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Recent content by Space Oddity

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    Tales From Development Hell: Jurassic Park IV

    It's rare to the extent you see in this case, because usually you want to create market synergy, so the shows overlap and you see crossovers. In this case, the company decided they were going to bury Street Sharks under a rock and pretend it had never happened. And Street Sharks had run for...
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    Tales From Development Hell: Jurassic Park IV

    It's one of the weirdest spinoffs ever, because it didn't so much spin-off as they got featured in the last season of Street Sharks and then the production company produced Extreme Dinosaurs and essentially ignored both the Street Sharks and the entire story arc that had kicked off the series...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    Ahh, yes, this unprecedented thing that had in fact happened before would have totally ruined everything this time. The fucking Cult of the Court is bad history. Worse, it's stupid bad history.
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    Oh, I do think Death of Russia is worse, especially for how, as you note, bizarrely popular and respected the damn thing is. That said Queen Nixon in... started its existence being up for Turtledoves, it's just that the pushback started quickly enough to make that period a bizarre little...
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    I'm in complete agreement about how venomous the Death of Russia is, though I'd dispute calling Queen Nixon in... "fun and goofy". It sounds that way when discussed in abstract, when we make jokes like, well, calling it 'Queen Nixon in...' But in actual review... it's just mean most of the time...
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    To be fair, the Ed Thomas story structure is a bit more complex than that. First, the triumph is followed by the protagonist's personal fall from power, either the result of their own flaws catching up with them (Mosley) or simple fate (Churchill). As they are personally ushered from the stage...
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    Sport and Alternate History. Part 5: Mergers

    Fun fact--the 1899 Spiders are not only one of the worst teams of all time, the worst in many categories, but they possess one crap record that will never be taken from them--most Away games lost in a season. That number (101) will never be equaled, because the team only played 42 home games to...
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    Sport and Alternate History. Part 5: Mergers

    The only merger from that era that lasted was the Boston Yanks and the Brooklyn Tigers (formerly the Brooklyn Dodgers), and that was because they were a perennial bottom-dweller and a new franchise that showed every sign of becoming a perennial bottom-dweller, AND Brooklyn's owner joined the...
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    Fight and Be Right

    You know, I'm going to be the contrarian and argue that the point of A Greater Britain's Mosley, Franco and Mussolini is to underline the dangers of a smarter, quieter fascism. It can be easy to miss, partially because the worst elements are happening on the edges of the TL and the TTL...
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    Writing AH: Anachronisms Part 3. A Time Before Phones.

    ... Dear God, it's perfect.
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    Least favorite alt-history story?

    You see that a lot, including many online leftists who treat it as a simple self-coup, and mourn the failure of the "popularly elected Duma" to stop the tyrannical Yeltsin while the West cheered. In reality it was an utter mess where both sides bent the rules until they broke, and while Western...
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    The Borders of Genre: The Glorification of Fascism Within Alternate History

    Wegener in the book is an enigma who presents the news that the Japanese need to hope the obviously awful candidate for Fuhrer wins because the alternative wants to blow up the planet. He's arguably a deconstruction of the heroic mole, because all Wegener has to offer from his lifetime of moral...
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    The Borders of Genre: The Glorification of Fascism Within Alternate History

    The Man in High Castle the book is an interesting case, since it is ultimately an early deconstruction of the genre, complete with characters realizing they must be fictional in the last few pages. It's also more interested in the feel of such a world than the nuts and bolts -- Dick's universe...
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    How rich was Mansa Musa? (The Answer might surprise you!)

    The Qing Dynasty glares at you from their self-created Manchu cluarchs in most major Chinese cities of their time.
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    Fight and Be Right

    I mourn the fact that The Bloody Man is now almost guaranteed never to be completed. I wanted to see Nicholas "Damnation" Barbon in the Commonwealth, damn it.
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