Science Fiction

Star Wars is not good, for the most part. There are a couple good movies and shows, but the majority of Star Wars is not good at all.

Rian Johnson’s movie didn’t deserve the hate it got! It wasn’t bad.

Rogue One is fantastic. Full stop.

I've got 3 of them...

1. I liked Prometheus. I had no issues with Covenant, enjoyed it as well.
2. I'd like to see more original sci-fi shows than just yet another time-travel or evil alien/AI destroys humanity scenario. I enjoy them, but I'd like to think there's a lot more to the future than just those two possibilities.
3. I've never seen Firefly or Serenity and have no interest in doing so.

@Anomandaris

I went to film school, and had to watch 2001 like five times in classes, breaking down every little element of it. And you know what? I also think it's boring and pretentious AF. The fx and production design are incredible, and parts of it are good enough, but other than that it's just Kubrick demonstrating how much smarter he thought he was than everyone else (I am not a fan of his films, if that wasn't clear enough).

I did enjoy the book a lot, though! If you haven't read it I think you'll be surprised how it tells the same story, just better.

The newest Robocop movie was actually REALLY good,

as probably the best prediction of how we will start with autonomous robots in the battlefield being sidekicks to a prime human operator,

and that there will be a public push back about them being deployed in a police manner, but a political push to deploy them in a civilian theatre.

And when the majority of someone's body is replaced by artificial limbs/organs/etc. At what point are they still human.

Shared universes between franchises are a bad idea. I don't mean commercially. They're a great idea if you want to make a billion dollars. But they're bad for storytelling.

Reason 1 is that the story being told is always in service to some other story. By which I mean, the writer has to make decisions that aren't about making this story the best it can be, but about making it make sense in context with everything that's come before it. For example, Batman can't just be a story about a smart, athletic vigilante in a costume. He has to be the smartest, most athletic human being who has ever lived, because he has to compete with, and remain relevant amongst, actual superheroes and supervillains.

Reason 2 is that it undermines the impact of each story because, again, the stories have to be considered within a massive context. In Watchmen, we can imagine the awe and horror people felt about Dr. Manhattan because, like in our world, nothing like him had ever existed. If you put him in the same universe as Superman, he's just another superhero.

Obviously I'm talking about large comic-book style shared universes with multiple authors and largely independent stories. I have nothing against franchises that use other works to expand on previously introduced concepts and do it in a coherent way.

Unpopular opinion: I really liked Star Trek Discovery Klingons...

1. DS9 is the best trek
2. Babylon 5 is the best sci fi show of all time

Teleporters kill you and clone you. The person walking out of the teleporter may look like you and have your memories, but you are dead and that is a clone.

The process is likely incredibly painful, but because the memories of the clone are copied from just before the process started no one actually knows.

I liked Terra Nova and wish it didnt get cancelled after one season even though it wasn't a great show. I loved the premise of humans going back in time when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

• The Last Jedi is the best Disney Star Wars movie, bar none.
• Rogue One is overrated.
• Andor is not overrated, but it also cannot be the blueprint for all or even most Star Wars going forward.

Space Odyssey is pretty close adaptation of book and has more dialogue than book. So there was this art approach which some like and others don't. For me book is amazing but film is boring.

New adaptation of Dune is similar but more digestible for regular viewer.

Lexx: Xev was superior to Zev in every way.

I'd like to see season 4 of Dark Matter produced. The cliffhanger at the end of S3 was insane and I still can't believe they canceled the show and left it at that.

My unpopular sci-fi opinion is that Discovery is an amazing adaptation of the Star Trek universe into the gritty, modern sci-fi paradigm.

I love it and I love that it is in the Star Trek franchise.

For perspective, my favorite Trek series is TNG.

I didn't love The Martian. It wasn't a bad book, but I got bored in places. I was more engaged by Project Hail Mary (which is probably another unpopular opinion).

EDIT: Guess I should mention I'm referring to the books. Never saw The Martian movie.

The vast majority of Star Wars, new canon and legends, is poorly written trash, but the cringe ass campiness is what makes it a star war.

Rey isn't the problem, revisionist history is.