Mostly through BNW and bummed that most sci-fi TV isn’t speculative — it just gets us to where we are.

Technology is there to juxtapose what is human or as metaphor for race etc.

We need Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis real bad...

It’s so incredible because of how human it ISN’T. Holding on to humanity is nostalgic. A thing we see as evil is a talent.

Xenogensis is UNETHICAL — but that concept only exists in the minds of bioethicist — most from a religious tradition — all dead...

I‘ve worked in Hollywood a while and have heard over and over again some some version of “the best thing about Sci-Fi is what it reveals about truth” and I smile and gag at that dogma every time.

I get the instinct. Recognizing metaphor makes us feel smart.

I remember being like Eleven and reading the X-Men — how I felt when I recognized the racism allegory.

I felt like a god-damned genius!

But I’m not a child anymore and am tired of people they’re a god damned genius with analogy.

Most of Twitter is deciding what is Nazi-like

Sci-fi TV should BLOW PEOPLE’S MIND.

It shouldn’t repulse them because someone has to stick something in their eye — which we’ve seen — it’s should repulse them because their entire existence falls short.

They should CRAVE being ground up into an alien conciousness.

I know that an exec on Westworld kind of forced that god as center of conciousness into the show. It didn’t work and the first season was kind of lost because of it.

Meanwhile Her showed us we should be jealous of AI. AI is superior, it didn’t need us. We should bow out.

Meanwhile Watchmen struck us not because of Ozymandias or Doctor Manhattan’s superiority.

It was Tulsa. It showed the Tulsa Race Massacre and collective memory and transcendence.

We like Watchmen not because it made us feel smart but because it made us feel stupid and shitty.

Good speculative fiction is about what is possible in the future and good future thinking CAN NOT honor the present or make your existence feel good or valuable.

That’s what historical fiction does.

You’re not an enslaver, good for you.

God bless air conditioning.

Which is probably WHY I like Octavia E. Butler so much. She was large and Black and queer and wasn’t beholden to be graceful to her present.

Her fiction was immoral because her thoughts were immoral. She wanted to do immoral things with young women when she was a young woman.

When she wrote speculative fiction it destroyed white supremacist patriarchy in Parrables — it burned and shot itself. She destroyed cis-heterosexuality in Xenogenesis.

And when I looked up how sad I am that we don’t get this kind of sci-fi I leaned that...

We DO! I looked it up to talk about how we’ve been done wrong but @ava and @VictoriaMahoney are moving forward with Dawn for Amazon.

My god. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiewire.com/2020/02/dawn-ava-duvernay-amazon-series-1202213726/amp/