Review: Defying Gravity

[arcanelegacy]

One of the things that I have realized over the past fifteen odd years of watching television (and I say fifteen because I can’t really remember watching many shows before I was about five or six, though I’m sure I watched some) is that science fiction rarely does well on primetime TV. With the major exception of the X-files, I cannot think of a

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[arcanelegacy]

I think I know which promo you're talking about - I remember it, too, and winced when I saw it. Smut as an extension of story? I'm okay with that. Story as an excuse for smut? No thanks.

Oh, God, I know. Science fiction has so much to offer, but I see writers of science fiction making the same mistakes over and over. They rehash the same plots again and again, and tell them all the same way (humans = good. Aliens = bad. Kill aliens, be hero, go down in history. Bonus points awarded if the story seems like an allegory for the American Way!). Making a story and then throwing it IN SPACE just to give it some kind of novelty isn't going to convince anyone that it's good, and in ways it's no wonder the scifi genre gets so little respect.

I certainly wouldn't bother. It's like a train wreck. I'm still here because I want to see if I called the weak excuse for a plot correctly or not. Or to count down until this show gets the axe for its abysmal ratings. Or to see if the writers get whacked with a good, solid, clue-by-four and actually manage to salvage the story (which could be interesting, even if it is clichéd and overdone, but that might just be eternal optimist in me speaking out again).