Personnally I am not very interested in the realism of a sci-fi show, and I am not the kind of guy who will nitpick at the realism of military costumes or weapons or other stuff. I am even convinced that a sci-fi show must be somewhat unrealistic.
If you tell me that Superman can see through thick walls, ok I accept it, even if you wish to demonstrate that Superman cannot, precisely because light doesn't cross thick walls. It's just a show, it's a superpower. The zpm is a super battery well then ok. No physics discussion.
On the other hand, one thing that makes me uneasy is the lack of INNER coherence. That is, if we have stated that Superman is allergic to kryptonite, then we don't see Superman every odd episode close to kryptonite without anything happening. Seems to me fair enough to demand such a consistency from a show, otherwise there's no story anymore, precisely no plot.
In Runner, I have seen (Spoilers):
1) McKay says the planet receives lethaly intense solar energy. Nobody contradicts him and yet nobody cares, McKay is a clown character because he takes basic precautions, and then eventually he doesn't care himself. So, what can I say, everybody has skin cancer now and will die in a few weeks, or McKay was wrong and he's no longer a scientist? Or did I miss something...
2) Ronon is supposed to come from a planet. A whole planet with at least one large city. Yet SGA send a drone looking around the stargate site for a few minutes, see no one and decide no one survived the culling. On the whole planet. That they don't see.
Plus many other details. Plus there is as usual this constant shift in the series between wraiths you can kill and wraiths you cannot kill, but we already spoke about that.
I don't know what to say. Is it some kind of new poetic license storytelling, or are TBTP clearly overworked?
If you tell me that Superman can see through thick walls, ok I accept it, even if you wish to demonstrate that Superman cannot, precisely because light doesn't cross thick walls. It's just a show, it's a superpower. The zpm is a super battery well then ok. No physics discussion.
On the other hand, one thing that makes me uneasy is the lack of INNER coherence. That is, if we have stated that Superman is allergic to kryptonite, then we don't see Superman every odd episode close to kryptonite without anything happening. Seems to me fair enough to demand such a consistency from a show, otherwise there's no story anymore, precisely no plot.
In Runner, I have seen (Spoilers):
1) McKay says the planet receives lethaly intense solar energy. Nobody contradicts him and yet nobody cares, McKay is a clown character because he takes basic precautions, and then eventually he doesn't care himself. So, what can I say, everybody has skin cancer now and will die in a few weeks, or McKay was wrong and he's no longer a scientist? Or did I miss something...
2) Ronon is supposed to come from a planet. A whole planet with at least one large city. Yet SGA send a drone looking around the stargate site for a few minutes, see no one and decide no one survived the culling. On the whole planet. That they don't see.
Plus many other details. Plus there is as usual this constant shift in the series between wraiths you can kill and wraiths you cannot kill, but we already spoke about that.
I don't know what to say. Is it some kind of new poetic license storytelling, or are TBTP clearly overworked?
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