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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Hmm…

Dune? Nope

Westwood: Double Nope

Cowboy Bebop: Not even close

Dark Tower: negative inspiration actually

I’m sensing a pattern here. Sand + sci-fi equals a lithium prescription.

[–] ramirezmike 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is the only correct answer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

are you kidding? westworld ABSOLUTELY fits! did you not watch the first two seasons? or even just the finale of season 1? the old engineer and his redemption arc, the robot girl and her apotheosis? the jaded nihilistic madame and breaking her programming, proving she's her own person, by breaking her code, possibly in a way that was planned by a manipulative bastard who played everyone around him for decades, blurring if not effectively erasing the line between humanity and our creations, emphasized by the man in black's whole arc, in kind of a more drawn out version of the cinematic cut of blade runner you can't even find anymore?

I was inspired by cowboy bebop and dune! not to, you know, become the chosen one or a space bounty hunter, but, like, you know, in other ways. they were beautiful. they said stuff about life. they touched my heart. they taught me about myself. cowboy bebop in particular really drove home the beauty of the temporary, of relationships even if they weren't forever, the beauty that can come from facing your trauma, your past, and potentially even your death, and also inspired me to be a deeply annoying weeb for a couple years, among other philosophical shit.