Off-topic, and I hope this isn't already general knowledge b/c then I'll be embarrassed, but the first sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, immediately struck me as a wholly unrelated screenplay that was then revised into a Riddick story. The whole space opera plot is so over the top and inconsistent with the tone of…
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It looks like the production design was strongly influenced by the heavy, overproduced look of Lynch's Dune. Which doesn't exactly delight me.
At least one pre-Akira anime I can think of that uses this trope is Space Battleship Yamato (a.k.a. Star Blazers) and its various sequels, which feature any number of cities vanishing in fireballs Hiroshima-style.
I remember this became particularly clear to me after seeing Attack of the Clones. I recall saying to a friend, "These movies are just eccentric."
Watching the very beginning of Part 2 there, I remind myself once again that if I ever have kids, I must spend the first few years of their lives speaking to them with a British accent, so that I can then enjoy years of listening to that ridiculously cute way British kids say "Daddy...?"
Nah.
The passage reads like someone going through the motions of writing a confessional story, following the conventions. "Is this what a confessional autobiography sounds like? Am I hitting the right notes? Okay, then that's what I'll write."
Just to echo a few others here:
I suspect you could benefit from any number of medications.
I remember a great comment from an ex of mine after I showed her the first episode of the original "Thunderbirds," which featured the Tracy brothers as well as Lady Penelope.
My very first thought as well. Thoughts of the Tut beard glued to the Jesus portrait.
The Ark itself was certainly a neat vehicle.
Ever since I first saw this show as a kid, I've wondered where that footage of a tumbling space capsule at around :35 came from.
Charlie Jane, thanks for this article and so many others like it. Your knowledge of the history of the SF genre really gives io9 its special edge. Very beneficial for readers of all kinds.
Mweyer didn't make any assertion about one take — you did.
"They will literally only take the first film into account and say the other films never happened. It's so silly."
Very suspicious survey. Seems like it's geared toward gathering evidence in favor of not labeling GMO or non-GMO foods as such. ("Hey, since the public doesn't know anything anyway, why inform them...?")
This... looks so much like the sort of incident that would open an episode of Thunderbirds.
Or it's a priest standing in a cathedral, which pretty much means the same thing.