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What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? Part II (kbin.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?

My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense.
I could not get into the expanse at all.
My unpopular opinion is that I don't like space operas.

What's yours?

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[–] Pronell 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Smaller stakes are better.

They're more personal, interesting, and relatable.

All these movies that are about the ends of worlds or civilizations... it's too much.

The Terminator? Yeah ostensibly it's about the end of the world due to AI run amok but it's really about one woman fleeing from a seemingly unstoppable force.

The last Star Wars movie? Oh no, the planet destroying weapon now kills stars and is smaller. yawn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yup, agreed - that's what I'm doing in my novels ...

[–] blackbirdbiryani 4 points 7 months ago

Murderbot diaries is a good example of pulling off small stakes.