Did Star Trek Rip Off Babylon 5?
A defense of two great shows at once. Here’s more from RazorFist The Rageaholic.
Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “science fiction”
The Force: Now Unemployed
Has Kathleen Kennedy killed her last franchise?
The Force is between job opportunities. Here’s more from RazorFist.
Is The Nightmare Finally Over?
She’s killed off more loved ones than the Bubonic Plague. She’s utterly wrecked what was once the most valuable IP in the world.
For 13 years she has brought her venom, her bitterness and her feminism (but I repeat myself) to Lucasfilm and systematically destroyed what used to be the very heart of pop culture. Now, for the fourth or fifth time, she says she about to step down.
Is it too late? Is the saga of Kathleen Kennedy, the destroyer of Star Wars, finally over? Here’s more in a new edition of The Right Angle, featuring Steve Green joined by Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.
Gift Guide: 12 Days Of Si Opmas
All the weird AI gifts you can get your loved ones for the holidays that you can use to turn their lives into a top-rated Black Mirror episode.
For those who haven’t watched it, Black Mirror is a British futuristic horror show, created by Charlie Brooker. It’s in the same dystopic vein as The Twilight Zone. Here’s more from Bridget Phetasy in a new edition of Dumpster Fire.
The Norman Retconquest
RETCON: ‘Retroactive Continuity’ — generally used in science fiction and fantasy to re-write historical lore to make it conform to modern interpretations.
That’s what the BBC is doing to their new series on The Norman Conquest: William I of Normandy’s successful invasion of the British Isles and the defeat of the Anglo-Saxon King Harold at the Battle of Hastings.
Steve Green leads a new edition of The Right Angle, joined by Scott Ott and Bill Whittle.
Philip K. Dick’s Sci-Fi Predictions
The CIA’s Operation CHAOS has been unveiled, exposing a bizarre concept: The Minority Report, Total Recall, and movies like The Matrix may have been predictions of the future.
Did you know that Philip K. Dick—the author of such classic novels and short stories as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (which inspired Blade Runner), The Minority Report, Total Recall, and The Adjustment Bureau—made startling predictions in the early 1980s before his death? His works influenced films like The Terminator and The Matrix, but he also foresaw developments in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and humanity’s eventual surrender to computers. He even warned of a future social credit system.
One of Dick’s revelations was about the CIA’s Operation CHAOS, which spied on over 7,000 Americans, including Dick himself. This followed an experience that convinced him we’re living in a simulation, complete with “glitches” in the system. In essence, he was among the first to suggest we’re living in a Matrix-like reality. He warned that government agencies were targeting him, and shortly afterward, he was found dead.
Join Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts on this Edge of Wonder live show to hear in Dick’s own words how he predicted and cautioned humanity about the dangers of granting excessive authority to artificial intelligence.
Dune: Dispensing Red Pills
Dune: Part 2 has only been out a few weeks and it’s already the biggest box office hit of 2024. Surprisingly, the film is full of red pills, pills so red they might as well be crimson.
Frank Herbert wrote the original novel in the 1960s, long before the West’s current downward slide, owing to leftist idiocies. Here, Black Pigeon Speaks offers a review of Dune: Part 2, explaining how it remains an affront to woke idealogues.This is a two-part presentation and we present both videos below.
Return Of The Wooly Mammoth
It sounds like science fiction, but a couple of groups of genetic researchers are actively working on bringing back extinct species like the wooly mammoth and the Dodo bird.
It’s a complicated issue, filled with all kinds of ethical questions and scientific advancements. When all is said and done, it could be a boon to genetic research and serve as a springboard for technologies that could make our lives better.
So what do you say? Wanna ride a wooly mammoth? Here’s more from Joe Scott.
1984 No Longer Science Fiction
Rebel News’ David Menzies says George Orwell’s earth-shaking novel 1984 was frowned upon as dystopian science fiction in 1949 and beyond. He says today, the novel has proven to be downright prescient.
“Orwell’s only miscalculation was that he was merely a few decades off in terms of pegging a date at which democracies would devolve into quasi-totalitarian nightmares.,” Menzies says.
Even Orwell admitted as much in a 1949 interview with the BBC a year before his death. “I think allowing for the book, after all, to be a parody, something like 1984 could actually happen,” he said. “This is the direction the world is going in at the present time.” Here’s more with Menzies, who also discusses Rebel News recent edition of 1984, which includes many upgrades, including the artwork of acclaimed artist Paul Rivoche.
