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This post started very differently (as you will see below), but then the research nerd in me went looking for info on the closing credits song that I'm about to bash... and I found this article: https://www.cbr.com/zack-snyder-justice-league-leonard-cohen-hallelujah-importance/ After reading the article, and understanding where this version of Hallelujah came from and why it's there... it makes it kinda hard to bash on it as I originally intended.  But let's face it.. I'm not going to let a little thing like human emotion or sympathy get in the way of a good rant now, am I? Of course not. So, without further commentary...  Everything wrong with Zack Snyder's Justice League can be summed up by the overwrought closing credits rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.  It can be concluded that the film is, arguably, better than Joss Whedon's theatrical release of the film. It is, certainly more comprehensible. And its kinda fascinating to see how completely diff

I've been on an SF/Space Opera jag for a while now. I think it started with Iain M. Banks " Culture " series, then I segued jnto Neal Asher's Polity universe. Galactic civilizations, post-human evolution, sentient (and often sarcastic) AI, ancient civilizations and fantastic alien life forms... These books really scratch that itch in my brain.  Looking for other options, once I'd devoured all of the above, I've sampled a lot of the recent space opera, but also done quite a bit of looking back.  First stop was Asimov's Foundation/Robot/Empire novels. Asimov did a pretty impressive job of tying his disparate SF series into a cohesive universe by the latter days of his career, and it's interesting to read those novels in story-chronological order. It's an earlier era of SF, so think robots in place of AI (and oh-so terribly serious robots at that) and no aliens to speak of. But a galaxy spanning story that kept me interested through the full set of