memes·MemesbyThe Picard Maneuver A guide to figure out if you're watching scifi or fantasy:View original on startrek.website556Comments31
bbilboswaggings sopuli.xyzScifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee22
downpunxx kbin.social10Hide 10 repliesIf there's magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it's Science Fantasy17
bbeteljuice replylemmy.mlSo we are living in science fantasy. No one has any idea where the four fundamental forces come from. They just "exist" like magical forces.11
ThenThreeMore replystartrek.websiteAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke5
The Picard Maneuver replystartrek.website2Hide 2 repliesOoh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol3
aatlasraven31 lemm.eeDoes it have a scanner bed or do they just stick you in a regular old bed by a waterfall and hope for the best?12
aatlasraven31 replylemm.ee4Hide 4 repliesAnnoying dialogue? Powerful but doesn't help the hero? Hands out quests? He is a video game NPC.11
kkautau replylemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesThe only canon Yoda to me is bayou Yoda: https://youtu.be/agL0QYmIeds6
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NNorgur kbin.social1Hide 1 replyI separate by the mechanics at play: do supernatural things exist in places they do not exist in reality (humans doing telekinesis, mind reading for example... Or outright magic like the force)? If yes, it's likely fantasy.3
AAa! replylemmy.worldWhere does subspace fall on this line? Stargates? The TARDIS? Sometimes the science is magical. The line is pretty fuzzy2
MisterFrog lemmy.world1Hide 1 replyHumans - Humans (duh) Vulcans - Elves / High Elves Romuluans - Dark Elves / Blood Elves Klingons - Orcs Andorians - Ice Elves This is as much as I could come up with.2
Scifi is when you get shot by a blaster bolt
Fantasy is when you take an arrow to the knee
If there's magic, supernatural powers, or a force of any kind, it's Science Fantasy
So we are living in science fantasy. No one has any idea where the four fundamental forces come from. They just "exist" like magical forces.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Ooh, I could see that label ruffling a few feathers. Lol
Arthur C. Clarke has entered the chat
Why?
Where does the Witcher universe fall with its alien elves?
generic fantasy
The elves aren't aliens, humans are.
Still high fantasy
What about force fields?
Does it have a scanner bed or do they just stick you in a regular old bed by a waterfall and hope for the best?
Which is Yoda? I'll wait.
Annoying dialogue? Powerful but doesn't help the hero? Hands out quests?
He is a video game NPC.
The only canon Yoda to me is bayou Yoda:
https://youtu.be/agL0QYmIeds
that Dagobah sawamp HEAT
I want em YOUNG obi wan. I want, a five year old
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Space opera
Are you dwarven?
pats amplifier "This goes to elven"
My dividing line is “am I watching for the plot or for the ideas?”
Spock: set phasers to stun
Legolas: uhmmm... Arrows kill
I separate by the mechanics at play: do supernatural things exist in places they do not exist in reality (humans doing telekinesis, mind reading for example... Or outright magic like the force)? If yes, it's likely fantasy.
Where does subspace fall on this line? Stargates? The TARDIS?
Sometimes the science is magical. The line is pretty fuzzy
Burn the Eldar
Humans - Humans (duh)
Vulcans - Elves / High Elves
Romuluans - Dark Elves / Blood Elves
Klingons - Orcs
Andorians - Ice Elves
This is as much as I could come up with.
This checks out.
Who would be the dwarves? Ferengi?