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  • jack the nonabrasivekarabaic@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 4:24 PM

    #silo could have been brilliant if yost had said, we're gonna #bsg this bitch and write a show about cults because we're in an age of cults just as bsg was about terror during the war on terror

    but he lacked vision or courage or both

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  • jack the nonabrasivekarabaic@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 4:25 PM

    there's another, similar guy who's slightly better at it

    vince gilligan made #plur1bus my prior favorite hatewatch

    these guys don't know how to
    subvert a trope in sf

    or invent one

    they just treat them straight

    and you wonder if they even like the stuff

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  • jack the nonabrasivekarabaic@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 4:25 PM

    or maybe what "liking" a genre means to them

    a guy who, god help me, got very close to getting it was seth macfarlane

    who came this close to the best deconstruction and reassembly of #startrek since #galaxyquest

    but still believed in the male hero's journey

    so he failed because he didn't question

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  • jack the nonabrasivekarabaic@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 4:26 PM

    somewhere out there is a fan gaining success in another genre

    a young verhoeven who gets it

    and wants to twist it

    because it isn't good enough

    maybe we need a greta gerwig

    someone who loves it enough to kill it

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  • jack the nonabrasivekarabaic@mastodon.social
    Sep 6, 2026, 4:26 PM

    because the folks who never got it

    who loved "don't build the torment nexus" for the nexus

    are systematically destroying the future

    and thus destroying sf

    so someone needs to finish the job and reinvent the future

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