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[–] homes@piefed.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What will Ed be in season six? An AI? A statue?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Good news, everyone!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

First man on Mars in SpaceX Starliner. Great fiction!

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

This show feels a lot like a prequel to the expanse and has been absolute gold so far. Can't wait for season 5 in a few days!

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Hell yeah! Best non-trek sci fi show since The Expanse.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Makes me wish Apple TV would buy the rights to The Expanse and finish the series. There are two more books that take place years later.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And The Orville.

For AllMankind feels so hopeful because, like The Orville, it’s got Trek’s fingerprints on it.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

unlike actual star trek these days.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

You don't like the future of body-positive sexually ambiguous females running everything?

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Created by Ronald D Moore it has star trek at its core from him

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you can easily include trek in that statement.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Better than Lower Decks? SNW? Nah.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh look it’s this flame war again. Haven’t seen it since the early 90s on BBS

[–] misk@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That’s true of currently airing fanfiction. Episodic Star Trek shows were definitely sci-fi. Philip Dick, the only person high enough to define sci-fi wrote:

This world must be different from the given one in at least one way, and this one way must be sufficient to give rise to events that could not occur in our society… There must be a coherent idea involved in this dislocation…so that as a result a new society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

In good science fiction, the conceptual dislocation ---the new idea, in other words---must be truly new and it must be intellectually stimulating to the reader… so it sets off a chain-reaction of ramification, ideas in the mind of the reader; it so-to-speak unlocks the reader's mind so that that mind, like the author's, begins to create... The very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create---and enjoy doing it, experiencing the joy of discovery of newness.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too much drama for drama's sake. I lost all interest in watching during season 2 & read the plot summaries instead.

[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah too soapy for me, tried to like it multiple times

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

This has been one of my favourite shows. It's a ton of fun and all the space stuff is great. Every season you see a fantastic astronaut death.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

new series regulars Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson

Glad to see Ruby Cruz getting work. Willow wasn't what all the fans wanted, many of whom had not watched the original with an eye towards how intentionally hokey it was made to be, but it was finding its voice by the end of S1 and didn't deserve to be shoved down the memory hole.

As for the trailer for FAMk season 5...

spoilerThe Expanse spiritual-prequel vibes are only getting more intense. Looks like it could be a good season. Now we just need to avoid narratively questionable plotlines grafted on from a hidden folder on Ronald D. Moore's laptop and executed with the deft hand of a daytime soap.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I thought the main cast of the Willow series did a fantastic job. Criminal that the show not only got canceled, but deleted from D+.