What a fucking breath of fresh air. Never watched it because I thought it would be lame since there's never any fighting. But fuck me it stands in stark contrast to all other media. It shows a future I actually want to live in. Everything else is some dystopian, violence ridden, dim look on humanity. Don't get me wrong I love a good dystopia but wow.
Fuck now I'm a nerd send help.
Highly recommend reading the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov if you want more non-depressing sci-fi futurism. It's kinda depressing because it's about the collapse of a galactic empire, but all the crises are solved non-violently and Asimov was definitely influenced by Marxism and historical materialism. The whole universe is basically a fun thought experiment about a universe where science becomes religion and the effects that would have on the development of productive forces in feudal society.
Also, cool spaceships and funny names.
Not gonna lie, Foundation bored me to tears. I generally really like Asimov, and it has an interesting central concept, but it stretches that central concept real thin and doesn't really do anything else all that well.
It is also most definitely not an optimistic future, especially with the ending, if that's what anyone's going for. It's not super dark or anything but there's nothing space communist about it.
I've heard the female characters are bad tho
They're nonexistent for most of the trilogy. There are literally zero in the first book.
Yeah I think that was the issue lol
I don't really read any of them as male or female or of any race (he doesn't dwell on those parts of the character, it's mostly general shape, trait, accent). The characters aren't really that important anyways, they're all archetypes used to help you understand the internal politics and conditions within the galaxy.
No character lasts more than like 5 chapters before history advances and you're into the next generation. Sometimes if they did something really important they'll be referenced later (Salvor Hardin) and occasionally diefied (Hari Seldon/ Karl Marx).
The show seems to be exploiting this by casting the characters with no regard for the pronouns used in the book. You could honestly change them for most and not even notice except for maybe some of the royals.
Oh, I heard someone saying that she thought it was like Asimov couldn't think of a future where women, like, do something. I'm not 100% sure what she meant by that. On the other hand she is a major TERF and was pissed at Asimov for dissing Orwell sooo idk maybe it didn't matter.
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I have no hopes. It's written by the guy who did Batman v Superman and the Terminator movies so I feel like they're gonna ham it up way too much.
It was originally supposed to be the Westworld crew, but that fell through.
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I'm actually looking forward to it because I was so unimpressed by the books. The concept is neat and it's hard to imagine them changing anything for the worse given how bland the source material is.