I didn’t account for Marxist or gender theories which tend to be a major theme in science fiction.

The criminal syndicate in District 9 were Nigerians. Allegedly, this was based on real Nigerian criminal groups operating in South Africa, though I can’t remember if that was based on the apartheid era, today, or both. But the film got a lot of criticism from Nigerians for it.

It’s amazing that when this issue hit newsstands, the United States wouldn’t even be at war with Germany for another 9 months, and there were still groups strenuously protesting any US involvement in Europe’s war. But Golden Age comics weren’t political, nosirree.

Looking at the rough production timeline for Game of Thrones, it rarely takes more than 5 or 6 months to film a season, and different shooting locations might even wrap earlier. That gives the actors at least half a year to pursue other projects.

Some of those lines are solid gold!

For a genre ostensibly concerned with looking at the future, there sure are a bunch of SF fans who insist on prostrating themselves before the same group of icons. Most other literary genres respect their forebears, but I don’t think any others deify them to this extreme.

I only read the very first section.

Also, in EFNY Plisskin was rescuing the President himself! He rescued the President’s daughter in Escape From LA, a completely not-really-the-same movie!

The very system that had American Airlines flight attendants tell me, “We can’t accept your Canadian credit card—it has too much security.”

Of course!

Leia and her new bodyguard, Shara Bey (mother of Force Awakens star Poe Dameron), head to the planet...

Grey hat? WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON?

I read an interview with Ann Nocenti, who wrote the Daredevil comics in the mid-80s. She admitted she wasn’t really interested in writing fight scenes, a staple of superhero comics, until she realized that if you cared about what the characters were fighting about, that made you a hundred times more interested in the…

YAAAAAY!!!!

I just assume this one will be poorly lit.

Ah yes, the two greatest scourges of the 1970s: roller skates and disco music.

I had no idea going in it would be some of the best entertainment I’ve ever had in a movie theatre. But it was.

You have my garden spade!