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Deep Space 9 feels like an exception till you note that they put a heavily trafficked wormhole next to the space station so the world is moving past them even if they’re not. We’re in a non-moving closed world. That’s why it sucks.
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Haven’t talked with another human besides my wife in person for months, not counting transactional interactions with concierge, checkout people etc. Single extroverts must be going insane. I bet many went protesting partly for social reasons.
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Now if our building were a spaceship that landed in a different city every week and the away missions were new every week that would be fun.
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Feels related to how film often uses background movement to keep things visually interesting - lights, backup dancers, wind, rain, traffic, anything to keep the viewer’s attention from getting bored and noticing the weak points/seams
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Ships/boats afford bound-by-horizon platform conductive to smuggling a cosmology in (dinning scene, Moby Dick) with ‘found’ worlds as intrusions. Trains are more of a moving skin, a poetic sort of deal.