Now I just need them to release a model kit for the Voyager-A and I’ll be set.

Do people know you can tell Star Trek stories without villains? Most of the individual Star Trek stories don’t have villains.

Wait, the comments sections are getting shuttered? I’ve been posting here for over a decade. Was the disappearance of the avatar I’ve had since I started here and is my avatar on every single other site a sign of what’s coming??

It’s said Godzilla-Kong because they both took each other’s name after the wedding.

I mean, I read all three books, and I would call them sci-fi masterpieces. Epics of grand scale with a scope spanning billions of years and of several dimensions.

Good subtitles can make or break a film/show, if you can’t understand the language. I loved Let The Right One In and saw it several times in the theater, and never purchased it because the DVD subtitles were notoriously bad.

he’s got a lot of mansions and jets and danger rooms and gifted youngsters within his estate to entrust to his beneficiary!

No mention of the Trioculus/Triclops Succession crisis.

Bringing in plot stuff and characters from the Jedi Prince Hexology is exactly as stupid and cursed as I need this franchise to become at this point in my life.

Give Mando and Grogu a Bespin Sky House perilously floating above a gas giant core!

I got extremely worried when the first casting I saw like a year ago or whenever, of all characters, was Sophon. And I had this moment of, “Oh. Oh no, they’re going to do the thing where Littlefinger just tells the audience what he’s doing and why in Season 1.”

Sophons are so cool. The scene establishing it is so grandiose and epic.

And as to the pieces of paper:

Me to the fairy tale analysts: You idiots! Why are none of you considering the paintings! Not a one of you is talking about or trying to comprehend the meaning of the paintings!

AHH, I’ve tried to be pretty vague and spoiler-free in my posts today.

Fortunately all I mean by “what the VR sections are depicting” is clear by the end of the first book - mainly who and what the “civilizations” and “chaotic and stable eras” and the “dehydrated people” are, so it’s not a spoiler for you. I just…

I kind of want to reread the books, because I remember feeling the same way about the VR segments, but I wonder with the hindsight if those sections would be more interesting knowing exactly what they’re depicting. Especially since on reflection, they’re the foundation of everything you know going forward about…

Did you read the other two books in the trilogy? I’m not sure I would call the trilogy’s plots as basic sci-fi.

That’s a real shame. I remember thinking that the translator for the first book was better as well when I started reading Dark Forest, but I still finished Dark Forest thinking it was the best of the trilogy.

I’d suggest giving it another go if you’re willing to. Once the second book gets moving, it ends up being a…

I haven’t watched much of it, but I will say when Da Shi shows up, I had a second where I was like, “Nah. That guy’s not Da Shi”, and then immediately shifting to, “Ok, this guy’s Da Shi”.

I will say I’m pretty sure the narrative and plotting of the translation is more engaging with the story starting with the…

I’ve been considering going and watching the Tencent show, but I bounced off of it after the second episode or so because it felt like almost too literal an adaptation. I’m considering going back and watching it though. Wondering how much of its production will change when the characters and setting stop being…

I’m not really looking forward to this show, but when I saw that in the trailer and knew, “oh, that’s the computer”, I did feel a momentary glimmer of excitement.

I read that last year and it was so good. I need to check out the Strugatsky Brothers’ space books.

I’ve been apprehensive about D&D helming Three Body Problem, and I’m not sure their success at adapting Game of Thrones is a guarantee they’ll succeed here. My reasons for this has to do with reflecting on what made Seasons 1-4 of Game of Thrones good, and I keep coming back to two things - characters and setting up…