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Sci-Fi's have always been the sort of programs you can sit down, watch and enjoy without knowing what in gods name is going on. Why? Because it's different. When you see a Sci-Fi, whether it be Farscape, Star Trek or any of the rest, there's always something different to the rest, that's why they're so popular.
For instance, I can sit down half through Farscape, no matter how absurd and hard to follow the plot is, and enjoy until the end. I may have no idea whatsoever about what it was on about, but because there's always something to say 'Wow' at, I watch through and enjoy just as much as anyone who watched it from the start.
But what about when this all ends? Yes, I believe Sci-Fi's will disappear very soon. Even the most long running series' like Star Trek, to any of the new upstarts, they'll go, and now it's just a matter or time. 5 Years? 10 Years? Who knows, but probably closer than we think.
If a new Sci-Fi series' started, say, 5 Years from now, what would happen?
Most likely, there'd be no good ideas left. Because most of them have already been used. Sure, directors and writers could come up with seasonal idea's like a giant rabbit or Christmas that's been infected with a killer disease brought back by a meteorite, but looking at those ideas just shows how terrible the programmes would turn out. But that's just the beginning; a whole army of bad ideas would appear until the genre is totally obliterated.
If so many good ideas are used up in between those 5 years, this could happen. Maybe not ideas as bad as I mentioned, but dire cliché’s, fairytale monsters and 'human-alien' love stories will engulf scripts like a black hole would a ship in any good Sci-Fi.
Another possibility is that ideas would run, yes, like before, but instead of thinking up terrible, writers would simply use the wonderful art form called stealing. We've seen living ships, strange alien environments and transporters of many shape, all of which will be copied to some extent. Yet more huge alien empires will be spawned and exact replicas of different species will be made, again, it's just a matter of time. Because there haven't been a massive amount of Sci-Fi's yet, most of the Sci-Fi's that are around all fairly original and writers seem to write their own scripts, but it's not long until it'll all come crashing down.
Thinking of a good idea can sometimes be very hard, be stealing a great idea altering it a bit is easy, so why wouldn't writers resort to this? Yes, soon we'll be seeing pathetic excuses like; "I didn't know it'd already been done", "It's completely different" and in some cases "My mum told me I had to."
My final point is simply that with our technologic advances seen in the past few years, Sci-Fi's simply won't have any kind of 'Wow' to them anymore. No, we don't fly around in hovering cars, no, we can't be transported anywhere around the world, but we have got far. Cloning is now possible for one.
But even if we don't reach these goals in technology, it's going to be very hard to shock viewers anymore simply with huge ships and men dressed up in rubber suits, it's just not gonna happen.
Anyway, enough of 'What If's', the fact of the matter is, as we advance in life, Sci-Fi's will go the opposite way. In 10 years time we might not even remember what a Sci-Fi is, who knows.
Bye Bye Sci-Fi!
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS
For instance, I can sit down half through Farscape, no matter how absurd and hard to follow the plot is, and enjoy until the end. I may have no idea whatsoever about what it was on about, but because there's always something to say 'Wow' at, I watch through and enjoy just as much as anyone who watched it from the start.
But what about when this all ends? Yes, I believe Sci-Fi's will disappear very soon. Even the most long running series' like Star Trek, to any of the new upstarts, they'll go, and now it's just a matter or time. 5 Years? 10 Years? Who knows, but probably closer than we think.
If a new Sci-Fi series' started, say, 5 Years from now, what would happen?
Most likely, there'd be no good ideas left. Because most of them have already been used. Sure, directors and writers could come up with seasonal idea's like a giant rabbit or Christmas that's been infected with a killer disease brought back by a meteorite, but looking at those ideas just shows how terrible the programmes would turn out. But that's just the beginning; a whole army of bad ideas would appear until the genre is totally obliterated.
If so many good ideas are used up in between those 5 years, this could happen. Maybe not ideas as bad as I mentioned, but dire cliché’s, fairytale monsters and 'human-alien' love stories will engulf scripts like a black hole would a ship in any good Sci-Fi.
Another possibility is that ideas would run, yes, like before, but instead of thinking up terrible, writers would simply use the wonderful art form called stealing. We've seen living ships, strange alien environments and transporters of many shape, all of which will be copied to some extent. Yet more huge alien empires will be spawned and exact replicas of different species will be made, again, it's just a matter of time. Because there haven't been a massive amount of Sci-Fi's yet, most of the Sci-Fi's that are around all fairly original and writers seem to write their own scripts, but it's not long until it'll all come crashing down.
Thinking of a good idea can sometimes be very hard, be stealing a great idea altering it a bit is easy, so why wouldn't writers resort to this? Yes, soon we'll be seeing pathetic excuses like; "I didn't know it'd already been done", "It's completely different" and in some cases "My mum told me I had to."
My final point is simply that with our technologic advances seen in the past few years, Sci-Fi's simply won't have any kind of 'Wow' to them anymore. No, we don't fly around in hovering cars, no, we can't be transported anywhere around the world, but we have got far. Cloning is now possible for one.
But even if we don't reach these goals in technology, it's going to be very hard to shock viewers anymore simply with huge ships and men dressed up in rubber suits, it's just not gonna happen.
Anyway, enough of 'What If's', the fact of the matter is, as we advance in life, Sci-Fi's will go the opposite way. In 10 years time we might not even remember what a Sci-Fi is, who knows.
Bye Bye Sci-Fi!
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS
An intersting post by rickoss. But i have to dissagre. What your saying is that the Human race will run out of ideas for sci-fi in 5 years. Thats riddiculuss. Scifi feads of science its self and vice versea. People are not going to stop making scientific discoverys and by the same fact people are not going to stop coming up with new ideas.
Yes some shows will 'borrow' elements from other sources. Farscape which you mentioned and that i enjoy. Has borrowed from elemnts such as blacke 7 and buck rodgers. But has put a new spin on these ideas and added to them.
And as to your point about the 'wow' thats down right silly. Of course in the future there will be something that gives that 'wow' factor. Before terminator 2 which was pretty much the first film to use digital effects , there where pupets, claymation and even lizzards with bits stuck on them and shot at a low angel to look bigger. Technology moves on and in the future something diffent will produce that 'wow' factor. Who knows what it will be. Just as in the same way the people who watched Flash gordon in black and white with the ships clearly attached to strings. Thought "this is it how can it get any better". Had no idea that down the road in the passage of time a molten robort would morph into a checked floor. You do not know what is waiting round the corner to wow future audience. It could be and inevitablebe will be something that will make you say WOW'
Yes some shows will 'borrow' elements from other sources. Farscape which you mentioned and that i enjoy. Has borrowed from elemnts such as blacke 7 and buck rodgers. But has put a new spin on these ideas and added to them.
And as to your point about the 'wow' thats down right silly. Of course in the future there will be something that gives that 'wow' factor. Before terminator 2 which was pretty much the first film to use digital effects , there where pupets, claymation and even lizzards with bits stuck on them and shot at a low angel to look bigger. Technology moves on and in the future something diffent will produce that 'wow' factor. Who knows what it will be. Just as in the same way the people who watched Flash gordon in black and white with the ships clearly attached to strings. Thought "this is it how can it get any better". Had no idea that down the road in the passage of time a molten robort would morph into a checked floor. You do not know what is waiting round the corner to wow future audience. It could be and inevitablebe will be something that will make you say WOW'
I replied. So ner.
Sci-Fi's have always been the sort of programs you can sit down, watch and enjoy without knowing what in gods name is going on. Why? Because it's different. When you see a Sci-Fi, whether it be Farscape, Star Trek or any of the rest, there's always something different to the rest, that's why they're so popular.
For instance, I can sit down half through Farscape, no matter how absurd and hard to follow the plot is, and enjoy until the end. I may have no idea whatsoever about what it was on about, but because there's always something to say 'Wow' at, I watch through and enjoy just as much as anyone who watched it from the start.
But what about when this all ends? Yes, I believe Sci-Fi's will disappear very soon. Even the most long running series' like Star Trek, to any of the new upstarts, they'll go, and now it's just a matter or time. 5 Years? 10 Years? Who knows, but probably closer than we think.
If a new Sci-Fi series' started, say, 5 Years from now, what would happen?
Most likely, there'd be no good ideas left. Because most of them have already been used. Sure, directors and writers could come up with seasonal idea's like a giant rabbit or Christmas that's been infected with a killer disease brought back by a meteorite, but looking at those ideas just shows how terrible the programmes would turn out. But that's just the beginning; a whole army of bad ideas would appear until the genre is totally obliterated.
If so many good ideas are used up in between those 5 years, this could happen. Maybe not ideas as bad as I mentioned, but dire cliché’s, fairytale monsters and 'human-alien' love stories will engulf scripts like a black hole would a ship in any good Sci-Fi.
Another possibility is that ideas would run, yes, like before, but instead of thinking up terrible, writers would simply use the wonderful art form called stealing. We've seen living ships, strange alien environments and transporters of many shape, all of which will be copied to some extent. Yet more huge alien empires will be spawned and exact replicas of different species will be made, again, it's just a matter of time. Because there haven't been a massive amount of Sci-Fi's yet, most of the Sci-Fi's that are around all fairly original and writers seem to write their own scripts, but it's not long until it'll all come crashing down.
Thinking of a good idea can sometimes be very hard, be stealing a great idea altering it a bit is easy, so why wouldn't writers resort to this? Yes, soon we'll be seeing pathetic excuses like; "I didn't know it'd already been done", "It's completely different" and in some cases "My mum told me I had to."
My final point is simply that with our technologic advances seen in the past few years, Sci-Fi's simply won't have any kind of 'Wow' to them anymore. No, we don't fly around in hovering cars, no, we can't be transported anywhere around the world, but we have got far. Cloning is now possible for one.
But even if we don't reach these goals in technology, it's going to be very hard to shock viewers anymore simply with huge ships and men dressed up in rubber suits, it's just not gonna happen.
Anyway, enough of 'What If's', the fact of the matter is, as we advance in life, Sci-Fi's will go the opposite way. In 10 years time we might not even remember what a Sci-Fi is, who knows.
Bye Bye Sci-Fi!
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS
For instance, I can sit down half through Farscape, no matter how absurd and hard to follow the plot is, and enjoy until the end. I may have no idea whatsoever about what it was on about, but because there's always something to say 'Wow' at, I watch through and enjoy just as much as anyone who watched it from the start.
But what about when this all ends? Yes, I believe Sci-Fi's will disappear very soon. Even the most long running series' like Star Trek, to any of the new upstarts, they'll go, and now it's just a matter or time. 5 Years? 10 Years? Who knows, but probably closer than we think.
If a new Sci-Fi series' started, say, 5 Years from now, what would happen?
Most likely, there'd be no good ideas left. Because most of them have already been used. Sure, directors and writers could come up with seasonal idea's like a giant rabbit or Christmas that's been infected with a killer disease brought back by a meteorite, but looking at those ideas just shows how terrible the programmes would turn out. But that's just the beginning; a whole army of bad ideas would appear until the genre is totally obliterated.
If so many good ideas are used up in between those 5 years, this could happen. Maybe not ideas as bad as I mentioned, but dire cliché’s, fairytale monsters and 'human-alien' love stories will engulf scripts like a black hole would a ship in any good Sci-Fi.
Another possibility is that ideas would run, yes, like before, but instead of thinking up terrible, writers would simply use the wonderful art form called stealing. We've seen living ships, strange alien environments and transporters of many shape, all of which will be copied to some extent. Yet more huge alien empires will be spawned and exact replicas of different species will be made, again, it's just a matter of time. Because there haven't been a massive amount of Sci-Fi's yet, most of the Sci-Fi's that are around all fairly original and writers seem to write their own scripts, but it's not long until it'll all come crashing down.
Thinking of a good idea can sometimes be very hard, be stealing a great idea altering it a bit is easy, so why wouldn't writers resort to this? Yes, soon we'll be seeing pathetic excuses like; "I didn't know it'd already been done", "It's completely different" and in some cases "My mum told me I had to."
My final point is simply that with our technologic advances seen in the past few years, Sci-Fi's simply won't have any kind of 'Wow' to them anymore. No, we don't fly around in hovering cars, no, we can't be transported anywhere around the world, but we have got far. Cloning is now possible for one.
But even if we don't reach these goals in technology, it's going to be very hard to shock viewers anymore simply with huge ships and men dressed up in rubber suits, it's just not gonna happen.
Anyway, enough of 'What If's', the fact of the matter is, as we advance in life, Sci-Fi's will go the opposite way. In 10 years time we might not even remember what a Sci-Fi is, who knows.
Bye Bye Sci-Fi!
Thanks for reading
RiCkOsS