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Originally Posted by Wussy
Yes, and what is your point? Fantastic things can exist in both sci-fi AND fantasy! You have just blown my mind!
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My point was a tongue in cheek jest at Resiz3ds use of generic terms to say it was pure fantasy when they could of worked in numerous other genres. Glad I was able to help you realise this though, the gods know how much embarresment you would of died from if you got into a serious debate with someone and didn't know this
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Originally Posted by Wussy
Sci-fi = there is an underlying explaination for things. Warp engines create a subspace field around the ship that pushes it partially into another dimension and therefore it can travel faster than the speed of light.
Fantasy = there is no underlying explaination; it's just magic. Gandalf raises his staff and light shoots out of it. Sauruman chants at the wind and causes an avalanche half a world away.
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Ehhhh Gandalf and Saruman were both demigods and thus had access to things beyond mortal comprehension. Think that is pretty clear cut reason as to why they were able to do what they did. Trying to hide behind that is the defence of a crappy writer because science isn't the one who cries that you have broken rules, science is the one who tilts his head and goes "oh that's interesting" If you have a lack of science based characters I can understand there not being a scientific/sci-fi/science fantasy explanation but there will be an underlying explanation (if the reader/viewer can find them though is a totally different matter).
I never watched much beyond the first episode of lost so I will pretty much take anyones word on it. I will poke at people who offer flimsy reasoning for why I should accept what they say though, tis human nature.
Resiz3d - Yeah that sits easier with me though from the small amount of research I have done, lost is so genre busting that trying to fit it into one genre is like trying to fit Batman into a single DnD allignment.