space ships

unknowable technology

^^ autism

that sort of thing

its science fiction fantasy

That doesn't mean it's scifi however

Indian myths have flying cities, is it scifi? <:smugon:512048583806025739>

that's illustrating a complete imability to recognize nuance, luci

space faring civilizations

artificial intelligence

futuristic inventions

how is that not science fiction?

“If you squint hard enough, and look at a few very specific things... lovecraft is actually romantic comedy.”

star wars = sci-fantast ; star trek = science fiction

VERY different

@Scale_e i mean there was some romance

like that dude that got hitched with a ghoul

Well there you go

lol

Sounds fun to me

just cause both contain the prefix 'sci' doesn't mean they are the same

Romantic comedy

means they are only SIMILAR

but anyways

there are plenty of classic "sci fi" authors who did science fiction fantasy

i always felt like sci-horror was .. cheating

you never saw alien??

“*American history X* is a romantic comedy about the sexual escapades of a white supremeo during his stay in prison.”

yeah, i saw alien. wasn't crazy about it

it was just another form of horror and we already had plenty of that

just needed to turn on the news

*Alien* is horror

*Aliens* is sci fi

the purpose of horror is to frieghten and thrill... but we already beat that horse to death

@Scale_e you realize that the two arent mutually exclusive yes?

sci-fi was a way of 'sneaking messages' into people's heads soo they would see them from a different angle

much like i see anime being today in a way

the message passes right by at least 50% of the population

Alien was pretty frighteny and thrilly.

Then again I first watched it when I was 6 and parents were not keen on letting me see the alien scenes. I then acquired immunity to the shock as it was explained to me that the alien is basically a large crocodile <:Veemote:501103628883591188>

hey

@Lucienne d'Anwyl Of course, but if you don’t boil it down to a single genre... *the purpose of using genre to describe a film disappears.*