I think these two things are extremely important when creating a fantasy/sci-fi scenario.
Good point! If it's a more-or-less real contemporary or historical setting, you can assume a lot of the worldbuilding and history even if you don't see them. In sf & f, you often can't, so artificially tiny, neat universes with no history stick out horribly.
The only problem with these shows' awesomeness is that they get my expectations up, so it hurts more when they do mess up. fictualities and kameni and I were making a list of female characters who had been killed off in S3 of BSG, and it was shocking - not just because of the number, but because of how many died gratuitously or to further a male character's storyline. It was a veritable Women in Refrigerators list. (I'm starting to think there's a similar list for female Psi Corps members in B5, too. One season to go on that.) In an ordinary show, I'd just write it off as normal dumbness and feel mild irritation, but when it happens in BSG, I feel betrayed. But that there is so much awesome in the shows gives me hope that other people will have raised expectations too, and eventually we'll get even better shows.
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Date: 2007-07-06 05:00 am (UTC)Good point! If it's a more-or-less real contemporary or historical setting, you can assume a lot of the worldbuilding and history even if you don't see them. In sf & f, you often can't, so artificially tiny, neat universes with no history stick out horribly.
The only problem with these shows' awesomeness is that they get my expectations up, so it hurts more when they do mess up.