I'd christen her Victory, she'd make it

[sovay]

I was having an appalling night and I am still not doing so hot, but I improved it significantly by watching Space Sweepers (승리호, 2021). I can't remember the last film I saw that remembered about Lagrange points. Or space elevators. For the grounding of old-school science fiction with twenty-first century climate justice, a complete absence of romance, and a cast who are the ever-winning combination of fantastically badass and complete bloody disaster, I will give it a lot of latitude for nanobots doing whatever the plot needs them to. Points also for a future of universal translators in which people both speak their own languages and code-switch as needed. I think it would pair very well with Pacific Rim (2013), which also leans enthusiastically into every trope of its genre except when it doesn't feel like it. I wish I'd been able to see it on a big screen at the 'Thon.

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[genarti]

(I didn't know Gundam Wing had Lagrange points. I approve.)

It does! Five space colonies, one at each Lagrange point. I tend to think that sci fi movies and shows and anime put tons of stuff at Lagrange points, but when I stop to think about that it's really just that I assume Gundam Wing did it because it was a trope, which is not necessarily the case. Anyway, I agree with cyphomandra about the nostalgic fondness. (I haven't watched or read Planetes, but I keep meaning to, because I've heard good things.)

[sovay]

I tend to think that sci fi movies and shows and anime put tons of stuff at Lagrange points, but when I stop to think about that it's really just that I assume Gundam Wing did it because it was a trope, which is not necessarily the case.

I associate them primarily with the habitable gas torus of Larry Niven's The Integral Trees (1984) and The Smoke Ring (1987), which I adored in seventh grade, also the covers by Michael Whelan.

I hadn't heard of Planetes at all, but when I sketched the setting of Space Sweepers to rushthatspeaks, he mentioned it at once.