>>2908
Understandable. I will admit that I haven't been to a movie in a theater in years and years. The cape movies are something about which I see memes, not something I watch.
I will also say that I used to read a lot of science fiction, to include splatbooks for pen-and-paper RPGs when especially bored. The tone of sci-fi published since the end of the Protracted Struggle does not appeal to me very much, and the authors whose work I enjoyed are dead. The RPG stuff often had really clever ideas and worldbuilding but not really so much in the way of coherent story. When I was bored enough, and I'd been able to find this stuff at a used book store, or in some ancient undisturbed FTP archive somewhere in the pre-SEO, pre-AI Internet. The GURPS Infinite Worlds books had clever ideas along with some japes that didn't quite hit for me ("we call this timeline the United States of Lizardia, and it's exactly like present-day Earth in every single way, down to the names of celebrities and the current popular music, except that everyone is an anthropomorphic dinosaur," are you people serious? who approved this?). There's also a GURPS Horror worldbook called "The Madness Dossier," which has to do with a war between humanity, waged largely by secret government agencies, and time-traveling entities whose exact nature is not understood (alien conquerors? demons? evil ancient gods? pick one or make up something weirder) who are fighting and flipping the world back and forth between two timelines: the world we know, and a world where humans are the slaves of these hostile entities, which has a lot of good writing and evocative ideas and could have been the core conflict of a very good skiffy novel instead of an RPG. One of the core concepts is that stuff can sometimes survive intact from the "other" timeline when things flip back and forth, resulting in possibly somewhat cliched plot bunnies like "someone found the shiny alien superscience weapon that was never created and shouldn't exist and sold it to a pawn shop, so now you have to track it down and retrieve it before whoever bought it blows up the city, or, worse, attracts the attention of the evil insane alien gods who want to enslave us."