zorcarepublic
Seeker of wisdom
For a few weeks I've been thinking about the sci-fi you see nowadays on TV, and I've also been thinking about books and movies, but for the moment we'll stick to the TV genre. I've noticed that there seems to be a gradual change from 'space opera'-style TV series (series which don't go too much into the nuts and bolts, with protagonists famed more for their good looks than their skills) to harder sci-fi, where we have more nuts and bolts, sometimes literally. I was wondering if this is because we are entering what could tentatively be described as a second age of TV sci-fi, where writers actually focus on the nuts and bolts because now the audience has some grounding in science, or can at least make guesses as to what the pointy-eared science officer or engineer is trying to say. And, if indeed we are entering such an age, could we enter a third age where we are able to keep up with all the long technical-sounding words.