Harold Halibut
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 50 years after a solar flare knocked it out of the void. Harold is a dreamer and an optimist, an open and honest soul who people naturally confide in.