Well, that kinda was the take. The plot points were ‘90s contemporary future themed enough – that was the decade where with the Fear and Loathing movie we rediscovered Hunter S. Thompson as a hero – but the themes themselves weren’t particularly '90s. What was The Smiler trying to do that Spider was trying to thwart? Did it have anything interesting to say about neoliberalism, or Clintonian realignment, or anything?