Watching Science Fiction with Rachel the Great, Page 2

PANEL 1

Rachel lies on the couch continuing her critique. Tuna lounges on top of the couch.

RACHEL: "Lasers are invisible!"

RACHEL: "That shot shouldn't have been visible before it hit."

PANEL 2

Rachel sits up, growing more animated. Tuna watches from her lap.

RACHEL: "Why the hell don't they have guns mounted on the back of that ship?"

RACHEL: "What moron designs a fighter ship that can't fire while being pursued?"

PANEL 3

Rachel gestures expressively while Tuna looks on. A paper bag crumples beside them for visual effect.

RACHEL: "That would not explode."

RACHEL: "There's no oxygen in space."

RACHEL: "It should have imploded and crumpled like a soda can."

Small text: "not as entertaining as"

PANEL 4

Rachel continues her rant while Tuna has given up and lies face-down.

RACHEL: "Those space travelers should be dead from the foreign bacteria and viruses on that planet!"

RACHEL: "Look what small pox did to Native Americans, and they were on our own planet!"

Second panel is me whining about the spaceship designs in Star Wars. Urgh. Major usability flaws all over the tech in those movies.

The last panel is me whining about Stargate, a movie and series I love dearly, but couldn’t help but loathe for all the disbelief I had to suspend.

Comments (Archived)

  1. Lauren

    There’s a part of me that agrees with you on all points and another part of me that wants to sing you a certain line from the MST3K theme song… “Repeat to yourself ‘it’s just a show, I should really just relax.’”

  2. xero

    actually the exploitation thing is wrong you’re assuming that a space ships power core when ruptured wouldn’t explode in space because all fuel we have here on earth does but we honestly don’t no for sure it couldn’t happen Hell the sun is technically an explosion that’s feeding into it’sself and there an’t no fraking air on the sun. actually modern physiscs says that the ships on star trek don’t blow up big enough a matter antimater reaction should actually turn the enterprise into a micro sun…and a romulan warbird into a black hole

  3. Reese76

    Why do all star -ate “Aliens” speak English ? For that Matter why are 90% of all aliens are bipedial ? I mean after all we all cant be sleestacks !

  4. J-Kwez

    I think fighter ships are designed like fight planes. They, for the most part if not the whole part, can’t fire backwards.