Zetetic Elench

Rebooting "Firefly"/ What is Inara running away from?   In this version, Inara is the owner-captain of Serenity. I feel this makes more sense than a poor war-veteran like Mal being the owner. Although Serenity is a second-hand spaceship it isn't really as believable for Mal and Zoe to have been able to afford. If Inara really is the inspiration behind the Mona Lisa, it makes sense that she would want to hide this so a nomadic existence makes a lot of sense. As a Companion she can always find work on any colony. The reason she travels with, say Mal, Zoe, Simon and Wash is she could only emigrate from the colony she was previously based at by pretending to be married to Mal. Zoe is "married" to Simon and Wash is their pilot-mechanic. The other characters are introduced later, the first being Jane and the second being River, who had been in stasis since Simon joined the crew. Are some Reavers only pretending to be Reavers? As they appear to...

William Riker is a twenty-fourth century holder of The Darkness. The  Darkness is passed on when the next holder is conceived. This also causes the current  Darkness to die. The theory assumes that Q is-or could be-a manifestation of Riker's powers Riker  only has sex with aliens. Riker apparently also is a Q, as he has their powers. He also has a difficult relationship with his father (although if my theory is correct Kyle Riker must be a foster father or a manifestation of his powers) It could be explained that Riker avoids relationships with human women being The Darkness due to the risk of pregnancy.  So he makes sure only to have relationships with alien women.... ....................................................................................................and holodeck characters. 

A song of Fire and Ice reloaded. There should be a much greater variety of weird creatures in Westeros. I'm thinking hoop snakes  and Goldenaxe-type beasties! And the Maesters actually invited the Targeryns to invade Westeros. In their citadel at Oldtown, the Maesters have access to highly advanced technology. They are able to access most Maester's residences via an advanced underground tube network. The North, meanwhile, has the remnants of a railway line. The dragons, it turns out, were all killed by the Targeryns' efforts at industrialisation. The tactics used by the Westerosi really ought to reflect the (past) existence of dragons, so a main development would not be mounted knights (heavy cavalry) but light mounted archers. Heavily armoured knights would be used only as a kind of police force to quell rebellions. Training for this would be the tournament, which would hold jousts. Perhaps the term "sheriff" would be used; or perhaps ...

I was going to title this  "In Defence of the Preludes", but if three films made over a decade ago have to be re-explained then either they were not very good in the first place or the people watching weren't really paying attention. And reference is made also to The Force Awakens. Soooooo, well the first critique of the Star Wars prequels is that Lucas keeps reinforcing the... Hang on, what message is he trying to say? In each film Palpatine gains more power at the hand of an ineffective Galactic senate. I understand the point about sacrificing liberty for efficiency but did this really need to be repeated three times? To underline the point that the senate will be dissolved later? It gets repetitive and it turns people off. The Father is the Hero and not the Son. When the original saga was completed, with the final release of "Revenge of the Sith", one could make the case that Anakin was the true hero after all by defeating the elitist Je...

When having lunch earlier I was thinking of going on a massive rant suggesting that everyone on benefits should commit serious crimes as protest against the government's reforms. Then I realised: This is exactly what they want. The Conservative party/government want to criminalise the poor and make it illegal to be on benefits. They've a lready made it hard to apply for JSA by having an expensive phone line for everything and the proposed Universal Benefit is just more of the same. Just as Nixon couldn't make it illegal to be against the Vietnam War so he made it harder to use marijuana.   Just as Nixon couldn't make it illegal to be black so he made it harder to use heroin.

With regards to http://legalsmeagolandzeteticelench.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/fan-theories-2.html  and http://legalsmeagolandzeteticelench.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-few-statistics-on-culture.html   perhaps the first Orbital  builders were part of a conglomerate representing several panhuman civilisations. They could have any number of reasons for doing so: to make a gigantic point about inter-civilizational co-operation, as experimental art, as well as providing extra living space.  The point about Orbitals, from the perspective of an expanding and militarily suspicious civilisation, is that they are individually much easier to defend from space than a planet is. One can simply provide sensors throughout the base structure of an Orbital alongside a Hub or ship stationed at its exact centre. A planet would need to be surrounded by satellites or otherwise guarded by at least six warships. An enemy could simply play hide-and-see...

Just as Childhood's End (first theory) could be viewed as a prelude or explanation of many SF fictional universes (the "Overmind" is the Force in Star Wars, among others) the film AI could be a seen as a mythological version of the founding of The Culture -in particular the "panhumans" described as being abundant in the (well "our") galaxy and beyond.  At the film's epilogue, all the humans had been killed as a result of a new Ice Age but the descendants (so to speak) of the film's "mechas" (intelligent androids) remain. It could be conceivable that a similar event actually happened in Earth's distant past. A race of hominids, perhaps unknown in the fossil record, invented and heavily utilised, artificial intelligence just before their civilisation was destroyed in an ice age. Of course, a few survivors could have left Earth in spaceships before this happened, but the main point is that the AIs which survived were able to crea...