FISH TALE

HAROLD HALIBUT plays things too safe for its own good

By Joshua Wolens

Harold Halibut‘s most enduring running gag is about a Turkish soap opera called Sonsuz Ask. Ardent fans will try to sell you on it – just wait for it to really pick up in season 22 – but the hard truth is that you'll have to endure a lot of long, barren stretches before you get to the good stuff. Even in space, you probably have better things to do with your time. Harold Halibut has a lot in common with Sonsuz Ask. You are Harold, the unsophisticated, sincere and (literally) wide-eyed handyman aboard the good ship Fedora I, which has been stuck at the bottom of an alien ocean for 50years after a solar flare knocked it out of the void. Harold is a dreamer and an optimist, an open…

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