I’ve not read the books, but is The Hunger Games actually post-apocalyptic? I thought it was set on a fictional world.

Amazing movie. Went to a screening of a re-mastered version a couple of years ago in Auckland, with the writer and producer present. Great Q & A afterwards. I’ve loved that movie for 30 years.

I lolled

Apparently not, it’s filmed in Dublin not London.

Isn’t that external house shot the same house from Shaun of the Dead?

Can’t remember now, sorry.

So?

He is legitimately out of his fucking mind with that.

Sez you.

But we can all agree that the inherited divine right of kings is a bad thing, yeah?

Skip it, the genre premise is wafer-thin. It’s like they wrote a rather aimless crime procedural, then thought “how can we market this to a broader audience”. It’s a con.

Very disapointing this. The genre premise is wafer-thin, and quickly gets shoved aside in favour of a rather random crime procedural with pycho-drama elements. 5 episodes in, and the premise is still no more than a Chekov’s gun.

There’s also a UK version which is likewise very funny.

Me too, although I did have 2 beers. Poor Sally Ride, gone too soon.

I always thought Starbase 1 was the one in Earth orbit though.

It’s not that people needed them to be positive, they were just tired of the unrelenting negativity.

She’s clearly suffering from PTSD.

Which was absolutely a dodge so they didn’t have to confront the discrepancies between Disoc ships and TOS ships.

Only yes means yes.

This is like one of those video games where the first thing you do after you buy it is spend hours downloading a patch that without which it’s full of bugs.