That whole app distribution deal sounds iffy and like it’s in the same ballpark of ideas like Pets.com or other poorly conceived dotbomb ventures.

I think the closest we’ve gotten recently is Victor in Dollhouse, and then we’re really talking mind-wiped/programmed humans and most of them are still female.

More like it started with Pygmalion, and Bernard Shaw did a pretty good job of pointing out that Pygmalion kinda sucked at considering the idea that the “creation” might be a person with their own desires and free will.

I totally agree with you in regard to Ex Machina. Nathan is a full on embodiment of toxic, controlling masculinity. I have heard many suggest that Ava’s manipulation of Caleb is an indictment of the conniving nature of women, which I always find says more about the person making the statement than it does the…

They actually cut bits of Tora! Tora! Tora! together to make the pre-vis for the rebel attack on the Death Star.

I did not realize it was possible to have a hot take on something that was 17 years old.

The Internet: “We really want to see more black superheroes.”

I was about to say smartphones, but much of the simple action of the story would make no sense if the characters had phones. I the charm of all “period” SF, for me, is how it simply must obsolesce!

I was sophisticated enough to know that I wasn’t being prescient, at all, but rather was recognizing, around me, early arrivals from whatever the real future might be. The distinction is crucial to being able to do the work, for me.

Ehhh, some parts do. I find a lot of it hasn’t aged that well. I LOVED it when I saw it in college on its original release. But some of the florid dialogue that I thought was deep back then I just find deadly and clunky now. (“Mother is the name for God on the lips of children....Morphine is bad for you!”…

When Gawker gets sold will Angrier Geek also get rebooted?

This is not that kind of site.

Spiderman: Student Loan Debt 2024-2048

Now, while we may scoff at the idea of millionaire Harrison Ford being a worker in danger from violations of workplace safety laws the same way someone operating heavy machinery is

I'd say considering how little care seemed to be paid to travel time/ distance in FA I doubt they've given it much thought. But that does leave the writers with room to make things up...

It’s always a little tricky to figure out what George Lucas had planned from the start and what he just went with, making up explanations on the go, claiming he had always had it planned out... :)It’s definitely canon today...

Well, going by the old scheme of what is and isn’t canon, there was no difference between “something the EU writers came up with” and canon unless it was directly contradicted by a movie or TV show, so in the old days of the EU, it was canon specifically because the EU writers came up with it and George Lucas didn’t…

I believe it was mostly Legends EU canon based on the fact that we never saw any nonhuman Imperials in the movies and that dude on the Death Star was a dick to Chewie. (And because y’know obviously an evil dictatorship is going to be racist, duh.) As I understand it the new canon is undoing that somewhat and making…

Rebel forces are made up of a mish mash of dozens of species.

Rey convinces Luke to train her by standing outside Luke’s mudhut day and night for weeks, holding over her head a boombox playing the music from the cantina on Tatooine.