I know it's problematic to give credit for anime tropes to US media but seriously isn't THE LAST STARFIGHTER clearly the original isekaihttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1261804765413064705 …
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You could argue it says something about our time that this inherently and intentionally ridiculous premise, which the movie did as this self-aware joke, is now this whole big thing a whole generation is obsessed with
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Like READY PLAYER ONE was THE LAST STARFIGHTER jumping the shark and ARMADA was it doing loop-de-loops around the shark's whole confused family
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There's something in video game culture that shifted, too, I think, with more online games and esports: you can't really pretend that your friend who's good at video games (or you yourself!) are actually EXCEPTIONALLY good at video games.
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No, he was one of many. He became the last hope because he wasn't on the base when the bad guys killed the rest of the starfighters.
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similar to Terry Brooks’ “Magic Kingdom for Sale” series, where a randomschmo from Seattle buys a magic kingdom with infinite problems, and some of the magic denizens are wowed by his normal-world skills while others accurately clock that he’s full of shit
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Yeah - I mean, my most valuable skill if I went back in time a thousand years is what, that I know some very efficient mathematical notation that people hadn't developed yet?
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