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blade runner vs. do androids dream of electric sheep

06 Sep 2025, #science-fiction

Blade Runner is a masterpiece of science fiction media, but every time I watch it, I can’t help but feel like it jettisoned all the parts of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? that I found interesting.

the forever war

26 Aug 2025, #science-fiction

Was anyone ever going to tell me that The Forever War was about how the future is just how everyone is gay and the last straight guy in the universe has to cope or was I always going to have to find out by reading it myself?

nostalgia for star wars

23 Aug 2025, #star-wars

Despite saying I wouldn’t watch Andor, I let myself watch Andor. I can’t say I regret it exactly, because it was good, but it sent me down a rabbit hole of nostalgia, which is something I don’t know that I like as much, because there’s nowhere for it to go. Disney releases slop. The fandom is toxic. The chances of something new and exciting happening are slim.

I can’t even say Andor is amazing, because for all of the smart things it does, I have become, in my own way, like the toxic fans who say this or that ruined Star Wars. (Obviously, Andor has not ruined Star Wars.) Because I never felt like I was watching the Cassian Andor I loved from Rogue One, so now I’m left hanging with this nostalgia for what the character meant to me almost ten years ago and I can’t recapture that feeling.