Recent content by Tiran

That's an interesting point considering the first film has no hero or quest.

Are you saying that 2049 failed to use internally consistent technology/speculative science? Or are you saying the plot didn't leverage that speculation enough, like Firefly - a Western in space? I thought 2049 used issues of cloning, memory and machine intelligence to make some thoughtful...

I read your original diatribe - it arrived in my email. You are simply unable to accept constructive criticism, and you feel it is helpful to post material for critique and then expect readers to telepathically know which parts you are already planning on changing and which parts you are...

Please keep in mind that I was not correcting things from a technical side, I was correcting how the passage reads. For example: People can "decode" things with or without computers, but people who do that kind of work don't talk about it the way you have that character talking, and that will...

Notes: We call our own "star system" the solar system. Carl Sagan speak, not "Carl Sagan's speak". But and although mean the same thing, don't use "But although" together. Satellites don't go into the unknown. Voyager is not a satellite. How does low orbit ISS maintain satellites in high orbit...

I genuinely liked the fact that they made a superhero movie that had absolutely zero romance or romantic history for the protagonist. Good dialogue. Otherwise, the MCU usual. It always amazes me how they can take a character that can fly super fast, is invulnerable and super strong, yet nothing...

Quantum mechanics is not a tidy subject. Your best bets for concise layman information is Wikipedia and sometimes the public information webpages of research university physics departments at major schools like MIT, Standford, Caltech, etc. There are several major stumbling blocks to real...

Google says: Who Owns The Moon? - NASA Watch A similar situation to Antarctica.

This film looks like Elastogirl surrounded by real people. It completely fails as a non-animated film.

Surveillance is rarely good, but I think the defining line is that there really isn't a power that can leverage surveillance to accomplish anything too dystopian. We don't have a secret police the public fearfully complies with, legal challenges to government authority work and whistleblowing is...

Why do you think they show the second Joi copy toward the end, and K's reaction to it? So we can have an argument?

Hardly. Since we don't have an Joi type AI programs, I'm going to give you credit for being a fellow human being. And as a human being, I have a pretty good idea what it is like to enjoy the rain, and assume you experience life similarly. But also as a human being, I understand how to mimic...

Joi is the product of a hologram projector, and that projector must have enough output to ignite a cigarette. So it didn't happen physically. I wouldn't say that anything 1984ish has really happened, either (outside of Maoist China). I can't think of any near term SF movie (or even story) where...

"Seem to" being the important part. She might appear to enjoy rain because that assists in making her appear "real" to fulfill her role as a companion. And she arguably did no self harm if she doesn't really exist. She is just providing one final kindness at what was going to be their last...

Her function is wish fulfillment, not law enforcement. If she was sapient she might do something that K didn't like but she judged would be better in some other way besides his immediate needs.