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⌈ Secret Post #2896 ⌋

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Scifi fans, what are your favorite aspects of scifi stories/films/TV shows?

The settings and technologies.

I just love it creates a different universe - and within that, you're free to unleash your imagination. You're not bound to the everyday boredom that is real life.

Robots!

Anything that can give us a sense of wonder. What do I know though, I loved the idea of the moon-egg on Doctor Who. I thought that was big-concept and big-wonder. I miss when the days when Sci-Fi came hand-in-hand with a slice of spirituality. These days it is either militaristic domination fantasies or extreme SJW tracts with little in-between. The fuss at this year's Hugo awards proved that. Lines drawn, vote for the SJW tract to prove you were a Militaristic Psycho or vote for the Militaristic Psycho tract to prove you weren't going to be an SJW stooge. A plague on both their houses! Give me some old school adventure and wonder, hold the grimdark and the preachiness.

Yes. This.

I do wonder if we don't see wonder in modern scifi because people have a very negative view of the future of humanity.

Too many scientists working on proving what we cannot do, and too few engineers working on what we could. Plus all the research money goes into genetically engineering organic products to be traceable or to the military and "intelligence" covert-surveillance community. There is nothing going into research into improving things.

I agree that too much money is spent on GMO and military, but that's a fact of life. Humans are always going to be militant. Still there are thousands of scientists working to overcome climate change, potentially the greatest threat mankind has ever faced... so there's that.

Just a shame that the religious right has demonized scientists and science so badly that no one trusts them or the science any more. We're told in church every sunday to just endure this world and not blaspheme by trying to fix it or to try and leave it for another. I hate that we've been sold suffering as some sort of moral virtue, and aspiration to change as a sin.

I'm lucky in that Athiesm is the norm where I am, and our churches are a good deal more permissive and less hardline than yours are, from what you're saying. Sounds terrifying, anon.

For some things, I love the visuals. Like the reveal of Dark City is etched into my brain. Or, seeing futuristic cities. I love logistics. Even if the whole city wouldn't work, having just one futuristic thing to consider is really interesting to me. Seeing how the artists behind the stories create new creatures and worlds is endlessly fascinating to me. I love seeing new and interesting things.

On another level, I like SciFi shows because it seems like it opens up some storylines. I like a lot of SciFi tropes (ground-hog day, aliens made us do it, etc.) but I like that there can be normal storylines too. For instance, you can do a day-at-the-office storyline but you can also do an alien impregnation storyline. I like being able to do both.

I like being divorced from reality. Like, you can play around in a SciFi world more easily than a real world. What I mean is even if the SciFi world is based on some time period or culture, it's easier to play with the culture because it's not a one-to-one correlation so you're not bound to some of the other aspects of those cultures if only one thing interests you.

Of course, the characters have to be interesting first.

Wonder. Terror. Exploration. Discovery. Self-revelation. The touch of something new and huge and terrifying and amazing. I tend to favour space opera because I love the sense of scale, but I also love internal explorations and revelations, so things like cyberpunk and transhumanism and futurism and even dystopia are also right up my alley.

Exploration and discovery, basically. Even if what's discovered turns out to be horrifying. I love the sense of being thrown in at the deep end of a vast and strange universe, and seeing how we deal with it.

I love sci-fi from the late 70s through to the 80s because they use tech that's not only contemporary for the time it was made but manage to make it look really old and used in-universe. It's a combination of two of my favourite things -- retrofuturism (though it wasn't retro when it first came out) and used futures.

I like sexy robots / cyborgs.

There's a lot of things I like about science fiction, but if I had to pick the most general thing I like about the genre as a whole, it's the scope of it and the room for imagination and consideration. The fact that you can have these wildly divergent possibilities, not just technological but of any kind, and deal with them seriously and dramatically and think through their ramifications and their meaning, is what really attracts me to the genre. I just love that kind of thing.

The scope of imagination that gets explored in them. I like seeing what other people think our future will be like, good or bad. I also like seeing how we'll explore the same facets of human behavior in the future.

The "what if?" aspect

The world. I love the intense, imaginative scenery. Also love the moral quandaries that tend to pop up.

Alien cultures and exploration.

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