my sci-fi pet peeves

[woad&fangs]

It's been a while since I've read them, but I remember the Animorphs series doing a pretty decent job with keeping the aliens alien. At the very least the Taxons and Yeerks were very inhuman.

[Pannonian]

2001 - A Space Odyssey should be a pleasure for sci-fi fans. Silence? You've got it. Inertia and physics? You've got it. Alien aliens? You've got it. Other than the titular date, how much of it is out of date within today's knowledge?

[Lemur]

I don't see why we have to restrict ourselves to films and TV, especially when most of the best SF is in books. But I'll give you another show that plays with the net up: The re-invented Battlestar Galactica. Even though you do hear sounds in the shots, it's always muffled, as though the acoustic waves are being carried to you by the deck of a ship. Neat audio effect. Also, the fighter ships actually have jets on all three axes and behave as if they were weightless, as opposed to the WWII dog-fighting of Star Wars.

But let's face it, the best SF is in novels.

[doc_bean]

But let's face it, the best SF is in novels.

MTE I usually don't bother with SF on tv or in movies. The genre works so much better in book form, and I don't think the pet peeves apply as much to them (except the first, that just happens way too much ...)