I’ve been rewatching Smallville and for much of it Lex is exactly Elon Musk (the Nazi), like it’s uncanny for a show that came out over twenty years ago, but there’s one episode in season 7 where in an alternate reality Lex becomes President with the technological assistance of BRAINIAC (“He knows those Computers better than anybody”). Uncanny doesn’t even begin to cover it. You could lift most of the dialogue verbatim, swapping out only the names, and it would 1000% match up with our current reality. And it ends with nukes, so that’s cool.
History keeps repeating itself because we’re too stupid to learn from it.
I’m watching The West Wing now and I got to the part about Gaza and NOTHING has changed since the 1990s.
I watched Babylon 5 during the original COVID lockdown and the episode about pandemics called out science deniers and how they make pandemics worse 25 years in advance!
WRT to Babylon 5 - the Spanish Flu pandemic had anti-maskers and deniers too. I think it’s less prescient and more “this is what humanity actually looks like”, which is a core theme for a lot of episodic sci-fi.
We had one with a bad back.
The adjustor
What do you mean “had”? His back probably hurts from carrying all of our hopes.
Who?
St. Luigi my friend.
Except Lex Luthor is a genius and these guys are just good at convincing idiots that they’re geniuses.
A genius megalomaniac is still a megalomaniac.
Lex Luthor was brilliant.
No Batman but lots of Tek Knights.
Forget running for Mayor, Oswald Cobblepot is in the White House.
Well, the flow of capital into few hands is an inevitable thing when unregulated, while krypton is not a real place.
I mean, even Jesse Eisenberg played both Zuck and Luthor on-screen. Can’t get more on the nose than that.
We’ve got all of us?
It’s allowed to post things that you can stop thinking about
I could stop thinking about it if I wanted to, on account of my mental strength
Not worth posting about then /s
