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Old 11-11-2025, 04:53 PM
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phantom menace is not a good movie

neither is return, the idea of teddy bears taking on the empire and AT-STs and winning is fucking preposterous.

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Millennials were generally born in the years between 1981 and--


Return of the Jedi › Release date
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Ewoks were just the fist time we tried to market to those retards.
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Old 11-11-2025, 04:57 PM
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Also, nice take grandpa. You don't like phantom menace because it's too smart and about trade policy.

(I'm being sarcastic)
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Old 11-11-2025, 06:24 PM
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If there is 1 thing I learned from melinials it's that I am wrong: The phantom menace is a good movie.

The lesson though is: even though it IS objectively a BAD movie. The younger generation will called you OLD and STUPID for not getting it. And they will both outnumber your generation in fanatical worship of something, and also never ever be wrong.
i saw that awful movie my senior year of high school. i don't really care for most modern star wars stuff. i only like rogue one because it had the nads to kill everyone. i haven't bothered to watch andor, even though all the wokelibs are telling me it's a wonderful metaphor for our current politics. as if we need metaphors to understand current events.

i do like that new show Pluribus, though. i am so tired of remakes and superheroes.

all of it is escapism, obviously, but that sorta political content is like The West Wing, to me. it is meant to keep people in check. if I wanted to watch a show that is violently topical, I will just pretend Mirphy Brown is still on the air
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Old 11-11-2025, 06:26 PM
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I watched those 2 starter eps, excited to see this one. I love Vince Giligan so really have high hopes for this one.

I like the sci fi mystery going on here. Will be cool if they have some fun ideas.

Though.. I do have some trust issues with Vince Gilligan after i saw this clip (does he just make it up as he goes along?):

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Old 11-11-2025, 06:32 PM
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they can't all be zingers!

it did make me wonder.... if we received a code from space that we figured out was RNA, do we have the ability to just... construct it? or wae i supposed to suspend some disbelief at that part? i honestly do not know.
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Old 11-11-2025, 06:33 PM
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Andor is good and bad for all the reasons your woke lib friends say it is lol.

It paints an awesome escapism image of the empire fascism, but its politics are so overly low brow and obvious that it's not entertaining for people who don't jack off to anti conservative content.

Politics in science fiction, should be about "mankind" but now it's so obviously about current events, and the same shit they talk about on the news, with almost LITERAL "metaphores" in them that it's not politics. It's propaganda.

Only a few people should notice the message you're embedding in your science fiction, otherwise you're just doing a big marketing campaign worthy of goebbels.

You can argue that your passion for your politics driving you is noble and good all you want but so did he.
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Old 11-11-2025, 06:35 PM
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they can't all be zingers!

it did make me wonder.... if we received a code from space that we figured out was RNA, do we have the ability to just... construct it? or wae i supposed to suspend some disbelief at that part? i honestly do not know.
Yeah I was fantasizing about what sent the signal and it made me question the same things.

Like, did we hear a rogue signal and its a virus spreading through radio waves basically?

Or was it sent because they wanted us to construct it

As for can we, idk, we synthesized moscovium, but at great cost. I bet if we got a signal from space that we could construct, we'd put the manpower together to construct it?

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I loved how fast it went from a rat bite to C-130s flying over the globe lmao

lmao see, that's politics in sci fi. showing how fast our systems that control us would actually wipe us out.

its bi partisan, it's not political, it's about US not THEM.

That's what politics in sci fi is meant to be.
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Old 11-13-2025, 04:19 PM
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it's pretty cool, vince said part of what motivated him was that he was tired of writing bad guys, like in BB and BCS. though he is very good at writing bad guys, it's an interesting premise and i look forward to seeing what his team does with it. i always think of that Book dude in firefly, telling the main dude "they'll come at you sideways".
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Old 11-13-2025, 04:23 PM
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it's pretty cool, vince said part of what motivated him was that he was tired of writing bad guys, like in BB and BCS. though he is very good at writing bad guys, it's an interesting premise and i look forward to seeing what his team does with it. i always think of that Book dude in firefly, telling the main dude "they'll come at you sideways".
I think its time for me to rewatch firefly.

was jus tlooking at a clip and it made me yern for the days when that was new.

When we were watching that and thinking about what was possible and how great sci fi and movies and TV were becoming.

Man what a time to be alive, I really think around then was the 2nd roaring 20s
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