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Foundation season 2 : the hate-watch

00:00 An improvement?
03:16 4 shameful decisions
06:52 91% exposition
09:47 5 excuses DISMISSED
11:44 Asimov’s high concepts – The Mule, Foundation & Psychohistory

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JJ Abrams – first horseman of the narrative apocalypse

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Why are Netflix pimping Carl Sagan in their 3 Body trailer?

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Is Star Wars science fiction?

The Science Fiction community on Facebook have been arguing for a week straight about the status of Star Wars as science fiction…or not. So here is my ultimate and final answer (almost) to the question.

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Even Plato is excited for Apple Vision Pro

It’s Plato’s Cave strapped to your face. At least you could look away from the cave wall. But now Apple will track your eyes and keep showing ads however hard you try to look away. But the irony is even Plato would be excited for the Apple Vision Pro. The duality of Apple in today’s video…

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Are you a Malthusian villain?

I’m always surprised how often people are willing to repeat Malthusian statements made by the villains in superhero movies like “human beings are a cancer on the planet” with stopping and thinking…

…wait, didn’t the villain say that?

Thanks to Ty Sowry and Allen Howell for comments and today’s most discussed thread in the Science Fiction community.

Further thoughts on the Malthusian villain and how to avoid sounding like one on the Science Fiction channel…

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The neo-religions of science fiction

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James Gunn made me cry

Creep cover by Kiera Roeschke https://soundcloud.com/keira-roeschke/creep-acoustic-cover

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Every way Dune 2 could be a total catastrophe

Dune is a story about men in rubber suits fighting over who gets to eat the poop of giant sand worms.

There’s a lot of ways telling that story on a cinema screen can go HORRIBLY wrong.

Even after the success of Dune part 1 – which I consider to be a masterpiece – Denis Villeneuve has an uphill fight to repeat the trick with DUNE 2.

As a lesson in narrative craft and storytelling, it’s valuable to think through what those challenges are and how the story will have to be adapted to prevent it being a total…

…DUNETASTROPHE

TRIGGER WARNING – contains criticism of Frank Herbert and the essentially gendered nature of archetypal storytelling.

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Rogue One was Disney’s biggest mistake

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Isaac Asimov’s 3 Laws are TRASH

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