“You can’t just have characters announce how they’re feeling! That makes me feel angry!”
Seriously though, all the stuff in your line there is in the film. It’s not stated so blatantly, but the accusation of abandonment is there, and the feeling of personal betrayal is conveyed. Anything more and it’s a character…
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Oh, yeah, I see what you mean then. Yeah, I kinda felt that too. I don’t think it’s quite so much a modernist design as... the same design, but less noir. Everything looks the same, but the mess and the haze aren’t quite right. I’d have to check the trailer again, but I feel like the lighting is a bit off too. It…
“This gif is from the trailer for the first movie, and special effects quality aside, it’s basically the same place. That said, there are hints in this trailer (and the official synopsis mentions “what’s left of society”) that something pretty catastrophic has happened between then and now, so that could explain it.”
I…
I’m okay with it being not as densely populated. Blade Runner was a little ambiguous about how crowded it really was. Some areas were very crowded, but some buildings, like J.F. Sebastian’s are almost completely abandoned. Presumably a good deal of the population has gone offworld, and the ones who remain behind are…
Oh sure it’d be feasible. Holograms would also be a feasible thing to see. Usually we see neon instead. Loud, buzzy, kinda shitty neon. It’s not that it’d be unrealistic for Deckard to have an energy weapon, but rather that Deckard shooting any kind of energy weapon would look five different kinds of wrong for the…
I’d still call speculation. Blade Runner is inspired by “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” certainly, and a lot of stuff in Blade Runner makes more sense if you read the book... but the two are so different, you can’t really say that because it was an energy weapon in the book, it was in the film. I’d actually…
I gotta say, I usually understand it when people want to try casting an established character as another race or gender.
But James Bond? James Bond is a violent, alcoholic, misogynistic thug. How bad he is tends to vary by interpretation, admittedly, but even at his best, he tends to be smug, arrogant, and typically…
Well...
Pretty sure that guy who stepped on an explosive rock is dead though.
You ever think about what it’s like to do paperwork for the Federation? Like, for every episode, there’s a guy at a desk somewhere, and he just gets a stack of casualty reports. “Crewman Hendroff, poison plant darts... Lieutenant Kaplan, struck by…
The problem with this sort of calculation is that it assumes a specific claim. The essential observation is “Gee, Redshirts seem to die a lot, don’t they?” Which, given the above calculations, is objectively true. The other common Redshirt joke is “Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Ensign Ricky beam down to a planet. Guess…
Well, Captain America dumped the entire SHIELD computer system onto the open internet, which would have to include all the files on the original Avengers initiative. So anyone with Google can probably learn their superhero name, origin, real name, home address as of SHIELD’s most recent checkup, and, given that SHIELD…
I love Planetfall, but it falls into a weird area I call: All the Steve Meretzky Games. That man had a special talent for writing fantastic games with really frustrating features. For Planetfall it was acres of extra rooms, and red herring items that you could never access scattered everywhere (I died of radiation…
I think I still qualify as younger folk. When I was a kid, my parents had one of the Lost Treasures of Infocom boxes. I basically learned to type by playing Planetfall and Zork.
Oh yeah, big time. The only reason I ever knew about it was literally because I happened to walk past it in the store. Seeing how I paid 20 dollars for it at the time, and it runs about 200 on Amazon now, I’m guessing they discontinued it.
I think Diamond Toys did a whole line of plastic model ships that had about…
Oh yeah, big time. The only reason I ever knew about it was literally because I happened to walk past it in the…
There is, or at least was, a Megablocks Enterprise D. I picked one up for about 20 bucks from a hobby shop years ago. And, yes, it comes with a tiny little Captain Picard. I’m not sure they make them anymore though.
There is, or at least was, a Megablocks Enterprise D. I picked one up for about 20 bucks from a hobby shop years…
Bosh’tet! I clicked just to see if my favourite sci-fi curse was there, and it wasn’t!
There’s a difference between a retcon and deciding material isn’t canon though. Retcon is retroactive continuity. You mentioned comics, and they do this a lot. They don’t ignore what happened in previous issues, but they will do other things, like reboot reality, or add in extra information that was happening off…
If you aren’t a bit fussy with canon, though, there’s no point to it. The content or value of a story doesn’t change depending on how official it is. All canon tells you is “You can expect the stuff from this [book/movie/show/whatever] to be true in all the other ones too.” So if a bunch of main characters die in a…