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Why 'Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back' Is the Father of All 'Star Wars' Movies
The #StarWars franchise spans decades and generations, with the first installment, A New Hope releasing back in 1977. The original trilogy is beloved by many, the prequels exist and the future installments have everyone giddy with excitement. With how popular the franchise is, there will always be debates on which installment is superior...
By Ghezal Amiri8 years ago in Futurism
Brutalist Stories #44
The carriage of the subway rattles along as I hold onto the steel bar and the hologram projected onto my retina beams with a gigantic smile. “Fantastic new possibilities await you in the Realm! Sign up now and receive a live test experience in your stream, free of charge and without obligation!” That obnoxious smile, wide and sparkling, trying to convince me to take up the call like so many others have.
By Brutalist Stories8 years ago in Futurism
Extra Terrestrial Bracketing
In the attempt to solve the ET and UFO phenomenon , one of the things that immediately starts to become apparent is the terminology. The words being used to describe what is going on seem to lack the necessary meanings to properly and technically explain everything.
By Richard Van Steenberg8 years ago in Futurism
Outrun Stories #44
Reckless, that’s what they called him along with countless other adjectives that will probably be best if I left unmentioned. Reckless was always the one that stood out though, that was the one that made my stomach turn and my jaw clench, it was the one that really beamed like a big bright neon sign when I drew him as a partner.
By Outrun Stories8 years ago in Futurism
Review - 'Faction Paradox: This Town Will Never Let Us Go'
Nearly a decade ago, I attended a panel at the Chicago TARDIS convention on the topic of the novels of the wilderness years of Doctor Who (i.e. that time period between 1989 and 2005 when there was no TV show airing). On the panel were convention guests who had contributed to those books: Jonathan Blum, Paul Cornell, Kate Orman, and Gary Russell. Perhaps it was inevitable that the topic of Lawrence Miles, that looming but an immensely controversial author of the era, came up as the proverbial "elephant in the room." Despite Miles attacking them all in interviews, all four had great things to say about his work and it was Cornell who said that Miles, "should have been the next great British science fiction writer." In reading this, Miles' last published novel (which I bought at the same convention six years later), I can't help but feel he was right in that assessment.
By Matthew Kresal8 years ago in Futurism
Is Religion Psychological Sedation?
As we have discovered when looking at how Extra Terrestrials languages function on Earth via the possibility of HETLAU, we have seen how the term Government stands for mind control.Govern = to controlMent = Mental = MindGovernment = Mind ControlSo if the term Government is mind control what is the term religion? removing the suffix ion which basically means "a process" then we are left with relig. Since we know G stands for government, we can then substitute mind control so we are left with reli mind control. Reli is a morpheme for relinquish, so using the concept of porphemes and ETI, we can derive the term relinquish mind control. Or more accurately religion is possibly the process of relinquishing control of one's mind. The concept of mind control is a bizarre one for most Earthlings and immediately brings about images of foreign influence controlling our minds in scary and bizarre fashions.
By Richard Van Steenberg8 years ago in Futurism
Missile False Alarm is Misdirection
What a nightmare! Who could even imagine a warning going off saying there was an incoming missile and that is was not a drill. Could it get any worse? Obviously, if it was real it would be worse but it turned out to be a false alarm or was it.
By Richard Van Steenberg8 years ago in Futurism
The Last Jedi: Too Much or Too Little?
The above title, I must confess, is a falsehood; The Last Jedi is not quite as bad as Hayden Christensen in the infamous romantic comedy, The Attack of the Clones. That being said, Rian Johnson’s attempt to write and direct a Star Wars movie has numerous conspicuous problems, and its efforts to differentiate the sequel trilogy (ST) from the Star Wars of yore consistently come off as awkward and nonsensical. The more serious issues, however, stem from the script, as the more conservative, primarily plot-driving dialogue of the original three movies has been replaced with blatant cliche and frequent attempts at humor, which often appear even in the most intensely serious moments of the movie. A few thoughts:
By Douglas Kulow8 years ago in Futurism
