Hmmm, pet peeves in general? One would obviously be the lack of true science fiction films in theaters. I don't count crap like Transformers and Twilight.
Science fiction pet hate
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Mission to Mars: one character is drifting away from the ship in his EVA suit, the other character has a maneuvering pack and is thrusting towards him, then tearfully concedes that she must turn around and leave him for dead, because "I won't have enough fuel to get back." Physics Fail.
Agreed. Because in order to become supreme beings everyone MUST turn into globs of purple jelly!
"Melllvar, it's time for dinner!"
They have to get big heads first.
Not to mention that as soon as dude took his helmet off he should have started struggling and his eyes should have exploded and he should have died in excruciating agony....
First everyone would have to agree what "true science fiction" is.
I hope you're being ironic. "Explosive decompression" of the human body should be on a pet-peeve list itself, since it just doesn't happen. What the phrase really refers to is the gases in a ship compartment, or in a person's lungs and, err, other innards, being expelled out an opening to vacuum in a single burst, as opposed to leaking out gradually (another perennial error in media sci-fi, showing decompression as a steady, prolonged wind). It doesn't mean the eyes or any other parts of the body blow up.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com/vacuum.html
The way bodies freeze when they're in the vacuum of space in Dannie Boyle's Sunshine annoys me. For a movie that was obstensibly going for scientific realism, mistaken details such as these which serve no dramatic purpose annoy me.
Okay, I'll be honest--most of that movie annoys me.
Okay, I'll be honest--most of that movie annoys me.
Yea, I can agree with that, but in the movie it fell off the ship. Over edge then straight "down". It defied the senses.
Well, there is a pretty glaring continuity error regarding the deck count in Star Trek: First Contact.
Random crewmember reports to Worf that the Borg control decks 26 through 11 about 5 minutes before Picard tells Alfre Woodard that the ship has 24 decks. Can't say that I hate it, but do I win the Trek geek award anyway??
My personal sci-fi pet peeve relates to movies and TV shows in general, but books sometimes have the same problem.
Namely that space battles have little to no strategy or tactics, and almost always go against physics as we understand them today. Also that the technology and weaponry in whatever specific story you want to talk about is rarely used logically or in a fully thought out manner. This is particularly glaring in long running sci-fi shows like Trek or Stargate, less so in B5.
I know, I know, the exposition needed to flesh out all that sort of stuff is clunky and slows the pace of whatever adventure we're talking about to a crawl, but that is just an excuse.
Namely that space battles have little to no strategy or tactics, and almost always go against physics as we understand them today. Also that the technology and weaponry in whatever specific story you want to talk about is rarely used logically or in a fully thought out manner. This is particularly glaring in long running sci-fi shows like Trek or Stargate, less so in B5.
I know, I know, the exposition needed to flesh out all that sort of stuff is clunky and slows the pace of whatever adventure we're talking about to a crawl, but that is just an excuse.
Again, I don't see the problem. If the ship is in a gravitational field, or some other field effect generating an acceleration toward the "keel" of the ship, and if that effect extends any distance beyond the hull (as it should), then it would accelerate bodies near the ship in the same "downward" direction as bodies within the ship. Even if the fighter were accelerated downward and then left the field of influence, it would retain that velocity and coast from there on.
Really, what's stupid is the way it's usually portrayed, with everything outside the hull being totally unaffected by the interior gravity, as if gravity were caused by atmosphere or something.
Renaissance Faire villages in sci fi.
Maybe you just have to see it.
Sloppy time travel stories, especially especially especially!!!! when they refuse to tell us what "rules" the time travel is operating under, so they can get away with writing any old horseshit they feel like and since nobody knows the rules, hey, it automatically makes sense!
Ya know, I love every season of Stargate SG-1, but it really got to the point where I felt like they weren't even trying.
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