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There's one big thing that annoys the crap out of me. When they get a really good plot going and you can't wait to see how it ends and what the resolution is and it's freaking ALIENS. I am so SICK of ALIENS. It's almost like they ran out of money or ideas at the last minute and had to make something up real quick. It's like saying 'god can do anything.' 'Aliens are mysterious. Who knows what they're capable of.'
Well, it's bloody annoying. Anyone else irritated by this?
Well, it's bloody annoying. Anyone else irritated by this?
It's a pet peeve of mine to see a show set far far into the future where medical tech has advanced at a snail's pace. If the sci-fi in question is set Twenty Minutes into the Future this isn't *as* big a irk, but when it's been five hundred years I have to wonder what happened to all the biologists, geneticists and all that (kidnapped and made to study astrophysics and make a FTL drive?). It really only seems that the subgenres of cyberpunk/postcyberpunk pay any attention at all to the notion of genetically modified or cybernetically augmented humanity occurring.
I suppose that's why the Deus Ex games are some of my favorite sci-fi games and why I was pleased when in ME2 I discovered there was something of that nature (reinforced bones, kevlar skin, cybernetics used in your reconstruction, etc.)
I suppose that's why the Deus Ex games are some of my favorite sci-fi games and why I was pleased when in ME2 I discovered there was something of that nature (reinforced bones, kevlar skin, cybernetics used in your reconstruction, etc.)
Star Trek's main deflector dishes. They never once deflected anything, they just functioned as miscallenous beam emitters that could fire the solution to any problem as a set of different coloured beams.
And, a rare moment where I criticise Farscape, inconsistent alien measurements. The metra, a unit of distance in Farscape, seemed to switch between being roughly equivalent to a metre and being roughly equivalent to a few million kilometres. One episode, Aeryn was on foot, trying to reach a part of a wrecked ship saying she was just 300 metras away from her destination. In another, Braca said to Scorpius "The command carrier [huge starship, battlestar sort of scale] is over a thousand metras away, they'll never reach us in time." Either be consistent or let the translator microbes replace units of measurement with their earth equivalent.
And, a rare moment where I criticise Farscape, inconsistent alien measurements. The metra, a unit of distance in Farscape, seemed to switch between being roughly equivalent to a metre and being roughly equivalent to a few million kilometres. One episode, Aeryn was on foot, trying to reach a part of a wrecked ship saying she was just 300 metras away from her destination. In another, Braca said to Scorpius "The command carrier [huge starship, battlestar sort of scale] is over a thousand metras away, they'll never reach us in time." Either be consistent or let the translator microbes replace units of measurement with their earth equivalent.