Yeah I think we might have read similar things.
Here's the one I read
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a44092/game-of-thrones-wall-theory-preston-jacobs/
What tropes in science fiction annoy you?
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Yeah I think we might have read similar things.
Here's the one I read
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/news/a44092/game-of-thrones-wall-theory-preston-jacobs/
Hey that works for me...... I like that
I love that people not only notice something like that but then also immediately make up hilarious conspiracy theories about it (especially since it's based on a visual that isn't even part of the story from a show that isn't even the original source of the story).
If we’re going to hypothesize world physics based on seasons, we could speculate that the world has significant tilt and faster wobble than Earth.
If the Dyson Sphere theory were true, you’d be able to easily see the inward curvature in the distance.
If the Dyson Sphere theory were true, you’d be able to easily see the inward curvature in the distance.
And taken more literally, the containment ring style things spinning to keep the star in place. I mean you could argue 'night feature' but there are 2 or 3 of them.
I've seen maps of the GoT world and the continents are nowhere near what Earth looks like. Although I suppose the show could be so far in the future that there's been more 'drift'...
Me, I'm liking @The Great Trumpkin's theory of GoT. Like so!
Oh, and speaking of BSG...the new version anyway...here's a trope that kind of annoys me: These people are simply too much like us. Hell, for any of those flashback scenes that took place on one of the Colonies, they could (and probably did) walk out onto the streets of Toronto or Vancouver or wherever they filmed it and just film the people as they go by!
(And don't get me started on how exactly the hell "All Along The Watchtower" can be written independently, on two different planets, by two different people, who had absolutely no contact with each other...)
As much abuse as the original BSG gets...at least they seemed a little more alien.
That is a really fun idea.
Yeah, that is just taking metaphorical stuff way to literally.
The LOTR is imaged by Tolkien to have been translated from the "Red Book of Westmarch." The idea that it's set in the distant past, or at least that it represents tales from the distant past, is a framing device implicitly built into the novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch
So? What is the trope that annoys you in this?
I hope I'm not transgressing horribly in this case, feeling that the question is also pertaining to TV Tropes that are also coincidentially in science fiction (mostly in the case of films). One trope that does annoy me (or at least find it grating) is the "black dude dies first" trope. Well, to be fair...this is a common trope that usually happens outside of science fiction as well.
Alright, I'll back off from TV Tropes for this next one. Alien moons. Most alien moons on a certain alien planet are simply just copy-and-pastes of our own Luna. One example is the Stargate film; 3 moons in the sky, all look like Luna, all of them with the Earth-facing sides facing the camera.
Alright, I'll back off from TV Tropes for this next one. Alien moons. Most alien moons on a certain alien planet are simply just copy-and-pastes of our own Luna. One example is the Stargate film; 3 moons in the sky, all look like Luna, all of them with the Earth-facing sides facing the camera.
Random planets or even moons that a spaceship lands on and that have a breathing atmosphere, while we know that for most of its history our own planet DIDN'T have a breathing atmosphere, at least not for us and that she acquired one only because of life and that that atmosphere is only kept that way by the presence of life.
What exactly is bad about rounded corridors? Round passages would save space on a ship of limited space wouldn't they? The narrow bridges one I do find super annoying.
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.
I love Dutch she's just awesome. I love her accent.
Yes finally someone else noticed.
So much of BSG defies logical explanation. Their development is so close to present day Earth too. They have cars, planes, cellphones and radio and TV, all the things we have now. The only things that seem different is that paper has cut corners and they have spaceflight as a common everyday thing. If you take those things away they're very little different from present day Earth.
Two planets separated by light years could not evolve and develop almost the same way, no way.
I blame a lot of TV shows for this one. Even Stargate did this a hell of a lot. Seems any planet you land on you can breathe with no problems.
It makes sense to me that they would do this from a creative and practical point of view. If you're doing a show focused on space travel and exploring other planets it would get really hard after a while to have to have you actors in space suits every time they went down to another planet.
That was the whole point of the show though, our whole society was simply a repeat their society, the next part of a cycle that continued on for thousands of year.
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