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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not that Noah & Saskia does not date in other ways (some of it is weird and creepy by today's standards) but 22 years on it feels like the one that understood where the world was going and NY-LON, for all its great strengths, that feels like it is still in the 20th century.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Noah & Saskia instead is entirely focussed in what it means to exist in the internet age, how people connect over vast distances, what it feels to talk to online, what an avatar means for the way you percieve yourself and others see you.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The reason for that is it NY-LON still is in a pre-digital mode. They have mobile phones but are entirely used to do a phone call, one person in light, one person in dark. Computers are things people work on. Even someone moving from London to Bristol is treated as an insurmountable distance.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They often explore similar ideas, about how people from different backgrounds navigate distance and alternative friend groups whilst supporting each other. Using interesting techniques to demonstrate this. Yet, whilst NY-LON is the superior show on most objective qualities, it also feels more dated.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NY-Lon was prestige romantic drama about the relationship between a banker from London and a record store clerk\night school tutor from New York. Noah and Saskia is a children's drama about the evolving relationship between a musician from Australia and web comic writer\artist from England.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was just thinking about two shows I liked from 2004 with similar total runtime that approached the same concept of technology and long distance relationships but very differently, capturing a specific moment in time. NY-LON and Noah & Saskia.

Post for 2004 series NY-LON, showing Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer in New York.

Poster for 2004 series Noah and Saskia, showing the titular leads, their avatars and imagined versions in a semi circle. They stand over the globe with the tagline, "who do you want to be?"

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I keep finding that, unfortunately, I am being pleasantly surprised by low expectations of Burnham. That he seems fascism-lite than full head first into it like the last 5 prime ministers. "Oh actually acknowledging that land grabs are illegal? Who knew?"

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Does it have some flaws, yeah sometimes, but just makes it more crunchy for me. It has such a great message at the core: "Don't allow your oppressors define you, win by changing the narrative."

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Even the Rippers may look weird due to 90s makeup but they are an example of the ideas the film is exploring, they were turned into monstrous weapons but they survive by refusing to use guns and engaging in music and dance.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I put on Tank Girl for the first time as a bit of a laugh and...OMG...I honestly think it might be one of my top 10 favourite films, no joke. It is essentially using the style of live action looney tunes film to explore complex issues.

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Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today, Cora Buhlert writes about Operation Kora, the massive and deadly manhunt in West Germany searching for members of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a.k.a. Red Army Fraction. galacticjourney.org/august-26-19...

22 year old white woman Petra Schelm in a studio portrait taken a few years ago on the left (she has dark hair) and two photos of her in disguise with wig and glasses in the middle and on the right.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Myst. The joy of adventure games for me is exploring and building a narrative. It is so cold and abstract.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I found Prime had the original international theatrical version of Blade Runner available and decided to rewatch it. Honestly, I still think it works well even with the added ending.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Cyclops needed time travel to have all his surprise children. Paul and Brad manage it by simply not wearing condoms 😆

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AITA for sending payment to my overseer for lack of water.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Much like X-Men fans debate the consistency of the characterisation of Magneto post Fatal Attractions, we have debated the nature of Paul Robinson's arcs 😆

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If you got to write a superhero comic what would it be? And would you put in one of your own characters as a cameo?

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Highlander: There Can Be Only One

ALT: Highlander: There Can Be Only One

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Instead would have had Kid Omega have been broken out of prison by Esme, found Magneto broken hiding somewhere, got him on Kick and get him to kidnap and replace the real Xorn. Then, when Magneto brought back have to do the long work of Truth and Justice.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

What i am not convinced by though is that, if he was that far gone he created this bizarre long game with Xorn. If I was changing it myself I would have recottened but not how was actually done. I would have still had Magento have attacked New York, but Xorn being real until Planet X part 1.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

So I can see E for Extinction driving him to get addicted to Kick and going off the deep end. That idea actually to me makes an interesting point, particularly when combined with Darkest Nights epilogue about the problem of following idealised heroes and old doctrines.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

In my rereading of X-men comics reached the end of the Grant Morrison run and I do think Planet X doesn't work but for different reasons than most. Magneto had been going to more extremes since Fatal Attractions and was prepping for war on Genosha before he was stopped.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Very specifically mid-00s to mid 10s comics Batman where he just every year would manipulate and alienate everyone around him, get people killed, but they would forgive him because "trauma" and "his heart was in the right place".

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Like even if it is indeed as awful as the actual comic of Avengers vs. X-Men, seeing what the awfulness looks like in IRL is appealing. And I always have X-Men '97 if I want actually good comic book action :)

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Avengers: Doomsday very much gives me the vibes of the actual comics crossover events: 1. This has too much to do it justice 2. 90% sure will end up being unsatisfied by the end and feeling like I wasted my time and money 3. But darn if doesn't hook me with all my fannish senses and want to see!

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

1. A new version of Sid Meier's Colonization where you play as Native American nations and Maroon communities, winning by removing Europeans from the continent. 2. A final completed version of 1990's MMORPG Cyberspace. 3. Empire Earth remastered with improved graphics and enemy AI.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Ever since King Henry III rolled out the Communist Manifesto at Westminster in 1226.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I may dislike it when someone else does it to the extent I often stop reading and watching, but boy is also cathartic. I will live with my hypocrisy 😆

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Me: Why did they spend so much time of this post responding to negative comments and dragging people down? I don't want to read that. Also Me: This post will be an excellent opportunity for me to explain my stance to all those people who left nasty comments.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You ended up being right on both counts! I have been enjoying it but I have had to take a break after the first episode of Season 2. It is good but phew is it heavy!

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I may have watched the Season 2 Episode 2 intro for X-Men 97 multiple times....sooo perfectly 90s I love it!

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I originally read that as a HP Lovecraft fan and that would be an interesting part Cthulhu Mythos

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Tomorrow, we are bringing back ATV Galactic. Between Doctor Who seasons we will be watching ITV shows with period adverts: Schedule 27/6 (BST): 17:30: Timeslip: The Wrong End of Time: Episode 1 18:00: UFO: Identified 19:00: Strange Report: CULT - Murder Shrieks Out discord.gg/NZ7UREbeA?ev...

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

People keep saying to me with Andor either: "OMG, you are going to love it!" Or "Nah, won't work for you at all." Never a middle ground. I will probably try it at one point but given I'm not really a Star Wars fan & other series I've tried I have bounced off of, it keeps being put on the backburner.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Okay thanks that's good to hear. Even though I actually preferred Duncan over D'Onofrio, he does a very good job as Kingpin, and liked their games. And yeah I know it won't be escapism. If I was looking for that would probably be trying out Ducktales.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Even when someone gets excited about novelty and really mean it, it is often a case of "new to them". On the flip side to this, many major SF works were just taking techniques from literary fiction 20 years before, and applying them to future worlds.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sometimes I think though it is a case where some fans actually didn't like the craft or direction, but they are not able to distinguish, so assume it is really a lack of novelty.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

There is a weird obsession in SF of constant novelty. However, when you look at the history of the SF, most heavily acclaimed works were not new concepts, rather applying existing ideas really well, whilst the earlier poorer originators get forgotten.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Fair! I was trying to think my competitors to it and instantly I instantly went to other Monae covers...

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trying to decide between this, Andor, Fallout or Time of Eve for next show to try.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Excellent work on excellent people.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I am wondering if anyone in the Bluesky mind can help me. I loved Daredevil Season 1, but could not even finish Season 2. Do you think Born Again will appeal to me or just skip?

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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This feels. On the nose.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I read that as "Art work and Predators | Kai Ashante Wilson" and now disappointed this tie-in book does not exist.

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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

One that is often missed but found very useful but pet cool mats. Both for your pets and humans to sit on, can give you welcome relief for short periods.

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