Aha! That’s presumably why ‘Captain Britain’ a) existed and b) had no DC equivalent.

Aha! That’s presumably why ‘Captain Britain’ a) existed and b) had no DC equivalent.

Loved more in the UK, I think, because:
 
1)     ‘Dark silliness’ is more of a thing over here (remember all that blood spurting all over the place in Monty Python films?) so the fusion of Mega-City-One’s comedy block names (neither film seemed to know what to do with that one), weird subcultures (Normals, Uglys,…

Loved more in the UK, I think, because:
 
1)     ‘Dark silliness’ is more of a thing over here (remember all that blood spurting all over the place in Monty Python films?) so the fusion of Mega-City-One’s comedy block names (neither film seemed to know what to do with that one), weird subcultures (Normals, Uglys,…

@avclub-f62296b9393b6ab9229ebde91ed8469f:disqus 
Exactly. Then what happens from a deskbound senior WY manager’s point of view is:
1)     Nobody comes back for over half a century. There’s a bit of an argument when you suggest a colony in the same place – but hey, there’s a bunch of valuable minerals there and for all…

@avclub-f62296b9393b6ab9229ebde91ed8469f:disqus 
Exactly. Then what happens from a deskbound senior WY manager’s point of view is:
1)     Nobody comes back for over half a century. There’s a bit of an argument when you suggest a colony in the same place – but hey, there’s a bunch of valuable minerals there and for all…

There's an intriguing line in the third film, when real Bishop is trying to talk Ripley down and shouts "it was all a mistake, there was no need for any of it!!!" Most of what happens in the film makes sense in the context of W-Y never really grasping what they were dealing with…

There's an intriguing line in the third film, when real Bishop is trying to talk Ripley down and shouts "it was all a mistake, there was no need for any of it!!!" Most of what happens in the film makes sense in the context of W-Y never really grasping what they were dealing with…

Sad thing is, the genre didn’t get as much public love as it might in the UK because it was caught in an inverse snobbery trap – like prog rock (but with far less reason) it was seen as the music of smug public schoolboys. (NME, IIRC, used to refer to it rather sneeringly as ‘The Scene that Celebrates Itself’).

Sad thing is, the genre didn’t get as much public love as it might in the UK because it was caught in an inverse snobbery trap – like prog rock (but with far less reason) it was seen as the music of smug public schoolboys. (NME, IIRC, used to refer to it rather sneeringly as ‘The Scene that Celebrates Itself’).

Fieldmice? No. Love them and their ilk (Sarah Records was in general a source of much happiness among me and my peers back in the day), but even their early 90s, glacial synth-pop phase was far too structured and polite to be called ‘Shoegaze’.

Fieldmice? No. Love them and their ilk (Sarah Records was in general a source of much happiness among me and my peers back in the day), but even their early 90s, glacial synth-pop phase was far too structured and polite to be called ‘Shoegaze’.

Yes to Pale Saints. Yes. I had forgotten them. I’m going to download ‘In Ribbons’ (due to generational issues, most of the stuff I liked from that era is on cassettes I no longer have the wherewithal to play even if I could find them). I am going to listen the hell out of it. You have done a good thing, simply saying…

Yes to Pale Saints. Yes. I had forgotten them. I’m going to download ‘In Ribbons’ (due to generational issues, most of the stuff I liked from that era is on cassettes I no longer have the wherewithal to play even if I could find them). I am going to listen the hell out of it. You have done a good thing, simply saying…

Not quite fair on the Independent comparison. The Indy is pretty politically anodyne - it's only on he middle east that it leans seriously left,and that's only because they've got Fisk on board. The g's arts coverage is more interesting. It also has the best crossword, at least until Araucaria dies.

Not quite fair on the Independent comparison. The Indy is pretty politically anodyne - it's only on he middle east that it leans seriously left,and that's only because they've got Fisk on board. The g's arts coverage is more interesting. It also has the best crossword, at least until Araucaria dies.

@avclub-f3dcf2b24cdcda5f5a9e51cce73cbeff:disqus Whether it was intended or not, I always felt that the Enterprise E redesign was ugly-but-smart. Pre-Cardassians and the Dominion-war was the Federation at its very smuggest and mellowest, and the idea of a ship that was all curves  (no sharp edges or anything…

@avclub-f3dcf2b24cdcda5f5a9e51cce73cbeff:disqus Whether it was intended or not, I always felt that the Enterprise E redesign was ugly-but-smart. Pre-Cardassians and the Dominion-war was the Federation at its very smuggest and mellowest, and the idea of a ship that was all curves  (no sharp edges or anything…

I thought the sci-fi/SF distinction was about quality (the former is popular telly, novelisations of same and no-frills military stuff at the bottom end of the market, the latter more ‘serious’ genre work), while the hard SF/soft SF distinction is purely about whether or not the science presented in a particular story…

I thought the sci-fi/SF distinction was about quality (the former is popular telly, novelisations of same and no-frills military stuff at the bottom end of the market, the latter more ‘serious’ genre work), while the hard SF/soft SF distinction is purely about whether or not the science presented in a particular story…