Travis Beacham
@travisbeacham.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Writer/creator of PACIFIC RIM, CARNIVAL ROW, and IMPACT WINTER…
Yeah. Just so there’s no confusion about this— I don’t care what they’re called. Call them center-clockwise. Call them democraps. Call them lumpsuckers. I genuinely do not care.
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yeah. Just so there’s no confusion about this— I don’t care what they’re called. Call them center-clockwise. Call them democraps. Call them lumpsuckers. I genuinely do not care.
I was in high school when Blair Witcb dropped. A non-adult. I never thought it was real. I knew no one who thought it was real. Yes, the fact that it FELT real was huge and talked about. But I don’t recall that a lot of serious people believed a literal snuff film was showing in theatres.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I was in high school when Blair Witcb dropped. A non-adult. I never thought it was real. I knew no one who thought it was real. Yes, the fact that it FELT real was huge and talked about. But I don’t recall that a lot of serious people believed a literal snuff film was showing in theatres.
I hate when the center-left political class talks about dropping the woke stuff. First of all, you lot were never carrying it. Secondly, YOU’RE asking for MY support. So it kinda feels like I can care about whatever I care about.
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I hate when the center-left political class talks about dropping the woke stuff. First of all, you lot were never carrying it. Secondly, YOU’RE asking for MY support. So it kinda feels like I can care about whatever I care about.
It used to be in prehistory that the Mediterranean was mostly dry land and there was a moment when the Atlantic spilled over to fill it. Picture an ocean coming at you at 100m cubic meters a second... I dunno. Just sayin— there have been disasters that were harder to stop than an inept dictator.
October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It used to be in prehistory that the Mediterranean was mostly dry land and there was a moment when the Atlantic spilled over to fill it. Picture an ocean coming at you at 100m cubic meters a second... I dunno. Just sayin— there have been disasters that were harder to stop than an inept dictator.
Four core structural truths of every medium I’ve written in professionally. A film is a poem of motion and stillness. A season of prestige tv is a novel. Audio drama is telling as showing. And a comic book is time as space.
October 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Four core structural truths of every medium I’ve written in professionally. A film is a poem of motion and stillness. A season of prestige tv is a novel. Audio drama is telling as showing. And a comic book is time as space.
Don’t read this if you haven’t seen Weapons, but my god, there may be no single moment in modern cinema that’s scarier than just the sound of that fucking car door opening…
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Don’t read this if you haven’t seen Weapons, but my god, there may be no single moment in modern cinema that’s scarier than just the sound of that fucking car door opening…
“There is very possibly no limit to the miracle machine’s capabilities,” predicts salesman of miracle machines.
AI Is “Possibly The End Of Human Creativity,” Predicts CEO Of Amazon-Backed Firm Helping Rescue Lost ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ Footage
Edward Saatchi, CEO of Amazon-backed startup Fable, sees AI as "possibly the end of human creativity" -- at least as an exclusive phenomenon.
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September 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“There is very possibly no limit to the miracle machine’s capabilities,” predicts salesman of miracle machines.
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Was she patiently waiting for it or pacing? Watching the numbers change?
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Was she patiently waiting for it or pacing? Watching the numbers change?
Here, I’m gonna help some of you out. Arguing the logistics isn’t how you defend this moment. You wanna call out the effect of the creative choice. It works in situ b/c it’s that ominous thing of an elevator quietly arriving from hell. In art, if the vibe works, the logic doesn’t come up.
Remember in Aliens when the queen USES THE ELEVATOR?
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
August 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here, I’m gonna help some of you out. Arguing the logistics isn’t how you defend this moment. You wanna call out the effect of the creative choice. It works in situ b/c it’s that ominous thing of an elevator quietly arriving from hell. In art, if the vibe works, the logic doesn’t come up.
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I think you'll find the Queen pressed the buttons for every floor and patiently waited until she finally reached the one with Ripley.
August 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think you'll find the Queen pressed the buttons for every floor and patiently waited until she finally reached the one with Ripley.
I see that many of you think I’m saying I don’t buy that the xenomorphs are clever. That’s silly. It’s a fully imaginary creature. Obviously whatever it’s doing is a thing it can do. I just think it’s sorta funny to picture the offscreen, implied steps of one of them using an elevator like a person.
August 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I see that many of you think I’m saying I don’t buy that the xenomorphs are clever. That’s silly. It’s a fully imaginary creature. Obviously whatever it’s doing is a thing it can do. I just think it’s sorta funny to picture the offscreen, implied steps of one of them using an elevator like a person.
It’s very much like that— if instead of opening a kitchen door they used an elevator to go to the floor they’re prey was on and it wasn’t a plot point and no character ever pointed out that it was a strangely clever thing for an animal to do.
August 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s very much like that— if instead of opening a kitchen door they used an elevator to go to the floor they’re prey was on and it wasn’t a plot point and no character ever pointed out that it was a strangely clever thing for an animal to do.
I love The Lost World (Jurassic Park 2). The film’s rex attack is easily a franchise high point. Easily. And the girl does use a gymnastics move to merc a raptor. Fair. I’d argue that this bit is quite grounded for a series that later spends several films on dinosaurs having military applications.
August 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I love The Lost World (Jurassic Park 2). The film’s rex attack is easily a franchise high point. Easily. And the girl does use a gymnastics move to merc a raptor. Fair. I’d argue that this bit is quite grounded for a series that later spends several films on dinosaurs having military applications.
Remember in Aliens when the queen USES THE ELEVATOR?
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
August 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Remember in Aliens when the queen USES THE ELEVATOR?
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
She doesn’t scrabble up the empty elevator shaft. No. The elevator dings. Doors open. And she steps out.
Meaning— at the bottom she pressed the call button, waited, got in, pressed the button for Ripley’s floor, and rode the lift car up to it.
I was always a creative kid. But oddly, I initially wanted to be a paleontologist. And I’m not saying that I “liked dinosaurs.” Lots of kids like dinosaurs. I had a full-on ADHD hyper-fixation. My favourites were like Carnotaurus and Oviraptor. Deep cuts. Like I KNEW about dinosaurs. And still do.
August 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I was always a creative kid. But oddly, I initially wanted to be a paleontologist. And I’m not saying that I “liked dinosaurs.” Lots of kids like dinosaurs. I had a full-on ADHD hyper-fixation. My favourites were like Carnotaurus and Oviraptor. Deep cuts. Like I KNEW about dinosaurs. And still do.
Does Star Wars take place before or after Lord of the Rings? Here’s what we know. Both stories are set in this universe. With Tolkien’s letters suggesting LOTR is set on Earth about 6,000 years ago and Star Wars being far more vague. All we know there is that it’s long ago and far from Earth.
July 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Does Star Wars take place before or after Lord of the Rings? Here’s what we know. Both stories are set in this universe. With Tolkien’s letters suggesting LOTR is set on Earth about 6,000 years ago and Star Wars being far more vague. All we know there is that it’s long ago and far from Earth.
Had to go one per show because otherwise it would just be all DS9…
Cap - Sisko
1st - Saru
Sci - T’Pol
Doc - Bones
Sec - Le’an
Eng - Geordie
Helm - Boimler
Cap - Sisko
1st - Saru
Sci - T’Pol
Doc - Bones
Sec - Le’an
Eng - Geordie
Helm - Boimler
Cpt: Pike (SNW version)
1st/science: Spock (TOS version)
Doc: Bones McCoy
Sec: Worf
Nav: Ro Laren
Eng: O'Brien
Tailor/Spy: Garak
1st/science: Spock (TOS version)
Doc: Bones McCoy
Sec: Worf
Nav: Ro Laren
Eng: O'Brien
Tailor/Spy: Garak
July 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Had to go one per show because otherwise it would just be all DS9…
Cap - Sisko
1st - Saru
Sci - T’Pol
Doc - Bones
Sec - Le’an
Eng - Geordie
Helm - Boimler
Cap - Sisko
1st - Saru
Sci - T’Pol
Doc - Bones
Sec - Le’an
Eng - Geordie
Helm - Boimler
Hot take. But Doctor Who needs to feel like I Saw the TV Glow. It needs to be eerie and lo-fi and experimental, with almost deliberately janky vfx. To my point, the Mondasian Cybermen… The cloth-masked version is hands-down the creepiest Cybermen design.
July 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hot take. But Doctor Who needs to feel like I Saw the TV Glow. It needs to be eerie and lo-fi and experimental, with almost deliberately janky vfx. To my point, the Mondasian Cybermen… The cloth-masked version is hands-down the creepiest Cybermen design.
“We changed the name of the USNS Harvey Milk to something non-political.”
Taking the name of a gay civil rights activist off your boat IS political, you mop bucket.
Taking the name of a gay civil rights activist off your boat IS political, you mop bucket.
June 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“We changed the name of the USNS Harvey Milk to something non-political.”
Taking the name of a gay civil rights activist off your boat IS political, you mop bucket.
Taking the name of a gay civil rights activist off your boat IS political, you mop bucket.
I dunno if you saw that my buddy Eric Heisserer is doing a Pacific Rim series but it is in very capable hands. Dude wrote an all time top ten sf film in Arrival, has a deep-cut expertise of PacRim lore and a crystal clear eye on its heart. Fans, if you’d heard the things I’ve heard about this…
May 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I dunno if you saw that my buddy Eric Heisserer is doing a Pacific Rim series but it is in very capable hands. Dude wrote an all time top ten sf film in Arrival, has a deep-cut expertise of PacRim lore and a crystal clear eye on its heart. Fans, if you’d heard the things I’ve heard about this…
Something a lot of sf doesn’t think about. Space is completely dark. Like the ocean at night. So unless you’re in proximity to a star, a vessel’s hull would only be illuminated by its own exterior lights.
March 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Something a lot of sf doesn’t think about. Space is completely dark. Like the ocean at night. So unless you’re in proximity to a star, a vessel’s hull would only be illuminated by its own exterior lights.
Well it never counts. Not really. Maybe for the people whose money it is. But I don’t care what they spent or made on a movie. If I like it, I say it’s good. If I don’t, I say it’s bad. And every reason I have is something that happened between the lights going down and coming back up.
Ive been making this point to the "Snyder Cut" crowd for over a decade. How do I know they don't care? Because when you come at them with the-numbers.com and graphs and figures they change the subject.
If you bring up international sales and return on investment it somehow "doesn't count".
If you bring up international sales and return on investment it somehow "doesn't count".
March 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well it never counts. Not really. Maybe for the people whose money it is. But I don’t care what they spent or made on a movie. If I like it, I say it’s good. If I don’t, I say it’s bad. And every reason I have is something that happened between the lights going down and coming back up.
I put it to you that you don’t actually give a fuck how much money a movie earned or cost to make. How do I know this? Well do you like Groundhog Day? Okay, without looking, in what spot did it open? … See, you don’t care.
March 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I put it to you that you don’t actually give a fuck how much money a movie earned or cost to make. How do I know this? Well do you like Groundhog Day? Okay, without looking, in what spot did it open? … See, you don’t care.
Grammatically speaking, what the fuck is going on with the name of Ruth’s Chris Steak House?
March 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Grammatically speaking, what the fuck is going on with the name of Ruth’s Chris Steak House?
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Impact Winter was my competition for the 2023 Ambie Award. Very cool news for a very cool podcast. Congrats, @travisbeacham.bsky.social ! deadline.com/2025/02/impa...
‘Impact Winter’ Acquired By Netflix; Francis Lawrence, Travis Beacham Plot Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Series Based On Hit Podcast
'Impact Winter' Headed For Netflix Series; Francis Lawrence, Travis Beacham Tackle Post-Apocalyptic Podcast
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February 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Impact Winter was my competition for the 2023 Ambie Award. Very cool news for a very cool podcast. Congrats, @travisbeacham.bsky.social ! deadline.com/2025/02/impa...