Originally Posted by
Valyrian Stormclaw
The Writers Give No Thought to the Story Logic of their Creation, and the Shows and Films are Produced without Passion.
We (Not "I" this time) have entered a loop gentlemen; the writers are blindly creating worlds that, although they strive for originality, are just flat out not; and the production companies give not thought themselves to how they run the show.
It's the same formula in episode format over, and over again. This is the design process for a TV show: "1. Establish an awesome opening pilot detailing our world, then introduce our immortal characters and futilely explain why we should care for them. 2. Make each episode a (Mostly) standalone adventure so that the audeince can drop in any time without going 'Waagh? They are treating me like I should know this crap.'; where our heroes discover some strange, new world or uncover an evil plot that they shall stop. 3. Insert some random two-parter where someone dies, but we keep the actor on the payroll so we can bring him back later after we've figured out some @#%&y way to explain his resurrection. 4. Rinse and repeat."
Or, if it's a movie: "1. Establish an awesome opening sequence that'll be better than the climax of the film to instantly 'wow' people with lasers and giant exploding thingies. 2. Take an hour and a half to develop our stock characters so that our stupid audience will attach to them. Also, send those characters on some journey typical of the Sci Fi genre. 3. Dramatic plot twist! Kill one or two characters, hero goes off to sacrifice himself to save the 'verse. 4. Leave a secret ending in the credits to tell the audience that we'll be producing more @#$& for next year."
*Whines* I hate it when they do that! *Whines more*
Seriously, almost every single Sci Fi production does that now. In fact, I can't name one in the past ten years that didn't do that.
The shows; their all reskinned Star Treks. Bablyon 5, Stargate, Farscape...even Battlestar: Galactica...
The movies; their all reskinned Star Wars'. Elysium, Prometheus, Oblivion...
*Wails* I'm sick and tired of it! And damn it man, you better be too! (Don't take that too seriously)
So...let's break this down, shall we?