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What's your Sci-Fi unpopular opinion? (kbin.social)

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It's a slightly click-baity title, but as we're still generating more content for our magazines, this one included, why not?

My Sci-fi unpopular opinion is that 2001: A Space Odyssey is nothing but pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. I've tried watching it multiple times and each time I have absolutely no patience for the pointless little scenes which contain little to no depth or meaningful plot, all coalescing towards that 15 minute "journey" through space and series of hallucinations or whatever that are supposed to be deep, shake you to your foundations, and make you re-think the whole human condition.

But it doesn't. Because it's just pretentious, LSD fueled nonsense. Planet of the Apes was released in the same year and is, on every level, a better Sci-fi movie. It offers mystery, a consistent and engaging plot, relatable characters you actually care about, and asks a lot more questions about the world and our place in it.

It insists upon itself, Lois.

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[–] dudinax 2 points 1 year ago

The idea there could be a planet run by apes and it's not Earth is incredibly dumb. Whoever wrote that knows nothing about evolution.

My unpopular opinion is that the Holdo maneuver is a good fit in the Star Wars universe. Fans who complain that it makes military commanders in Star Wars look incredibly stupid are right, but they were looking incredibly dumb in pretty much every battle before that.

Hyperspace collision was explicitly cited as a danger before the first on-screen hyperspace jump. What fans really want is a rule that nobody can ever innovate in space battles. Across 70 years of in-fiction time, space battles are pretty much the same, and nobody's allowed to change that even if it makes sense that they would.