The Terrible Burden of Truth

 

 I'm finishing up some work here at Secret Sun Central, but in the meantime it's summer and that means it's time for The Outer Limits.  This is a pure dose of AstroGnosis, and the paranoid brand thereof. 

Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Prophesy the New State Religion

Madonna should really lay off the steroids.

I wrote recently that I'm increasingly uncomfortable in covering some of the spectacle being broadcast out there, just as it was during Bread and Circuses era of the Roman Empire. Why? Because it gets to the point where you start to feel like an accomplice. 

That's not a feeling I enjoy. 

Prometheus and the Death of Science Fiction

Superheroes have taken pole position in the tentpole box office derby, in front of the sci-fi blockbuster. Even an ostensible sci-fi film like Avatar was actually a classic superhero origin narrative. I bet that John Carter would have been a success had it been marketed as a superhero story (which in fact it is) than a sci-fi extravaganza, which modern audiences are a bit weary of.