In theory monetary compensation was paid in return for the Gained Productivity, ie. buying the software. Which means you could argue that monies should go the other direction when some of that productivity is lost. Yes, yes I can see this turning into an empirical argument over the total value of loss + gain. But thanks to blind acceptance of all-encompassing EULAs, this argument is a lost cause anyway.
Soap opera is good in its place in drama shows, but combining it with scifi just ruins the sci fi, especially when its the scifi producers trying to get their heads around it.
I would prefer minimal stilted soap to slabs of stilted soap that just reduces the amount of time that can be devoted to whatever scifi concept the show uses/is based on.
Keep soap and scifi separate, mixing them just ruins both.
I gloss over the tacky interpersonal relations in trek becuase I dont care about it, I'm there for the scifi, if I wanted relationships I'd watch the appropriate show, of which there are much more of than scifi.
Scifi is dying because the audience(and society in general) is dumbing down. It is nolonger fashionable or politically correct, look at how scientists are regularly portrayed as being evil.
Good Sci-fi requires a minimum level of intelligence and constructive thought. PCness (media driven?) abhors this because by requiring people to be intelligent or to think, you are supposedly ostracising those who can't/won't. This inturn means a reduced profitable audience, which of course is intolerable to the studios.
So good scifi is dead, until society as a whole wakes up.
I'm not going to miss muppets in space...
Too many modern scifi or semi scifi shows are corrupted with over moralising, or being destroyed by inserting crappy soap opera elements, in a short sighted attempt to try and broaden the audience to generate more dollars.
Current sci-fi sucks, just look at the two latest Starwars.........
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In theory monetary compensation was paid in return for the Gained Productivity, ie. buying the software. Which means you could argue that monies should go the other direction when some of that productivity is lost. Yes, yes I can see this turning into an empirical argument over the total value of loss + gain.
But thanks to blind acceptance of all-encompassing EULAs, this argument is a lost cause anyway.
Soap opera is good in its place in drama shows, but combining it with scifi just ruins the sci fi, especially when its the scifi producers trying to get their heads around it.
I would prefer minimal stilted soap to slabs of stilted soap that just reduces the amount of time that can be devoted to whatever scifi concept the show uses/is based on.
Keep soap and scifi separate, mixing them just ruins both.
I gloss over the tacky interpersonal relations in trek becuase I dont care about it, I'm there for the scifi, if I wanted relationships I'd watch the appropriate show, of which there are much more of than scifi.
Scifi is dying because the audience(and society in general) is dumbing down. It is nolonger fashionable or politically correct, look at how scientists are regularly portrayed as being evil.
Good Sci-fi requires a minimum level of intelligence and constructive thought. PCness (media driven?) abhors this because by requiring people to be intelligent or to think, you are supposedly ostracising those who can't/won't. This inturn means a reduced profitable audience, which of course is intolerable to the studios.
So good scifi is dead, until society as a whole wakes up.
I'm not going to miss muppets in space... Too many modern scifi or semi scifi shows are corrupted with over moralising, or being destroyed by inserting crappy soap opera elements, in a short sighted attempt to try and broaden the audience to generate more dollars. Current sci-fi sucks, just look at the two latest Starwars.........