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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- 1: And those who can remember when the night sky was a tapestry
- 2: Distant as a dream of the cradle on this lonesome beach
- 3: Plates will shift and the earth will groan
- 4: Probably not going to leave the slightest trace in the wake when it's my turn
- 5: Can't I take my own binoculars out?
- 6: It's only eight, right?
- 7: If it's a moment in time, how come it feels so long?
- 8: It's time to change partners again
- 9: אַ ניקל פֿאַר זיי, אַ ניקל פֿאַר מיר
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