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  • What's the most unforgivable sin done in media that you're still bitter about?

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  • I loved watching the hobbit in the cinema, but i was a kid and I don't think I will ever sit down to watch it all again.

    The first one felt okay to have as one long film, i.e natural, but it's weird that it would end with the eagle rescue after Goblin town.

    If i think about it off the top of my head, some scenes they stretched out in film 1 ("An Unexpected Journey") were:

    • The "prelude" scenes of E r e b o r, which were very beautiful and cinematic, but most movies would convey in one or two scenes.
    • confrontations such as with the trolls and the goblins
    • CGI sequences like Radagast leading the wargs away from the dwarves

    I've not thought about it before but it really is a shame because as soon as a shorter version comes along, people will prioritise that film instead.

  • Why do American kids rely on the school cafeteria than bringing their own food?

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  • Socialism!!! That's socialism, how dare they!

  • Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

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  • That's fair enough, but I guess the premise of star wars is that they've always known about the force since pre-space times (Though literature outside of the movies explains the opposite), so to me it seems more like just the fantasy premise of the series.

  • Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

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  • Honestly the only Bradbury novel I've read so far was Fahrenheit 451 (I loved it). That's probably not sci fi, because tho it is set in the future, the futuristic elements which couldn't exist today are spoke about in vague terms and it's more a story of highlighting what's wrong with our current society by extrapolating where it will go from here

  • Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

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  • One of the best documentaries I watched was Brian Cox's Solar System, so yes that's a very good example of how the purely scientific can create a pretty fantastical impression!

  • Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

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  • It strikes me as very sciencey.

    • The space travel, for instance, is "how could space travel actually work?" And even when they have a satisfying explanation for planet to planet travel, they need one for longer distances, so they introduce those wormhole gates? I haven't read very far into it
    • it tries to make space colonisation as realistic as possible, including the body horror

    the alien plague

    And therein lies the balance. Real science for where we know (or think we know) the boundaries of science, and completely theoretical fantasy for things we don't know about (the existence of alien life and what shape it might take)

  • Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

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  • Yes but I'm interested in other people's views on this. Thought it would cultivate interesting discussion

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    FavouriteShapes @sh.itjust.works

    Regarding Sci-fi: Do you prefer it to lean more into the Sci element or the Fi element?

  • RFK Jr.'s staff shuts down questions as he admits he eats 'stuff I find on the street'

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  • Is this a satire site? All their stories are about Donald trump and his entourage. All of them. Very outlandish headlines