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I’m finally finishing Butler’s Parable of the Talents, the second Earthseed novel. It’s doing nothing to improve my mood. That whole “Make America Great Again” thing was kinda prescient, eh?

Because in the US it’s on Paramount+ and there too many streaming services for the market to support. I hear Evil is good, but other than that Paramount doesn’t have much outside of a few movies. The sad thing most of these services have legitimately great shows. Apple has several. Heck...

I really want Paramount to license Star Trek out to another service.

The villa is on fire.

I think part of it is very simple: the film industries in Japan and Hong Kong exported a lot of media to the West that was cheap to license and got dumped on syndicated television staring in the (late) 1960s. Speed Racer, Godzilla, Shaw Brothers martial arts movies, etc. That was the beginning...

Is it lazy writing to cast a White Jesus? Inquiring theologians want to know!

It's not a question of the quality of the writing, more of the themes and tone. Discovery, in particular, feels like a product of the contemporary culture of empathy, in the same way the original show was clearly a product of the Cold War era. Being openly emotional is normalized (in the same...

Peacock Plus (or whatever the Hell it’s called) comes with my Comcast package, so I’ve seen the first 3 episodes. As god is my witness, I have no idea what to make of it yet, other than the lead actress is excellent and it kinda reminds me of a 90s cult miniseries called Wild Palms. I’m going...

People younger than the average ENWorld poster. (I still like it, though)

The Orville ends up being an effective homage to both TNG and DS9. To be fair, I don’t think many people saw that coming!

That was delightful. Was it just me, or was there a bit of The Princess Bride in the tone, as well as the obvious MCU influence? And the chunky dragon kinda deserves an Oscar for best comedy in CGI.

I’m rationalizing my inevitable purchase of this later today by reminding myself had I gotten off my tuchus and seen it in a theater that serves liquor as originally planned, it would have cost more than $25.

A bar fight, with Fireball.

Speaking of Gibson, I’m finally getting around to reading the Jackpot books. Finished The Peripheral, just started Agency. Despite the languid pace of the first half of the book (two thirds?), I think The Peripheral is the best book he’s written in ages. Fantastic stuff.

The guy created a memorable personality for the Identify spell in Fantasy High. I both admire and despise him!

They sabotaged a tuning fork!

Let me try and sum up my reaction to Picard season in a sentence or two. Terry Matalas and his crew took the least interesting premise and proceeded to knock it out of the park. Possibly over the state line. Bring on Legacy! (as a series, not as movies)

Hey, she was being manipulated by a superior officer. Unlike one Benjamin Sisko...

There's a new trailer out today. Looks great. I feel like they knew what works about the show from the very start. Unlike, for instance, DISCO.

I wonder that, too. He gave us both Pushing Daisies and Hannibal. Could go either way. :) (loved both)