Balmung
Since: Oct, 2011
#52: May 24th 2013 at 11:50:13 AM
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TheStarshipMaxima
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#53: May 24th 2013 at 1:28:55 PM
Killjoy.
It was an honor
Alma
The Harbinger of Strange
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The Harbinger of Strange
#54: May 24th 2013 at 1:30:12 PM
I think the greater emphasis on scientific accuracy in science fiction is probably due to the genre being (and simultaneously not being) taken more seriously.
When everyone "knew" that science fiction was a load of crap, it was okay to make pulp science fiction movies. Then it emerged as a legitimate genre, and now the only way you can get away with pulp is if you call it a homage.
Not that there weren't works that did try to stay on the side of accuracy—H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, for example. (Not the films, because they're about as beep-boop flying-saucers-from-Planet-X pulpy as you can get.) Science Marches On has done a number on most of them, though.
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We need to make a fake trailer for this RIGHT NOW.