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was it ever clarified if morphing shows up in blood tests?
What we actually get in #49 is:
Cassie took a deep breath. "Here's what I think. There's only one reason the Yeerks would suddenly be interested in blood. DNA. They're collecting samples of our morph animals, and they're collecting as many human samples as they can." She looked at us. "They're searching for humans with strands of animal DNA in their blood." (p. 16)
Later on, it's:
Cassie closed her eyes. «We overlooked something. Something huge. Our blood is all over the place. Every time we fight these creeps, we bleed. Traces of our human DNA is floating around in all that animal blood. All they have to do is scoop it up and wait for a match.» Jake nodded. «Or a partial match. Somebody in our family.» He stared at Ax. «Tom?» (p. 45)
We know that the first match is between Tobias's mostly-hawk blood and Loren's DNA, and that the yeerks match Jake to Tom within the next few hours. However. This is Cassie talking, not Michelle or Estrid or Steve. She knows some medical stuff, and she's the most skilled morpher, but she freely admits that she has no formal training in biology.
This is also one of those "sci fi Monet" problems, where the closer you get to the fine details the less the color blobs form a coherent picture. There is no literal way that a human could be 0.1% grizzly bear and still function well, nor that a hawk could be 0.1% human. And you'd need a fuckton of blood to extract DNA, or some kind of sequencer that's more sophisticated than any existing technology. But. Tobias's hawk blood contains some amount of human-Tobias DNA, as does Loren's blood. That much is canon.
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amburuthings · 10 days ago
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Tagged by @galadrieljones on this interesting picrew
Wearing down my oversized sweaters attending dozens of protests and gatherings, brows uneven and hair unbrushed ? VERY accurate (*shade of brown may vary)
Tagging @lathbora-virann @gefionne @bucketsofmonsters @mickeysalamander @luna-teacup @midnight-enansal without any knowledge of who might have already done it !!
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bakchodwriter · 2 years ago
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corpsecomplex · 2 years ago
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Repo! The Genetic Opera was like. An objectively bad movie. But it got so close to perfection. A sci-fi horror movie critiquing how the monetization of healthcare leaves the poor one missed payment away from death? And it’s a rock opera? And everyone is a horny mallgoth? She could’ve been the Sistine Chapel of cinematography 
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downtroddendeity · 2 years ago
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Nobody could bullshit like Lafayette Ronald Hubbard bullshitted.
these AI cults simply do not have the same flair for worldbuilding that the UFO cults they're following in the footsteps of used to have
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notoriousaesthetics · 7 days ago
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snapscube · 11 months ago
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Have you had the chance to play Honkai or Genshin? I remember you had them installed and I'm interested in your opinion as a regular ff14 player
haha yeah i've dabbled in a bit of both! not to the point of obsession just yet but i do enjoy them! the monetization aspect of it all definitely makes me want to kinda keep one foot out of the door as long as i can cause i'm definitely susceptible to that kind of structure LOL. that aside, of the two i definitely fuck with Honkai a bit more. the turn-based combat and the sci-fi aesthetic REALLY click with me. but i have a friend who really really wants to show me more about genshin so i'll be playing more of that soon anyway :)
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blindbeta · 7 months ago
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Hello there! I would really appreciate your help, I am writing a blind character who damaged his eyes in a traumatic accident after 50 years of living with sight. The setting is sci-fi, so in its own genre the world has better medicine and even prosthetics and implants, but I really don't want to go into the "cure the disability" trope. So could you please provide more ideas as to why a blind character would choose to remain blind even if they have every ability to restore their sight? I mean, aside from the "I'm fine the way I am," it's a must. Thanks you!
Why Someone Might Choose to Remain Blind
This is surprisingly similar to questions blind people are asked in real life. I’ll give a few ideas as to why someone would choose to remain blind:
-they were born on the blindness spectrum or became blind at an earlier age and it is what they are used to despite a recent change in vision
-they already have medical trauma
-the idea that they need healing makes them feel bad about themself, as if they are not good enough as they are
-the proposed medical treatment won’t work for them or will only work under specific circumstances
-the proposed medical treatment is risky, painful, costly, or involves a time-consuming recovery
-they have other medical conditions that complicate surgery
-their brain cannot process visual information anymore, which shows that blindness involves more than problems with the eye itself
-they don’t want a prosthetic or an implant due to issues associated with them
Edit: Please see the very interesting notes about monetization and micro-transactions that might come with prosthetics or implants, in addition to the fact that they’re already expensive and require maintenance.
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lgbtqreads · 7 months ago
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hi! do you have any found family recs? preferably sci-fi/fantasy but i will read anything
Of course! Try these:
YA
Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer
The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon
The Disasters by M.K. England
The Black Veins by Ashia Monet
The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder
Adult
Til Death Do Us Bard and *Fated Winds and Promising Seas by Rose Black
The Voyage of Cinrak the Dapper by AJ Fitzwater
The Stars Too Fondly by Emily Hamilton
Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
Among Thieves by M.J. Kuhn
Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong
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jimquisition · 8 months ago
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The First Descendant looked at a market saturated with freemium looter shooters, all of them behaving the exact same way, and decided the world needed another one.
What we have here is simply… another one.
Another tepid third-person shooter that drowns players in so much nebulous loot that it’s all a meaningless blur. Another derivative, aesthetically bland sci-fi romp, caring so little about its own story that any text-based dialog disappears before you can even scan it for the gist. Another product placing enjoyable gameplay a distant second to aggressive monetization.
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hekatesgoldensword · 2 months ago
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Hey there, Tumblr fam!
I'm diving into this wild world of reblogs and deep conversations, so here’s a little about me to kick things off:
I’m someone who thrives on a mix of creativity and curiosity. My days are often soundtracked by everything from soulful R&B to the electrifying riffs of metal, with a dash of classical or EDM when the mood strikes. If it stirs the soul, I’m here for it.
When I’m not lost in music, I’m usually somewhere in the cosmos with Star Wars, Star Trek, or Doctor Who. The Expanse is my latest sci-fi obsession—it’s gritty, complex, and just so good.
Art is another big love of mine. I’m endlessly inspired by Monet, Caillebotte, and Van Gogh (give me those dreamy brushstrokes!), but I’m also drawn to the bold lines of Cubism and the wild freedom of Abstract art.
I also spend a lot of time with my hands—crocheting something cozy or experimenting with sourdough (I’ve named my starter, because of course I have). Crafting and baking are my therapy, and there’s nothing better than pulling a warm loaf of bread out of the oven after a day of creating.
This space is going to be a mix of all the things I love—music musings, nerdy fandom posts, creative projects, and probably some baking fails (because they happen). If any of this sounds like your vibe, come say hi!
Looking forward to connecting and geeking out together. Let’s make this a fun corner of the internet.
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thebandbis · 6 months ago
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Sci-fi: Well, it's been nearly 3 weeks since our big birthday bash and we just want to give the biggest thanks to all of you who made it - especially those who travelled frankly ridiculous lengths to get there. It always blows my mind how this band has provoked such passionate support over the last 30 years. What we lack in numbers we more than make up for in fervour! Special thanks also of course to our stellar supporting cast, local heroes Lung Leg and The Yummy Fur - bands we grew up with and shared stolen riffs with - and mega thanks to Eddie and Art Brut for going out of their way to share our big day. Biggest thanks too to Lora Logic for making the trip up and sharing a unique moment with us on Germ Free Adolescents. I duffed at least three notes as I was holding back the tears a bit, apologies for that. Apologies also that in an attempt to preserve my voice, I ate a staggering amount of raw honey which messed up my blood pressure and made me bloat to a hilarious level. Those on the balcony may have suffered my temporary lumps and bumps creaking through my slightly too tight Ayr United top and for that, I can once again only apologise.
I went to see the utterly immense Arab Strap at the Barrowland last weekend. It was an excellent show but my professional jealousy meant that I couldn't stop thinking of how tremendous Eurodisco would sound in there and that bis are frankly MILES away from playing a show that size. The common factor of the excellence of both shows though was Richie Dempsey on sound duty. Even from the phone footage of the bis show, you can tell the sheer quality of the sound and we can't thank him enough. (We've known Richie so long that he actually signed our very first rehearsal receipt in (gulp) May 1990). I also went to see Lloyd Cole (more of this later) and first hand experience the cuddle of familiar material that has stood the test of time. Lloyd is maybe the only person I know who is more sarcastic than me. Well, I don't know him but you know what I mean.
A few more observations -
We have never spent SO LONG on set construction. Squeezing 30 years into an hour, missing out key tracks and putting in b-sides and deep cuts but still, based on feedback, NAILING IT.
YES - We absolutely should have recorded the show (audio AND video) and monetized the recording but we have been STUPID for 30 years now and totally missed this opportunity.
It was truly exhausting pushing social media trying to get to the magical ticket sales figure we got to. We have no machine behind us and never will again. It felt great to fill that big room but the crushing comedown reality of the aftermath is knowing that we can't come to YOUR TOWN and play to the same number of people. If we could, we would.
But yes, finally - just to reiterate how grateful we are. Playing that big room was a risk for us and it massively paid off. Apart from my taxi home failing to exist - WHAT A FUCKING NIGHT.
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deadite-central · 8 months ago
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Funny thing I’m rewatching Punk Hazard with my friend while working on the punk hazard posts. I love this arc, like genuinely it’s one of my favourites
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As the arc begins you immediately can sense another adventure as this is an island that doesn’t appear on the log pose, and of course, we have to go there to unravel that mystery, as well as the one around the Wano samurai attacking people. Smoker appears for a bit in the end of Fishman Island, but here we get his and Tashigi’s proper reintroduction, and seeing old foes appear again in One Piece is always great. So is seeing a whole ass dragon
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Punk Hazard is the first time we meet Kin’emon, who will be spending a lot of his time and development with the Straw Hats, which is something I never expected going into One Piece originally, I thought he’d simply be a side character for this arc. We also meet the kids, the mystery surrounding them is really compelling, because why is a bunch of huge children here? Are they really sick? How do we get them out of here? And fortunately we’ll get answers for that soon enough, as Nami decides to help them, once being a child that needed rescuing as well
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Besides the reintroduction of Smoker and Tashigi, Law appears for the first time since Post War. He still seems mysterious at this point in the story, and the show of his powers here is magnificent
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Speaking of his powers, one of the biggest comedic highlights in fantasy/sci-fi stories to me are body swaps. I’m on the floor whenever any of these people interact with everyone else. You can pair up a body swapped character with anybody and I promise you it’s funny
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It takes us some time to get there, but we also finally get introduced to the villain of the arc, tho I will say to me it feels like he shares that role with Monet, but that’s a talk for another time. Caesar is first set up by Brownbeard as a much nicer guy than he is, but it’s clear that cannot be true by everything we’ve been seeing on this island so far. And when we see how cruel he is to his subjects, people that genuinely would do anything for him, it all creates an image of an absolute mad scientist, a villain trope that shockingly works very well in One Piece. Caesar himself is a great mix of evil and hilarious, because while what he does is completely disgusting, he is so goddamn funny that I cannot not like him
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greatwyrmgold · 1 month ago
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Noah Caldwell-Gervais's new Dragon Age video reignited the flames of long-dormant discourse in my heart. Vitriol for DLC, which I personally think is ridiculous. I do not think there is a valid argument against video game DLC that does not apply equally well to paying money for video games in general.
(A position I'm much more open to now than I was when DLC was a more relevant discourse topic, but that's not an argument DLC haters make so it's not one I'll address.)
I'll start by clarifying that I'm talking specifically about classic-style DLC, where you made a purchase and could download and use that content for as long as relevant servers worked and the game worked on your PC. Pay $20 for a new area with side quests, pay $7.99 for weapons and other options, pay $2.50 for horse armor. There are a lot of ways DLC shades into other forms of monetization (gacha games and battle passes and so forth), and I don't want to defend all of it. Just the classic DLC model.
Back in the day (and sometimes today), people talked about DLC as if it's taking bits out of a finished game to sell them separately. They say it's unfair or immoral to sell those separately, with a separate price tag, when it's part of the complete experience!
And I just do not think that is materially true. Let me start by questioning the concept of a "complete game" by pointing to Knights of the Old Republic 2, a 2004 game which quite famously had a ton of cut content—content that we only know about because (for technical reasons) it was left on the disks. Would KOTOR 2 be more complete if we didn't know about the cut content?
Games have always had stuff that got cut late in development. A random game from 1990 is likely not "more complete" than a random game from 2020, but 1990 didn't have any way for devs to distribute the unfinished content even if they did finish it later. Never mind how the manager could justify paying all eight developers for the couple of months it would take to finish that stuff! Either it got spun off into a new game or it lingered in hard drives, never to see the light of day.
From an audience standpoint, I have not seen anyone name a narrative DLC which is actually essential for the game. Excluding the DLC narrative content does not make the game's narrative incomplete, any more than excluding Han Solo from the original Star Wars movie would make it incomplete. The story works perfectly fine without Mos Eisley cantina, without Han helping rescue Leia, without the unexpected return of Han Solo at the end.
Don't get me wrong, Star Wars without Han Solo would be a worse movie. But bad movies are not automatically incomplete; they can be both complete and bad. Star Wars without Han Solo would just be a worse movie, no more incomplete than any other 1977 sci-fi film that didn't spawn a billion-dollar franchise.
And it's also not true from a production standpoint. I'm gonna link an Ask a Game Dev post on the subject and share a lightly edited image from his FAQ.
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There might be exceptions, but broadly speaking, every game dev I've seen speak on the issue says that DLC is not stuff deliberately cut out of the game after development. Sometimes it's stuff that may have been prototyped during development and then scrapped, or stuff that was developed somewhat but cut because it wasn't working properly by the cutoff date, but it's essentially never complete material cut out for marketing reasons alone.
DLC is, from an internal perspective, a project that is connected to the original game, but with a separate budget and separate revenue. Less revenue, to be sure, but also less budget, because the underlying engine works and you might reuse some of those old buggy prototypes in the product.
This is true of Day 1 DLC, by the way. For business reasons, video games need to be basically done long before they are actually available for sale. The certification process is the big culprit here; it's a back-and-forth between devs and various platforms where basically the entire team needs to be available (in case something they made breaks), but most of the team won't have stuff to do. Adding anything new could cause a whole slew of new issues to arise somewhere or another, so you can't do that in the certification slog.
Clever game companies find some other project for idle employees to pitch in on. Maybe another game being developed for later release. Maybe a live-service content pack. Maybe DLC. And certification for DLC (or patches) of an already-certified game is a lot faster than getting the base game certified!
You might argue that this is no different than if the developers were allowed to keep working on the game until much closer to launch. I would say yes, it is like if the devs were working on a video game, that's why paying for day-one DLC is equivalent to paying for a video game.
You might argue that they could just include that DLC content as a free patch. I would say yeah, they could. They could also release the entire game as a free product. It's not like each electronic copy of the new CoD game costs $60 to manufacture!
You might argue that the game publisher needs to make money somehow to justify paying the devs that make the game. I would point out that DLC is often treated as a separate project with a separate budget, or at least a certain amount of the "central budget" allocated for DLC purposes.
Every reasonable, informed argument about DLC must either conclude with "It's fine for DLC to have a price tag" or "Video games should be free".`
Thanks for reading my rant. Or at least existing in a state where you could have read my rant, giving me a space where I can type stuff like this to get it off my chest. Man, I wish I had that ten years ago.
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tallysgreatestfan · 3 months ago
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What is it about Uglies that makes it so prone to misinterpretation?
Originally planned this to be a tumblr post, this is why I have this as basically a script here, but then it became longer and longer and I finally decided to make a youtube video instead, which I will post in the tags later today too. It became so long it would not even fit into just one single post, which is something that never happened to me before. So this post will not even be the full script, but the second part will be added in a reblog.
If you, like me, were a fan of the book series even before the movie came out, or even just liked the movie and thought longer about it, you likely noticed this pattern too: People have bizarre takes about Uglies that are not actually supported anywhere in the text, and are very overbearing about it. Trying to monetize said bizarre takes is a bonus.
My last straw before finally giving in and writing this was a big Youtuber I don’t want to name because I don’t want to be harassed claiming that Uglies is anti-feminist because criticizing beauty culture is oppressive to feminine women. Which is not just such a weird interpretation of feminism, but also a misunderstanding of the actual messages of the book series and movie.
Not that the movie doesn't have flaws, I talked about them on my blog, but I am not talking about people hating it because of said flaws, or even just not vibeing with the story and the characters. I am talking about things that make you go "did we watch/read the same thing, where the hell did you even get that from?"
Also why do I write this analysis instead of actually debunking these takes? Well, have you ever tried to convince someone on the internet of something you knew was true and had proof it was true? Then you know that it is impossible and wasted time and energy. And I would rather spend that energy drawing or writing Tally/Shay, thank you.
(Background footage is me colorizing an expansion to that short fight between Tally and Dr. Cable in the third book, which fits well because they are the characters I see the most media illiterate takes to)
Biggest contributor: People desperately want to hate it. This has, in most places, nothing to do with the actual flaws the movie does have. It started well before anything about the movie other than there being a movie was released. This means they will chose the least flattering interpretation if there are several, and also not engage deeper with it
Main reason for this: Misogyny. YA dystopia is established as sci-fi for teen girls, so it can only be cringe, shallow and stupid, right? This is particularly visible on twitter with the most obvious misogynist language, but even on other sites you can see how these sentiments basically glow through the corners of what was said on the surface, since outside of twitter it is not socially acceptable to openly hate teenage girls.
Other main reason: It sounds arrogant, but there really is no other way to put it, than noticing that quite a lot of people don't really seem to grasp that YA dystopia is a genre. They see Hunger Games as the only real and valid example of the genre, and everything else is plagiarism, so it has to be bad and tearing it down is a moral obligation. You see that in how people call it Hunger Games copy cat, even if Uglies the book came out in 2005, before Hunger Games, and a future that is very obviously horrible, full of poverty, in which teens are forced to fight to the death, is quite different from an on first glance utopian future without poverty or war, in which everybody at sixteen without any visible cost to them gets plastic surgery, which only reveals itself to be horrible if you dig deeper. Yes, they both have teenage girls fighting a regime, but this is not enough to be plagiarism, that is genre similarities.
Uglies, coming out in 2005, was one of the very first YA dystopias ever, only predated by The Giver (Luis Lowry) and Shadow Children (Magaret Haddix) and so, despite never becoming as mainstream as Hunger Games, established the tropes the genre would use in the 2010s. This means that in 2005, these tropes were new and groundbreaking. However, since Uglies, due to a mix of being incredibly difficult to adapt, being not as mainstream and just coming too early, was only adapted after the genres boom, these same tropes now read as overdone and mainstream. I think changing details in the movie to make it as groundbreaking as the books would have been a good idea, IMO the best way would have either making Tally and Shays homoerotic undertones a canon romance or telling the story non-chronological from Tally, Shays and Dr. Cables perspectives. But it also is unfair to the story needing to change just because it was adopted later. We don't expect stories of other genres to always be subversive and brand new.
But also since it is from around five years before the genres main popularity, the way these tropes are used does differ from the way they would be used in later YA dystopias. Not enough to not feel the same, but enough to subvert expectations to be frustrating. It is from a different time but if you don't know that you expect it to be exactly like the 2010s YA dystopias and are disappointment.
Tally isn't a typical 2010s YA dystopia heroine, but she is just similar enough to look like one on the surface and to be a disappointment when she doesn't fulfill that role. She is an anti-hero, not to the degree as adult dystopia protagonists like Guy Montag or Winston Smith, but definitely not as heroic as Katniss Everdeen or Tris Prior too. She deeply believes into the system for most of the book/movie, is quite naive, quite self-focused and only close to the end gains any understanding of how the world actually works. The character who is the rebellious from the beginning, smart and brave teen girl is Shay, her best friend, and Shay drives the narrative, not Tally. Her flaws make her feel very human, but also aren't relatable to everybody, but specific consequences of the society she grew up in. They toned that down in the movie, presumably because Tally being unlikable was one of the biggest complains about the books even before the movie came out.
All of the characters, but especially Tally and Dr. Cable, are deeply formed by their environment. Their moral compass and priorities do not fully align with ours, because they come from a society that prioritizes different things. Scott Westerfeld does that in all of his works, and it’s fascinating. I love it. However, this seems another hard to grasp thing, that being taught differently and growing up differently, of course you think differently. I saw so many people complain about Tally being vain for panicking about not getting the surgery and letting herself be blackmailed with it. Which of course, in our society, not getting beauty surgery is a complete non-issue, because it is not normalized. But in this world, this is a huge part of their morality and expected trajectory in life, and not getting it is a social death sentence.
Now, it is frustrating to me because she is one of my favorite villains ever, but from just watching the movie I can understand where this comes from: Dr. Cable isn't exactly like the cliche suspicious middle aged woman ruler trope so typical for the later YA dystopias, and she isn't monodimensional either - but like Tally, she is close enough to the cliche that you wouldn't noticed that without deliberately paying attention. That most of her depth comes from the third book, where Tally is on her side for most of the story, and that denying her humanity to appear as just this monstrous, powerful figure, is part of her strategy, only plays into that. There are small cracks showing her as a private person; her sadistic humor as she makes sure all provisions Tally receives is exclusively SpagBol, or complaining about the silly architecture in New Pretty Town. She very much has a noble goal, and one of the scariest parts about this world is that it indeed feels better than our own. And she believes chipping away her own humanity and doing all these horrible things to, from her view, protect humanity, is morally right. It is all there, but it is subtle. Also not made better by the movie genuinely flattening the nuance of the book.
The biggest disadvantage the series has, even more than the horrendous timing, is in my opinion that you actively have to want to dig deeper to fully understand it. For most books and movies, if you understand the surface of it, you understand at least most of it. This is the way most people seem to engage with media. As I read Uglies for the first time, I remember not being particularly impressed with it at first, just thinking it was superficial and a bit too preachy. Only as I continued thinking about it, I understood details about the world and the characters and suddenly I realized that it did have depth and smart commentary and that I wanted to read it again. It fits to this world that is specifically designed to be surface level, with citizens conditioned to not think deeper, that the book would seem superficial and shallow at first too and only later reveal it's depth. The easiest example for that are the place names, Uglyville, New Pretty Town and so on, which many people complained are way too silly. However, if you remember that the vast majority of people in this society are altered to be easygoing and unimaginative and shallow, it makes sense that their place names would be surface level, obvious and silly too. I love it, but it does not work well with bigger audiences. Especially now that, muddling that point, the movie genuinely does have some moments where the worldbuilding was dumbed down - for the most parts, however, it still is like the books in that regard.
However the part of the message that is on the surface is quite blatant, making it easy to have a “wrong sense of security” about how deep it goes
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notoriousaesthetics · 4 months ago
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