This line is priceless:

Remember Lobo? He disobeyed orders, and now Sador's wearing his left foot

I’d say the, ahem, borrowings from The Seven Samurai were quite blatant, via the rightfully forgotten Battle Beyond the Stars

Zero interest given that Cixin Liu is an apologist for the CCP’s genocide in Xinjiang.

It’s because the snobbery of English teachers puts Socialist Realusm literary fiction above everything else.

Ursula Le Guin’s “On Serious Literature” springs to mind:

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/on-serious-literature

Why this child abuse must be perpetrated to appease a coterie of critics eludes me.

I’d say The Expanse has revisited many of those themes, better.

The Verge’s review is negative:

https://www.theverge.com/23889089/the-creator-movie-review-gareth-edwards

Beastmaster? Although auburn Tanya Robert’s quite fetching.

I’m not sure how valid that criticism is. Reddit’s search is abysmal as well, doesn’t seem to have hurt them.

But 2/3 of the genetic diversity we have is in Africa

That’s a bit harsh. More like “useful idiots” to quote Lenin.

It’s beyond parody at this stage.

But iOS is 87% and rising for US teenagers, which explains iMessage being the dominant messaging platform in the US.

I think he is probably bipolar and refusing to take meds for what is nowadays an often treatable condition.

And they never bothered to free his mother Shmi