Comments on: It’s About The Future, Because That’s Where We’re Going.

By: Michael Cook (@mtrc)

Michael Cook (@mtrc) — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:05:07 +0000

I realise I am now PLUMBING THE ARCHIVES nevertheless – what was wrong with DX:HR’s depiction of the world? I thought some aspects, particularly social responses to change, were quite on the money?

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:13:48 +0000

I had suspected most of it for a while, to be honest. Just got lazy when asking the question and didn’t add the caveats you did.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:08:57 +0000

I suspect they used recognisable real world things for a lot of stuff, it’s just that you need to be extremely familiar with those things to spot them.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:06:15 +0000

Glad you liked it! I know it wasn’t quite the sort of answer you were looking for, but I hope it does explain why I can’t give that answer in any definitive way.

By: hentzau

hentzau — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:05:19 +0000

Oh totally, but if you’re going to do that you may as well go the whole hog and make something genuinely weird, like Farscape.

By: Adam Benton

Adam Benton — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:21:08 +0000

Very interesting post, answers my question rather well.

By: fatmanjan

fatmanjan — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:45:08 +0000

I was fairly upset to spot several Alaris 572′s in Galactica’s medical bay. I mean it suits the visual aesthetic (chunky practicality) but they don’t use recognisable real world things for anything else, so why for medical equipment?

(I really should start a blog or something to rant about dubious equipment appearances)

By: aosher

aosher — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:23:39 +0000

Normally I would pipe up to say that I don’t mind BSG’s liberties with science, because in fiction science should be the slave of narrative, but BSG’s fiction was ass crap anyway so bugger it.