Gods damn it.

It hit every target on the way up. Fascist uniforms, over the top propaganda like dialogue, cheesy soap opera love triangle and SS Dougie Howzer

Oh the camp was definitely worth it.

Oh yeah, I was slightly disappointed by the fact that Johnny wasn't Filipino though

@petercashwell.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com The Gleaming Hollywood Teeth were part of the satire I think.

The Giant Bugs was just good creature design (though whoever did the Brainbug definitely had something on their minds

See, the Harry Potter books were gateway books for many kids into Fantasy.

So were the LoTR movies.

I'm struggling to see the similarities apart from both being by women with a female protagonist.

And now we're another forty years down the track. Now it's stories like the Hunger Games (yes they are sci fi, soft sci fi but sci fi none the less) that are gateways into the genre

It's not that they can't enjoy them, it's that stories that they can relate to are more likely to draw them into the genre.

The world today is very different from the fifties and sixties, and so are the kids.

I love the foundation series but they are very definitely of an era and aimed at a particular demographic.

That demographic does not exist in under 30s anymore. Or if it does it's tiny.

But John! Of course a 15 year old is going to enjoy the same things I did thirty something years ago

But are they wrong

They look so much nicer once they've filled out a bit.

There is no escape