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In Reply to: Logic posted by Merak on December 13, 2003 at 14:14:17:
Merak,I, the Ktachm of the Elders of the Bonaq People hereby send you back to Vulcan for a "Ktath-hooth ba Ruth" or the gentle slap upside the head of Enlightenment.
Now for some more impenetrable logic, so bifurcatedly obfuscated as to render it heuristically pedantic in scope and copyrightedly attributable by nature.
Concept: Behind your conception of the Earth geting all burned up, your idea is to create "science fiction".
Definition: This term contains two words: "science" and "fiction".
Premise: You need to use both science and fiction to comply with the parameters of science fiction.
Use some real, pure science.
But just enough makes it plausible.
The audience is only interested in pure science "reality" until the first impossible time travel, teleportation, or superlight travel scene takes place: then they say "suspend disbelief".
Look into the meaning of "suspension of disbelief" and you will find relief from the torment of having to have everything so tightly "realistic". Once the audince is "on the beam" you don;t have to justify everything. If you justify eveything, the whole thing will be only that explanation. Don't under any circumstances have characters like Jordie on TNG standing around talking about "bypassing the tachyon beam to the main dish to project a field-reversal beam that will change the density of.." as this talk after ten seconds causes headaches in all but the most severely emotionally challenged. It is recognized as cheap filler,and even though there some internal logic to it all based on real science- we don't care- and very quickly.
For reality there's the Discovery Channel and C-SPAN.
This is because the audience for sci fi want to be dazzled by the imagination of exotic environments and characters, the wilder the better. Haven't we seen everything; shape shifting, galactic powers controlled by a single mind, superlight and time travel- and with all these big time miracles now the easy, old stuff (the "mere dalliance" of the poem), but what have you shown me lately?
Think visually.
What is it that has completely killed the "Star Wars" franchise and made the last two products pathetically boring, and lifeless, merchandising mills? It's that the characters are no longer mythic, larger than life, resourceful independent people of action fighting decisive battles of Good and Evil, they are employees, employees of governments that stand around in rooms talking politics and economics of trade blockades. Watch: C-SPAN and there are far more interesting characters.
No amount of great "real science: will make this interesting, we want to see the personal struggles and far outedness- places and characters beyond our imagination.
In Sum: Leave off the science after awhile and use a lot more fiction. This makes it more interesting.
The more extreme the fiction the more interesting. The science part can fall to the background in support of "suspension of disbelief".
The maker of science fiction must incorporate both words of the term "science fiction": "Science" AND Fiction". The proportion is flexible, but there must be both present.
Q.E.D. I think gentlemen, and my wager of One Hundred Thousand Guineas is won.
Cheers,Bam
PS: Don't rely only on the movies: read Douglas Adams and look for structure in the stories.
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Follow Ups
- Now for some more inpenetrable Logic - Bambi B 21:48:12 12/17/03 (3)
- Get Real - Merak 23:11:05 12/19/03 (2)
- Get Unreal - Bambi B 09:53:21 12/20/03 (1)
- All I did was answer questions . . . - Merak 17:44:53 12/20/03 (0)
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