I am a sucker for futurism. My X/Twitter feed occasionally gets short movie clips with no context. Of course I am going to look into this futuristic utopia depicted in this Russian movie from 2022.
Category: TV Shows (Page 1 of 7)
I’m about half-way through the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. So far, I really like it. The series is based on other books by George R. R. Martin, and is in The Game of Thrones universe, about a century before that series.
Although it takes place in the same world, this series is not as cruel and complex as The Game of Thrones. Some places and family names are shared with GoT, but A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms doesn’t require prior knowledge to enjoy.
Star Trek: Star Fleet Academy should lean into that premise.
Star Trek technology was always based on dilithium crystals as a power source. The Burn, was a catastrophic event in which all the dilithium crystals became inert. All star ships that were deployed lost power, resulting in the deaths of a vast number of Star Fleet personnel.
Star Fleet personnel were always the best of the best, because in a post-scarcity society, people could pursue any career or endeavor that appealed to them. After The Burn, the best of the best were gone, and their courageous and competent genes were gone too.
A hundred years after The Burn, when Star Fleet is ready to reestablish Star Fleet Academy, all they have left are these theater kids.
Pluribus is currently the number one TV show streaming on Apple TV and is getting a lot of attention from science fiction fans. Vince Gilligan, the show runner, also created Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. The main character, played by Rhea Seehorn, crushed it in Better Call Saul.
The show sucks. I just watched the season finale, and don’t get why my nerdling friends rave about this series.
Fox News: Gil Gerard, actor who played Buck Rogers, dies at 82
Back when science fiction could be sexy, Gil Gerard was Buck Rogers.
We’re watching Stranger Things. Sparky doesn’t like it so much.
The Wheel of Time was cancelled before I bothered to watch it.
At $15 million per episode, it was expensive to produce, but got quite a bit of buzz and has an IMDB rating of 7.2. Just look at that promotional poster. Why would I bother?
I tried The Rehearsal because I enjoyed the other recommendations on a “Best TV Shows of 2025” list. The summary didn’t say much beyond, “the less you know, the better”, and that’s probably right.
Since I’m a little bit sick and drowsy, I’m watching Prehistoric Planet 2.
David Attenborough is narrating as a more earnest version of his brother Richard Attenborough, who played the crazy old dinosaur enthusiast in Jurassic Park.
The production values are very good, and the prehistoric creatures seem lifelike and convincing, but I can’t help thinking that they are making up some shit.
Sparky hasn’t gotten a derogatory nickname in a while, so I’m calling him a ‘red belly’. Or maybe enhance his last insulting nickname. He can be a ‘red belly skunk pig’.
That’s better. Reminiscent of Biden calling some random guy, a “dog faced pony soldier”.
In Kanji, Sparky’s Japanese code name is written like this.
Practice writing those characters.