{"id":50,"date":"2006-09-27T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-09-27T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:00:51","slug":"science-fiction-tropes-that-should-be-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Tropes That Should be Scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blogger has put together a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ggl.com\/kunochan\/2006\/09\/tired-sci-fi-tropes-that-must-be.html\">list<\/A> of science fiction themes that have been done waaaaay to death.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you read or watch a lot of science fiction, you may begin to notice certain themes that constantly crop up. Some of these, like the ridiculously sexy female scientist\/alien\/robot\/whatever, detract from the realism &#8212; but no one is complaining about it. Not me, anyway. Hooray for Jeri Ryan!<P>But some of these overused cliches really need to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>I can think of a few he missed, like &#8220;ships that are capable of FTL fight battles with laser-type weapons,&#8221; but I think he definitely hit the major offenders.  (Beware: The page was recently <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/\">Farked<\/A>, so many of the comments are of the Asshat variety.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blogger has put together a list of science fiction themes that have been done waaaaay to death. If you read or watch a lot of science fiction, you may begin to notice certain themes that constantly crop up. Some of these, like the ridiculously sexy female scientist\/alien\/robot\/whatever, detract from the realism &#8212; but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}