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The End of Cliche Street
I’ll confess to having zero respect for J.J. Abrams. It began with the final episodes of LOST and the clear admission that they never had a clue how they were going to end the thing. It was made worse when he said this in a live interview: Bear in mind, he was promoting Star Trek,…
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Thus ever to kings. These are the words Virginians put on the great seal of their Commonwealth. Look. Above those words stands Virtue, the Amazon female figure clad in a helm and carrying a spear and a sheathed sword. Her left foot holds Tyranny, a tyrant king subdued on the ground, his crown tossed asunder.…
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Project Hail Mary: A clinic in screen adaptations
I read Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary over a year ago and loved it. I loved The Martian and PHM had the feel of a sequel. All the elements that worked in The Martian are there—an isolated main character (Ryland Grace in PHM, Mark Watney in The Martian) with no game plan for survival up…