Warren Ellis on a rampage is a sight to behold

it started out like this...

Is it interesting to anyone else that
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is now the
only "spaceship show" on the air in
English? (DOCTOR WHO doesn't
count - ship shows have their own
set of tropes, and WHO doesn't fit.)
Almost makes me want to have a
go at another space opera/ship
comic again, see if I can get it right
this time...

then came this response...

Also known as "Warren Ellis' Conversations With The
Living Web," or something equally polite, respectful
and Joi Ito-esque:

The STARGATE shows are not ship shows. You
can tell by, you know, the lack of a fucking spaceship.
Sure, they have them NOW. But the clue remains
in the fucking title.

(That said, those things are the very model of how
to devise a long-running tv show. It's an open-ended
concept. As opposed to, say, LIFE ON MARS --
which ends the second the protagonist gets
cured.)

(Although I don't think anyone expected every
planet in the known universe to look like Vancouver.
But what the fuck.)

If the show concept is All About Flying Around In
A Fucking Spaceship, it's a ship show. If it's
not, then it ain't. Just because something has
four legs, don't mean it's a dog. Luckily, you
have me here to correct your thinking and elevate
you from the evolutionary shitpit you currently
wallow in.

Thank God for me.


this man is a fucking genius.