Bradbury was a “Conservative” only depending on when you poll him and his body of work. Farenheit 451's direct intent was to speak against McCarthyism. In his later years his politics skewed further and further right but that does not divorce material of its original intent (remembering he skewed right when he was in…

Just for a little context (from the wiki taken from direct sources from the author): Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media…

Reading comprehension, you’re doing it wrong.

Only if you’re reading posts or reviews by sad puppies and in that case fuck them. Their opinion is not worth the screen real estate it’s taking up.

Except that’s starting to backfire, see the Pepe lawsuit and there’s no way they’re going to make this one stick. The Child is too well loved already. Also, see Duffin’s point about it starting “as a joke” and then hate mongers just think it’s there’s fuck them. Fuck them all.

And it extends beyond service personel (or the definition is expanding). I’ve worked with more artists over the last few years and to see how people treat them simply because they consume their output is disturbing. The entire Royal Family thing ties to this, the treatment of two of their members simply over the…

Thanks for reconginzing you may have been treating a human like crap. I get that this may not have been comfortable but dehumanizing entertainers is something I’ve seen on a regular basis. Actors and comics being treated as objects is something that really bothers me. That Westworld has created this internal dialogue…

Is nothing sacred to those fuckwits? (I know, that should be a rhetorical question, I mean it’s obvious human life and the rights of children aren’t important to them let alone literal baby aliens.)

Or maybe an anti-hero Avengers? Vulture seemed to be a bit better at the end of Homecoming, not good but bad with scruples. Maybe they’re going for that vibe? I just want Paul Giamati’s Rhino back.

Wasn’t one of the rumoured terms of their revised Disney deal they get to link their material into the MCU on an as wanted basis? So Spidey is going to be in future Venom films and the like? (Which is funny because this is starting to develop into an old Lucas type canon situation with different grades of canon).

I LOVED this show! I was Andy’s age when it was on, the cast reminded me of my own friends (and Brian Posehn as Jim was hilarious as I literally had friends who were straight up that character). I was a bit of an Andy to be honest (just not so much booze). Thanks for reminding me of how much I loved the show. Hope it…

I actually think in the hand of a better story teller the transition from Man of Steel forward could have worked. A similar version has been told before (where Superman killed and then learnt how wrong it was). If that was his low and his discovery of having to be something better, something brighter than it would…

It’s not inevitable but it certainly lends to the possibility. Trek at its best has always spoken to current social issues, even TOS was Social Science Fiction so I’m glad we’re leaning into that with Picard.

That’s the trick, you need TNG to have DS9. This is why Snyder’s deconstruction of DC characters is so questionable. You need to construct your narrative before you can deconstruct the story.

I think that’s the point, the good world can go bad and we can fight and make it better again.

I wouldn’t say evil, I’d say weighted down by its own bureaucracy and leaning into incompetence. To be fair, in the 90s, given the way the world was viewing repeated failures at the UN that makes sense that’s the directions the stories would go in.

I’d not really consider Enterprise (or Discovery for that matter) spin offs. I think it’s a fair interpretation since both DS9 and Discovery directly intersect with TNG. DS9 being an offshoot and starting with a cross over and including cast and Discovery being based around story elements from both TNG and DS9.…

You can touch on world history and George Lucas for that one. Basically it’s a demilitarization similar to that placed on Japan or Germany following the Second World War (similar to that also placed on them after the First World War). There was a large standing army at first which caused tension between the new…

I have no problems with people finding problems with these films, they are not perfect and there is no way to please everyone but complaining about the Force “not working that way” is ridiculous because even in the most conservative of new EU stories let alone old EU stories the Force’s powers are practically…

This is touched on in some of the new EU, the New Republic pulled back from having a standing Military (much like the Old Republic) and this was a source of a major break between them and General Organa. Their standing forces were small supplemented by droid units (see The Mandalorian prison break episode). One of the…