KnowLedge wrote:i guess we can wait to see what happens to sci fi.. but im pretty sure the makers of SGU wanted it to be character based.. I think they even stated it in one of the interviews that SGU will be character oriented and not plot oriented. meaning they wanted viewers to come see the next episode to find out about the character's personal life and not because what is going to happen next in the story line..
the whole point of BSG and SGU was so that the character development moves the story ahead not the plot.
I think starwars had very little character development, it was so much story, plot, history oriented and that's why many of us are interested in games like 'knights of the old republic' because it gives us insight into the plot of the whole starwars universe..
one thing burns my mind... we are making shows about books/ideas invented in the 19th and the 20th century.. for example, all this space station stuff and time travel and hyperspace was part of science and philosophy in the 19th and the 20th century.. can you imagine what philosophers are doing right now?
I still disagree about StarWar ( the 1st 3 made ), yes the story of epic but without the great characters no one would have cared. All movies, TV series and books rely on character engagement because without it no one listens to the story.
In the new BSG the characters and storyline are interwoven since many of the characters turn out not to be who we ( or even they ) think they are, and the story is driven by the characters changing their objectives.
As for SGU, its a failure IMO because of the characters, the basic premises of the 'ship lost in space/trying to get home' has worked before in other shows/movies and could have worked again if it acted/scripted well.
Yes the exploration of space and other planets was a 19/20th century idea, it started long before real space flight and moon landings and is still driven by peoples imagination of what might be out there, and by all the new possibilities it opens up that cant be played out in 'earth' based fiction.
BUT as I already said Sci Fi is much more than just space and aliens, time travel is an oldie but a goodie, scientific advancements in the genetic manipulation of people and viruses inspired huge numbers of stories of what it may lead to, scientific advancements in computers gave us the AI storylines, scientific advancements in robotics gave us the whole android/robot storylines, the internet gave us the cyberspace strorylines, as soon as scietists therorised cloning was possible Sci Fi stories took it all the way to cloned people in stories. Sci Fi is driven by real scientific advancements, imagining the next steps we havent taken yet and what effects they could have, so the next wave of Sci Fi stories for the 21st century will depend on what the next RL scientific advancement or theories are.
