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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.

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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.

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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.'

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