I am a scifi slave, I confess.
Jul. 23rd, 2005 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieDo you know, I have just realized I am a scifi geek?
Yeah. I have a Star Wars background on my lj, and I just realized it? I can hear a chorus of "come on"s.
But I didn’t think so. Of course, for a time in my preteens and early teens I devoured scifi books. I would read nothing else for days, sometimes. But that passed and I thought that while definitely not anti-scifi, it and me were over for good. Most of the movies and books I read nowadays have little to do with spaceships after all. But then I looked at the list of the TV shows I’ve ever liked (and it’s not much. I am not really a TV watcher) and what do you know, they all have a certain similarity. Here’s the list.
Shows I love:
Farscape: It doesn’t get much more science fictiony than an astronaut shot through a wormhole to bond with aliens.
Battlestar Galactica: unless it’s a show about humans from distant planets running away from genocidal robots.
Shows I like:
First Wave: aliens secretly invading Earth to take it over sounds more Asimov than Austen.
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: anything involving Vampires in the title better be a fantasy.
Highlander: Immortals bedding everything in skirts? Definitely a fantasy.
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood in a fantasy setting.
And I have just got hooked on “Firefly,” a space Western.
And this is the complete list of all the shows I’ve ever liked. Yeah.
Still, I don’t read only (or even mostly) scifi or fantasy. Why such an exclusivity when it comes to TV? Well, all of the above had plenty of interesting characters, story arcs, and angst. Characters in these shows often have layers and layers and layers. Plus, you can see heroic characters in a scifi or fantasy world, something you can’t see in a modern, real-world show. You can have battles, star-crossed lovers, running from evil governments, saving the world. And of course, It’s a lot more creative, writing about an alien society, then making attention-seekers eat worms on reality TV. But you know what? I am sure it’s also a bit of it is purely the desire to explore the boundaries of the fictional world, or even to look at another world entirely. When was the last time you saw a sentient plant Priestess on Law & Order?
Favorite book this year so far? Harry Potter. Favorite Movie? Revenge of the Sith. Geekery beckons.
Yeah. I have a Star Wars background on my lj, and I just realized it? I can hear a chorus of "come on"s.
But I didn’t think so. Of course, for a time in my preteens and early teens I devoured scifi books. I would read nothing else for days, sometimes. But that passed and I thought that while definitely not anti-scifi, it and me were over for good. Most of the movies and books I read nowadays have little to do with spaceships after all. But then I looked at the list of the TV shows I’ve ever liked (and it’s not much. I am not really a TV watcher) and what do you know, they all have a certain similarity. Here’s the list.
Shows I love:
Farscape: It doesn’t get much more science fictiony than an astronaut shot through a wormhole to bond with aliens.
Battlestar Galactica: unless it’s a show about humans from distant planets running away from genocidal robots.
Shows I like:
First Wave: aliens secretly invading Earth to take it over sounds more Asimov than Austen.
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer: anything involving Vampires in the title better be a fantasy.
Highlander: Immortals bedding everything in skirts? Definitely a fantasy.
Robin of Sherwood: Robin Hood in a fantasy setting.
And I have just got hooked on “Firefly,” a space Western.
And this is the complete list of all the shows I’ve ever liked. Yeah.
Still, I don’t read only (or even mostly) scifi or fantasy. Why such an exclusivity when it comes to TV? Well, all of the above had plenty of interesting characters, story arcs, and angst. Characters in these shows often have layers and layers and layers. Plus, you can see heroic characters in a scifi or fantasy world, something you can’t see in a modern, real-world show. You can have battles, star-crossed lovers, running from evil governments, saving the world. And of course, It’s a lot more creative, writing about an alien society, then making attention-seekers eat worms on reality TV. But you know what? I am sure it’s also a bit of it is purely the desire to explore the boundaries of the fictional world, or even to look at another world entirely. When was the last time you saw a sentient plant Priestess on Law & Order?
Favorite book this year so far? Harry Potter. Favorite Movie? Revenge of the Sith. Geekery beckons.
