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What tropes in science fiction annoy you?

Now that feels icky to think about haha.

Why would it be icky? Odo can form any shape he wants, so this must also include the appearance of clothing. That's not icky at all.

Odo's communicator, OTOH, is real. There's one ep where he takes it off and sets it on his desk because he doesn't want anyone to know where he's going. And there's another ep where the communicator is taken away from him. So when he shapeshifts he must conceal it inside his body somehow.
 
Oh yeah for sure I get that guys.

What made me think of that oddly was a video game. I was playing Mass Effect Andromeda, and my mind drifted to Star Trek when I logged off and was thinking that that's set around the same time period as the ME games, at least 300 or 400 years in our future yet the technology they have seems light years beyond what we have or could possibly hope for, even on an experimental platform.

The closest thing to our reality is possibly The Expanse, at least they tried for more realism

For now...hopefully the harder scifi angle continues. Gravity, The Martian, (Moon I guess; a bit of Nolan's film), Elysium?, The Expanse...even Avatar sort of comes this way. The most profitable movies ever have ships with (arguably anachronistic- why not use liquid droplet radiators, than big heavy pipe ones?) RADIATORS and use laser boostbeams and antimatter to decelerate.

There is a audience for it, an audience that'll accept it as set dressing, so hopefully that continues.
 
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Perhaps using unstable molecules? Sounds fantastic.

Lol I understood that reference

For now...hopefully the harder scifi angle continues. Gravity, The Martian, (Moon I guess; a bit of Nolan's film), Elysium?, The Expanse...even Avatar sort of comes this way. The most profitable movies ever have ships with (arguably anarchistic - why not use liquid droplet radiators, than big heavy pipe ones?) RADIATORS and use laser boostbeams and antimatter to decelerate.

There is a audience for it, an audience that'll accept it as set dressing, so hopefully that continues.

Avatar?
 
Lol I understood that reference



Avatar?

Yep, the ISVs are some of the hardest ships ever put to screen, though with the changes of 2 and the noted anachronistic radiators, still holds up higher than anything from the expanse or 2001.
 
Yep, the ISVs are some of the hardest ships ever put to screen, though with the changes of 2 and the noted anachronistic radiators, still holds up higher than anything from the expanse or 2001.

I had no idea.

Tbh I find Avatar disappointing in other ways because the concept is good but the bland characters ruin the execution
 
I had no idea.

Tbh I find Avatar disappointing in other ways because the concept is good but the bland characters ruin the execution

Oh for sure, I hate everything else in Avatar, but the ISVs? Great. And there it is in the beginning and end of this billion dollar movie.
 
Oh for sure, I hate everything else in Avatar, but the ISVs? Great. And there it is in the beginning and end of this billion dollar movie.

Lol. The franchise had much storytelling potential. Too bad they kept Worthington as the lead
 
Lol. The franchise had much storytelling potential. Too bad they kept Worthington as the lead

I just couldn't get behind the cat-people and shoved environmentalism angle. But then again if they were a collection of worms or floating roach gasbags or whatever, it wouldn't have that sex factor - which Cameroon HAS told us was a deliberate choice.

I guess that's a scifi trope I hate, since it does turn me off many movies. too human aliens and/or universes with such a low variety of alien life. And yes, even Star Trek gets this burning sometimes; the rubber forehead angle only being 'saved' because apparently we're all the progeny of dna-based programming to produce humanoids, but still...
 
I just couldn't get behind the cat-people and shoved environmentalism angle. But then again if they were a collection of worms or floating roach gasbags or whatever, it wouldn't have that sex factor - which Cameroon HAS told us was a deliberate choice.

I guess that's a scifi trope I hate, since it does turn me off many movies. too human aliens and/or universes with such a low variety of alien life. And yes, even Star Trek gets this burning sometimes; the rubber forehead angle only being 'saved' because apparently we're all the progeny of dna-based programming to produce humanoids, but still...

Or because the producers wanted to sexualize them, especially the female characters. Ugh

The environmentalism wasn't really the problem though. The characters are just bland and underdeveloped
 
Which craft in Avatar were the ISV?

Also not sure if anyone mentioned it but how practical were the helicopter designs?
 
Which craft in Avatar were the ISV?

Also not sure if anyone mentioned it but how practical were the helicopter designs?

The ISV is this:

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Most of the vehicles pass the engineering check - pandora is also operating with less G than earth, so that helps - but I remember the talk of the Valkyire shuttles being a bit weird, though the details allude me at the moment.
 
The ISV is this:

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Most of the vehicles pass the engineering check - pandora is also operating with less G than earth, so that helps - but I remember the talk of the Valkyire shuttles being a bit weird, though the details allude me at the moment.


Oh the big orbital habitat. That did look impressive.

I did find it a quirk of the movie that the helicopters didn't have a sealed cockpit yet if you were outside you needed a breathing mask, yet no one flying the things wore them, or they did but used them on and off, I have to watch the movie again one day
 
But why would there BE any clothing? It's all part of the shapeshifter itself.

Odo, for example. He's not a blob wearing the uniform of the Bajoran Militia, he's just a blob, and the uniform was always part of him. So what's the problem? :shrug:
I was always happy when they actually had his clothes getting melty when he was solid for too long. It always bugs when stuff like that is supposed to be happening, and the character's clothes was still in perfect condition, even though it should be effected too.
I guess that's a scifi trope I hate, since it does turn me off many movies. too human aliens and/or universes with such a low variety of alien life. And yes, even Star Trek gets this burning sometimes; the rubber forehead angle only being 'saved' because apparently we're all the progeny of dna-based programming to produce humanoids, but still...
To be fair a lot of that was due to budget and limited effect, it wasn't until the last couple decades that the budgets got the big enough and the effects advanced enough that they could do a lot of non-humanoid aliens.
 
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