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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voneth" data-source="post: 294040" data-attributes="member: 1016">Well, if you are not doing hard SF, you don't have many alternatives. You can either skip the explainations (organic ships that have evolved FTL flight) or you can techno-babble away.Real life, however, still has occurances where current science can't explain what really happened. And in the past, even more so.I mean if you really wanted to get into excuses, you could discout a lot of SF's current topics as more technobabble of how things get done in the story. (Now it's all organic or nanotech, in the 90s it was cybertech, in the 80s it was DNA, in the 70s it was experimental drugs, and in the 60s it was radiation, etc.)So considering the other ways to "excuse" the odd technology, the "Well, you can't explain it all with what you know in science, can you?" was a refreshing change. It also allowed for some character evolvement as well.Of couse with a fantastical show like Farscape, they sometimes cross that line of "Suspension of Disbelief." My brother hates the show because too many people wear make up and it has puppets. He's more mundane and he perfers no aliens if he can help it. I think it's a message Joss Wheldon has gotten since his upcoming Firefly has NO aliens in it. He is shooting for as broad an audience as possible, which is fine. Me?, I perfer a little more sugar in my cereral, thank you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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