Honestly as other people have observed it's really awful that Star Trek (which depicts a crypto-jingoistic military imperialist utopia) and Star Wars (which is faux-buddhist science fantasy chosen one schlock) have pretty much completely suffocated the space opera genre
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And just like Roddenberry was a Greatest Generation WWII vet sort of clumsily pandering to the Boomer kids, Rowling is a young Boomer/old Gen Xer doing the same with Millennials
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Frankly the generational stuff. People are good or bad regardless of when they're born. I'm really sick of hearing about it. Writers are just itching to make a name for themselves by defining with the next generation and it's not based on science. It's BS.
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Hopefully we're all starting to do the work of dismantling that before it reaches Star Wars levels of implacability
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I'm still confused how someone hasn't made Sector General into a series.
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