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DrCrowTStarwars said:
Okay I just watched SF Debris' Before and after review and can i just take minute to talk about something that bugs me in this episode and it has nothing to do with Kes's whole family being purged from existence jut to please the shippers(But that does really bug me. I mean basically her whole family gets killed and it has no negative impact on her),it's something that bugs me in science fiction in general and not just Voyager. Alien life spans. In this episode Kes is dying because she just turned nine and her people only live nine years. Anyone ever notice that it doesn't matter if it is nine years or nine hundred years when alien lifespans are mentions on Sci-Fi it is always very exact and every alien we meet always seems to live that exact number of years unless they get shot or something. if they are under the life span they are never in any danger of dying and once they reach that lifespan it like a switch flips and they just drop dead. it doesn't matter what kind of health they are in,they can't do a thing to prolong their lives like eating right or stuff like that,once they hit that magic number they are dead and everyone knows it. That is not how it works in real life. I mean right now the average human lifespan goes into the late 70s but my maternal grandfather died in his early 60s and paternal grandmother made it to 89,but if they were aliens in science fiction we would be told their race lives to 78 and my grandfather would have made it to that age without any problems and my grandmother would have dropped dead 11 years before she did.
It may not be the biggest issue in the world but it always makes Sci-Fi feel fake and like it comes from the pen of a writer rather then taking place in a real world to me.
Am I the only one who is bugged by this?
I never really thought about it before, but now I can see that is rather stupid.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
I really need to read/re-read the Silver and Bronze Age Spider-Man comics. I really have little idea of who Gwen Stacy is, and as a self-identifed Spidey fan that's just pathetic.
You should really get on that. Wonderful stories and characters. You'll be happy you did!
I've already begun. =D