XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 09:28:08 +0000, Blueshirt wrote:   
      
   > I don't know if proper people are writing modern television scripts   
   > or if it's just AI, or maybe the scripts are originally drafted by   
   > AI then tweaked by a person? But the stories we get in shows   
   > nowadays just seem so bland.   
      
   As somebody who has been reading SF since my childhood, movie and TV   
   SF has always seemed bland and conventional, for the most part (with a   
   few exceptions). I guess the reason is that so many concepts from   
   written SF are, or were, just impossible to represent as pictures.   
      
   The rise of CG has helped somewhat. But it doesn’t get around the   
   basic fact that the whole premise behind the “Star Trek” franchise   
   is, at a fundamental level, quite absurd.   
      
   But getting back to “woke”ness, I think that has always been a common   
   thread through SF. Go read an older story like Ray Bradbury’s “Way Up   
   In The Middle Of The Air”, and tell me I’m wrong ...   
      
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