Teclis
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I'm an avid fan of Science Fiction... and good Science Fiction... I like series like Kevin J. Anderson's "The Saga of Seven Suns" and Otherland. And my favourite Televsion Science Fictions are Battlestar Galactica and Firefly.
What I don't understand is why it has become this looked down upon culture. When Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues under the sea and journey to the centre of the earth, when The Matrix was released, when Transformers was released, people seemed to love it. Some people thought they were cheesy (particularly Transformers - but that WAS the point I'd imagine).
Yet Every Science fiction series just seems to get pushed and pushed back to dodgier and dodgier time slots and eventually removed from the air.
Is it because of the Science? Because of the nerdiness of Star Trek and Star Wars and the like? That's my thought...
But with other literature and media, people will chew up any of it, even when the majority of it is terrible. Crime shows and Novels are one example.
What I don't understand is why it has become this looked down upon culture. When Jules Verne wrote 20,000 Leagues under the sea and journey to the centre of the earth, when The Matrix was released, when Transformers was released, people seemed to love it. Some people thought they were cheesy (particularly Transformers - but that WAS the point I'd imagine).
Yet Every Science fiction series just seems to get pushed and pushed back to dodgier and dodgier time slots and eventually removed from the air.
Is it because of the Science? Because of the nerdiness of Star Trek and Star Wars and the like? That's my thought...
But with other literature and media, people will chew up any of it, even when the majority of it is terrible. Crime shows and Novels are one example.