

They used them as jokes but didn’t go farther with it in any way, at least not past where Futurama did. And part of that is making fun of the tropes, but I felt like they didn’t transcend the tropes.

I actually started making a list of all the movies they were pulling from-there’s … Red Dwarf, Gravity, Moon, The Martian, Suicide Squad. … It was a re-hash of a million different science fiction shows and movies that I’ve seen. “ all seemed very stock to me-the incredibly smart and competent woman, the goofy sidekick, the cute fuzzy ‘pet.’ No barriers were broken with this. But then anybody outside of that, whether they were a good person or not, he was totally willing to kill them just for whatever.” He seemed very devoted to Mooncake, and to Little Cato, and to Quinn, and to anybody who was in his circle except KVN-which I thought was really funny, that he hated KVN so much. He did seem to be very devoted to his in-crowd. “I didn’t think was ping-ponging back and forth, but I still thought it was wrong. And check out some highlights from the discussion below. Listen to the complete interview with Tom Gerencer, Andrea Kail, and Robert Repino in Episode 391 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “So hopefully it continues to grow, and becomes a real success for him.” “I don’t mean this in a condescending way, but he seems like a very young artist and a young writer, and he’s kind of learning as he goes,” she says.
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“So that’s part of the issue of it having very cool visuals but not much to really think about, or expand your understanding of things, or your understanding of these characters.”īut TV writer Andrea Kail notes that Final Space has been improving steadily, and she’s hopeful that the show’s creator Olan Rogers will be able to take it to the next level. “There are three episodes-at least-that are just hallucinations, where it goes from one wacky image to another,” he says. Science fiction author Robert Repino agrees that the show could use more depth. I want to consider weird new societies and concepts I haven’t thought of before.” “The reason I watch science fiction is because I want to think about things. “I like the characters a lot, and it’s funny to watch them interact with each other, but there’s not really anything to think about while you’re watching this show,” he says. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley feels that the show doesn’t really hold up as a work of science fiction.
