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So, you have a space fandom. However, other people might not have heard of it! Thankfully, there is a solution: Tell us why your canon is the best! Here's a nice format you can use to make it easier for people to find stuff: (copypasteable below)
The canon: The canon's name
What: The medium – TV, book, anime, RPF, 5-minute (posters/music video/etc), ... Some idea of the length would also be good. Is it one book/season/movie, or is it longer?
Where: where it can be found – is there a legal free download, is it on Netflix, an Amazon link, etc
Quick pitch: Give us a brief tagline! "Sentient ants get a space program", "Space Opera detectives chasing a priceless alien artwork", "Gritty asteroid mining RPG", ...
More: Tell us all the reasons why it's awesome! What do you like about the canon? The characters, the tone/outlook, the central concept, the relationship between hero and antagonist, the prose style, anything!
Now, go forth and advertise and read the most space-y recs list this side of the Crab Nebula!
The canon: The canon's name
What: The medium – TV, book, anime, RPF, 5-minute (posters/music video/etc), ... Some idea of the length would also be good. Is it one book/season/movie, or is it longer?
Where: where it can be found – is there a legal free download, is it on Netflix, an Amazon link, etc
Quick pitch: Give us a brief tagline! "Sentient ants get a space program", "Space Opera detectives chasing a priceless alien artwork", "Gritty asteroid mining RPG", ...
More: Tell us all the reasons why it's awesome! What do you like about the canon? The characters, the tone/outlook, the central concept, the relationship between hero and antagonist, the prose style, anything!
Now, go forth and advertise and read the most space-y recs list this side of the Crab Nebula!
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The canon: Foundation
What: TV series (based on a book series). There are 2 full seasons of 10 episodes each and it just got renewed for a 3rd season.
Where: Apple TV (I would like to own it on DVD but unfortunately Apple doesn't seem to do physical releases of their shows, boo.)
Quick pitch: Mathematician Hari Seldon invents a branch of math that can predict the future of humanity and it is bleak. The ruling emperor is not particularly pleased with this and exiles him and his followers. They go set up the Foundation in order to help future humanity through the predicted period of crisis.
More: Let me say first that the aesthetics of this show are off the hook. Look at this gif set! Second, all the characters are fantastic and there are really fun relationship dynamics. You've got a rotating set of cloned emperors and every version of him has so many issues. Salvor Hardin who is beauty, grace, and will shoot you in the face. Her space UPS driver boyfriend Hugo. Loyal cleric Constant. Gay space general Ben Daniels. Beki the dragon lizard!! There's space politics, a ghost ship, Lee Pace in a gold mesh crop top. If you want a galaxy spanning space drama, this is the one.
Edited (update icon to lee pace in the gold crop top!) 2024-01-18 01:37 am (UTC)
What: An improvised sci-fi comedy podcast (no, wait don't run!)
Where: https://www.missiontozyxx.space/
Quick pitch: A Podcast where Star Wars meets Star Trek meets Farscape meets Alien
More:
Mission to Zyxx has incredibly tight worldbuilding with its improvised plot and characters. The first season begins with an ambassadorial team for the Benevolent Federated Alliance and goes nearly immediately off the rails. Every episode has full sound effects and engineering. Starting in S3, the musical score is fully orchestrated by a live orchestra. The episodes are somewhat self-contained, the seasons have satisfying internal arcs, and the entire 5 seasons have one of the most coherent plots in any sci-fi media with a beginning, middle, and end. Each character has their own coherent character arc.
Featuring
a bumbling chosen one protagonist
horny Chewbacca-like alien security officer
protocol droid in a series of droid frames
the lird (lizard-bird) missions operations manager
former movie star sentient space ship
a former CLINT (cloned light infantry nomadic trooper)
a warm bean
What: TV show, 43 episodes, 21 mins each
Where: Officially on YouTube: Here
Quick pitch: Nonhuman looking for his sister meets 4 humans and teams up with them to save the universe! (And find his sister.)
More: I mean the show’s title is pretty self-explanatory. At the end of Power Rangers Turbo, the Rangers go into space and look for Zordon! They meet a new Red Ranger (Andros) and team up with him to fight Astronema and save the universe! Andros is exploring the universe looking for his sister Karone, who went missing as a child.
This show is from a time where Power Rangers seasons had a lot of continuity with each other (4 of the In Space Rangers are/were in Turbo) but In Space can be watched on its own and I’m planning to request Andros and Astronema, who debut in this season.
What: TV show, 48 episodes, 24 mins each
Where: I cannot answer that publicly
Quick pitch: 9 people (actually 12 lol) from throughout the universe are chosen to become the ultimate saviors and save the galaxy!
More: There are so many characters in this show, but I’ve only nominated/plan to request my faves, who are Stinger (broody loner scorpion boy), Naga (from a species who doesn’t feel emotions, desperately wants to learn/experience emotions) and Balance (robot thief who’s also helping Naga learn emotions). I’m also planning to request Balance & Naga and Stinger & Kotaro (13-year-old human boy who looks up to Stinger and joins the Kyurangers because of that. Stinger is initially reluctant about this because like, Kotaro’s 13.) The show also has other robots, many characters who aren’t from Earth, and angst (Jark Matter has been trying to take over the universe, planets have been destroyed and all that.) They don't elaborate on everyone's planet/culture as much as they could have, but the characters I've nommed each have a good arc.