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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6160939" data-attributes="member: 177">Well, it is difficult to get out of that box.&nbsp; Let's look at some of those...Rubber-headed aliens:&nbsp; Even today, we are still limited by what can be portrayed by human actors.&nbsp; CGI is good, and getting better, but is still too expensive to use for recurring characters on a TV show.Spaceships:&nbsp; Well, yeah.&nbsp; How do you get humans an aliens mixing without them?Aliens that act like humans:&nbsp; There are two issues behind this trope.&nbsp; 1) You need characters to be accessible/understandable to human viewers.&nbsp; 2) We don't actually have any examples of alien mindsets that we can communicate with to use as examples.&nbsp; Even the better hard sci-fi writers are rather limited in what they can usefully put forth in books, and that's to an audience that is more willing to explore such.Pseudo-magical technology:&nbsp; Real technology is boring, dirty, expensive, and inconvenient.&nbsp; It doesn't generally do what viewers want to see in a science-fiction show - like, get you to interact with aliens, rubber-headed pseudo-humans or otherwise.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sufficiently advanced technology, and all that.&nbsp; To be honest, I'd rather see pseudo-magical technology than see them get real technology wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6160939, member: 177"] Well, it is difficult to get out of that box. Let's look at some of those... Rubber-headed aliens: Even today, we are still limited by what can be portrayed by human actors. CGI is good, and getting better, but is still too expensive to use for recurring characters on a TV show. Spaceships: Well, yeah. How do you get humans an aliens mixing without them? Aliens that act like humans: There are two issues behind this trope. 1) You need characters to be accessible/understandable to human viewers. 2) We don't actually have any examples of alien mindsets that we can communicate with to use as examples. Even the better hard sci-fi writers are rather limited in what they can usefully put forth in books, and that's to an audience that is more willing to explore such. Pseudo-magical technology: Real technology is boring, dirty, expensive, and inconvenient. It doesn't generally do what viewers want to see in a science-fiction show - like, get you to interact with aliens, rubber-headed pseudo-humans or otherwise. Sufficiently advanced technology, and all that. To be honest, I'd rather see pseudo-magical technology than see them get real technology wrong. [/QUOTE]

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