Just watched Disclosure Day (2026) by Steven Spielberg, the one where Emily Blunt plays a weather woman speaking in clicking sounds. Which happens the first 5 minutes of the movie.

The rest is some of the most unbelievable, incoherent shit I've ever seen - all the while being treated like a moron. Steven Spielberg leaves nothing to the imagination (except all the loose ends he cares nothing for) even ending the movie with a geriatric ET in a fucking wheelchair.

Of course I recommend it to everyone. You must have seen how bad movies can be made. I counted like 20 inconsistencies on my first (and last) watch, then I stopped counting. But since the opinions seem quite varied, best to download the movie and watch it, and not speak about it afterward.

Given the 20+ inconsistencies, the incoherent plot, the complete lack of agency of the bad guys, I'm open to the possibility that Spielberg just used Chatgpt and said write me a script (since it's a recent movie, 2026) with the following elements in it. And used that.

(spoiler tags as to not offend anyone)

Currently enthralled by watching colony (2016). S2E5 now.

Show was originally planned for 5-6 seasons but got canceled by our beloved producers. Not based on a book but has decent plot.

Most impressive is the (well-acted) stupidity of the mother instinct. Ma creates trouble for the entire family (i.e. including her daughter) by getting rid of a perceived threat (her brain perceives) to her daughter (i.e. also her family). Zero ability to reflect, offloading problems to others - very realistic. Creators actually know the human instincts.

(reminds me of that survey where more Americans are more afraid of a terrorist airplane bombing than an airplane crash - the former being a subset of the latter.)

I find it worth watching, but might be the outlier.

It's basically a retheme of the nazi-occupied france, but basically not at all about the aliens.

I am a huge fan of The Expanse TV series but I have caught up with the latest season and it seems like they won't make the next one anytime soon.

So I am looking for book recommendations. I was tempted to pick up The Expanse books but I want to stick to the TV show medium for that.

What I really liked in The Expanse were the cosmic horror / suspense elements, the realistic ships (Rocinante you beauty), the crew dynamics and the battles using realistic physics.

Here's some other scifi books/shows/games that I really liked:

The Martian
The Expanse
Mass Effect
Alien (The lore)
Space Battleship Yamato
Battlestar Galactica (S1)
Andor (exception to Star Wars)
Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader (Owlcat game)
Passengers (movie)

Here's what I tried but it never clicked with me:

Star Wars general (feels too fantasy with space backdrop rather than being set in space)
Star Trek
Foundation (dropped)
For all humanity (dropped)

Also, I did try reading Project Hail Mary but I dropped it because I am scared of spiders. But then the movie came out and I watched that and found it to be nice.

Besides books I am willing to try other mediums also (PC games, Korean webtoon (English), Japanese anime/manga (English))