Person of Interest shows this concept quite well. The baseline tech includes effective AI with almost unlimited surveillance capability, pattern detection and recoginition. But, in effect, it is a basic "people outisde the law out to help others" show.
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Person of Interest shows this concept quite well. The baseline tech includes effective AI with almost unlimited surveillance capability, pattern detection and recoginition. But, in effect, it is a basic "people outisde the law out to help others" show.
Kaodi
Hero
Do you think it is plausible that there would be advanced alien species with mindsets that we could at least understand the broad strokes of, given convergent evolution?
One could also go back several decades for previous precedents, such as the original "Knight Rider" from the early-mid 1980's. (For example).
Instead of a baseline effective AI with unlimited surveillance capability in "Person of Interset", in the original "Knight Rider" it was a baseline effective AI with limited surveillance capability built into a Firebird Trans-AM car (KITT).
The roles of John Resse and Michael Knight were similar in some ways, while Harold Finch's role appears to be a combination of Devon Miles and Bonnie Barstow (or April Curtis).
frankthedm
First Post
I would argue for its time, the actions they took WERE very direct. Especially the casting choices.
sabrinathecat
Explorer
An argument could be made that both the CSI shows and Bones are sci-fi. DNA tests take days if not weeks, yet are almost always performed within hours. And the "Angelator" hologram projector is well beyond current technology, but plausible we would eventually have.
As for aliens all being so similar to humans: several shows have suggested that one race went and seeded other planets with their own DNA into the primordial ooze. TNG had one story about that, and Doctor Who (Big Finish 50) implied that and a great deal more done by Rassilon.
Sorry, just my $.06.
As for aliens all being so similar to humans: several shows have suggested that one race went and seeded other planets with their own DNA into the primordial ooze. TNG had one story about that, and Doctor Who (Big Finish 50) implied that and a great deal more done by Rassilon.
Sorry, just my $.06.
I figure Knight Rider spins off into pseudo-magic with the material that makes KITT (and his big brother KARR) indestructible.
Especially the Stargate franchise.
Ahnehnois
First Post
For the sake of argument, let's say any.
Au contraire. Most procedurals, despite not being billed as science fiction, are littered with quasi-magical technology. Real forensic science takes a lot more time to get through, and is far more prone to bureaucratic holdups, budget cuts, and human error than any of the cops shows. Real medicine vs TV medicine, same difference. Extrapolate to your procedural of choice.
I point this out because there are exceptions. Part of the joy of watching The Wire is all the things they have to go through to set up their titular equipment, and how hilariously old and limited it is compared to audience expectations.
It's not impossible to do a sci-fi show in which faster than light travel is impossible and the science is otherwise realistic.
I don't agree with that. Escapism isn't everything, and today's market for film and TV allows for all kinds of niches to be explored. Fantasy is of course never realistic, but if people are flocking to Game of Thrones I think a sci-fi show with similar tone could work.
There's only so far we can go under the board rules. I'll just say that I feel the casting choices represented a general statement of human value, not a commentary on specific individual policies. And it was still buried in an allegory.
The difference is that between an implication and a direct explicit statement.
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