I'm willing to accept all kinds of nonsense *in the premise*. Tony Stark is Perfect Engineer and needs a power source in his chest to keep him alive? Okay, premise. Like "bitten by radioactive spider" or "space baby from space". Climax of the same movie suddenly depends on "and also clouds are made of solid rock, held up by angels, and the villain is dropping them on Iron Man"? Not so much.
maybe Star Trek was playing the same cards with its 1960's origins.
Except not so much, since they've clearly established that "physics matters" and "distances happen" and "FTL and sublight are both things" and "a supernova is a supernova" and "rectilinear propagation" and EVERYTHING ELSE NuTreks GOT WRONG ARGH.
Seriously. When "you can't call Earth, from Earth's Moon" is a CRITICAL PLOT POINT, you need to also not be able to call New Vulcan or Khronos from there. And you NEED an explanation for why the earthlings aren't just seeing you by looking up.
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Date: 2013-05-24 01:49 am (UTC)maybe Star Trek was playing the same cards with its 1960's origins.
Except not so much, since they've clearly established that "physics matters" and "distances happen" and "FTL and sublight are both things" and "a supernova is a supernova" and "rectilinear propagation" and EVERYTHING ELSE NuTreks GOT WRONG ARGH.
Seriously. When "you can't call Earth, from Earth's Moon" is a CRITICAL PLOT POINT, you need to also not be able to call New Vulcan or Khronos from there. And you NEED an explanation for why the earthlings aren't just seeing you by looking up.