Haha, yeah, tv series. But that does not negate your statement. If Star Trek is the mother of new age scifi, then Star Wars is definitely the father. Or maybe they are both fathers. :)
even though its Sci/fi, there seem to be no aliens or alien forms of life -- everything is completely, utterly human and mundane
There are definitely two types of space-exploration-sci-fi: the kind like Firefly, which takes the stance that the only higher lifeform in the universe is the human (Stargate did that too, briefly, with another alien spreading humans across the universe to use as slaves), and the kind like Star Wars, which gives us all shapes and sizes of alien (the most recent example of this, I think, would be Farscape, which utilized puppets to great effect). It really makes for some different stuff, doesn't it? I love both stances, as long as they are done well, and originally.
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Date: 2006-10-10 02:45 pm (UTC)From:even though its Sci/fi, there seem to be no aliens or alien forms of life -- everything is completely, utterly human and mundane
There are definitely two types of space-exploration-sci-fi: the kind like Firefly, which takes the stance that the only higher lifeform in the universe is the human (Stargate did that too, briefly, with another alien spreading humans across the universe to use as slaves), and the kind like Star Wars, which gives us all shapes and sizes of alien (the most recent example of this, I think, would be Farscape, which utilized puppets to great effect). It really makes for some different stuff, doesn't it? I love both stances, as long as they are done well, and originally.