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  Why does every new scifi show focus on non-stop interpersonal drama, and not actual sci-fi itself?
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Posted 12/13/2010 9:40 pm
just watched that shitty TV series "the deep". WOW. they go under the ocean and the backstabbing starts and the man finds his wife he thought was dead.


nothing actually happens under the water, other than a new microbial lifeform.


this drama is somehow stretched out over 5 episodes and nothing actually really happens :lol:



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:41 pm
Son, special effects are expensive.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:42 pm
Few people actually like scifi.

Even people who say they do are actually talking about shit like Star Wars, which isn't scifi.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:43 pm
Because the people who write screenplays for feature films and TV right now are effeminate pussies.

They don't know how to write anything other than melodrama.

God forbid someone should get into a gunfight.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:43 pm
"BECAUSE THEN I WOULDN'T WATCH, TEE-HEE"
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Posted 12/13/2010 9:44 pm
. said:Few people actually like scifi.

Even people who say they do are actually talking about shit like Star Wars, which isn't scifi.



Please explain why Star Wars is not scifi?



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:44 pm
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. said:Few people actually like scifi.

Even people who say they do are actually talking about shit like Star Wars, which isn't scifi.



Please explain why Star Wars is not scifi?



Better question: explain how it is.

Please name, oh, three actual speculative fiction themes from the Star Wars franchise.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:45 pm
. said:Please explain why Star Wars is not scifi?



Its Space Opera, not scifi



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:45 pm
. said:Because the people who write screenplays for feature films and TV right now are effeminate pussies.

They don't know how to write anything other than melodrama.

God forbid someone should get into a gunfight.




I blame the success of the "battlestar galactica" format.


The british can still write scifi properly. But then you have to watch stuff with accents.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:45 pm
. said:"BECAUSE THEN I WOULDN'T WATCH, TEE-HEE"
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"OI, THE RATINGS, THROUGH THE ROOF THEY ARE"
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Posted 12/13/2010 9:45 pm
HArd to keep up coming with original ideas that explore science and technology.

Much easier to repeat old interpersonal conflict themes



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:46 pm
. said:The british can still write scifi properly. But then you have to watch stuff with accents.



At least there's no subtitles!
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Posted 12/13/2010 9:47 pm
These days well-done scifi seems to be quite profitable. Note the "well-done."



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:47 pm
Shiny New Kid said:HArd to keep up coming with original ideas that explore science and technology.



No it isn't.

What's hard is producing mass media entertainment based on such explorations.

Few people want to watch that.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:48 pm
. said:Its Space Opera, not scifi



I'm no expert but I think Space Opera is a subgenre of Science Fiction.

It's still science fiction.

Not trying to be controversial here but I'm wondering shy Star Wars is not considered scifi by some.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:48 pm
Shiny New Kid said:HArd to keep up coming with original ideas that explore science and technology.

Much easier to repeat old interpersonal conflict themes




If anything they should be coming up with more ideas nowadays not less.

Most scifi from the 50's to the 70's heavily criticized religious bondage, greed, human nature, etc and unfortunately this really casts one particular set of chosen people in a bad light.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:48 pm
I admit, I watch mostly what my GF likes.

She loves Stargate: Atlantis
She kind of likes Gene Roddenbury's Andromeda
She tolerates Battlestar Galactica (although its too much talking for her)

I haven't introduced her to Babylon 5 yet. The special effects are not aging well on that show.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:49 pm
. said:I'm no expert but I think Space Opera is a subgenre of Science Fiction.

It's still science fiction.

Not trying to be controversial here but I'm wondering shy Star Wars is not considered scifi by some.



Find the science. Any science. Go!



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:49 pm
. said:No it isn't.

What's hard is producing mass media entertainment based on such explorations.

Few people want to watch that.



Shit, boy, Ice Road Truckers is on!
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Posted 12/13/2010 9:50 pm
. said:Find the science. Any science. Go!



Interstellar spacecraft.

Superior medical technology.

Explanations of technical things.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:50 pm
q said:I admit, I watch mostly what my GF likes.

She loves Stargate: Atlantis
She kind of likes Gene Roddenbury's Andromeda
She tolerates Battlestar Galactica (although its too much talking for her)

I haven't introduced her to Babylon 5 yet. The special effects are not aging well on that show.




The effects from Space: Above and Beyond have also not aged particularly well.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:51 pm
. said:I blame the success of the "battlestar galactica" format.


The british can still write scifi properly. But then you have to watch stuff with accents.



Maybe but I think very few writers in Hollywood write action anymore because they are genuinely not interested in it.

Hollywood is mostly populated by women and gays. Much more so than in the past. And they are not interested in seeing a futuristic gunfight etc.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:51 pm
. said:Interstellar spacecraft.

Superior medical technology.

Explanations of technical things.



Find the science.

What is scientific about interstellar travel in which a fighter plane hops from planet to planet in the time it would take you to drive to the nearest Starbucks?

Actually, it's anti-science.



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:51 pm
. said:Explanations of technical things.
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Like what, light sabers and midichlorians? :lol:



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Posted 12/13/2010 9:52 pm
. said:The effects from Space: Above and Beyond have also not aged particularly well.



The effects from the original Star Trek (from 40 years ago!!!) are just fine because that show was about STORIES and CHARACTERS.

Not brainless bling.



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