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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamond Cross" data-source="post: 5170496" data-attributes="member: 51024">This weeks' Doctor Who  Victory Of The Daleks featured Spitfires in space firing energy guns.I personally enjoyed it. It was an episode that hit a little close to home for me because as a kid I'd imagine the toy WW II planes that I played with as starfighters with energy weapons. But the thing is this, from reading a lot of forums over the years I can hear at the back of my head people getting really upset over that because it's incorrect to have these planes in outer space. And the argument that is extrapolated from that is that we must adhere to scientific accuracy or the entire episode is just no good. Personally, I just don't understand that way of thinking. And I get really frustrated with it.To me it is somewhat important to get the science behind some things correct and accurate.But for me, it's the story elements that matters the most. Sometimes you just got to do what's fun. After all, if we didn't then there'd be no FTL drives that gives us the speed of plot and no transporters or dragons that kidnap damsels for us brave and noble Paladins to rescue.And if we all adhere to things that were scientifically accurate, then most of everything would be dead in the water. So I ask, what is more important, being correct or telling agood story?</blockquote>