In all honesty, the only space sci-fi I can really get into (Farscape, Star Wars, Deathstalker...Firefly if you substitute "fantasy" with "western") is all about embracing its fantasy roots. (I don't really count SG-1 as space sci-fi, even though there are more and more spaceships as the series progresses, but I haven't really made up my mind about SGA in that regard.)
It wasn't one of those big "everyone on LJ is voicing their opinions on this" things (we seem to reserve that for massive sexist and racist wank, and the removal of basic accounts) it just went around in a few circles. Though, I have to say, anytime someone complains about fantasy being too long or having too much magic or having too many of the standard fantasy conventions, but they love Harry Potter I...I have a hard time not letting that affect my opinion of them. Because that series? Worse than 95% of the genre in those regards.
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Date: 2008-07-18 06:10 pm (UTC)In all honesty, the only space sci-fi I can really get into (Farscape, Star Wars, Deathstalker...Firefly if you substitute "fantasy" with "western") is all about embracing its fantasy roots. (I don't really count SG-1 as space sci-fi, even though there are more and more spaceships as the series progresses, but I haven't really made up my mind about SGA in that regard.)
It wasn't one of those big "everyone on LJ is voicing their opinions on this" things (we seem to reserve that for massive sexist and racist wank, and the removal of basic accounts) it just went around in a few circles. Though, I have to say, anytime someone complains about fantasy being too long or having too much magic or having too many of the standard fantasy conventions, but they love Harry Potter I...I have a hard time not letting that affect my opinion of them. Because that series? Worse than 95% of the genre in those regards.