(and this isn't just Sci-fi, this is EVERY TV SHOW EVER WRITTEN that's not a sitcom, it feels like.)
OMG, Unresolved Sexuel Tension!
I want a TV show where the lead character and his/her love interest find each other mutually attractive, form a rapport, fall in love...
And stay together. And have a nice, stable, open, honest relationship with a sane and normal level of conflict, that mostly stays in the background except on very very very RARE occasions when the plot revolves around it. Or hell, where they're together when the show starts. Less John/Aeryn, more Wash/Zoe, please.
What would I add? ...more alien aliens really gets my vote too, ESPECIALLY the gender thing.
Other than that, though...
(I am utterly aware how freaking impractical this is, but...)
Having the aliens TALK ALIEN, and subtitle it. Alien Nation, again, did this right. Alternately, it would be nice is alien talk is handled CONSISTANTLY. Either everybody talks one language for whatever reason and exceptions are subtitled or we have magic translation devices and everybody understands everybody, and there's no need to show off quoting latin or klingon, because it WON'T MATTER. (I'm looking at YOU, Star Trek!!) Farscape was really good most of the time, the Translator microbes felt alot more beleivable than the UT in Trek, and they sure as hell were MUCH better about idioms than Trek was, but they goofed on occasion.
I'm a linguist. A) this stuff gets under my skin, and B) acting as a translator for a sci-fi show is my DREAM JOB.
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(and this isn't just Sci-fi, this is EVERY TV SHOW EVER WRITTEN that's not a sitcom, it feels like.)
OMG, Unresolved Sexuel Tension!
I want a TV show where the lead character and his/her love interest find each other mutually attractive, form a rapport, fall in love...
And stay together. And have a nice, stable, open, honest relationship with a sane and normal level of conflict, that mostly stays in the background except on very very very RARE occasions when the plot revolves around it. Or hell, where they're together when the show starts. Less John/Aeryn, more Wash/Zoe, please.
What would I add? ...more alien aliens really gets my vote too, ESPECIALLY the gender thing.
Other than that, though...
(I am utterly aware how freaking impractical this is, but...)
Having the aliens TALK ALIEN, and subtitle it. Alien Nation, again, did this right. Alternately, it would be nice is alien talk is handled CONSISTANTLY. Either everybody talks one language for whatever reason and exceptions are subtitled or we have magic translation devices and everybody understands everybody, and there's no need to show off quoting latin or klingon, because it WON'T MATTER. (I'm looking at YOU, Star Trek!!) Farscape was really good most of the time, the Translator microbes felt alot more beleivable than the UT in Trek, and they sure as hell were MUCH better about idioms than Trek was, but they goofed on occasion.
I'm a linguist. A) this stuff gets under my skin, and B) acting as a translator for a sci-fi show is my DREAM JOB.