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I’m working hard to get myself martyred. But whether it will be at the hands of fundamentalist conservative Christians, or transhumanist adherents of the Church of Scientism…well…you be the judge. Members of the Science Fiction podcast community can now read the full shooting script for my next video essay Interstellar Is A Religious Experience. IContinue reading “Interstellar – shooting script”

After too many years having these discussions on scifi forums, I long ago realised that, however bad a scifi tv show might be, someone will pop-up and say “well I quite liked it actually”. So as season 2 of Not Asimov lumbers towards our screens, and as a time saving measure, I have collated theContinue reading “Not Asimov – season 2”

I have the same criticism of Chris Nolan’s movies as many critics. Once you get past the high concept movie making, how much meaning is there in the Nolan filmography? It’s not just the inaudible dialogue that made TENET problematic. When you get down to it is there anything more to Nolan than narrative gimmicksContinue reading “The redemption of Christopher Nolan”

I was really hoping the D&D movie would be good. There’s been a of disappointing capital F for Fantasy storytelling recently. Fake Tolkien. Wheel of Tedium. Willow…best ignored. So I was prepared for the worst. What I got is one of the best heroic fantasy movies for a very long time. And maybe more importantly…aContinue reading “Last hope for heroic fantasy”

Girls??! Fighting in the grimdark future of Warhammer 40k?! I made this thumbnail as a parody of anti-Woke youtube and then discovered there is an entire subculture of dudes who are perpetually enraged about Woke Warhammer. Oh well, I guess people will figure it out. I’m making these unedited vids at the moment because I’mContinue reading “Warhammer 40k BARBIE”

I like Rogue One But it was Disney’s biggest mistake WATCH HERE

The best thing about Rollerball? No CGI They took a bunch of stunt guys, strapped them into roller skates, tossed in some dirt bikes then actually played Rollerball to figure out how it would work in real life. No fatalities but a couple of serious injuries. I’m sure everyone had a blast. There are twoContinue reading “Rollerball is one hell of a movie”

Blimey. There’s a thread on the movie Ad Astra burning in the Science Fiction group. And I need to find the gif of Mal Reynolds to express my feelings on it. I’ll make it the first comment. Look. Folks. Do people generally understand that Ad Astra is an allegory? It’s been the fashion for scifiContinue reading “All the scifi movies you love are allegory”

So. The major reason that the “Deckard is a Replicant” matter confuses many fans of the movie is that much of Blade Runner is told by implication. Firstly, Nexus replicants are identical to humans in every regard, including genetics. That’s why the empathy test is required. Secondly, if replicants live long enough they also developContinue reading “Yes, Deckard is a Replicant”

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was a German mathematician, scientist, philosopher, diplomat and theologian (which will become important to the story) and owner of many fabulous wigs. Or what we would today call a polymath. Leibnitz became curious about numbers. If there were 10 base numbers because humans have ten fingers, what would have happened if weContinue reading “The ancient book of wisdom at the heart of every computer”