What is science fiction to you? How would you define it? The core of sci-fi is about using different, unique settings to pose moral and philosophical questions in different lights, enabling them to be thought about in different ways. IN SPACE. What interests you about sci-fi? Alternatively what disinterests you about it? My favourite parts of the genre have to be the various ways in which space-time is beaten all to hell - alternate universes, time travel, and other related stuff. Have you always liked/disliked sci-fi and why/why not? What changed your mind if you didn't always like it? I watched Sliding Doors (film) at a very young age, and have been fascinated with alternate universes, and through that, with sci-fi, ever since. What misconceptions have you come across about sci-fi? These can be misconceptions you made yourself and later learned the reality for or things other people have misconceived. That Sci-fi is always exactly like something else, IN SPACE. That energy weapons are more effective in real life.
Does the science part of sci-fi shows have importance to you in your viewing and if so, to what extent? Does it affect the entertainment value? Amanda Tapping's mouth moves. It's pretty. TBH, the kind of science needed for most sci-fi: FTL, wormholes, alternate universes and time travel being examples, are all so beyond actual science, even high-level actual science, that it's impossible to 'accurately' portray it. What other genres do you think sci-fi shows include, if any? All of them. Sci-fi can be a good story with all sorts of genres - comedy, action - but simply with cool tech. In your opinion, does sci-fi promote feminism and/or any similar issues and why? IN SPACE/THE FUTURE, women/minorities are treated better since future!people are more tolerant than people now. Will sci-fi ever give up green-skinned space babes? Probably not, but it still serves to show the kind of tolerance that characters we like and respect have, and so what we should be working towards in that area. What is your opinion on the characters of sci-fi shows and why? They are, essentially, us. Put us in the future, give us some future!lingo, and they're us. Sci-fi is about moral dilemmas WE face. If some wierd people very different from us are the only ones facing them, we can't relate, and the point of sci-fi is lost. What is your opinion on the relationships in sci-fi shows and why? Same as above - the people are just us, put in a different situation, with different people, and relationships form based on that. As entertainment, how does sci-fi rate for you against other shows and why? First, things tend to be more dramatic IN SPACE. On a slightly less shallow note, contempory works take our world and introduce a few people in it. Sci-fi works have to create an entire universe which can make the story feel much more immersive and dramatic. The majority of my shows are sci-fi.
Do you have anything else relevant to this survey to add? This was really helpful - I'm doing sci-fi for general studies, and it was good to get my thoughts in order. :)
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The core of sci-fi is about using different, unique settings to pose moral and philosophical questions in different lights, enabling them to be thought about in different ways. IN SPACE.
What interests you about sci-fi? Alternatively what disinterests you about it?
My favourite parts of the genre have to be the various ways in which space-time is beaten all to hell - alternate universes, time travel, and other related stuff.
Have you always liked/disliked sci-fi and why/why not? What changed your mind if you didn't always like it?
I watched Sliding Doors (film) at a very young age, and have been fascinated with alternate universes, and through that, with sci-fi, ever since.
What misconceptions have you come across about sci-fi? These can be misconceptions you made yourself and later learned the reality for or things other people have misconceived.
That Sci-fi is always exactly like something else, IN SPACE.
That energy weapons are more effective in real life.
Does the science part of sci-fi shows have importance to you in your viewing and if so, to what extent? Does it affect the entertainment value?
Amanda Tapping's mouth moves. It's pretty. TBH, the kind of science needed for most sci-fi: FTL, wormholes, alternate universes and time travel being examples, are all so beyond actual science, even high-level actual science, that it's impossible to 'accurately' portray it.
What other genres do you think sci-fi shows include, if any?
All of them. Sci-fi can be a good story with all sorts of genres - comedy, action - but simply with cool tech.
In your opinion, does sci-fi promote feminism and/or any similar issues and why?
IN SPACE/THE FUTURE, women/minorities are treated better since future!people are more tolerant than people now. Will sci-fi ever give up green-skinned space babes? Probably not, but it still serves to show the kind of tolerance that characters we like and respect have, and so what we should be working towards in that area.
What is your opinion on the characters of sci-fi shows and why?
They are, essentially, us. Put us in the future, give us some future!lingo, and they're us. Sci-fi is about moral dilemmas WE face. If some wierd people very different from us are the only ones facing them, we can't relate, and the point of sci-fi is lost.
What is your opinion on the relationships in sci-fi shows and why?
Same as above - the people are just us, put in a different situation, with different people, and relationships form based on that.
As entertainment, how does sci-fi rate for you against other shows and why?
First, things tend to be more dramatic IN SPACE.
On a slightly less shallow note, contempory works take our world and introduce a few people in it. Sci-fi works have to create an entire universe which can make the story feel much more immersive and dramatic. The majority of my shows are sci-fi.
Do you have anything else relevant to this survey to add? This was really helpful - I'm doing sci-fi for general studies, and it was good to get my thoughts in order. :)