I would suggest not: in those images, all of the ships show that the rings are all clocked to the same positions, indicating that they're not spinning.So, having seen the trailers for Foundation, has anyone noticed that the imperial starships look like they could have decently-sized centrifuges instead of 'gravity plates' or whatever?
"Lower Decks," the only Star Trek worthy of the name since season 4 of Enterprise, recently dealt with exactly that:2. Conflict over reproduction, now possible with any number of parents and "genders" and many arguments of proper behavior of all, with differing level of genetic and social information transfer. There is also the horror of binary fission, which is a sign for aggressive homogenization swarms that unchecked will destroy everything.
Since this thread is nominally about science fiction and fantasy, here's a manifesto of sorts by M. John Harrison. He's acutely concerned with the given medium of storytelling as being an essential element of the story. His Viriconium stories (more influenced by Peake than Tolkein) are deliberately inconsistent, as he explains. As an example, the novel In Viriconium is a black comedy about an unrequited love affair in which one of the couple dies. In a later short story there's an offhand comment about the two having married long ago. And no, he doesn't invoke hand-waving like 'alternate universes.'
What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium - Fantastic Metropolis
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The Jedi are inappropriate mascots for social justice. Although they’re ostensibly heroes within the Star Wars universe, the Jedi are inappropriate symbols for justice work. They are a religious order of intergalactic police-monks, prone to (white) saviorism and toxically masculine approaches to conflict resolution (violent duels with phallic lightsabers, gaslighting by means of “Jedi mind tricks,” etc.). The Jedi are also an exclusionary cult, membership to which is partly predicated on the possession of heightened psychic and physical abilities (or “Force-sensitivity”). Strikingly, Force-wielding talents are narratively explained in Star Wars not merely in spiritual terms but also in ableist and eugenic ones:
According to TMZ, Captain Kirk will be on the second flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule. The flight is likely to happen next month.
Marvel filed five lawsuits on Friday seeking to block the heirs of comic book creators from reclaiming copyrights to many of its most popular characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man and Doctor Strange.
The move comes after heirs of five Marvel authors filed dozens of termination notices with the U.S. Copyright Office. If the notices were to succeed, they would not prevent Marvel from using the disputed characters, which were created by multiple collaborators. But they would require the studio to make payments to the heirs.
The termination notices were filed by Marc Toberoff, a veteran copyright attorney who fought similar battles on behalf of the heirs of Jack Kirby, a co-creator of several Marvel heroes, and of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the co-creators of Superman. Toberoff argues that the Marvel authors’ work led to multi-billion dollar franchises, and that their heirs should be allowed to share in the wealth.
I'm not a moderator, but it's been made quite clear in a warning by Antonio that discussion of nationality, ethnicity or social justice or macaroni cheese are not relevant to this thread in this forum.
If you want whooshy-whooshy spaceships in space that can get from Yavin IV to the Death Star in fifteen minutes according to a countdown, while crossing the limb of a reasonably-sized gas giant (>100,000km) and the orbital diameter of a reasonable moon around a reasonable gas giant (Io orbits at half a million km)...To be fair, ten teratons is a tenth of a Chicxulub. I don't blame the writers at all for their decision in 2003!10000 Gigaton
Well it´s still one shot from one canon and the larger ships have dozends of them...
Ok, I agree with you if we can keep comments focused on its effects on SF alone."Nationality, ethnicity or social justice" are entirely likely to be primary plot points of the most recent episode of Star Trek or The Orville or The Mandalorian
But then, SF has an effect on culture in return. Consider: let's say Star Trek has an episode that says that "in the 21st century it was discovered that the macaroni and cheese was the cause of the decline in sperm counts and birth rates in the western world." And because Current Year is insane, this results in people actually believing it, and Kraft Cheese Headquarters is burned to the ground while at the same time Extinction Rebellion starts scattering cheese powder into the water supply...Ok, I agree with you if we can keep comments focused on its effects on SF alone."Nationality, ethnicity or social justice" are entirely likely to be primary plot points of the most recent episode of Star Trek or The Orville or The Mandalorian
True.But then, SF has an effect on culture in return.
If wheat derivatives affected virility the Roman legions would not have won any battle and if cheese were the cause Heidi's grandfather would never have reproduced. Star Trek is just a sociology course and lacks a scientific basis that I can respect.But then, SF has an effect on culture in return. Consider: let's say Star Trek has an episode that says that "in the 21st century it was discovered that the macaroni and cheese was the cause of the decline in sperm counts and birth rates in the western world." And because Current Year is insane, this results in people actually believing it, and Kraft Cheese Headquarters is burned to the ground while at the same time Extinction Rebellion starts scattering cheese powder into the water supply...Ok, I agree with you if we can keep comments focused on its effects on SF alone."Nationality, ethnicity or social justice" are entirely likely to be primary plot points of the most recent episode of Star Trek or The Orville or The Mandalorian
Where's Ed?Cowboy Bebop live action opening credits:
View: https://youtu.be/Yq2N-9EmedA
Release date 21/11/2021.
Whoever devised this was definitely drinking from the same well as the person who did the titles for Archer. To be fair, they're good pastiches. So many title sequences are either nondescript or too pompous (enough with the sands-of-time motif and the monuments, Foundation).Cowboy Bebop live action opening credits:
View: https://youtu.be/Yq2N-9EmedA
Release date 21/11/2021.
You also have people put into a role because they are box office draws. Tom Cruise plays Reacher. Anyone read the books? Not great writing but reasonable story's. Reacher is well over six feet tall with "Dinner plate fist's". Tom Cruise, respect to the man aside, is well, not.
Well, they looks like they are build around snall black hole, so they may just carry their own source of gravity...So, having seen the trailers for Foundation, has anyone noticed that the imperial starships look like they could have decently-sized centrifuges instead of 'gravity plates' or whatever?
Disney believes that since freelanced contributions were done at Marvel’s instance and expense, these characters were authored by the company, not by individual writers and illustrators. But Disney has a fallback. Even if judges decide Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, etc. aren’t works made for hire and can be terminated, these characters would be joint works. Marvel would remain at least a co-owner. (That’s due to past settlements with Lee and Kirby.)
Here’s where it starts getting as trippy as a Doctor Strange story.
Under U.S. copyright law, co-authors are allowed to freely use and license work. They must share revenue with each other, but this means (and Disney consoles itself with the following fact) that whatever happens in court, the comic book author heirs can’t block the making of new movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
While that’s true, there are some caveats that may cause Disney to pause before becoming too overconfident.
First, sharing profits on MCU films is no small thing. These movies cost hundreds of millions to make, generate billions, and are now being used to prop up streamer Disney+. Sharing impacts the entire economic structure of production and distribution and could lead to more court battles like the one being pursued by Scarlett Johansson.
Second, since co-authors are allowed to freely use and license work, that potentially means Patrick Ditko and other Marc Toberoff clients would have the right to license rights to these iconic superheroes to other studios. (Imagine Thor being licensed for a Superman movie. Theoretically, it could happen.)
Third, and perhaps least appreciated of all, is what happens outside of the United States. The termination provisions of U.S. copyright law only impact the domestic market. BUT foreign copyright laws might come into play if these superhero characters aren’t deemed as works made for hire. Some countries aren’t as generous to authors’ heirs as the United States. But some countries are more generous. Take Canada, for instance. The northernly neighbor mandates automatic reversion of the copyright to the estate 25 years after the author’s death. And get this — in Canada, joint owners may not license jointly owned work to others without the consent of the other co-owners. Could a future season of Loki be prevented from showing in Canada? The suggestion of something like this occurring seems crazy and dangerous to even broach, and yet….
It’s no wonder that seven years ago, Disney’s brass blinked. There’s a good likelihood that Disney will eventually do similar weighing of the risks (and litigation expenses). Right now, the entertainment giant will hope for momentum in court and leverage before getting serious about a negotiation. But at some point, the stewards of the MCU will have to contemplate the truly unimaginable.
He was Genius and brilliant graphic designerSaul Bass was the absolute master (warning - it's an hour-long compilation):
Thanks, I'll look for that. I'd heard of it, but didn't know that it was his work.He was Genius and brilliant graphic designerSaul Bass was the absolute master (warning - it's an hour-long compilation):
and he made one of most unusual sci-fi movie of all time: PHASE IV.
Were scientist are confronted with Hive mind of Ants
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaVaDwLj_mk
I am guessing you never watched his Sense-8 show. Complaining about a show being Woke with something like B5 is the same way that people complaining about this with Star Trek just make me think they never understood these shows or what their creators intended. After all we are talking about B5 not the latest project from Frank Miller. By the way how the hell can there be a woke Batwoman when the character has always been canonically a lesbian. This is why these kind of statements annoy me as they always come from a place of zero knowledge about the thing they are talking about.Good news: there Reboot of Babylon 5 in Making
The bad news: the TV canal is CW that made Woke Batwoman and B5 Reboot will end same way...
By the way how the hell can there be a woke Batwoman when the character has always been canonically a lesbian.
That said, I do wonder why the younger generation of writers have to reinvent old series rather than creating new ones ...
I pray Amazon doesn't do the same to The Wheel of Time series.Good news: there Reboot of Babylon 5 in Making
The bad news: the TV channel is CW that made Woke Batwoman and B5 Reboot will end same way...
Do not forget Star Trek The Orville"Lower Decks," the only Star Trek worthy of the name since season 4 of Enterprise, recently dealt with exactly that:2. Conflict over reproduction, now possible with any number of parents and "genders" and many arguments of proper behavior of all, with differing level of genetic and social information transfer. There is also the horror of binary fission, which is a sign for aggressive homogenization swarms that unchecked will destroy everything.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bWGREfpvio