In an author's case (printed medium) I feel that the imagination is the
limiting factor. We only have a sample size of 1 for how life can evolve
(our world). I grant you there is diversity within the over arching system
that exists here however we are all carbon based and all are produced by
the same system.
A level of understanding about biology is required most authors simply
don't have. So much of scifi aliens fall under archtypical categories which
I am ok with honestly.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> And better people than TV producers, e.g., Clarke, frequently fell back
> on, "the universe loves to create bipedal intelligent life," even when he
> didn't have to show them to an audience.
>
> That was of course after a period where all of his aliens ran around on
> many, many tentacles. He recanted that for some reason.
>
>
> > Again as an aside, there are truely alien creatures but their all minor
> > npc
> > stuff or backgroup extras on B5.
> >
> > The fact that all major races are bipedal in-vertebra formed creatures I
> > think is a budgetary thing for TV.
> >
> > Personally I really enjoyed the personal story arc of J'kar the Narn rep
> > on
> > the station, but that is entirely a person like situation.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:50 AM, <> wrote:
> >
> >> **
>
> >>
> >>
> >> I had been watching them by downloading one at a time from Amazon,
> >> because
> >> I wasn't sure if I wanted to invest in a big DVD set, but obviously I
> >> miss
> >> all the goodies that way.
> >>
> >> One thing about B5. I think one needs to be understanding when skewering
> >> ST too badly over "aliens with seafood glued to their foreheads" (as I
> >> always do), because on a TV budget there is only so much you can do. B5
> >> also leans heavily on head appliances for the same reason (but it does
> >> add
> >> really, really tiny ears), but adds "they're aliens because they have
> >> really weird haircuts." Nothing really wrong with that, it just makes
> >> you
> >> stop and think, "if this had been a movie, they'd probably have done
> >> that
> >> differently" a lot.
> >>
> >> > As an aside the B5 series box set has some great explanations about
> >> > classical story telling techniques in special features sections of
> >> each
> >> > season's disks.
> >> >
> >> > cheers.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, waynes_books <>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> **
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
> > would have been deserved.
> >
>
>
>
--
If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
would have been deserved.
limiting factor. We only have a sample size of 1 for how life can evolve
(our world). I grant you there is diversity within the over arching system
that exists here however we are all carbon based and all are produced by
the same system.
A level of understanding about biology is required most authors simply
don't have. So much of scifi aliens fall under archtypical categories which
I am ok with honestly.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:36 AM, <> wrote:
> **
>
>
> And better people than TV producers, e.g., Clarke, frequently fell back
> on, "the universe loves to create bipedal intelligent life," even when he
> didn't have to show them to an audience.
>
> That was of course after a period where all of his aliens ran around on
> many, many tentacles. He recanted that for some reason.
>
>
> > Again as an aside, there are truely alien creatures but their all minor
> > npc
> > stuff or backgroup extras on B5.
> >
> > The fact that all major races are bipedal in-vertebra formed creatures I
> > think is a budgetary thing for TV.
> >
> > Personally I really enjoyed the personal story arc of J'kar the Narn rep
> > on
> > the station, but that is entirely a person like situation.
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:50 AM, <> wrote:
> >
> >> **
>
> >>
> >>
> >> I had been watching them by downloading one at a time from Amazon,
> >> because
> >> I wasn't sure if I wanted to invest in a big DVD set, but obviously I
> >> miss
> >> all the goodies that way.
> >>
> >> One thing about B5. I think one needs to be understanding when skewering
> >> ST too badly over "aliens with seafood glued to their foreheads" (as I
> >> always do), because on a TV budget there is only so much you can do. B5
> >> also leans heavily on head appliances for the same reason (but it does
> >> add
> >> really, really tiny ears), but adds "they're aliens because they have
> >> really weird haircuts." Nothing really wrong with that, it just makes
> >> you
> >> stop and think, "if this had been a movie, they'd probably have done
> >> that
> >> differently" a lot.
> >>
> >> > As an aside the B5 series box set has some great explanations about
> >> > classical story telling techniques in special features sections of
> >> each
> >> > season's disks.
> >> >
> >> > cheers.
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, waynes_books <>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> **
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
> > would have been deserved.
> >
>
>
>
--
If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
would have been deserved.