What Good Sci-Fi am I missing?
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 07:08
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I seen a trailer before but never watched it seemed a bit weird or long or 'Dystopia' or something. I might give Pantheon a go but I still think its a big long a lot of time to invest to get into the show.
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It's only 16 episodes.
Just give the 1st episode a watch. It will grab you by the end of it. And if you're not convinced by the end of Episode 1, you will be by the end of Episode 2.
ETA: Not dystopia really. 90% of the first season at least is really just the world we're living in right now with corporations doing shady shit that none of us are aware of. And with A.I. being such a real-world problem today, it's a great watch for the times we're living in right now. It's not until the last episode of the 1st season where things change on a grand scale, and even during the 2nd lesser season the rest of the world is really just a backdrop for the Main characters that were mostly established in the 1st season.
Like I said, episodes 2 through 6 of Season 2 could have probably been condensed down into only 2 episodes instead of 5 and I think it would have been better, but when you end the series like they did in the last 2 episodes, I can't really hate on them too much for it. That goes double since the show would have ended unfinished if Amazon hadn't come in and saved it after AMC+ cancelled it.
And I did watch that trailer for Season 1 after finishing season one and it's trash. It reveals too much while at the same doing almost nothing to sell you on how great it was. AMC+ doesn't have good trailer editors if that's the standard quality of trailers for their shows. Those trailers are probably exclusively to blame for why the show didn't do well enough for AMC+ to finish the show.
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they had a few online animations...Halo and Fallout go there first... but...
Warhammer is over?
Games Workshop and Amazon Have Until Dec 2024 to Agree 'Creative Guidelines' for Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40,000 Film and TV Series or They Won’t Happen
https://www.ign.com/articles/games-workshop-and-amazon-have-until-dec-
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Pantheon?
Tried ep 1
Ok what I liked about it and didn't like
It does things different to the usual Joss feminism DEI SJW nonsense from Hollyweird but I expected a lot of it before I seen it on screen because of trailers, not many surprises for now.
Pantheon has not done much new which I was not already expecting or different yet, its a topic done before, you have tv like 'Andromeda' with uploads of people, Japanese Manga Cartoons and Japan Anime movies, that whole Body swap, AI, Brain transplant stuff has been done before and 'Tron', Zola the Nazi computer robot face Marvel DC characters like , Japan's Macross, the Matrix... Corrupt Corporate Super Computer has been done before
What is different? the school thing with tech girl, dead father or is he, single mother, bullying with unfriendly groups and friendly new students, the online friends talking by emoji family acting a role, a corporate military government conspiracy with giant facility inside far away snowy mountains and psycho parents undercover manipulating their genius kid.
The foreign guy arrives from overseas a India genius wants to sell something but gets kidnapped or attacked.
At the moment it kind of feels like a movie story board with some good voice acting, some good cartoon animation but a movie / tv show which has yet to develop.
maybe it would work better as an actual tv series
It is far better than all the usual SJW Feminism DEI crap out there at the moment
I would say 'Patheon' is watchable after the first ep of season 1
However I already kind of knew where all this was going thanks to the trailer
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Yeah... That's what I mean. Sorry dude... I went in completely blind other than the 2 sentence blurb on IMDB. I never watch trailers for things that I seriously intend to watch. For a long time now, that wasn't much, but since I've gotten back into watching some movies and shows I have to be real careful about that.
I love the daughter/father relationship throughout the show. Not gonna lie, at the end of the 2nd episode I actually teared up a little.
The emoji stuff wasn't just done for the kiddies. There's a reason behind it that will become clear several episodes from now... possibly in episode 2 even. Hard to say now since I watched all 16 episodes over 2 days in a 24 hour period.
This thing is going to take turns that you're not expecting. I hope you keep watching it. Let me know what you think.
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it seems to have died but there will be new indie US product indie Euro product, a lot has moved to Asia, new Japan toon, a Chinese scifi writers New SKorean Books in Translation
There will be US stuff that people, scifi entertainment products from the USA and international workls like Dark Matter 2024, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories By Ken Liu, The Memory Police is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yoko Ogawa, Strange Beasts of China maybe cryptozoologist or fantasy or fun, Korean 'Tower' a speculative science fiction novel from Korean author Bae Myung-hoon, The Day the Sun Died lots of sleep and accidents, maybe scifi and fantasy can comment on history the tragic satire Chronicle of a Blood Merchant or Soul Mountain maybe scifi and fanatasy mixed with history or real history Red Sorghum with history or political Communism the period piece The Vagrants novel or something that mixes steam punk and kung fu and scifi and fantasy that whole Chinese and Japan anime cartoon superhero world Japan Anime or Folk or The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Waste Tide the end of 'Insane Consumerism' the imaginary ''Silicon Isle''? the Windup Girl the new style of biopunk science fiction novel by American writer Paolo Bacigalupi, the Waste Tide is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Chen Qiufan.
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This thing is going to take turns that you're not expecting. I hope you keep watching it. Let me know what you think.
I enjoyed this a lot, not at first I think the cartoon starts slow, it is adult themed but I think I got to ep 8 and started to feel it was a little disappointing again...maybe ep 8 was marked as 'End of Season' so I stepped off there.
the Chandra guy or Chanda India guy captured, tortured, he was interesting and turned out to be a nasty villain
I thought the Mars moment was stupidly rushed and if they wanted to introduce NASA with a fake uploaded family going to Mars they should have done this thread or plot point, theme much earlier, maybe it comes back better but I felt ep 8 didn't hit all the correct visuals or musical notes or plot or whatever felt missing even though it was ready to set up for a great finale ending.
Is it worth 8 eps...sure maybe people should check it out, don't miss it
but the Trailer gives A LOT away
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Yeah. I watched that trailer for the 1st season after I completed Season 1.
Boy... what a terrible, terrible trailer that was.
I'm still unclear on whether or not you've watched Season 2 or not though.
I still get the feeling that you didn't. Mars isn't forgotten about. There is no family uploaded. Just the step-mom / Astronaut. The 2nd season is completely different from the first season. When the first episode begins there has been a worldwide shutdown of the internet for months. And when I mentioned earlier that there was a bit of Dark Matter in the show to try to sell you on it, that's not until late in the 2nd season.
I'm surprised you didn't like the 1st season as much as I did. You might actually enjoy the 2nd season more than I did. There is a LOT more action in it. William Hurt's Steve Jobs character is front and center for a good portion of it. I feel that the last 2 episodes were pretty damn great, but I thought it got a little too action-heavy in the middle of the season and that they could have shaved off a few episodes without hurting the story. But since you feel the first season was slow maybe you would actually prefer what Amazon did in the 2nd season compared to what AMC+ did in the first season.
Just watch it dude. 
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More Japan toon fantasy based than actual scifi
‘One Piece’: Katey Sagal To Play Dr. Kureha, Mark Harelik Cast As Dr. Hiriluk In Season 2
https://deadline.com/2024/08/katey-sagal-dr-kureha-one-piece-mark-hare
lik-dr-hiriluk-season-2-1236045571/
and tv based on the video game world
Secret Level
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books by American-Canadian writer William Gibson
‘Neuromancer’: Filming Schedule Revealed for the Apple TV+ Sci-Fi Series
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ple-tv-sci-fi-series
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I got one NOT to watch...
Rarely is it that I watch a movie that my dad picks that is total garbage. It wasn't his fault. He'd never seen it before either. It was among some picks he wanted to watch after reading some list of great sci-fi movies.
Have any of you ever heard of "The Congress"?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0
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An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
The "last job" without spoiling anything that you don't figure out right away or didn't already know because you watched a trailer is that she's going to have a full body scan done to sign away to Hollywood so they can do whatever they want with her.
It sounded GREAT. It had the potential to be great.
It was not great.
I didn't even know what I watched when I was done and it wasn't one of those wild rides like Donnie Darko or a David Lynch movie. It was pure crap. I actively hated watching it as it went into "animation" mode. It was like a Ralph Bashki SuperFan finally had their shot at doing a 2nd rate facsimile of Baski's style for a full hour, and that was after a full hour of slogging through "real life" events that were told in the most boring way possible, featuring some of the most annoying characters I've seen in recent memory.
And the two hours lead up to some "dramatic moment" with "dramatic music" that I know was supposed to really pull at my heart strings after all we've been through together...
But that doesn't work when you've been given no reason to care about Robin Wright (played by Robin Wright) or her fake kids that might have been based off of kids she has in real life, or maybe it's a parallel universe or who really cares? Everything about this movie besides Paul Giamatti was an offense to one or multiple senses at the same time.
I'm angry about it. This should have been a good movie. There were parts of it that were really interesting despite itself.
TO HOLLYWOOD: You LOVE making remakes. How about you remake THIS one. It can't be worse than The Crow remake was.
TO EVERYONE ELSE: Skip this one unless you really enjoy a painful movie experience.
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