Any Colonals out there?

[ColonialMarine0431]

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[Elgalad]

I gave up on the new Battlestar Galactica after 3 or 4 episodes.. it looks like I might have to go back and revisit it now.

See, I hated all the politically correct drama crap they originally stuffed into the new "updated" version.. it was all about dialogue and intrigue and yadda yadda yadda, there just wasn't enough ACTION. I don't remember seeing all that space combat last time I checked it out though.

I love a good space opera ~ Star Trek, Star Wars, (the old) Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, Space Above and Beyond, Last Starfighter, etc.. as long as it has blasty lasers and zoomy ships, I'm good. Just irks me when Hollywood thinks it has to have a serious plot. :rotflmbo:


-Elgalad

[PrezLeefun]

space opera? LMAO!

[Elgalad]

Seriously, Prez, it's a real term!

I didn't make it up. :)

Space Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera)



-Elgalad

[ColonialMarine0431]

Dudes! How can you not like it. It's about a battle between Good and evil!

[Elgalad]

Calm down! I said I'd try it again. :roar:

But I Am going to cross my fingers and hope that the video you posted there doesn't contain the entire season's space battles.. :shame:

'Cause if I wanted to just watch political intrigue, there's about 5 zillion other shows..


-Elgalad

[PrezLeefun]

Seriously, Prez, it's a real term!

I didn't make it up. :)

Space Opera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera)



-Elgalad

That is wiki.... i dont beleive you term makerupper. :rotflmbo: lol

[UnkHiram]

I tried the new Battlestar, prefer the original. Just rack it up to "Old Man's" Disease

[DoctorDoom]

That is wiki.... i dont beleive you term makerupper."Space Opera" is a decades-old term.

No matter what the genre in question is, to a non-genre reader, all genre books are the same. Every romance features Fabio ripping the bodice of some longhaired vixen. Every mystery involves a little old lady who solves crimes with her cat. And all science fiction involves space ships and bug-eyed monsters.

I can't speak for the other two genres--for all I know the stereotype is true--but I can bring some reality into this monolithic perception about speculative fiction. This vast accretion of titles easily includes a dozen subgenres, from cyberpunk to steampunk to alternate history to high fantasy. Space ships, etc., only show up in one very small subgenre of SF: the space opera.

Space opera has been kicking around since the turn of the last century. The SF writers everyone knows--Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Frank Herbert--all penned at least one. In the 1960s and `70s, however, "space opera" became code for "hackwork," possibly due to the rise of pop culture space operas like Star Trek and Star Wars. The idea of a "romantic adventure set in space and told on a grand scale," which is how The New Space Opera editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan define the subgenre, fell out of favor.Books | The New Space Opera (http://www.citypaper.com/arts/review.asp?rid=11928)

There was also "horse opera".

horse opera, oater (nn.)

are terms for Westerns, the romances—novels, plays, and movies—about cowboys and rustlers and the American West of the late nineteenth century. Horse opera, like soap opera, is now Standard in all but the most Oratorical and Formal contexts; oater remains slang and appears to be fading.horse opera, oater (http://www.bartleby.com/68/37/3037.html)

Essentially, (_enter type_) opera is formulaic fiction for the named genre.