When aliens know perfectly Earth languages except for random words like "love" or "money".
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What tropes in science fiction annoy you?
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That's because they don't get any love or money
But that's one movie, admittedly a very fun movie but one.
Enemy Mine I guess is another example, any more?
That's because they don't get any love or money
But that's one movie, admittedly a very fun movie but one.
Enemy Mine I guess is another example, any more?
The last Jurassic World movie, one of the good guys is a velociraptor. Extremely smart! She (it's a female) even anticipated an explosion... I had no idea she had a degree in chemistry!!!
I mean people from four centuries ago wouldn't even know that explosions existed!
The Overlords in Childhood's End are demonic looking, but aren't necessarily evil.That's because they don't get any love or money
But that's one movie, admittedly a very fun movie but one.
Enemy Mine I guess is another example, any more?
^ And remember the VOY episode "Nemesis"? The depictions of the Vori and the Kradin fly in the face of what we expect good and evil to look like. The Vori look human*, and thus are "supposed" to be the good guys, yet they engage in brainwashing and mind control to force new recruits into their cause. Conversely, the Kradin appear to be vicious monsters, yet are friendly and assist Voyager's crew in locating Chakotay.
* Speaking of the Vori: I have a sneaking suspicion that we never see their true form. I think they only look human because it's part of their brainwashing program. Any new recruit - regardless of species - would see the Vori differently. They look human because Chakotay is, and it's a false front designed to make Chakotay like them. (We know the Kradin really do look like what we see, though, because after Chakotay is returned to normal, the Kradin appearance is unchanged.)
* Speaking of the Vori: I have a sneaking suspicion that we never see their true form. I think they only look human because it's part of their brainwashing program. Any new recruit - regardless of species - would see the Vori differently. They look human because Chakotay is, and it's a false front designed to make Chakotay like them. (We know the Kradin really do look like what we see, though, because after Chakotay is returned to normal, the Kradin appearance is unchanged.)
That's always been one of my favorite Voyager episode. It was definitely one of the better episodes with a specific message.
I half expected the Vori to really be the ugly ones and the Kradin to be humanlike. It would have been ironic for Chakotay to side with the very people he thought he was fighting against. I was a little disappointed by the ending.
Actually...Alien races that invade planets to strip all their natural resources. Most of which exist in reality in large quantities in open space free for the taking.
Also all hero's/ heroins are amazing physical specimens of irresistible sexiness. No Pugs or Munters...very unrealistic!
Also all hero's/ heroins are amazing physical specimens of irresistible sexiness. No Pugs or Munters...very unrealistic!
Heroin's a helluva drug.
Well when you're enslaved in the linoleum mines on Neptune who's gonna be laughing then, pal? Huh? Huh?
In Deadpool 2 they say "Why can't we ever meet a planet of functional idiots?"
But, in Star Trek, almost all planets are functional idiots. They seem to all be super-gullible helpless morons who need the guidance of benevolent aliens to basically function.
That was Blue. I love Blue she's my favourite velociraptor. She is super smart too but I think the other 3 with her are just as capable.She's just the leader. I liked the last movie but now I'm wondering what repercussions are there for the whole world now that these animals are on the loose? And what will our Raptor gang get up to next? I hope they come back and stay friendly.
Now I joke Raptors driving cars and running a gang.
I will have to look that up.
An episode of Lost In Space did that too with the Golden Man and this alien that was like a giant bipedal frog man, and everyone fell for the handsome golden man but he was the baddy. The ugly frog alien was the nice one.
No that's just the pakleds..
Wings of fire! Wings of fire!
It’s a nameless horse. Of course, of course.
Mwahahahaha!
Actually, the entire world adopting the culture of Camborne would be the ultimate dystopian future. And for that matter I can think of a number of small villages where one half don't speak to the other.
But of course. A good small female lead is a Force To Be Reckoned With.The smallish female lead who can kick any man's ass is another well-worn trope at this point (one of the latest being Dutch in Killjoys), but it's a trope I like, so never mind.
My pet peeves have mostly been covered:
Monoculture, which just happens to speak English
The omnicompetent scientist (when did Sam Carter study medicine? )
Not just SF but "our heroes are great marksmen but the enemy can't hit a barn door"
Technobabble that doesn't even try.
All politicians are unspeakably stupid and evil... oh wait!
People not sharing information, because ...plot. (looking at you, Lost in Space!)
Not a single likable character because they all have to be so Complex.
I'm sure I'll think of more.
Doctor Who did it back in the Hartnell era in Galaxy 4.
Going back to an early one about the Defiant taking ages to be destroyed when the Breen used the energy dissipator on it - that wouldn't affect the ablative armour, which we previously saw in "Way of the Warrior" let her take multiple hits with the shields down.
What are we defining as "superpowers"?
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