Re: Nebula Finalists 2022

On 10 Feb 2025 14:36:13 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
wrote:

2022: Plagiarism engines were unleashed, the invincible Russian war
machine turned out to be remarkably vincible, and the Whiskey War
is resolved after nearly half a century.

I really enjoy reading these summaries!

<snippo written stuff>

Which 2022 Bradbury Nebula Finalist Movies Have You Seen?

WandaVision: Season 1 (IMDB) by Peter Cameron, Mackenzie Dohr,
Laura Donney, Bobak Esfarjani, Megan McDonnell, Jac Schaeffer,
Cameron Squires, Gretchen Enders, and Chuck Hayward

Encanto (IMDB) by Charise Castro Smith, Jared Bush, Byron Howard,
Jason Hand, Nancy Kruse, and Lin-Manuel Miranda

Loki: Season 1 (IMDB) by Bisha K. Ali, Elissa Karasik, Eric Martin,
Michael Waldron, Tom Kauffman, and Jess Dweck

Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten Rings (IMDB) by Dave Callaham,
Destin Daniel Cretton, and Andrew Lanham

Space Sweepers by Jo Sung-hee

The Green Knight by David Lowery

What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3 by Jake Bender, Zach Dunn,
Shana Gohd, Sam Johnson, Chris Marcil, William Meny, Sarah Naftalis,
Stefani Robinson, Marika Sawyer, Paul Simms, and Lauren Wells

See what I did there? I made it much much easier to identify the
titles.

Do TV Series officially become Movies by being nominated? Or has
semantic goo erased the distinction?

My records indicate that I saw /Shang-Chi, the Legend of the Ten
Rings/ and /The Green Knight/ in 2022. IMDb shows both released in
2021. But perhaps something was lost in translation ...

I don't actually remember seeing the first (this is /never/ a good
sign). I do remember seeing but not liking the second (this is better
than not remembering it at all, but not much as I do not remember what
I found unlikeable about it).

I not only saw /What We Do in the Shadows/ the movie but bought the
DVD. Unfortunately, what was nominated was Season 3 of a TV Series. I
tried watching such things a while back, but have since returned to my
non-TV series lifestyle.

And, yes, I consider them to be "TV Series" even if they are safely
confined to an Internet streaming platform. Semantic goo strikes
everyone, from time to time.

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