(June 1, 2015 at 9:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Star Wars isn't science fiction, it's space opera - the fantasy equivalent of the western's horse opera. What scientific principles it employs don't have to make sense scientifically; they only have to make sense and be consistent within the framework of the story. How a lightsaber functions, for example, is far less important than what it does
BSG is no different. Science isn't the point. Most science fiction isn't about science. It's about how humans might behave in different environments. It's thought experiment about people. Star Trek and the original BSG were just sappy maudlin thought experiments. Star Wars hardly had any thought at all, just western in space. It just happened to be a good western. The new BSG is rather more real in human terms than the old. It's like the difference between Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. In one there are real human conflicts and politics, the other not so much.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
