tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839422865061540962.post8926944803655349631..comments2024-02-13T01:50:46.013-10:00Comments on Seagull Rising: It's Like There's A Checkbox or SomethingJonMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07705424889025942210noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839422865061540962.post-45733898738269546782016-11-05T18:20:33.501-10:002016-11-05T18:20:33.501-10:00Exactly, and well said. The past may be a foreign...Exactly, and well said. The past may be a foreign country, but that's true of the future as well.<br /><br />Ideally, you'd show how things have improved in the future...and how not all change is an improvement. You have Buck learn from them, and vice-versa - show how the present isn't perfect, but we're doing some things just fine, thank you very much.<br /><br />Again - nuance is not Hollywood's strong suit, so fat chance of that.JonMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705424889025942210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839422865061540962.post-72927602997718026802016-11-04T04:43:46.798-10:002016-11-04T04:43:46.798-10:00If they were smart, they would leave the genders a...If they were smart, they would leave the genders as is. Make Buck Rogers an old-fashioned square-jawed spaceman and the future very modern, avant-garde. You give people on both sides something to identify with, but play with the priors of both in a way that suggest that both are mostly wrong...and our current consensus right. <br />But something it took me two sentences to explain is a little too complex for studio execs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com