Do Not Resuscitate

3 Post Mortem - Which platform won the day? Did any of them? Did this herald in a true next generation, or a high fidelity remake of the same old thing? Would you buy a new console on day one? Main Segment, Space Opera - Space Opera was a term first used in 1941 in exasperation at the glut of pulpy intergalactic melodrama. Today it classifies the kind of light on science, heavy on grandeur, sci-fi, that spans galaxies; with fate-of-the-universe plotlines, and heroes and villains who’ve traded laser beams for fencing blades. Is there any room for this genre to grow? A neo-space opera? What would that look like, or does it already exist? Last Week’s Homework - We pitch a story based on last week's tropes. Zane (Little Old Lady Investigator vs a hanging judge in ironic hell, driven by a you go girl plot, and a manufactured victim device) Ben (Heroic dolphin finding Judas in a haunted house to prevent DC invasion versus Alas, Poor Villain) Music From: http://freemusicarchive.org/Helix Nebula, Anamanaguchi