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<\/p>\nI saw this on Facebook the other day:<\/p>\n
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Posted by a social media account claiming to be Catherine Mary Stewart, who played the love interest in the first film from forty-one years ago.<\/p>\n
Ah, gentle reader, as you might recall, some years ago I did a scientific study of reasons why The Last Starfighter<\/em> is better than Star Wars<\/em><\/a> (one of which is that Catherine Mary Stewart was\/is prettier than Carrie Fischer).<\/p>\n But. No.<\/p>\n You know, I was a bit… uh… about Richard Hatch’s drive to resurrect Battlestar Galactica<\/em> in the 1990s, only twenty years after the original series when the original characters would have…. twenty years later, had more adventures without having found Earth. The same with Red Dwarf<\/em>, whose first six “series” I watched in 2024<\/a>. The first six series were from 1988 to 1993. The last of the series was… what, 2017, with a movie in 2020? At some point or age, the original premise continuing on for decades gets depressing when one thinks about it.<\/p>\n The same with the recent cash-grab memberberries films like Bill and Ted Face the Music<\/em> (although I saw Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> in the cinema and liked it).<\/p>\n Fortunately, this thing, should it come to pass (the thing in development hell is The Last Starfighters<\/em> which deals with Alex’s children–not sure how that would work that they would be his children, and twenty years later he has not rebuilt the Starfighter by then….<\/p>\n Eh. I won’t have to worry about it. I don’t watch streaming channels, and I don’t go to the movies any more (Was Top Gun: Maverick<\/em> the last time I’ve been in a movie theater? Maybe!). I guess if Tom Selleck isn’t in it, I won’t see it anyway.<\/p>\n But stop trying to make my childhood relevant to this contemporary world. Just kidding. Stop trying to use things I valued in my childhood to extract money from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw this on Facebook the other day: Posted by a social media account claiming to be Catherine Mary Stewart, who played the love interest in the first film from forty-one years ago. Ah, gentle reader, as you might recall, some years ago I did a scientific study of reasons why The Last Starfighter is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34086,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions\/34086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}