My angst is with some Sci-Fi fans
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Originally posted by Slopmaster:
…. Not every new Sci-Fi series is going to impress everyone but at least not whine and complain about it to me because well thats just sad.
Bollocks! [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]
I’m [b][i]Glad to be Sad![/i][/b] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
I know what you mean about peeps who generally moan about all modern sci fi being bad, but the fact is that there is a lot of [i]formula[/i] stuff out there.
In the ol’ days (eee when I were a lad), Sci Fi seemed to be for a certain audience, a group of people who were a little more free-thinking (or geeky) than yer average Joe/Jenny and it wasn’t (to me at least) patronising.
In most new sci fi shows (and films) that appear nowadays, the writers have a scathing disregard for people with brains (yes, people like wot I is!) and write to what seems like a formula. Someone once told me that advertisements on TV are written so that people who are at least 10 years old can see the message/get the meaning, and I feel that modern sci fi shows are produced to that same level.
The first series of Dark Angel was very popular in Britain but I found that I couldn’t watch it very much (dispite the gorgeous leading lady) because it was patronising drivel!
8 out of 10 Sci Fi shows (and films) seem to be the same – total crap! I know that most of the media released today is geared to the teenage market, but why can’t the idiots with media money give teenagers a break!? Treat them as though they are people with more than two brain cells that don’t all think with the stuff between their legs!
(erm.. and I don’t mean their bums!… although strictly erm… a bum isn’t between your legs… if you see what I mean….. and NO! I’m not a teenager!)