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Firefly?
Firefly.
You’re gorram right.
Best inspirational, sci-fi, western in the 'verse!
Yes and Cowboy bebop and Samurai 7 (not a western but a scifi period piece I guess.)
I tapped in to type this. As most here have.
Cowboy bebop
Ah, yes. The Spike Spiegel wing.
Edit: Where are my manners? Let’s throw Vash the Stampede in there too. Not enough love for Trigun these days.
Let’s throw Vash the Stampede in there too.
The humanoid typhoon?! The six million double dollar man?!
I kid. You’re absolutely right.
“Love and peace!”
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I’m so glad I’m not the only one to assume this arrow points to the “Trigun” and “Cowboy Bebop” aisle.
Outlaw Star: “Am I a joke to you?”
Good point!
(…yes.)
Cowboys vs. Aliens was great, I don’t care if anyone disagrees.
Its okay to be wrong sometimes
It’s so bad it’s amazing. It’s like pacific rim
…Why is there Dunkin Donuts inside a hospital?
Because the resident practicing their first ever medical procedure on you has been awake 38 hours.
Until alarmingly recently there was a Burger King in my nearest general hospital.
I never could make sense of that.
it is because, at any given time, there are hundreds, to thousands, of family, and friends, or patients in the hospital. Hospitals are large places, hard to navigate when you don’t know them, and even then take a long time to get in and out of. Also they have a similar amount of various employees. People got tired of the cafeteria food, and began voicing complaints about how big of a pain in the ass getting food that doesn’t suck in. Also, a lot, even most, of the people in the hospital are not there due to dietary stemming problems. When you are sick and/or injured, you want comfort foods. People want to bring you comfort food.
So, over time, they started making space for commercial food service to rent from them. So you will see fast food, and sometimes whole on chain restaurants. This also can be a source of income.
Mistborn books 4-6 (Wax and Wayne series)
Although I definitely recommend Mistborn 1-3 first. Which are awesome in their own right.
Recommend? I’d think you’d be pretty damn lost if you just started there.
Yeah. Start with mistborn 1. But know there’s some awesome stuff that is coming along the lines of what the post mentioned.
Sci-fi isn’t until Era 3 at least
True. The groundwork for it is set in era2. But there is some steampunk-esq leanings in that direction at the end of Era2.
But serious to anybody reading this… mistborn is fantastic and the change to a new era is also fantastic.
Mistborn era 1: Epic Fantasy with metals based magic system.
One of the examples is people with certain abilities can “push” or “pull” on metallic objects like coins and leap, fly or fight with it.
Mistborn era 2: Epic fantasy magic in the age of firearms and steam engines with metals based magic system.
Same as above… but now somebody can fire a bullet into the ground of a small gulch and use the metal of the bullet to push off of allowing them to “leap” that gulch. Or another person can deflect bullets fired at them, etc etc.
Trigun?
Its probably been 15 years since I’ve consumed any of the Trigun story, but from what I remember it was a story set in a dystopian future where local strongmen and warlords battled for control over a desert wastelands while the most altruistic person was targeted by society with the largest bounty on his head in history. Meanwhile the local populace is barely scraping by as they are set upon by both man and nature just trying to survive. So, Western, yes. Sci-fi, (careful of spoilers) yes. Inspirational?
One could argue that Vash the Stampede perseveres despite all the hardships he’s had to endure and kept a cheerful demeanor through it all. He acknowledged the harm he’s done but is also willing to atone for it as much as he can. For readers who’ve done bad things in life but want to make up for it, that seems inspirational.
The difference between cynical grimdark misery porn and an inspiring epic can come down to a single character with a conscience.
And let’s not forget “you need to confess!” Wolfwood’s story arc as a mild mannered traveling preacher carrying a cross that’s heavy because it’s full of forgiveness.
Sarcasm is hard to read in text, but I absolutely agree, but I’m being vague to try not to spoil anything beyond the first couple episodes.
Star Wars?
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
PeAk iNsPiRaTiOnAl
The real reason for his dislike of sand. Good read, but it CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Ohmygod, that changes everything wow, I would never expect such an unforeseeable twist, this elevates the writing to Shakespearean levels, Anakin is the new Hamlet, thank you for this inspiration.
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.
Firefly!
This is the only correct answer
There it is.
are you kidding? westworld ABSOLUTELY fits!
literally the dark tower
The dark tower series is my favorite post-apocalyptic fantasy sci-fi western series.
Blaine is a pain and that’s the truth.
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Holds up!
Westworld kinda?
Inspirational??
Not to regular people, but I bet it gave Silicon Valley and lots of other people with more money and power than sense ALL kinds of bad ideas. Dystopian fiction often does 🙁
Maybe they’re a chatbot?
Westworld inspired me to find new shows to watch because it turned into absolute fucking garbage, so there’s that?
Cautionary Science Fiction Western.
I’ve been running a tabletop campaign for Scum & Villainy which is very much in the Space Opera/Western category. It’s been a really fun and evocative setting to game in.
Coriolis fits that vein as well.
HFY?
“How Fucking Yellow”?
