Spoilers What are your unpopular Sci-Fi & Fantasy Opinions?

[Aragorn]

I like most of the MCU movies, but am not blown away by them. Don't see them as anything more than popcorn entertainment.

 

[Orphalesion]

-Enterprise does not violate canon in any way whatsoever

It does something that certain parts of fandom find a lot more unforgivable than violating canon.. It violated long-entranced fanon
Just like the Star Wars prequels.

Of course my problem with both is just that they aren't interesting/entertaining TV/movies.

 

[Saul]

Because they didn't go home?

• If you ignore the whole salamander thing, you've still got the bizarre development that they just casually develop a technology to do the impossible based on an offhand comment by Neelix. We're not talking about a technical difficulty that just needed another perspective, we're talking about something that the laws of (24th-C) physics didn't allow in the first place.
• If you ignore that, you've still got the problem that Voyager now has a way home and doesn't take it. That technology still exists at the end of the episode. Yeah, it turns you into a salamander, but the Doctor is clearly able to turn you back. No lasting consequences are shown to using Warp Ten.
• If you ignore that by saying "but the process can't be controlled!" or whatever, then it'd be good to know why they can't keep working with the process to bring it under control. It should have revolutionized warp drive, with all sorts of implications and possibilities — including multiple variations on getting home. As such, logically it should have been the entire focus of the show after this. Instead, they somehow forgot they had it. The only plausible reason for that is if all the characters suddenly suffered brain damage. Or the writers did.

Personally, I prefer to think that Reg Barclay was having a grand ol' time in his Voyager "Warp Ten" holodeck simulation.

I think they couldn't control warp 10 though. Tom Paris couldn't just stop the shuttle at Earth and the mental and physical effects of this method of travel was just too taxing on the individual.

Anyway, regardless of these questions. Didn't anyone find it enjoyable? Even in a Fast & Furious kind of way?

 

[Silvercrest]

Sorry, I was too motion sick to enjoy it. Not from the Warp Ten business. Rolling my eyes that often and that long will tend to do that to me.

 

[FormerLurker]

It violated long-entranced fanon

Do you mean entrenched? I didn't find it that magical, nor did it appeal to my sense of wonder overmuch.

 

[Orphalesion]

Do you mean entrenched? I didn't find it that magical, nor did it appeal to my sense of wonder overmuch.

Yeah I miss typed.

 

[EmoBorg]

SGU is the best Stargate series.

i i agree. I still rewatch it from time to time.

 

[EmoBorg]

The Amazon Prime series, The Boys, does a more realistic protrayal of superheroes and their actual behaviour if they existed in real life.

The Expanse is the current best sci-fi show for now.

 

[theenglish]

After reading the Snyder cut announcement I was actually coming on here to post the exact same thing!

I liked Leto's Joker, and I don't care about behind the scenes stuff. I liked the updated look and found it fitting for a modern day version. He was a sick and dangerous Joker that really fits with the atmosphere of the DCU. I would love to see him back.

 

[fireproof78]

Didn't anyone find it enjoyable? Even in a Fast & Furious kind of way?

Unfortunately, no. It pained me, and the episode ended strangely. Just not enjoyable, not fun, leaving me questioning what the writers were thinking.

 

[ToddKent]

Adding in a few minutes of deleted scenes for a "Director's Cut" does not create an all new movie

 

[Smellmet]

Adding in a few minutes of deleted scenes for a "Director's Cut" does not create an all new movie

I would say the directors cut of Aliens is quite drastically changed from the theatrical cut in terms of pacing/suspense and character development.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Boba Fett is overrated.

In the movie he's just a generic bounty hunter with a cool looking mask. People only knew his name (In the 80s) cause they said it once during the scene he died. He has no character development until Attack of the Clones, and then it's empty and contrived.

He serves his role in the story just fine but he's no more interesting than any other mask rando in the universe. The only thing that made him even a little cool is all the stuff the fans imagined into him after the fact.

 

[fireproof78]

Boba Fett is overrated.

In the movie he's just a generic bounty hunter with a cool looking mask. People only know his name cause they said it once during the scene he died. He has no character development until Attack of the Clones, and then it's empty and contrived.

He serves his role in the story just fine but he's no more interesting than any other mask rando in the universe. The only thing that made him even a little cool is all the stuff the fans imagined into him after the fact.

I completely share this opinion and it has colored me against The Clone Wars and the Mandalorian.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I completely share this opinion and it has colored me against The Clone Wars and the Mandalorian.

The Mandalorian is different cause he has character development beyond just having a cool looking mask.

 

[fireproof78]

The Mandalorian is different cause he has character development beyond just having a cool looking mask.

It didn't set well with me even trying to watch it with my wife who enjoyed something SW more than me (Ugh, that hasn't happened before!)

 

[JD]

Adding in a few minutes of deleted scenes for a "Director's Cut" does not create an all new movie

I think it depends on the scenes that are added, even just a few extra minutes can add a lot of character development, or help to clarify plot points that were confusing in the theatrical cut.

 

[EnderAKH]

Boba Fett is overrated.

In the movie he's just a generic bounty hunter with a cool looking mask. People only knew his name (In the 80s) cause they said it once during the scene he died. He has no character development until Attack of the Clones, and then it's empty and contrived.

He serves his role in the story just fine but he's no more interesting than any other mask rando in the universe. The only thing that made him even a little cool is all the stuff the fans imagined into him after the fact.

Don't forget the action figure. Both the unicorn like rocket firing version, and the more conventional non-rocket firing version initially only available through a mail in of a certain number of proofs of purchase. That fed a LOT of the mystique of Boba Fett, at least among my friends.

 

[JD]

This conversation about Boba Fett reminded me of another character who's treatment I found kind of strange, Phasma. They made a big deal out of her before both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, but then she was barely in both movies. She was only in a handful of scenes in TFA, and then after she got the book and the comic between the movies, I thought maybe she was going a bigger part of The Last Jedi, but she ended up being in even less of it than she was in TFA.

 

[Saul]

Boba Fett is overrated.

Definitely. Boba Fett was a name that never crossed my mind and lips growing up and nobody was talking about him. It was always about Han, Luke, Vader. Then when I got onto the internet I read some people talking about Boba Fett as if he were one of the main cast and i'm like "who the heck is that?". To me he was just a bounty hunter guy who took Han to Jabba and went out like a punk. His name was mentioned like once in the original trilogy during a noisy action scene which I misheard as "bounty hunter" when I rewatched it on VHS.

Now it's a different story because we have prequels, clone wars animation, we know more about the characters background but originally he was a nobody to me.