here, have some fail

[rm]

Apparently women and queers are ruining SF.

Torchwood gets a not insignificant amount of text, and, sadly, Dirk Benedict is referenced. If you're thinking this can't end well, you'd be right.

Maybe I'll actually pick it apart for your viewing pleasure later. But maybe I'll actually have something more useful to do instead, like ruining the genre with my homosexual girl-bits or the cock in my dresser drawer or something.

Tell me, SF-ruiners, what's on your agenda today?

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[neotoma.livejournal.com]

The complaint that the new Buck Rodgers didn't have much science in it just makes me giggle. Because... it's *Buck Rodgers*. It's like complaining there isn't much science in Loony Tunes.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

but but but, you mean the Acme Bat suit won't let me fly? and even if I don't notice I've run out of cliff I will still fall?


*sigh* this man has never heard of Leigh Brackett, James Tiptree Jr, Octavia Butler or Ursala K LeGuin. I wouldn't even mention Joanna Russ or Julian May in the same breath.

He has a point that some of the new stuff IS soap opera in space.

But I would remind him of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of Everything Is Crap. (and of the fact that SciFi was airing "Dark Shadows" when they first came on the air! Talk about soaps)

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

He has a point that some of the new stuff IS soap opera in space.

[other genre] IN SPACE!!! is not exactly a new trope of SF.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

New stuff being the new shows on Skiffy.

"Wagon Train to the Stars" predates ME.

(and Space Westerns are greatfun. I just published a classic stagecoach romance set on the shuttle to Io...in 1897.)