You know, it’s not like science has fucking stopped entirely. So why the hell do none of these sci-fi shows seems to have any vision? It’s like ideas for sci-fi stopped being created in the 80s and they can’t use anything that wasn’t written about before 1990.
In some cases I think it’s just “near-future shows are cheap”, but with Spaceship Shows, I think there’s actually a retro-futurism thing going on. Spaceship Shows are so rare now that they’re wedded to a particular era and symbology in the popular consciousness, so there’s an element of pastiche.
Star Trek always had the particular problem that it wanted to be seen as serious scientific space thinking, but also didn’t want to threaten the Motherhood Statement in any way, which leads to this weird situation where it has to scrupulously avoid all the implications of its own tech. Obviously that just gets worse the more of it there is!
You don’t have to dive deep into sci-fi vision to be good, necessarily. Battlestar doesn’t and (IMO) it was great. But we never feel as though their technology is used radically out of sync with its implications, precisely because all their tech is fairly nerfed and there are in-story reasons about the issues with artificial intelligence.
@femmenietzscheDoes anyone have vision anymore?
Fk man, are you saying you aren’t going to greenlight my series about a retired white nationalist becoming a Pseudo-Han Chinese cyborg through genetic and surgical modification and working as a detective for a series of corporate-run faux ethnonationalist city-states on the Asia-Pacific rim?
