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MMAcevedo
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Star Trek - First Contact Day
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Star Wars: The Bad Batch | Official trailer
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So ... The Expanse
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like...
Looks like Tildes hasn't discussed this show for a year or two. I just finished binge-watching the first 5 seasons (I'm hoping there is a Season 6 in the offing), and of course, I now feel like discussing it. This thread is wide open to whatever anyone wants to bring up about the series. But my first question for people is this--
Did anyone notice any significant change in quality after Amazon took it over? If so, better or worse? How?
For me, somewhere around Season 3 or 4, it felt like the story quality declined. Not that it's "bad" in any way ... just that it got less original, more like traditional series plot devices. And that could just be me, or that--in general--even the best shows tend to lose some of their edge after the first few seasons ... or maybe they're just following the books (never read 'em) and this is how the books went.
But, yeah ... it's turning into a nicer, more nuanced Stargate ... the Good Guys trying to save humanity from The Terrorist Mastermind ... the Evil Post-Soviet Empire conspiring to help said Terrorist, etc. They even had Snidely Whiplash tying the poor girl to the railroad tracks.
I'm obviously over-simplifying here; it is still an excellent show ... just, like I said; it started to feel less original. I'm wondering if that's just my impression, and if not, do we know that it's an "Amazon" thing, or what?
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Hear me out: Why Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker isn't a bad movie
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A tale of two Ripleys: Gender and genre in 'Alien' and 'Aliens'
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A dictionary of science fiction runs from Afrofuturism to zero-G: The long-running project found a new online home, one that showcases the literary genre’s outsized impact on popular culture
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Science fiction hasn’t prepared us to imagine machine learning
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Star Wars characters as classical Japanese art
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Hear me out: Why Star Wars: The Phantom Menace isn't a bad movie
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HG Wells fans spot numerous errors on Royal Mint's new £2 coin
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Science fiction movie recommendations
I just signed back up for the Netflix dvd subscription and am looking for some sci-fi movie recommendations. I tend to not like the horror themes but am open to just about anything else (even...
I just signed back up for the Netflix dvd subscription and am looking for some sci-fi movie recommendations. I tend to not like the horror themes but am open to just about anything else (even "bad" movies that are so bad they are good). Looking for movies that have come out in the last decade or so. May also be open to television series that can be had on dvd that were not on Netflix streaming.
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"If the aliens lay eggs, how does that affect architecture?" - Science fiction writers on how they build their worlds
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Explore Indigenous futurisms with these science fiction and fantasy books by indigenous authors
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‘The Mandalorian’ is the most pirated TV-show of 2020
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Firefly reboot coming to Disney+
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Typeset in the Future on Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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The philosophy of Star Trek: Is the Prime Directive ethical?
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Legendary science fiction author Ben Bova has passed at the age of 88, due to Covid
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Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks | Official teaser
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Russian Mars Colonization Program (comedy)
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Ready Player Two available now
@Ready Player Two: pic.twitter.com/8zsAmQaZV9
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Chaos Walking | Official trailer
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Alan Dean Foster—author of novelizations of Star Wars: A New Hope, the Alien franchise, and more—says that Disney has not paid any royalties since acquiring the rights to his books
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Harlan Ellison's The Last Dangerous Visions may finally be published, after five-decade wait
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Adaptation and nostalgia on an alien world: Scavengers analysis and speculative biology
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Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia
Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia is a movie put out by Some More News. It's certainly an interesting ride. A 135 minute blend of sci-fi B movie, documentary-grade movie analysis of dystopian films over...
Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia is a movie put out by Some More News.
It's certainly an interesting ride. A 135 minute blend of sci-fi B movie, documentary-grade movie analysis of dystopian films over the last 30+ years, and a heavy dose of political commentary (as would be expected from Cody)...complete with some minor celebrity cameos. I've not watched anything quite like this before.
There are some hefty movie spoilers throughout...makes sense given the topic, but I think the only recent one is the new Bill and Ted movie.
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The Mandalorian | S02E01: The Marshal
The titular character attempts to find another Mandalorian. Previous: Season 1
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Star Trek will never be perfect — and that’s the mission
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Jiu Jitsu | Exclusive official trailer
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BioShock director's next game, a sci-fi immersive shooter, is in "later stages of production"
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Star Trek's Kate Mulgrew returns as Captain Janeway in the animated Prodigy TV series
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Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ movie is moving to Oct. 1, 2021
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Inside ILM: Creating the Razor Crest (From The Mandalorian)
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Dune | Official trailer
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Discussion - Raised By Wolves
Available on HBO Max, the first episode can be streamed for free. From Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious...
Available on HBO Max, the first episode can be streamed for free.
From Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centers on two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.
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John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race'
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As the first major blockbuster to release since the start of the pandemic, Tenet opens to $20 million at US box office and nears $150 million internationally
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Star Trek: Discovery introduces first transgender and non-binary characters
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The Mandalorian Season 2 to premiere on October 30th
@The Mandalorian: This is the day. New episodes start streaming Oct. 30 on #DisneyPlus. #TheMandalorian pic.twitter.com/8oruZ3oedx
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Netflix announces they are working on an adaptation of the Chinese science-fiction trilogy "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin
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Loving the alien - How UFO culture took over America
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Dune thoughts and adaptation
I can understand why the journey to make this into a film is so convoluted. I'm not sure I've ever read anything so dense and epic. I was always sort of keen to the series, and always thought the...
I can understand why the journey to make this into a film is so convoluted. I'm not sure I've ever read anything so dense and epic. I was always sort of keen to the series, and always thought the worm god was just cool imagery. So I did have kind of an internal motivation to get this far, but now that I'm about to dive into God Emperor, I just feel bad for anyone that called it quits after the first book. Frank Herbert had a lot to say, and faithfully adapting this to any kind of screen, I think, is impossible.
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‘Star Trek: Short Treks’ executive producer Alex Kurtzman on the series that helps interlink the Trekverse
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Star Trek: Lower Decks S01E01 - "Second Contact"
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Christopher Eccleston returns to Doctor Who - Big Finish
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Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed the Matrix films with her sister, Lana, has confirmed that they should be read as allegories for the transgender narrative
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How the "impossible" mirror scene in Contact was filmed
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Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller 'Tenet' delayed indefinitely
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