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?

Comments

[gement.livejournal.com]

TROLLLLLL!

The interesting part is, if you cut out all the instances where he references gender (or respin a couple), I can come up with the following complaint, which I share to a certain extent:

In an attempt to capture the "female demographic," the artist formerly known as SyFy has been dumbing itself down horribly, and the other networks are not much better. (The fact that the pursued females are insulted and turned off by being stereotyped is a separate issue.)

It's very difficult to find hard SF that makes any attempt to come up with a coherent and believable technology setup, which is one of the appeals that gets young people into science. I like hard SF, I feel like there used to be more of it, and I'd like it to come back, because the soap operas are winning.

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Personally, as me and not my little summary, I love soap operas. I love following their crazy sprawling dramas, and the ratings say the world is with me. (Thank you, Babylon 5 for bringing this to sci fi producers' attention.) But I'd also like the Doctor's screwdriver to actually take some time to open a door, and not just be a Potteresque magic wand of doin' stuff.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

But I'd also like the Doctor's screwdriver to actually take some time to open a door, and not just be a Potteresque magic wand of doin' stuff.

True enough. Or have the Doctor open a door with Actual Science that isn't the sonic screwdriver (ISTR in one of the Cushing movies alt!One opens a door with a plastic comb because it's an insulator.)

[gement.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly! There are so many miracles in Real Science, if only they pushed the writing staff to learn about a few of them and think about how to incorporate it. More Macgyver, please.

[sethg]

It's very difficult to find hard SF that makes any attempt to come up with a coherent and believable technology setup, which is one of the appeals that gets young people into science.

I also love it when SF writers play tennis with the net up, so to speak, as long as it doesn't come at the expense of plot and character. Unfortunately, while there are enough hard-SF fans to keep Analog afloat, I don't think there are enough to pay for a TV series.

[manycolored.livejournal.com]

As a certified quasi-queer, vagina-possessing humanoid, I don't really like the new "SyFy" much either. As for the rest of the crap on the Transparently Phallic Spearhead blog, it's recycled privilege whine.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I remember when Sci Fi first went on the air. It was 24 hours of hard, thrusting SF, like Fantastic Journey, Battlestar Galactica, and the very manly Gil Gerard in Buck Rogers.