History Channel remaking 1977 'Roots' miniseries

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37. Hear! Hear!

I have written in the science fiction field (not lately) and have always had a keen interest but they have almost never done a serious SF movie ever. It is nearly all on the same level as Buck Rogers and Ming the Merciless from the 1930's except with CGI. Television had a few good things years ago. Something by Ursula K. le Guin and a good adaptation of Solaris (S. Lem). But then we had all the Star Wars/Trek fluff. There have been immense possibilities in SF dealing (as George Orwell did) with very serious social issues or dysfunctional futures but the media moguls ignore these. I think Star Wars (amusing sometimes) was a blight and socio-politically retrograde (fascist medal award ceremonies, sly racism and classism etc.). Robert Heinlein did some serious works on a Dominionist future but this has been utterly ignored. And so it goes (as the late Kurt Vonnegut would say).