Agreed, but I do love Battle LA for the fact that the aliens: A) Use small unit tactics B) Show concern for their fallen comrades C) Use crew-served weapons Brad Pitt's Ulysses in Troy was all fine and dandy, but it was a relief to see an alien invasion made up of soldiers doing a job, not the screaming yellow peril a bunch of emotionless drones doing wave attack after wave attack.
Let's not forget the delish moment of... War-weary Ssgt. Michael Nantz eyed the zoomie, wondering if she was more liability than asset. "You ready to use that weapon, tech sergeant?" Zoomie TSgt. Elena Santos thought to herself, jesus fuck, another one of these guys, but restrained herself and answered, "With all due respect, staff sergeant, I didn't get this far off my good looks."
I’m not sure if I understand what you’re trying to say. Yes, photons always move at light speed, but if you shot something up to 90% light speed along a photon which is obviously moving at light speed, there would be a relative speed difference of 10% light speed. Could you clarify what you meant?
Yes, and no. There are things in space that break physics. Like black holes. Well, mostly blach holes. There’s also some planetoids that we’re not sure how they exist in physics as we know them. Gist is, space is weird.
"The Manly Zoomies" would be a good name for a rock band. Not as good as Mr. Brain and his Pork Faggots, but what is?
If you shoot a photon away from you, then accelerate to 90% the speed of light, that photon is NOT moving at 10% the speed of light relative to you, it’s still moving away from you at the speed of light. Relativity is about point of view. A THIRD observer would say that the photon is moving away from you at a relative speed of 10% light speed. What happening is that your relative motion is changing how quickly time itself passes and changing the shape of space around you. Velocity is change is distance over change in time. In the case of light, velocity must stay constant so time and distance change.
I think there might be a bit of jocks vs nerds going on on the part of sci-fi authors, coupled with lingering resentment about the origins of the space program being so closely tied to the military rather than being a pure scientific endeavour. Stephen Baxter in particular has a bad case of this, such as in his novel Titan where the evil military try to blow up the space shuttle because....they hate wonder or something? Actually, one thing I'm burned out on in SF is misanthropy, where enlightened scientists / AI's / aliens need to lecture us about our beastly ways and either swoop in to save us from ourselves or tut sadly as we wipe ourselves out. Or to put it another way, the Nerd Rapture.
Probably already mentioned - but I'm sick of seeing a character dive into the path of a bullet. What also bugs me about this event is that the perpetrator will pull the trigger despite the fact that the person he's threatening has half a dozen armed friends behind him.
You say that and yet... Spoiler: for size As for sci-fi, I'm sick of that scene where someone folds over a piece of paper and jabs a pencil through it to demonstrate how worm holes work. It's seriously in three films I can think of off the top of my head and I know I've seen and read it elsewhere.
I don't know why people would sleep on Canada. They are in the top 15 military powers in the world and leverage it constantly against everyone their allies decide to go after.
Yes. But that just gave me an idea for another book. The biggest thing I'm tired of seeing in Sci-Fi movies is humans, at least in our current form. We get movies set centuries or millenia in the future, and we're still just humans who die after a few decades and don't regenerate new limbs and don't have computers in our heads.
Hmm.. I hate references, saw an episode of Future Man on tv and this was just B tv or crap telly, the sort of show that usually doesn't cross the pond from America, but now it's in the UK? So, I really hated the writing of a scene what was James Cameron's House in the Future because I thought it was so bad. I got the comedy, but, c'mon, really? It relied on saying his name so much I think he must have got paid because he wasn't in it; I wonder now if he had anything to do with it, but I doubt that/doubted that at the time. It was so unoriginal and stupid. It was James Cameron's House in the future and his house made for a 2001: A Space Odyssey tribute. It's so bad I actually thought it was a B movie when I began this post! My apologies
I get that Sci-Fi and horror often go hand in hand, but I get annoyed when so much Sci-Fi devolves into zombies/(fill in the horror trope here) in space or some advanced facility.
I get how war and regiment and rank is everywhere from Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf and The Orville. Even Futurama had rank and war. Rick and Morty blows stuff up and there's an on going thing with Evil Morty, there are no bad guys in Rick and Morty apart from a federation or two out to get Rick, which in itself is a homage to Back to the Future.
I like Rick and Morty like I liked The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; because it doesn't have rank or war it seems. I'm tired of seeing rank. I'm tired of seeing war; just don't cancel the shows I have that have rank and war, and please, try and not reboot any for Netflix or anything like somebody did for Star Trek, please.
I'm not sure if anyone said this but one thing I hate about sci fi is the lack of progress for womens rights or gender stuff. In so many of them all the women wear dresses and fill traditionally feminine roles. Not to mention underrepresentation and reducing them to a love interest. That happens in every genre but sci fi in particular grinds my gears about progress in gender politics.
I have similar feelings about cigarettes in SF. I'm not an anti-tobacco crusader, but there's just no point to showing characters 500 years in the future lighting up, it's a habit that's on the way out.
Maybe. Though the way the pendulum swings in terms of societal mores, I don't think there is a problem either showing it or not showing it. And you may have a world in which medical technology is advanced to the point that any negative health effect can be cured in an instant, so there is no longer a health reason to avoid smoking.
