What can I say? I am a nerd. A big one. Normally I'm more of a theatre/movie & TV kind of nerd, but I dabble all over. I wanted to do a post about what we learn from SciFi Tv shows and here it is:
- You are NEVER really dead, hello Daniel Jackson (SG1)! What was it like 13 times? I think at least one member of all the good SciFi shows has been resurrected a time or two.
- Anyone can fall in love with anyone/anything: Samantha Carter (SG1), Ct Jack (Doctor Who/Torchwood), Cpt Kirk (If you need me too tell you then turn in your nerd id card right now), etc...
- Upgrades never are/come at a price: The Borg/Cybermen/Cylons...
- If you don't know what is DON'T touch it. I could do an entire post on this one. Humans are so arrogant messing around with technology we don't understand all over the darn universe and mucking things up.
- Reading people's minds sucks. It's not a gift it's a curse and it falls into the wrong hands a lot.
- Be nice to the neighbors. Every respectable show has an homage to The Day The Earth Stood Still
- You never profit from alien technology for long. It's kind of an extention of if you don't know what is don't touch it. You always pay in human life when you exploit the things you don't understand.
- People suck, or more aptly humanity on the whole is greedy and cruel, but there are small factions standing up for what's right in every crisis.
- Memory lies. Let's face it having your memory wiped or manipulated in some way is standard practice on SciFi Tv.
- The trip is never as short as you think it's going to be, (ahem Voyager)
- NEVER open the rift in space time. Like hotels forgotten by the interstate and parking garages in the movies nothing happy comes from there. Just leave it alone.
- All of history can be explained by alien intervention. From the great pyramids to the extinction of dinosaurs, aliens played a part.
- Not quite yourself today? Go see the doctor now! You could be mutating, carrying alien larva, suffering from a horribly contagious pathogen of alien origin, undead, etc
loved this! That covers most of them. The whole "if you don't know what it is, don't touch it" thing works for so much, like creating dinosaurs or aliens...it never works out for them. EVER.
ReplyDeleteThe only other thing I can think of is that you never really got rid of the whole threat. Ever. Daleks are still out there, Godzilla has more eggs, and the machines still rose.
My inner geek's day is made thanks to you!
Inner, huh? (:
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