[ SECRET POST #2911 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2911 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[(Anonymous)]

*SPOILERS* It did but it also ended on a "oh but we'll just doom ourselves again" note with all the shots of the robots, at least that's how I remember it anyway.

And I was mainly bringing up Battlestar because of the general trend it started in sci fi where there were less idealist Star Trek type series coming out and more "shit is just dark" kind of series.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

This is true. There's pretty much nothing but dark stuff out there or coming out in Sci-Fi media these days. It's all dystopic, post-apocalyptic, or plague or zombies or what have you. Admittedly, it's humanity doing itself in (or nature) and not on a macro scale, if OP is looking for more of the Total Perspective Vortex being the downer aspect.

But it sounds like OP is talking about novels more.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I'm the original anon and that's why I said, "Well if you watched more television" because I know OP is talking about novels. I just found the sentiment of "where are my pessimists at?" interesting when I actually think there is a lot of no-hope-for-humanity media out there right now. It might not be exactly what OP is looking for, but it's hard to say.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

It actually bothers me a lot there is so much no-hope-for-humanity media out there. And actually, Ursula Le Guin made a rallying call for more hopeful fiction in her recent National Book Awards speech:

"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality."

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I think we're a bit over saturated with it right now, and I'm someone who likes dark stories but I still need a break from it from time to time. Plus there are some writers who make the mistake of thinking just being "grimdark" is a plot within itself, and that stuff gets boring really fast.

Sometimes it's nice to have a bit of idealism and hope in a story.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

IA. I think the trend has spiraled from two sources in particular: global warming and mass surveillance, which is funny in a way since both have been realities for years but it's only relatively recently the media has acknowledged them as issues.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[ketita]

Yeah, same here. It mostly reflects current feelings, I think, but wallowing in helplessness isn't doing us much good. That's part of the reason I haven't read much recent sci-fi at all - I have no interest in "everything is bleak and everybody dies and humanity sucks". That's not escapism for me, and it doesn't inspire me to work for a better future, either.

Re: possible spoilers for battlestar

[esteefee]

Same.