Less like Crematoria, then. More perpetual bush fire than cremation. Which of course is a lot more realistic.
I'm not sure that I've encountered a story with that. Can you recall the author(s)?
There are definitely stories set on Mercury, which seems to be the model for Crematoria per its temperature range; although I don't think that any of the early ones, when we knew less about Mercury than we did later on, gave Mercury an atmosphere let alone an atmosphere with oxygen.
I wouldn't imagine many #SciFi stories with specifically Crematoria-alikes, though, for the simple reason that the #chemistry is so blatantly flawed. How has the atmosphere not boiled off? Where does the oxygen come from? How are humans not poisoned by all of the combustion byproducts? Where are the winds? How come the gases are not liquefying at night? Most authors would build their worlds asking at least some of these questions.
The sort of #Mithridatism that is in the 3rd #Riddick movie is theoretically possible, as it can be done with snake venom. But it does rather hinge on how well the biochemistry of the alien world matches Riddick's Furyan #biochemistry.
Of course, it's a bit of a suspension of disbelief point in the Riddick universe that all planets seem to be capable of supporting Terran life; even Crematoria which has (per the effects department) a continuous semi-circle of combustion circling the planet once per day eating up the oxygen in the atmosphere. (And, magically, no convection currents causing a permanent windstorm.)
Riddick certainly seems to be able to survive on the alien organisms as food.
Consistent planetology and ecology is not this franchise's strong suit. Vide the organisms in #PitchBlack destroying their own food source entirely, yet being able to survive in large numbers for decades. In the real world, overpredation causes population collapse.
Well that has cleared the 3 #Riddick movies out of the TiVo, watched in order for the first time.
Some of the dialogue in the third movie is Riddick being oblique, and only really makes sense if one has actually seen #PitchBlack, which as I recall wasn't the case when I first watched movie 3.
It's basically a #SciFi slasher movie with a bit of man+dog buddy movie (Sci-Fi style) mixed in. #TheChroniclesOfRiddick is still the best one of the three by a significant margin.
It's interesting that movie 1 had Australian locations and several Australian actors, and movie 3 was Canadian locations and mostly U.S.A. actors.
Also interesting is that the set-up for what we know about the forthcoming movie 4 has been dangling at the end of movie 3 for 13 years. Movie 3's dialogue established a 10-year in-universe gap from movie 1, the real world gap being 13 years. I wonder whether it is going to be another decade in-universe.
I have long been of the opinion that #TheChroniclesOfRiddick is the best of the 3 #Riddick movies, and that hasn't changed from watching them in the right order. (TCOR was the first that I ever watched.)
And that's not just because it has #LinusRoache and the most terrifying (albeit chemically ludicrous) sunrise in movie #SciFi.
Instead of going for the mega-corporate future of Alien, it went for the Dune-style future of court intrigue, multiple planets and civilisations, and enslaved humans turned into specialized cyborgs. It's greater in scope than the other two, which are are pretty much single-planet slasher movies.
It has interstellar daring raids, a prison break, a chase, and a duel.
The #Necromongers's set decorations are impressive; Islam is still the only religion (of "many religions") that gets an actual mention; and France is out of the picture.
One unanswered question: Why is the sled display on Crematoria in #Cyrillic?
'Skittish, Toombs. Very skittish.'
I am continuing the TiVo clearance, which is going rather slowly, by watching the 3 #Riddick movies; in order, which I haven't done before.
It's interesting to hear #ClaudiaBlack in #PitchBlack speaking in her native accent. I've never seen her early Aussie and NZ telly stuff, so I've mainly only heard her doing other accents.
From the first movie, there's no real clue about the wider universe. They *could* have made it one with mega-corporations (as with Alien) without contradicting anything established, because the only things established were that that Islam and France still existed, as did bounty hunters for chasing escaped prisoners.
The on-screen ambiguity about who was going to be the 'final girl', in what is basically a #SciFi slasher movie, apparently extended into real life with the actors vying over who was actually the lead.
In retrospect, knowing the series, it's obvious; but without prior knowledge the last death would have been a shock.
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