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[LordBaal]

I didn't even touched the issue of sex itself because that's beyond reason. It could go from a harmless (if shocking) activity to certain death, or anything between, passing of course by the oh! all fun possibility of your genitalia dissolving or the act making you go sick beyond limits.

[TempAcc]

It just irks me that hollywood writers cant seem to pull off a human interest story without using sex.

It gets double plus ungood when they do that with aliens in sci-fi.

I think so too. It always bothered my just how hard it is to find a sci fi story about aliens in which the aliens are at least a bit inhuman. Its also my biggest turnoff in regards to star trek, and I actualy like star trek, mind you.

I always hated how hard they tried to invent an in-universe reason as to why pretty much every alien that shows up in the series are humanoids with weird foreheads. Ocasionaly, some non human alien shows up, but they're never actualy important or interact with the plot much, and seem to have a very human mindset.

There was this 4x game thing for the pc in which pretty much every alien species looked REALLY alien and even non euclidean, but I can't remember the name of it. I faintly remember one of the species being entirely composed of flying female blob things that seem to be made almost entirely of sexual organs, boobs and jello :v

[Culise]

I'm not sure which game you're referring to, but if you're looking for games along those lines, Ascendancy was a race that was distinctly short on humans or humanoid aliens of the funny head variety.  It did include the classic sapient rocks, "critter folk" (rats, lizards, and bugs), amoeba, and body snatchers, but also stuff like sapient sponges, donuts, walking eyes, both sapient gas and water, and...huh.  Actually, looking closer at the Govorom, I think this might actually be the game you're referring to.  I never caught that before.  To be honest, I'm still not entirely sure I see it, so I could easily be wrong, but...

[TempAcc]

Yep, thats the thing.
Here's a screenshot of the alien I was referring to.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Of course, I can still vaguely make out some human shapes in it, but they did a better job at making aliens than, say, hollywood. Granted, some of the aliens look hilarious (oh noes, space mammoths), but hey.

[Starver]

I recall that there was some variation among the Narn of Babylon 5

Related 'fact' (some slight disputes, but sounds good, so I'm rolling with it), regarding the Centauri race's styling.  In particular the hair-styling.

Londo (or his actor, Peter Jurasik, rather) went into make-up to prep him for the so-far-undecided hairstyle he was to get to represent the 'ancient and decadent republic' theme.  They drew his hair back in the now-familiar fashion just to get ready for the final decision of what to do with it by JMS.  JMS saw it like that and thought that was their proposal, and liked it, so it quite literally stuck like that!

(There's a lot of discussion about the hairstyle in season 1 being not as neat as in later seasons, but (in-universe) that can be explained by Ambassador Mollari was in a dead-end position with only a degree dead-end pride in his appearance.  His social status entitles him (by long-standing standards) to the length of the hair-crest, but he's too interested in various leisure activities and too surrounded by non-Centauri to take too much care.  His star rises (and, even when it isn't doing, he's trying to make it rise) in later series and so he takes more pride in his appearance.  Naturally, in a patriarchal society (ostensibly so, anyway, Londo's three differently-scheming wives show that the females of the species could at least sometimes be quite formidable background powers), their women have zero status and thus no 'fan' at all (or restrict themselves to a ponytail from an otherwise bald head).  And an emperor can do what he likes.  So, when a new one comes along who wilfully overturns the old standard, he is of course copied by many an ingratiating lacky.  But not Londo, who is a traditionalist who has no interest in changing his accustomed ways.)


Of course, there's a lot on B5 that is intriguing in that way.  Separating that which is canon from that which is fanon is a sometimes thankless task, though.

[Bohandas]

It just irks me that hollywood writers cant seem to pull off a human interest story without using sex.

It gets double plus ungood when they do that with aliens in sci-fi.

I didn't even touched the issue of sex itself because that's beyond reason. It could go from a harmless (if shocking) activity to certain death, or anything between, passing of course by the oh! all fun possibility of your genitalia dissolving or the act making you go sick beyond limits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WwOOuwSlM#t=10m05s

[Sergius]

In Megamind, "Tighten" is given a tiny baby-sized suit that "stretches", so it fits his muscled super body. But when he turns back to Hal, the suit doesn't shrink back to the original size. I mean, it could be like, it only stretches but doesn't shrink, but that doesn't seem very useful (I mean eat too many sandwiches one day then slim back to super, and you forever have a suit with a permanently overstretched gut).

[wierd]

Isnt that what spandex actually does though?

[Sergius]

Isnt that what spandex actually does though?

Stretch and then go back to original size? Or stretch and remain stretched forever?

[Neonivek]

Isnt that what spandex actually does though?

Stretch and then go back to original size? Or stretch and remain stretched forever?

It does both in real life

[Dutrius]

Depends how much you stretch it. Plastic deformation is a thing.

[TempAcc]

ITT: bay12's experiences with spandex clothing

[Aseaheru]

Spoiler: StarWars: Force Awakens spoilers (click to show/hide)

Tiefighters have two seats, no forward-facing weaponry, and ejector seats now? What?

Also: Superweapons sucks in star to shoot out single shot of deadly death weapon which travels at hyperspeed(how) while being visible(how?), before splitting and hitting multiple targets(how??). They also manage to load this thing twice, which raises the questions of A) was it in a binary starsystem and B) if not, how the hell did they move that planet?

Finally, you have the star popping back out when the planet goes boom. Wont that have some serious effects of starcharts and all that, with a gravity source shifting a few AU? And what effect did the loss of the first star have?

Oh, and the second that they start reloading the cannon the resistance not only knows about it (despite just finding out about the weapon) but also know that they are the next target, which raises the questions of how did they find that out and how did the First Order find out where they where.

 And, finally, the single non-spoilery nitpick/question, did anyone else feel like they tried shoving three movies into one with this?

[Dirst]

And, finally, the single non-spoilery nitpick/question, did anyone else feel like they tried shoving three movies into one with this?

Oh, you preferred when Peter Jackson tried to stretch one movie into three with The Hobbit?

[Bohandas]

And, finally, the single non-spoilery nitpick/question, did anyone else feel like they tried shoving three movies into one with this?

Oh, you preferred when Peter Jackson tried to stretch one movie into three with The Hobbit?

To be honest I think Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Hobbit has fewer pacing problems than the original novel did.

EDIT:
Tolkien was like Lovecraft and Dickens, he told good stories badly.