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Originally Posted by ApK
Funny you should mention the new Battlestar Galactica as an example.
BG is about as hard sci-fi as it gets in my book. "Hard sci-fi" doesn't equate to "bogged down in technical minutia," nor does it need to be purely extrapolative, based only on real-world physics.
The new BG was great, with some of the best writing in television, but, except for the decided effort to push it toward recognizable military fiction with the use of bullet-firing weapons, mid-twentieth-century-like naval gear, BG DID get a lot of it story and drama from hard sci-fi details:
The idea of humanity originating on another planet, the Frankenstein notion of our technology causing our doom, the nature of artificial intelligence, and the difference between 'human' and 'human-like manufactured beings', the space assaults on space-based techno-centers.
Heck, they even made an effective dramatic moments out of "jumping way past the red-line."
ApK
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BSG was to often just another drama television episode. And the ending made the rest of the series retroactively worse. I felt totally cheated by the ending and wanted the time I had spent watching the other episodes back.