On 12/12/2010 11:16 PM, Duggy wrote:
> On Dec 13, 11:32 am, Amy Guskin  wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:05:59 -0500, Duggy wrote
>>
>> (in article
>> ):
>>
>>> On Dec 13, 7:22 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>>
>>>>   Alien turned into a franchise with less plot potential than Star
>>>> Wars.
>>
>>> SF horror more than Space Opera.  It had 1 alien, 1 dead planet, 1
>>> derelict and 1 active spaceship and 7 cast members.  Space opera needs
>>> many, many more of all those things.  That costs.<<
>>
>> Gotta agree with you here.  "Alien" was not space opera.
 It was a thriller
>> that just happened to be set in space.  With an alien.
>
> Genre is a hard to define thing at the best of times, but Space Opera
> is a particularly problematic one, and I think an out-dated idea.
> It's too easy for people to assume "set in space" is all you need.
> It's not.
>
> You need spaceships *and* ray guns.
>

And robots and a genius kid.
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