Feral Historian

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I will go to my grave while unashamedly stealing from it along the way saying that Elysium is one of the biggest fumbles I've ever seen. It has such a strong base of worldbuilding that you could go in any direction with it and it would be a winner. It's amazing that Blompkamp chose let's be honest, he was probably strong armed by producers and hollywood moneymen into choosing one of the weakest stories you could tell with it.

I'm fanging for more from this setting, but we'll never get it and that's a great shame.
 
Commissar Fuklaw said:

I will go to my grave while unashamedly stealing from it along the way saying that Elysium is one of the biggest fumbles I've ever seen. It has such a strong base of worldbuilding that you could go in any direction with it and it would be a winner. It's amazing that Blompkamp chose let's be honest, he was probably strong armed by producers and hollywood moneymen into choosing one of the weakest stories you could tell with it.

I'm fanging for more from this setting, but we'll never get it and that's a great shame.
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The biggest issue with Elysium is they never explained WHY the rich people kept the magic healing tubes. What was the reason for nobody else getting them? Did it use some magical bullshit substance that was super rare? At least "Jupiter Ascendent" filled that plot hole by saying the magical healing bullshit required the life force of an entire planet to be harvested. And that movie was fucking terrible.

I agree Blomkamp probably wanted to tell a harder story and instead we got "Healthcare is a human right, guise" as the primary hook.
 
mindlessobserver said:
The biggest issue with Elysium is they never explained WHY the rich people kept the magic healing tubes. What was the reason for nobody else getting them?
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Because rich people want more for themselves and less for everybody else. The movie was so heavy handed about it every time they were on screen you could detach your eyes from rolling them.
 
Pedophobe said:
In the end I usually just watch the videos about things I've already read/watched because those are easier to follow anyway. Watching a brief analysis of something you have no contextual knowledge of seems a bit pointless sometimes.
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I read the Draka novels because of his videos. He spoils a lot but I'd say he didn't spoil everything and I got a lot of value out of reading it. It depends on the piece of media and how deep it is. Often Feral is only going off on a tangent about an idea that a book brings up rather than spoiling everything. A good example of this is his "things to come video". He is really only latching onto a part of that story and explaining it, and there is way more going on with that story especially if you know anything about British Elites in the 1930s and 1940s.

Take that opinion with a grain of salt though as I can still enjoy things that have been "spoiled".
 
Squanto Airi said:
Feral Historian touches on the Penguin meme
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Nice and to the point, hit on an idea I have been thinking about recently, that the (western at least) left is a completely unimaginative movement, with no vision for the future. The best they can conjure up is a vision of the present, but just improved materially (at least allegedly), with no demands of transformation or greatness that the left of the past, often made of the people.
 
LovisXVI said:
Nice and to the point, hit on an idea I have been thinking about recently, that the (western at least) left is a completely unimaginative movement, with no vision for the future. The best they can conjure up is a vision of the present, but just improved materially (at least allegedly), with no demands of transformation or greatness that the left of the past, often made of the people.
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It why all science fiction and fantasy stories suck in the current age. The people running it are hard core leftists who cannot conceive of a way of being other then how they are living now in a lefty bug hive city.
 
I came across FH by accident a few weeks ago and I ended up binging a lot of his stuff.

I do prefer his older videos but that just may be because he talked over old movies and Star Trek which I also enjoyed. His stuff isn't as deep as he makes it seem but it's present in a clear and thoughtful manner without any overt political slant.

Plus I dig his overcoat...I want one like that now.
 
Sweeter and Savoury said:
I came across FH by accident a few weeks ago and I ended up binging a lot of his stuff.

I do prefer his older videos but that just may be because he talked over old movies and Star Trek which I also enjoyed. His stuff isn't as deep as he makes it seem but it's present in a clear and thoughtful manner without any overt political slant.

Plus I dig his overcoat...I want one like that now.
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Its a red army coat I think. Tons of them in military surplus stores.
 
LovisXVI said:
Nice and to the point, hit on an idea I have been thinking about recently, that the (western at least) left is a completely unimaginative movement, with no vision for the future. The best they can conjure up is a vision of the present, but just improved materially (at least allegedly), with no demands of transformation or greatness that the left of the past, often made of the people.
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mindlessobserver said:
It why all science fiction and fantasy stories suck in the current age. The people running it are hard core leftists who cannot conceive of a way of being other then how they are living now in a lefty bug hive city.
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Theater Kids with performative empathy, saying the right things but lacking a soul have hollowed out the modern left and institutions.
 
Squanto Airi said:
Theater Kids with performative empathy, saying the right things but lacking a soul have hollowed out the modern left and institutions.
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I wouldn't even go that far.

I think that the Left was just captured by the elites just like the Right was when it was in power. The elites don't really care which side leads just as long as it does what they want. The only real difference is the verbiage used to herd the cattle to the pens. Once OWS kinda took off the elites saw the writing on the wall and moved to ensure they were in control and since then the Left is nothing more then a globohomo mouthpiece.

Only a decade or so ago it was the Right that was the authoritarian pushing controls onto the populace now the Left is doing the exact same thing (pretty much) just with difference words/causes.

To me it's always the masses vs the few. It doesn't really matter which "side" is in ascendancy at that particular time as they both are nothing more then tools of the elites.
 
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