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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3991155" data-attributes="member: 39593">Umbran hit it on the head.  Sci-Fi requires that the core of the story be driven by the implications of the technology involved.  Iron Giant for all its whimsy is archetypal sci-fi, it's a story of how changes induced by a poorly understood or controlled technology cause people to react to it.  The story is the technology and the reaction to it.  In Quantum leap the "technology" is simply a placeholder plot-device to drive an episodic comedy-drama.  Star-Wars, Star Trek, are like WH40K in that they are science fantasy.  Star Wars is about the dynastic struggles of groups of wizards with magical swords that just happen to also fly around in space via underdeveloped plot-device tech.  Star Trek is a classic exploration/sea voyage tale using space travel with "technology" as plot device but not a central part of the setting or story.  Heroes is not sci-fi at all, its fantasy of the superhero subgenre.  Children of Men is not a sci-fi, it's a horror-drama. Back to the Future after consideration I'll admit deserves the title sci-fi, whether is deserves a place on the list is debatable but it's sci-fi even if my first inclination is not to grant it that due to the deus ex nature of the technological plot device.  Throwing Lost and X-Files in together, they aren't really sci-fi.  X-Files dealt very little with technology and its implications, and as much with the supernatural and occult as with its signature alien conspiracy that everyone remembers.  Lost is not even marginally sci-fi, it's a drama and the events of the plot do not revolve around technology or questiones derived from it at all.  In fact the events would be far more easily interpreted as magical in nature than being derived from any sort of technology.  E.T despite the alien is not sci-fi, what exactly to classify it as is difficult but I'd put it under drama.  Brazil isn't sci-fi, like 1984 or Brave New World it's nature is political commentary the technology is merely an enabler for the social structure whose existence is the central element of the story.</blockquote>

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