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Yeah, I expect any modern writer would take a more nuanced approach. It wouldn’t affect anything apart from the end, which didn’t...

That is, perhaps, one of the only major aspects of the series that hasn't been seen in mass media at this point. Plenty of series have...

One thing that made me a bit uncomfortable when I read Children of the Lens was the evil aliens were utterly annihilated. That didn’t...

I saw it the first day of theatre release, however, I knew the source material (and was a little disappointed that Dejah Thoris wasn't...

Yeah, my version uses 5E bounded accuracy and no classes - pick and choose Talents.

Doesn’t make their meddling right though. The story becomes much more interesting if you take a less black and white view of both lots...

I would have at least put “from the creator of Tarzan” on the advertising! I can’t say that I think anyone cares if something is a rip...

That’s really a non-issue. I would not expect any adaptation to so slavishly stick to the original text. A bigger issue is why are the...

Depending upon how deep you want to get into the story. In the novels the Arisians are enacting a plan spanning millions of years...

The point stands that Burroughs' Barsoom series was a foundational inspiration to space epics like Star Wars but it being the earlier...

Smith's Lensmen has the same issue that H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain has* -- they would be mistaken as imitations of their...

That’s easy - you just make the “good guy” aliens questionable. That’s what JMS did with the element he stole for B5. It’s called Good...

There is the sexism element, but probably the bigger issue is the pre-WW2 "eugenics yay" stuff built into the basic premise - the...

They'd have to decide what to do with the period-piece elements. Same problem Skylark has (though maybe even worse there).

It’s not news, George Lucas is on record saying he was influenced by Lensmen. It’s remarkable how forgotten Doc Smith is now, given...