I think the most prescient thing about the Bridge trilogy, apart from the USA turning into a mix of over-gentrified big cities and right-wing exurban hellholes, is the notion of tech companies becoming lifestyle brands (“SandBenders”). That was something that had started in the ‘80s with the original Macintosh, but it…

I always remember the scene in one of the Bridge novels — was it All Tomorrow’s Parties? — where the old man is telling his grandkid that TV shows and commercials used to be two separate things.

I mean they’re clearly keeping the framing of the drama of working to establish psychohistory and The Foundation(s) before the fall of the empire, but setting looks almost unrecognizable as anything that appeared in the books.

You really need a kind of conceptual framework to enjoy older SF. Even with something like Neuromancer, which was once state of the art SF; today young people read the book and wonder where all the smartphones went. I think that’s why Dune has remained so popular while a lot of the other Golden Oldies (Heinlein,…

Also, Asimov wrote a bunch of them when he was like 19-20, which might explain why there are almost no female characters (never a great strength of his) and everyone just comes off like a disembodied talking head.

I think the plan is to do a season for each book, and if it’s successful, adapt the later novels.

Well apparently this is already getting a season 2 so doubtful.

Close the book on Loki? Doubtful.

OK, I guess disregard all that. I keep forgetting most ISPs are for-profit corporations whose sole reason for existence is extracting as much wealth as possible from people and putting out as little effort as possible while doing it. I’m with a municipal system and we focus on helping our citizens as much as…

I don’t get all the hate Picard receives. Yeah, parts of it are a mess and a cop-out, but in that respect it’s very faithful to TNG. Mostly people just seemed to be upset about the cursing in a Star Trek show.

is the process “do everything we can to rehabilitate the American Military Industrial Complex and decry American Political Dissidents like Antifa who are trying to make the world a better place for poor struggling suffering working class people”?

Teasers for a bigger story yet to come.

You play a Slazenger 1, don’t you Mr. Trump? This is a Slazenger 7.

Mm. I keep seeing this insult thrown around, but maybe it’s because Blade Runner 2049 was a niche film for sci-fi enthusiasts who had seen the first one. And one major criticism I had for the film was why make a “sequel” when you could just make an entirely new film with new ideas? It reminded me of Star Wars: the…

Oh okay, so pretty much like the first one then?

Yeah, that was my (greyed) post too. If I’m home, I watch it on a real TV with something like Apple TV. If I’m out of the house, I use my phone or iPad. I haven’t watched Netflix on a computer screen in years.

DS9 visited it WAYYYYYY to often.

Does anyone know if tonic has quinine in it? I think tonic has quinine in it, but can maybe a couple of people independently confirm? What I’m asking, if anybody in Kinjaland wants to comment, is whether I am correct in my shot in the dark that tonic contains quinine.

It is about “family” trees. The Zero of Mayans died with their culture. The Zero on this manuscript is the “father” of the standalone Zero of the indians, and grandfather of the modern Zero, sort of.

Time and Again and The Gift are just people forgetting to turn off Netflix before they get the “are you still alive” prompt.