sort of skeptical in a sense.

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Sci-fi was, I felt very open-minded.

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If this was too sci-fi, it would reduce

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the kind of texture of real reality.

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And so it just didn't feel appropriate.

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If I had set it on a distant planet,

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it would've worked as an analogy maybe,

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but it wouldn't have the sort
of strength of the assertion.

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(graphic whooshes)

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- Go, go, go, go!

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(building explodes)

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- [Person] God bless America.

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(people screaming)
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