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Sounds like helping to me.

There is no such thing as “ideologically neutral”. You either represent, or you exclude.

So what you are saying is, it’s a secret.

Rocket Jump? Mythal Repellent Batspray? Some glairing omissions too.

If you look at the gender of the people who are reading fantasy these days, it's more female.

I put Forbidden Planet in my number 1 slot, but aside from that other 50s films failed to make my top 5, influential as they were. I prefer the original Thing from Another World to John Carpenter's remake. I'm fond of Quatermass, but as those movies were remakes of a TV show I would probably...

Treating Xorn as civilised beings rather than animals, which is how the tend to be used, makes me think of the Horta in Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark.

Yes but. Most PoL seem to focus on the idea of humanity (and allies) barely holding out against the monsters. Whereas in the Dalelands it's the monsters who are barely holding out against all the high level adventurers!

To be fair, the Dalelands are an ill-defined area of wilderness interspersed with rural settlements without national boarders.

That’s probably why they appointed a head of franchising: so next time it happens they have someone to fire.

The sourcebooks don’t really discuss “culture” in that way, you get a better idea from the novels. It’s not based on a specific real world culture if that’s what you mean, but it’s a bit Shire-ish compared to the Hanseatic city states of the Sword Coast.

Its kind of dominated by Elminster and his do-gooding cronies (also: less sea).

Not the message. Fighting evil is fine, Yoda and Obi Wan killed lots of bad guys. The issue is doing it without fear, anger or hate. And Luke didn’t have the training, or the temperament, to be able to control his emotions. Which is why Yoda was so reluctant to start him down that path. It was...

That sounds very familiar! I know it describes the Dalelands as "Classic Heroic Fantasy" but that seems a bit too on the nose!

Just wrong.

I think it’s more inherent self-destructive stupidity than inherent evil, but the point of fiction is to imagine that things could be better. Maybe in the imagining we might make it so, or maybe it will just help us cope with the awareness that all things, including humanity, must pass. In a...

It's full of space magic. There is no rule that says something cannot be both satire and fantasy. Nor is there any rule requiring fantasy to be nostalgic.

It's not set in the real world (or something pretending to be a version of it). And the "fantasy" label would be more misleading. SF does not need to feature advanced technology. Speculative near-future and alternative history are generally included in the broader category of science fiction.

Whist the movie looks very dated (especially the evil robot), it's actually a lot more topical now than it was in it's day, with the threat of AI making work obsolete looking far more plausible. And hence humans having no purpose apart from breading more humans, after which they become a burden...

It needed to be this, as the other themes are not specific to this franchise. It's a bit sad that Alien Earth is a better Blade Runner sequel than this.