It would pretty much have to be to allow time for all of modern civilization to die and all ruins/relics to disappear and be forgotten and then also still have room for a thousand years of history in this new medieval kind of world.
What tropes in science fiction annoy you?
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It would pretty much have to be to allow time for all of modern civilization to die and all ruins/relics to disappear and be forgotten and then also still have room for a thousand years of history in this new medieval kind of world.
Would be funny if digging through the dirt they find a 2 slice toaster in GOT.
Aye "What manner of sorcery is this?" looks at toaster and cord.
Aye "What manner of sorcery is this?" looks at toaster and cord.
I was simply informing posters who said they thought it would be cool if LOTR was set in the distant past that Tolkien had thought of that angle and incorporated it into his books.
Also on Star Trek officers are constantly physically walking through the corridors to give PADDs to the senior officers so that they can read reports. Anyone heard of e-mail? Even in the later seasons of Voyager they were still doing this.
When Fermat's Last Theorem was mentioned in "The Royale," it had been unsolved for 350 years and there was no reason to believe that that would ever change. When they finally did solve it 6 years after the episode aired, the whole purpose of referencing it in "Facets" was to paper over the continuity error that real world events has created. In terms of reconciling continuity errors, the line from "Facets" is a fairly minor effort. Greg Cox spent TWO WHOLE BOOKS reconciling the Eugenics Wars with the actual history of the 1990s!
Reminds me of the story of when they were making the first Dalek story on Doctor Who. The script description of every single set in the Dalek city was of a "white, featureless" corridor or room. After a while, either the director or the designer asked Terry Nation why he described everything as white & featureless. Nation replied that he just couldn't think of anything better.
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.
One example of this being done very well was Salt. It's more believable here than usual because she's not doing a lot of moves that would require her to have an implausible amount of leverage over a much larger man. Instead, her fighting consists mostly of precision strikes against vulnerable spots like the throat or the knees. Only once she's got them doubled over from that does she really start wailing on them.
Fermat's Last Theorem contributed nothing to either episode. There was literally no reason to mention it.
It worked in the story, and that's enough for me.
Usually in sci-fi/fantasy when women can fight the men they give them magic powers.
It would be nice if they had women who beat up men without super powers, they at least cast actual muscular women instead of the 110 pound hotties they actually cast.
It would be nice if they had women who beat up men without super powers, they at least cast actual muscular women instead of the 110 pound hotties they actually cast.
But I like watching Dutch kick butt. She's fun
Another trope that usually annoys me in some science-fiction works, and to a lesser extent other forms of fiction:
All humans have to be shorter than other alien races with enhanced physicality. For example, they did cast the Big Show and Dwayne Johnson as other alien races to dwarf the human main cast, but not once did they ever pull a gigantic human that is just a plain and ordinary human vs your typical stronger-than-your-average-human alien like a Klingon. Not once have I ever seen a very human Big Show vs something like a Reptilian Xindi...to show that just plain ordinary humans can play on an even field with other alien races when it comes to physicality.
Once, just once, would I have enjoyed watching a scene where a Jurassic Park velociraptor leaps at a human victim...only for a big, meaty human hand to reach from out of nowhere, clutch down on the velociraptor's throat, essentially intercepting the velociraptor and preventing it from completing the pounce attack. As the camera pans over to reveal who this physically imposing savior is, it turns out to be a scowling giant of a man who could either be a Big Show, Glen Jacobs, Nathan Jones or a Mark Calloway (Undertaker), staring the proverbial hole into the velociraptor's eyes, and proceeds to either choke-slam the raptor into the ground, choke-launch the raptor a good distance away, or to set the raptor up for a devastating haymaker that clean knocks it the eff out. Just once would I have liked to see something like that.
All humans have to be shorter than other alien races with enhanced physicality. For example, they did cast the Big Show and Dwayne Johnson as other alien races to dwarf the human main cast, but not once did they ever pull a gigantic human that is just a plain and ordinary human vs your typical stronger-than-your-average-human alien like a Klingon. Not once have I ever seen a very human Big Show vs something like a Reptilian Xindi...to show that just plain ordinary humans can play on an even field with other alien races when it comes to physicality.
Once, just once, would I have enjoyed watching a scene where a Jurassic Park velociraptor leaps at a human victim...only for a big, meaty human hand to reach from out of nowhere, clutch down on the velociraptor's throat, essentially intercepting the velociraptor and preventing it from completing the pounce attack. As the camera pans over to reveal who this physically imposing savior is, it turns out to be a scowling giant of a man who could either be a Big Show, Glen Jacobs, Nathan Jones or a Mark Calloway (Undertaker), staring the proverbial hole into the velociraptor's eyes, and proceeds to either choke-slam the raptor into the ground, choke-launch the raptor a good distance away, or to set the raptor up for a devastating haymaker that clean knocks it the eff out. Just once would I have liked to see something like that.
And sometimes we'd see Picard (or another captain) with many different PADDs on the desk, or Jake Sisko reading a bunch of novels, each of which has its own PADD. There's absolutely no reason why anyone should ever have more than one PADD (even one of which could probably store every novel ever written).
I you could replicate Ipads for free, you'd better believe you'd have several scattered about. And if you were referencing several documents at once, several padds are better than switching through multiple windows on one device.
With 24th-century technology, I'm sure this would be a trivial task. It wouldn't be anywhere near as awkward as trying to do it on an iPad.
If I were referencing several things at once, I'd be using the full size computer stations that everyone has unlimited access to, not a dozen tiny padds that make a mess and make it easy to lose track of things as if I were just using paper.
And if I could replicate Ipads for free, Ipads would be nothing more than a simple tool, so I would have exactly as many as I actually needed. IE, one per person, most likely, or maybe in special circumstances a separate one or two for special purposes (reading vs work) and the odd extra that got replicated because you couldn't find the one you already had (but that would go to recyclingonce I found the original again).
I usually have a couple apps open on my tablet that I switch back and forth between, and I've had as many as four or five tabs open on my computer before.
That would be amazing to see. Pity no one wants to do something like that.
That one I'd like to see turned on its head. It would be nice to see good guy reptilians.
But good people are good looking and bad people are ugly, that is why I know I am a good person.
And if you don't believe me, a wise Watcher said so in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''
It's a little off topic but have you guys noticed that the Hirogen (in Voyager) started extremely tall, almost giants and then shrunk each time we saw them until we got to the computer nerd who clearly was below average (in size)?... I just find it funny.
Maybe they got a shrinking disease of sorts...
Maybe they got a shrinking disease of sorts...
Well, there IS Grig in The Last Starfighter.
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