Feb 27, 2024 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corporations owning and controlling everything? How can the world-building skills of the makers of films and comics help us…
Kyle HigginsGuestKarina ManashilGuest
Mia FunkHost
So one of the things that was really important to Scott from the get go, and it definitely coincides with his own kind of love and fascination with the moon and space and the cosmos, was that this is a mission that our main character, Ramon Townsend, who is he's an astronaut and a pilot.
This is a mission that he has dreamed about since he was a very young boy, since he used to make his mother read him Goodnight Moon next to the window so he could wave.
Unfortunately, though, much like a lot of us, you know, kind of elder millennials, the world that we thought we were going to be coming of age in and then entering into as an adult isn't the world that exists now.
when you're talking about megacorporations that are only interested in controlling for the sake of owning and controlling.
That original sense of discovery that I think attracted Scott and myself, honestly, to outer space, kind of some of those ideals that NASA used to represent, discovery for the sake of discovery, and exploring for the sake of the human species and the human condition, those are the tenants that we all thought we were going to be entering into as artists, as scientists, as explorers.
A megacorporation named Janus, which is the fictional corporation in Moon Man, when that corporation headhunts Ramon to be one of the main astronauts and pilots for some of their commercial spaceflight endeavors, Ramon jumps at the opportunity because they are also prioritizing trying to get back to the moon.
Unfortunately, the reasons to get back to the moon are a little bit less than ideal.
Buckley, the billionaire, somewhat of a pretentious joke, son of Janice, CEO and billionaire Mason Cordell.
You know, the dream of a billionaire son who can never escape his overbearing father's shadow.
The astronauts, the four-person crew, including Buckley, Ramon, Addison, Mission Commander Addison, and Specialist Glenn, have all been in isolation back at Janus for about six weeks because...
During their translunar injection, which would have been the maneuver that then sets them on their path to the moon, something went very wrong.
And there are seven minutes missing from all instruments, from all live feeds, from the astronauts' memory as well.
Ramon came to first, was able to get them back on course and get them back in contact with mission control and ultimately to get them back home.
So one of the things that was really important to Scott from the get go, and it definitely coincides with his own kind of love and fascination with the moon and space and the cosmos, was that this is a mission that our main character, Ramon Townsend, who is he's an astronaut and a pilot.
This is a mission that he has dreamed about since he was a very young boy, since he used to make his mother read him Goodnight Moon next to the window so he could wave.
Unfortunately, though, much like a lot of us, you know, kind of elder millennials, the world that we thought we were going to be coming of age in and then entering into as an adult isn't the world that exists now.
when you're talking about megacorporations that are only interested in controlling for the sake of owning and controlling.
That original sense of discovery that I think attracted Scott and myself, honestly, to outer space, kind of some of those ideals that NASA used to represent, discovery for the sake of discovery, and exploring for the sake of the human species and the human condition, those are the tenants that we all thought we were going to be entering into as artists, as scientists, as explorers.
A megacorporation named Janus, which is the fictional corporation in Moon Man, when that corporation headhunts Ramon to be one of the main astronauts and pilots for some of their commercial spaceflight endeavors, Ramon jumps at the opportunity because they are also prioritizing trying to get back to the moon.
Unfortunately, the reasons to get back to the moon are a little bit less than ideal.
Buckley, the billionaire, somewhat of a pretentious joke, son of Janice, CEO and billionaire Mason Cordell.
You know, the dream of a billionaire son who can never escape his overbearing father's shadow.
The astronauts, the four-person crew, including Buckley, Ramon, Addison, Mission Commander Addison, and Specialist Glenn, have all been in isolation back at Janus for about six weeks because...
During their translunar injection, which would have been the maneuver that then sets them on their path to the moon, something went very wrong.
And there are seven minutes missing from all instruments, from all live feeds, from the astronauts' memory as well.
Ramon came to first, was able to get them back on course and get them back in contact with mission control and ultimately to get them back home.
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