The Lightyears Series - Episode 18 - Keeping Secrets
“Because you love me.”
“Because I love you.”
“You say you love me, but you won’t marry me.”
“Let’s talk about that. Since Zebby is coming onboard to be my first mate and our partnership will be done by the end of this case–”
“I will be partnered with Victor and you–with Zebby.”
“And Patrick will be reassigned. Graham did not like his bedside manner when he broke the news to me about my hand.…
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Creators: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Alexander Woo
“In your physics course, did you teach the theory of relativity”
“Relativity is one of the fundamental theories of physics. How can a basic survey course not teach it?”
“You lie! Einstein went to the American imperialists and helped them build the atomic bomb!”
Based on the…
Loki literally stares directly at Mobius for almost 10 full seconds before announcing what his time slipping is really about. Sylvie is behind him the entire time and Loki only turns around to say he can rewrite the story, to tell Sylvie what he’s already decided to do. There is absolutely no doubt who Loki is referring to when he discovers what’s really driving him.
I keep thinking about the Dafeng test pilot that you take down in the first chapter of Armored Core VI.
In any other mech storyline, this kid would have been the protagonist. Bright-eyed and hopeful, he would have been the poster child for youthful determination in the face of corporate war profiteering, either finding a cool trick to defeat 621, or being saved by the sudden arrival of other plucky young pilots.
But we both know that no one comes to save him.
The universe of Armored Core is fantastical by any definition, but in this one moment it is at it's most brutally realistic.
"I'm...keeping up with a real merc!" he says, "My training is paying off!"
Reality sets in as the tide turns abruptly in your favor. He is outmaneuvered, outgunned and outfought by the "merc who only kills for credits".
"I can't die like this!"
But he does. All the tenacity of youth couldn't save him from you, and he dies alone and afraid, lamenting his little dream of having his own callsign, his life amounting to the meager credits transferred to your account after the mission.
He would have been the protagonist anywhere else, but here on Rubicon he is a reminder that, in a warzone, no one comes to save little boys.
If you missed it the first time around, the “human are weird” anthology is back for a second printing. (There’s even a new story included: “Black Box” by Dara Brophy.)
Here’s the blurb:
In science fiction, humans are usually boring compared to other races: small, weak, with no claws or tentacles, and no special abilities to speak of. But what if we were the impressive ones, the unsettling ones, the ones talked about by all the other aliens? What if we're weird?
If you’d like a collection of excellent stories about humans inspiring awe, fear, and utter confusion, it’s available everywhere books are sold!
“But you didn’t.”
“I do now. Maybe I didn’t know anyone on the other side who had anything to tell me until now. Is this the way our relationship is going to go? Are you always going to question everything I say and do?”
“I will whenever you say things that are illogical.”
Drew came over to me and studied my readings. After scrutinizing them intensively, he looked back at Jake and concluded,…
Foster's Car, 1970. From the Gerry and Silvia Anderson sci-fi TV series U.F.O. which set was in 1980. Paul Foster (seen from behind) was a pilot for S.H.A.D.O. (Supreme Headquarters of the Alien Defence Organisation). The character was played by singer turned actor Michael Billington. The woman with the car is S.H.A.D.O. Colonel Virginia Lake played by British actress Wanda Ventham who is the mother of actor Benedict Cumberbatch. The car was based on a Ford Zephyr Mk IV chassis powered by a Cortina 1600 engine, built by Alan Mann Racing.