Enjoying my new big screen TV last night, a character on a show said something that really bugged me.
"I'm not from this planet. Heck, I'm not even from this galaxy."
Note to all science fiction writers, television show writers, et al: this galaxy is huge, larger than your pathetic combined intelligences. You do not need to leave this galaxy to find a strange world. Hell, it take a beam of light eighty thousand years to cross our galaxy, and it consists of billions of stars. BILLIONS. There is no need to go to another galaxy to find the homeworld for your character/species. Doing so only highlights your lack of understanding of the size of the distance between this galaxy and the next, not to mention the size of our own galaxy.
Morons.
2 comments:
Yet, if he really ISN'T from this galaxy, it makes a really effective punctuating comment, no?
Yeah, really. This show is about Superman...he has super speed...shoots fire from his eyes...can fly...has x-ray vision...is bulletproof...and the problem you have with this show is that he's from a different galaxy?? If all this other stuff is believable, why can't he be from a different galaxy. Go figure.
Besides...your favorite movies take place "in a galaxy far, far away"...and you don't have a provlem with that :p
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