How to Evolve Your Position

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All I’m saying is, if Harlan Ellison . . . Harlan Ellison feels the need to defend women from your advances, that’s saying something. It’s like saying “Neil Gaiman would have had me, but luckily, Louis C.K. was there.”

On to more pleasant subjects.

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot of comics about sci-fi TV and movies lately. I have, at times, been self-conscious about it, but I’m getting past that, I think. Old sci-fi TV and movies, as a subject, has several virtues.

I find it endlessly funny.

It is more easily accessible now than it has ever been before.

It is NOT the news, politics, or economics.

Also, Garry Shandling once wrote something to the effect of, “The more like myself I write, the funnier I will be.” I think a lot about that, and you can rest assured, when you read a comic, it is based on what I believed was the funniest idea I had that day. If that idea happens to be about Foundation, I am not going to steer away from it because I just did one about Space: 1999.

Anyway, I gave Foundation another chance, and I'm glad I did. I think it’s really good. Yes, they only used the Foundation books as a springboard to create something almost entirely different, but that different thing works for me. I’m still not entirely sure how that makes me feel, which is interesting in and of itself.

Also, it has Jared Harris and Lee Pace, both of whom are always good. This season, it looks like they’ve given a largish role to Alexander Siddig (Dr. Bashir from Star Trek: Deep Space 9), who, like many Star Trek alums, is excellent and underutilized. Also, one of the series directors, and now executive producers is Roxann Dawson (Star Trek: Voyager’s B’Elanna Torres), who is similarly excellent and underutilized.

One last thing: if you like science fiction, and have never given Apple TV+ a try, do yourself a favor and give it a shot. It’s worth it just to speed binge Severance, Foundation, For All Mankind, Silo, and Murderbot, in my opinion.

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How to See What Was Really Happening

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How to React to an Obvious Falsehood

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How to Draw Attention to a Terrible Wrong

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This is maybe one of those comics I did just for me. I hope you enjoyed it too, but really, it is just four panels of me reveling in my own geekery. But come on! Look at the guy’s IMDb page: It’s bonkers!

A few other notable projects he has appeared in:

Game of Thrones

Troy

Willow

The Crown

Blake’s 7

Magnum P.I.

Lovejoy … YES! FRIGGIN’ LOVEJOY!

Lately, I’m sort of liking the idea of giving people like him some appreciation while they’re still here to enjoy it. I would love to see an effort made to get him in to play some sort of antagonist (even if it’s only in one scene or voice work) in Star Trek, the MCU, the DCU, and the Orville.

I’m also not kidding about his awful costume on Space: 1999.  When I was a kid, Space: 1999 toys and merch were available, but it didn’t run on any of the Yakima stations, so I never got the chance to actually see the show. I could only imagine it. Lately, I’ve been working my way through the series, and let me tell you, the show itself is not great, but the making fun of it afterward on the phone to Ric is fantastic. Just last night, I watched Martin Landau passionately argue with three trees. Not puppet trees. Not guys in tree costumes. Just trees!

What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Julian Glover’s costume. It was awful, but not the worst on the show. I really do feel like part of the show’s goal was to knock dignified actors down a peg.

Here’s how they treated Peter Cushing, Brian Blessed, Leo McKern, and Christopher Lee.

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How to Recalibrate Your Expectations

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How to Appreciate an Unrealistic Premise

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How to Predict the Future

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How to Handle the Unexpected

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How to Analyze a New Discovery

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How to Eliminate the Unnecessary

I recently did an interview with a student journalist. I think it came out pretty good! Please give it a look-see if you’re interested.

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