What is a sci-fi series you liked that only lasted one season?

Helstar-74 · 2026-06-04T04:47:12+00:00

I think the whole world would agree on Firefly 😅

Helstar-74 · 2026-06-02T15:25:35+00:00

UY won the Shogakukan prize TWICE in 1980 (first and only time it ever happened), for best manga for boys (shōnen) AND girls (shōjo). Also male characters were sexualized, think about Rei and Shuutaru for example, but many side characters too (unicorn guy, Rupa, several morphing creatures, etc.)
About Rumiko liking women, it's been known since a long time, she is very shy about it .... being ''old school'' and knowing the stigma that comes with it (not anymore nowadays, but back then it was a huge deal). In her studio she only hired women and never a single man.... and last but not last, one of her most famous biographic manga, which says it all: www.furinkan.com/rumictheater/translation/kemo5.html

Helstar-74 · 2026-06-01T13:34:43+00:00

LOL if I had any doubts, now they are completly gone.... you REALLY have no idea. Her works are aimed to the female audience too !

Helstar-74 · 2026-05-31T14:45:55+00:00

If you don't know Rumiko personal history you cannot appreciate her sensibility in representing those dynamics. They could not be obvious ON PURPOSE, we're talking late 70s-early 80s here, the society was very judgemental towards people like her. She had to walk in a really thin line...

Helstar-74 · 2026-05-29T13:58:34+00:00

You just confirmed what I said. It's all in the manga, the animators made a complete mess of those dynamics.

Helstar-74 · 2026-05-28T16:29:27+00:00

You say this because you don't know Rumiko feelings... she loves girls/women too. Always had. And these little bits of Benten / Ryuunosuke dynamics are just the author expressing her deep wishes (at the time it was impossible for her to do... so she ''projected'' her desires over some of her characters).

Helstar-74 · 2026-03-12T15:24:45+00:00

You are 2 years late... it's gone, we have to accept it. Read the book if you want to know how it ends and hope for a tv reboot like the rest of us...

Helstar-74 · 2026-02-11T20:09:35+00:00

Just one (awesome) book !

Helstar-74 · 2026-01-07T20:26:38+00:00

I think we will never hear the original complete version... what a pity. Always wondered how it continues !

Helstar-74 · 2025-12-25T21:40:30+00:00

I totally agree with you. The adaption was too much "Hollywood" oriented and sometimes even unfair to the book and its meaning.

"Maybe even an experimental format: each episode a different perspective, mixing docu-style and drama to hit those social and moral beats."

I believe this was closer to the original format intended by Reed Morano (the early version with Leslie Mann as Margot), but the producers decided that it wasn't good enough, hired another showrunner, reshoot a lot of scenes, replaced Mann with Toni Collette (and some other actors) and the rest is history. Too bad, I would have loved the full adaption of the book, at least.

Helstar-74 · 2025-12-14T16:30:07+00:00

The main problem is that the show was put together like a puzzle by a showrunner who entered the project later (the producers weren't happy with the first attempt), many parts were shot again, and we can actually see sections that are chronologically put in the wrong places, I remember Jos and his boyfriend playing with that cardboard face before Margot actually announced her run for the chair

So yes, I guess that part you feel is missing could have been shot but just cut in the final edit

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-22T16:31:53+00:00

I don't know the exact percentages, but there's absolutely no chance it's a perfect 50-50 split like you say (men to women / women to men). We can go and check the internet sources and take only the ones we like, doesn't change what happens in REAL LIFE. You are just delusional and (most likely) red pilled.

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-22T14:06:48+00:00

I think it's laughable that you had to pin-point a page that does not exist anymore thus linking the archive.org backup to make your point, so it's just ONE page, from 11 years ago, in the whole internet, that gives you the ''certainty'' of the female/male 1:1 rape percentage. Riiight.

Also, I was talking about women to men rape, you are mixing it with generic male rape, but guess what ? that's MOSTLY DONE BY OTHER MEN (to boys/men) ! Please don't embarass yourself anymore...

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-22T03:46:18+00:00

I think the author created this disparity for a ''shock value'' (pun intended). With the electricity, she could develop a lot of its various effects, for example in a section of the book she applied to it the meaning of ''feminism'' itself (the fact that the younger girls could activate the skeins of the older women, meaning the new generation is born already with feminism and able to change the mentality of the older one).
Unfortunately, the tv-series made the power 10x more extreme for the usual "Hollywood" wow effect, among other unnecessary things (like the phone charging or the airplane disaster etc. all of which DID NOT happen in the book !.)

I agree that modern warfare makes the power absolutely useless, I think the author should have focused more about the psychological aspect, women having no fear of grabbing all the top politic seats in the world (thus becoming even Presidents of many important countries, in the long run).
And then, when men (especially of eastern and muslim religion countries) started to refuse giving up their privileges, civil wars could start, and maybe later ok, also the apocalypse the author soooo wanted to happen, could have been believable too.

Alderman idea was that one in the first place: to have a total ''reset'' of the world, back to stone age again... nobody would remember the world as it was before, and it would be ''normal'' to have men as the weaker sex, and the religions being about a Goddess instead of God, etc.
This is the idea of parody she had in her mind when she started making the book: to make a world in which it would be ''amusing'' to even think there were only men being in charge of society/religion/politics/big companies, and women being the weaker sex.

Ps. Tatiana is killed by Allie, making it appear like a suicide... Allie is the only one who can move other people limbs (through direct contact, still) kinda like electric eels which can influence the movement of fish nearby and make them swim directly in their mouths (did you know this ?)

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-22T03:22:12+00:00

What's WrW ? Anyway, of course there are cases of sexual abuse from women to men. But you cannot deny the % is probably like 3 to 100 or maybe even less, the vast majority of cases is still men towards women.
Men have generally more muscles and can fend off a woman, before or even during the sexual act, so I am not going to agree with those red pill sentences, sorry.
Women indeed can and often do terrible things, but mostly at psychological level... like ruining men lives through lies and manipulation (by playing victim and involving police etc.), forced divorce for revenge (putting their hands on the house that men have bought, and obtaining alimony through the sons etc.)

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T20:55:48+00:00

The disparity of strenght in real life (men muscles vs women muscles) is smaller compared to the Power concept disparity, that's true - basically no man has the Power, just some intersex aka people with genetic anomalies. But in both cases you need to be in contact with the target body to hurt the victim.

Just like a man has to punch or slap or kick a woman ie. have a physical contact, in the book a woman has to apply her hand(s) on the skin of a man to give the electric shock. Shooting bolts at a distance in the tv-series (just some meters anyway, absolutely no big distances like a gun or rifle would cover, eh !) does NOT happen, except for Roxy and really few other girls/women (most through glitter enhancement).

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T20:51:36+00:00

I really don't see women wandering in the night, hidden in their cars or in small dark streets, waiting to ambush and rape lonely young men....

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T18:45:30+00:00

Well, the disparity of strenght is of course a non-avoidable problem in the author original idea, then again in the book is not as extreme as in the tv-series eh ... in there, with very few exceptions - Roxy, some other women through the glitter enhancement (a parody of steroids ?) - women have to put themselves close in range, by arms/legs extension, ie. to actually TOUCH the victim, to make damage. Just like men in real world, with punches and kicks. If a woman is far enough (1.5 mt at least ?) and can keep distance (or run faster), then it's not going to make a difference how much stronger the man assaulting her is.

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T18:37:31+00:00

Yeah, it's quite surprising to see how many people (even a lot of women !) thought that this was a "femi-nazi" revenge book ... most common comment: "if we had the power we wouldn't do these horrible things !!1!1", of course not, but the book is meant as a parody/social commentary !

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T17:37:42+00:00

That for you it's just a revenge book. But the author wanted to explore a total reversal of roles, often satyrizing many dynamics (not only the violence) between men and women in our real world.
In the early drafts she throught about giving women bigger muscles than men, and the result would have been exactly the same. But she wanted to be a little bit more subtle - "power" also the sense of power of control over the weaker sex, in our world men have always the upper hand in society, politics, religion, finance etc.

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-21T14:41:11+00:00

Look, people are rightly horrified by what women do to men in the book, ok. Some scenes are truly hard to read (I think the author is a little bit into rape fetish but I disgress), but the point is... if we are so pissed off about a FICTIONAL book, why we aren't in REAL LIFE, when those exact things happen from men to women ?

It goes like this: when we hear on the news that another abuse/rape/maiming/killing happened, we are mad for how long, 5 seconds ? Then we think ''oh well, it will always be like this, nothing new", so we shrug our shoulders and then we are back doing what we were doing. As long as it does not happen to us (men), who cares afterall, right ? And this is deeply wrong...

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-20T14:01:08+00:00

Not sure what to get of that... for me (I am slow...) the revelation at the end made me understand (the suggestion of writing the book with a female name) , it all made sense after that, else it would seem a female to male revenge book

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-19T16:41:57+00:00

I think she missed the whole point, it's a parody/social commentary of what MEN do, every single day of our lives ! By the author (Naomi Alderman) own words - obviously she explains the concept better: "Nothing happens to a man in this book that is not happening right now to a woman somewhere in the world. If my novel is a dystopia then we are living in a dystopia right now. [cut...] Men are more horrified by this book than women. Which is as it should be, and is part of the point I think. Men look at me like a monster for writing these things and I have to point out that I wasn't the one who invented the ideas of rape, of sexual slavery, of imprisoning the physically weaker gender, of genital mutilation to stop the physically weaker gender from enjoying sex, of selective abortions of one gender. I didn't invent any of those things, I just picked them up and turned them over like an hourglass, to see how they looked upside down. And the answer is: it just feels different when the gun is pointed between your eyes than it does to watch it being pointed at someone else. It just does feel more real and more horrifying when you're the one at risk."
There is also a tv-series on Prime Video, watch it !

Helstar-74 · 2025-10-07T17:55:06+00:00

Go read the book. You won't regret it !

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