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Flangepart
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« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2001, 04:47:49 PM » |
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Fair Enough, Cullen. I see your point. It's just that the true Science-Fiction, tries to show what happens when people are confronted with things wonderious and strange...but somewhat comprehensable. "Deep impact" was a threat to human life that could be understood. The peoples reactions were also understandable. Fear, terror, resignation, Ect....but the threat itself was understood as a natural phenominum. I guess the problim i have with Fantasy, sometimes, is what i call, "Flexable rules." As Arther C. Clark said, "Any suficiantly advanced science would look like magic to primitives. " Picard quoted that in the EP, "Who watches the watchers?". In fantasy, the "Rules" are not so much based on what we understand from our knowlage. The science involved in comet heading to Earth, ( kinetic energy, zero drag in a vaccume, inertia, equal reaction to forces applyed to a body in motion or at rest...) are known, repeatable principles. Magic rules, however, are purely at the discression of the author. Not all Fanasy authors ignore the known laws. Terry Pratchett does a great job including them in the magic of Diskworld. I guess, if the idea is a created thing, (Warp drive), i haws, as you say, a need for consistancy. Character Consistancy is another form of this, but as a writer, you already understand that. When Pratchett writes about Nobby Nobs and Sgt. Colon walking the streets of Anhk-Morpork, no matter what happens, we know How they will react, because we know WHO they are. Hummm...as per your second paragraph....ever concitered how the plot of Alien(s) would have been different, if the Company had not been greedy, and selfish? Human failings AND Virtues....the soil where great stories seed!
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