What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!!

[Sindatur]

Re: What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!

Space Opera is doing pretty damn well in films right now.

Yea, that's what I was thinking, there's at least 2 or 3 blockbuster Space Opera movies a year, and Star Wars is moving towards waking up and becoming a staple again

 

[tighr]

Re: What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!

I read this thread and the first thing I think of is Star Wars. (And then I'm reminded that Episode I gave us a "tech" answer to the mystical Force.)

No, it gave a biological answer, rather than a technological one. But I understand your point - some people were happier with no explanation at all. There had to be a biological component, though, just to explain the inheritance of strength in the force.

At any rate, "space-based scifi" isn't doing anything wrong. Vampires and zombies and fantasies have been popular lately; in twenty years, space opera may be the top of the heap on TV and in films again.

There is plenty of space-based scifi, and whether it be "tech" or "fantasy", it has the opportunity to succeed. No one is skipping stuff.

 

[Set Harth]

Re: What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!

(And then I'm reminded that Episode I gave us a "tech" answer to the mystical Force.)

To the mechanism of Force sensitivity, not to the Force itself.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Re: What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!

I don't see how that was necessary. It just seems like Lucas recycling ideas from his original SW script.

 

[RAMA]

Re: What space based scifi is doing wrong? No Fantasy and magic drama!

Not this year: We have Oblivion, After Earth, STID, Elysium, Gravity, Ender's Game and more.