What's your favorite medium for Sci-Fi?
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Prefer books to movies (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Movies (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, it takes some imagination - but since when was that a bad thing? Certainly when was it worse than having everything there and explained/shown, rather than letting you decide for yourself exactly what each person/character/setting looked like, based within the guidelines of the book's description?
Re:Movies (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Movies (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd dispute this - books can certainly do the same (particularly when written in the first person, but even in third person they still envelop you)
Let's not discriminate Charlie Stross by omitting second person...
Anyhow, in my opinion, books have a far more believable environment than games. Your mind provides all the missing details, and you don't have objects that look like they can be interacted with but are just painted on, branches you can't step over, or people who repeat the same phrases and stances endlessly.
Re:Movies (Score:5, Insightful)
the best SCI-FI comes in TV form, because there's time to explore the characters, establish large story arcs, and create a very detailed world
TV would be a promising choice, if almost all TV-SF wasn't such utter dross.
It does give writers the time and space to develop good characters, with some depth and personable qualities. It does allow for interesting scenarios to be put forward and explored. And FX frees up a lot of physical constraints.
However most TV science fiction is monumentally crass, shallow and merely forms of kiddies fiction (cowboys, baddies, monsters) with a spaceship in the middle of it. Just adding a rocket or dressing an actor up in a rubber mask doesn't turn a pile of crap into science fiction it just makes it crappier. While the same can be said of SF movies, at least they have the saving feature of some astounding effects and a huge budget, which makes a film more of an "experience" than a story to pay attention to and think about afterwards. Plus, they don't drag on for weeks on end.
So for me it has to be books. Since you know with a book that it isn't going to get cancelled after chapter #3