#now that's sci fi
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
It was against my wishes that I was made to watch the Andor series. I have thoughts.
I'm finding it very hard to discuss because with the entire franchise I feel like it's some sort of topsy turvy alice in wonderland world where we are expected to take very seriously this media that is so simplistic and so devoid of difficulty or nuance or the quintessential greyness and relativity of morals that calling it a series for children is insulting to at least some options of children's media.
I feel bizzare when star wars films (as well as marvel for that matter) are treated and reviewed and discussed as if these stories aren't an equivalent of mass produced plastic mcdonalds toy: utterly generic, simple, inoffensive and lacking any kind of storytelling mastery.
And yet we're at a point when those are not flicks, not something we can agree is fast food of cinema, instead it is treated like something grown adult humans should sit down and discuss as important cultural event of our times. (Not Andor specifically yet, but star wars in general at the very least).
To me, all of this is peppa pig. I cannot take this seriously. I cannot look at those movies and series that are milking themselves for money and are offering the same primitive story over and over and over again and be part of this pretense that this is cinema, that this is for adults. I will not sit with a group of adults and discuss the story and character development in peppa pig. That is not to say peppa pig is inherently worthless! No, I want children of target age to sit down and discuss those things. Learn appropriate level of media comprehension and analysis through appropriate works at appropriate age. Just like I feel star wars franchise in general is meant for pre-teen children, I guess.
And it's bizzare to me not only that the same story and same characters are regurgitated over and over, all of it also has this veneer of seriousness, thoughtfulness, with a pretense of being adult choice of storytelling (and story-listening!). That's the milquetoast liberal message aside even. It's literally the same to me as children's shows getting those grimdark remakes with drugs and sex and incest and rape and murder and abuse added in while it remains a flat, unseasoned, unnuanced story that we are for some fucking reason supposed to sit down and discuss at our lunch breaks because that's apparently what adults consume and discuss.
This is a continuation of that recent tiktok thing about 'not reading a 700 page Russian novel', the battle of anti-intellectualism and snobbism versus lack of curiosity towards anything more challenging than disney. It's disney. It's quintessential disney writing which is not to say the story is necessarily bad: again, for the target audience (which for star wars in its entirety should be in my opinion up to 13 years old) it can be ok. But it's not for adults.
Stat Wars is not for adults. Disney is not for adults. Marvel is not for adults. It doesn't mean it's bad. Graphics are good, yadi yada, spaceahip goes brrrr, it's fine. But I have as much desire as an almost 30 year old to watch or discuss it seriously as I have to watch and discuss peppa pig or spongebob or scooby doo or barbie mariposa.
I'm not even saying it's bad for adults to like children's or teen or young adults' media, keep an eye on it, check it out when it comes out, notice good and bad things about individual pieces, analyze them, admire the art etc etc etc. But the genre and the target of that art should be kept in mind. It should be called what it is: pre-teen sci fi. It should be placed in that category in media libraries, it should be prefaced as such in conversation and when the conversation is about adult fiction, Andor or Star wars (or marvel or disney) should not really take much space in that conversation.
And I'm tired of how much space that primitive writing, those mass produced plastic mcdonalds movies with basic barely liberal messages take up nowadays. I hate that I cannot just say that I don't really check out children's media this days and be understood as someone who doesn't watch marvel or star wars stuff (which is all the same whale anyway).
There's nothing to discuss. Writing is poor, pacing is poor, dialogue is dry, acting is okay (there's not much to act out, everyone had the same expression for the first five episodes), graphics clearly the main point of the whole thing and yeah, I guess, spaceships flying look good.
#the entire franchise is meh#yes the original trilogy as well#it survived solely on the memes#on the delightfull whackiness that has been grimdarked out of it#and I'm fucking hungry to discuss babylon 5 with someone#now that's sci fi#andor#no I'm not tagging it anti-andor#it's my blog#long post
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
UHURA!!!
#these are actually the first things I drew when I started watching lol#I got sidetracked#I’ll kick myself if I’ve forgotten any details now u don’t wanna know how long I spent on this#uhura#nyota uhura#star trek#star trek tos#my art#artists on tumblr#art#digital art#fanart#official Uhura appreciation post#Sci fi
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
some of my favourite bgs that i painted for episode three of scavengers reign
layout designs by: pauline mauvière, anastassia drobyazko, kirk shinmoto, and alfie marley
#was especially happy w how the brokeh lights came out#bls watch our show to gimme job i want j#scavengers reign#if you like sci fi. horror. speculative biology. butch lesbian robot romance and funkiest little guys you've ever seen u should watch it an#give double thumbs up etc etc#animation#background art#edit 7.9.24: added image descriptions now
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
When Gina graduated with accolades and got her dream job, she never knew her assignment would be so…alive.
A bunch of scientists scooped some weird spaghetti out of a dead god and turned it into a computer. Is that good? Hard to say if this is bad or good.
Tethis uses it/its btw
#object head#Objecthead#OC#OCs#sci fi#cosmic entity#old gods#eldritch god#how tf do I tag these fuckers#Tethis#Gina#steamed doodles#super computer#Now to rest my hand cuz yowch#eldritchcore#Bright colors
414 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sab stops running.
mine, he/him
#thygatrion#illustration#butch#trans#not sapphic just brutal dykes#sab#cyborg#sci fi#trans art#trans artist#idk if i'll get back to this story now that my life's been taken over by a different one#and besides that#read superpose#he/him#i'm also he/him thank you!#trans man#not transmasc just trans man
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.
#mass effect#wild rambles#i miss the feeling of playing that game for the first time#now i know everything and it isn't as mysterious and alluring anymore#getting lost in the tunnels on feros is one of my memories of all time. it just felt like... i was meant to get lost. there's Something her#i love the whole trilogy but man me1 really did have that sci-fi interstellar type of feeling the other two don't#also later they retconned the reapers as having actually been built by someone as opposed to ''this is so alien you can't understand it.#this is a machine without a creator. it has always existed. you are not meant to understand. this is so much bigger than you.''#which i really liked a lot more but like. whatever. im not in charge. they wanted to make things more palatable to the human mind when i#think the cosmic horror aspect of the reapers in me1 was one of the things that affected me the most#and made me stay with the series for as long as i did
486 notes
·
View notes
Text
Part of why I continue to come back to the original three Lord of the Rings films, despite their many faults, is that they’re not trying to be part of a “cinematic universe?” They are great because they are complete, and self-contained. They have a beginning, middle, and end. They have a clarity of purpose: they know exactly what they want to say and they say it, all within the movies themselves. They have a clear focused narrative with a clear focused message. They build things up and pay them off, and only pay off things they’ve actually built up.
You don’t need to have consumed any of the extended media to understand what’s happening. You don’t need to watch the writers flounder around struggling to find a central theme to their story after it’s already 8 seasons and hundreds of millions of dollars into production, rather than figuring out what they wanted to say at the very beginning of the process. And you don’t need to wait for a spinoff to follow up on the ideas the LOTR movies bring up—- because the movies themselves follow up on their own ideas. Because they are a complete, clear, tight, focused, streamlined, thematically cohesive narrative written by people who knew what they wanted to write and what message they wanted to send, and then Did That.
I’ve got to admit: I’m very tired of “stories” that aren’t actually stories, but a collection of empty commercials for their own spin-offs. I’m tired of tv shows/movies that bring up ideas they never intended to explore, because the projects weren’t planned in advance and the writers were haphazardly making things up as they went along and abandoning significant thematic ideas the moment they got bored of them. I’m tired of endless empty hollow Lore without meaning.
I love it when fantasy stories are streamlined narratives that have beginnings, and endings, and a clarity of purpose! But I guess that’s just life sometimes.
#lotr#the hobbit#I’m not Not vaguing about the newest season of Arc*ne#look I really loved how tightly written and compelling season 1 was#and then it became Every Other Piece of Sci fi Fantasy Media in Existence Right Now#which is fine#but yee
351 notes
·
View notes
Text
#that which could not be included:#scarecrow#sci-fi (aliens‚ robots‚ mad scientists. my mind seems to separate sci-fi and horror as concepts so it just lumps these all together lol)#pirate apparently#the headless horseman. just a smidge to specific and singular#generic 'monster' that isn't an alien but is physically weird as if it were#technically haunted dolls but veering a bit less ''conventional''#i wouldn't count folklore like Medusa or the minotaur cause then this list would be endless. plus feels weird to level those as 'spooky'#I'm thinking too much now I'm done lol#Halloween
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
🌌✨To Boldly Go✨🌌
#strange new worlds#star trek#star trek fanart#christopher pike#una chin riley#erica ortegas#nyota uhura#la'an noonien singh#christine chapel#joseph m'benga#sam kirk#spock#art#illustration#sci fi#I had to do some corrections on their colors#I feel they are more harmonious now than before#I am going to be drawing even more of the characters don't you worry#I have simply run out of space on this canvas
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
yknow, I am amused that solangelo fanon was so tunnel-vision in like 2014 that in the midst of crawling through literally every time Will had popped up in the series prior, somehow the ONE singular instance of Will referencing something that the fandom did absolutely nothing with was the thing Rick then decided to draw out into being a major character trait for Will.
Like. Nico eats McDonalds once and it becomes a huge fanon thing, but Will references Star Trek and the fandom doesn't make a peep until Rick explicitly canonizes that he's a huge sci fi nerd. and Rick doesn't even keep it consistent! He changes it so Will is a Star Wars nerd instead of Star Trek. smh 😔 /lh
#pjo#riordanverse#will solace#this is in jest i hc Will is just a general sci fi nerd but i just find it funny that like#yeah Will being a sci-fi nerd DOES get referenced relatively early on in his character#its just literally nobody cared a singular bit to acknowledge it in fanon before TOA#and somehow *that* is the thing Rick went ''ah yes! a character trait! this will become a huge part of his personality''#also amused that Rick changed it from Star Trek to Star Wars. did Disney tell you to do that Richard. be honest.#Rick named his cat Tribble i know where his biases lie#also the fact that this line exists makes Will's later star wars nerd characterization even funnier imo#because it DOES imply he's a general sci fi nerd. possibly even bigger nerd than initially implied#cause it means he's largely familiar with at least two major sci fi series#which then implies that probably extends further. and again there is like next to zero fanon about this#fanon sees Will's sci fi nerd characterization and just goes ''...meh. nah.'' maybe gives him a lil star wars at best#this is a totally neutral thing i just think its funny#like now wait hold on. lets hear out his Avatar and DW opinions
160 notes
·
View notes
Text
Oh.
Nintendo out there just casually (kinda) confirming the "descended from humans" and "the wraiths are involved in all of the spaceship crashes" theories.
(source)
Okay, they're not really "confirmations" but more like they're officially addressing the different theories that people have about the true nature of PNF-404 and are telling you to keep on speculating on your own time.
Take these translations with a grain of salt since they're machine translations.
#pikmin#nintendo#pikmin 3#pikmin 4#i've always been kinda on and off with the umebozu theory. and i think this is the first time nintendo has directly addressed it#but i've pointed out that shepherd's family are likely descendants from humans since the start#what i don't get (and i'm not sure if i've posted about)#is that if humans are their ancestors#what happened that gave humans the ability to travel through space#and then subsequently lose the ability and also forget the history of Earth?#that's really the biggest mystery to me right now#the crashing and the pikmin's motives we can chalk up to sci-fi nonsense#but what happened for them to just lose millions of years of records?#was there another apocalyptic event that caused them to lose everything again?#are they just bad at record keeping?#is that why so many of the races are obsessed with nostalgia?
209 notes
·
View notes
Text
Leo, if he leaned more into his love for magic tricks: for my next trick, I’m gonna make myself ~disappear~ *proceeds to get lost in space for five months*
#rise comic spoilers#tmnt 40th anniversary#rottmnt#rise leo#rottmnt leo#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#I do wish he leaned more into his love for magic tricks and magicians in general it’s a very cute and fitting characteristic for him#instead of his magician hyperfixation getting ruined it’s his sci-fi hyperfixation getting ruined#twice now space is used against him smh#halfway through he’s found by Jupiter Jim and Red Fox and while they’re having their own adventures on one side of the universe#donnie had built a spaceship so everyone can go after him#they keep juuuuust missing each other#AU where Leo idolizes Houdini more than Jupiter Jim and incorporates magic tricks into his normal catalogue#fighting against the Krang and the Krang has him pressed into the rocks and Leo hits him with a#‘ha…is THIS your card?’ and he pulls like. an ace of spades from the side of Krang’s head#and Krang is legitamately flabbergasted because yes. it IS his card.
279 notes
·
View notes
Text
David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor (and his Sonic Screwdriver)
for Tennant Tuesday (or whatever day this post finds you)
#david tennant#tennant tuesday#his hands are so pretty#fourteenth doctor#I did get the new sonic screwdriver toy#and am very pleased#as are my kids#we're all older now but haven't outgrown sci-fi toys#thank goodness#doctor who#stuff i posted#this has been in my drafts for ages#its time has finally come
316 notes
·
View notes
Text
ive still been listening to f@tt while drawing my star wars guys and im coming back swinging-- i mean work keeps me frustratingly busy but i finished listening to partizan in a little over a month and the wheel? she's turning. anyway heres a wip to commemorate ✌️
[Image ID: Digital full-body illustrations of Thisbe, Kal'mera Broun, and Valence from Friends at the Table: Partizan. They are lined up next to each other in a reference sheet style. End ID.]
#friends at the table#f@tt#partizan#thisbe#kal'mera broun#valence#sorry for my brief starwar phase im better now#and im still working on hi/eron refs!!! the sci-fi seasons just grip me so hard :"D#but yeah im planning on drawing the entire partizan pc cast... all of them
93 notes
·
View notes
Text
S1E30: Operation Annihilate ⋆.˚ ✧ ·
#some of my favorite shots from the whole series#the red is so good! the contrast! ahh!#wonder where all those tiny tiles are now...#operation annihilate#spock#red#colors#on location#filming locations#star trek#star trek tos#star trek the original series#science fiction#sci fi#leonard nimoy#classic trek#aesthetic#screencaps#my edit#1960s
182 notes
·
View notes
Text
A little bit of treason posting for your Friday.
-- Find my Discord and other sites: linktr.ee/The_red_right_hand Do not use, repost or claim (rp) my art/character Art © The-Red-Right-Hand
#my artwork#oc#sci fi#del-verse#helldivers#helldivers 2#delany#I always hated this meme#and how facist douchebags use it to eagerly#break down those walls#this is how I vent now these days I guess
78 notes
·
View notes