160. awkward attempt at creating a controversial situation that mimics IRL current events, cf waterboarding an alien or forcing amphibious creature that are imprisoned to wear orange jumpsuits and hoods.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
see also:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHG3pi9EDA
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
161. Alien races are culturally and religiously monolithic.161b. Exceptions include conflicts between two classes that are opposite, such as the Let That Be Your Last Battlefield episode of the original Star Trek series
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't read the whole list, but ... doors that open with a scan of the eye/hand/thumbprint? Unhappy people with shaved heads? Interactive computers that respond to voice commands? Constant dull rumbling and the sound of water dripping in the background? The sound of things dramatically charging up (guns, machines, cars, etc.)?
162-167
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
168. the city/planet has weather controlled by one central computer, which goes haywire somehow (this is mainly in every 80s anime sci-fi)
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
169. pleather
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
corinthian pleather
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
170. Streamlined designs on spaceships that will never enter a planet's atmosphere.
― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
A lot of 162-167 sound like the present!
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
171. Buildings with big fans on the top that are turning too slowly to be useful for anything.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
The future is now!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
172. under-lighting through grated floors
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
people brushing their teeth
oh wait, that's just battlestar galactica
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
173. character played by someone who was on Mad About You
― NINO CARTER, Monday, 7 January 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Remnants of some long-dead precursor/progenitor galaxy-spanning alien who left tech and possibly a mystery behind for Our Hero to crack and whose imminent return after 20,000 - 10 million years will be in about 5 minutes.
This also qualifies for every sci-fi game ever.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Monday, 7 January 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
174. Bad guy/science officer has British accent.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
175
176. Oddly sterile living spaces.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 January 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
177. projectile weapons
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 7 January 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
178. actors doing stuff in front of greenscreens
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
179. Aliens look just like us, except crinkle-cut
― sktsh, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
180. Jaded ship's doctor.
― Theodora Celery, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
181. boots built into trousers
― das ist not einer 不必 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
182. one character is a smoker
― mookieproof, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
183. its the distant future or past but everyone speaks American English
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
184. vin diesel's robotic monotone performance kind of works for this moviehttp://i.imgur.com/udP9f.png
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
185. shabby moth-eaten knitwear
― silver pozole (clouds), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
186. Goo
― Theodora Celery, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
187. Space cows
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
188. Animals from other planets just being named like our animals with the planet stuck on the front, e.g. "Rigellian Hippo"
― sktsh, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
189. clones are people too, turns out (hint: it's YOU).
― slugbuggy, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
190. Hella Orientalism.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
191. Noone sees anything odd or inappropriate about naming a passenger carrying spacecraft 'Titanic'.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
192. utility data
― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
193. Perfect tidal forces everywhere
― Theodora Celery, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
194. Humans
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
195. Orbits shows as perfectly circular.
― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
196. A complete lack of relativistic effects when traveling at or near light speed. Like, after the Enterprise's very first mission, everyone they ever knew on Earth should already have been dead for centuries.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Planet of the Apes tho.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
197. Goddamn dirty apes
198. Female voice over the PA Speakers: Three. Two. One. Goodbye.199. Weapons that need to be charged for a certain number of seconds or minutes. LEDs light up when it's ready for use.200. A camera flash charging sound; usually directly before laz0r discharge or when some smallish spaceship or flying car is about to launch.
― Øystein, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
201. Twist ending where the protagonist finds out he's a robot, or a clone, or some bullshit like that.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
199b. Ridiculously designed battleship which has to lower shields to fire weapons.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
202. Unexpected effects caused by time travel
― Moodles, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
If the weapons could fire through the shields, those would be pretty bad shields.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
203. People are seamlessly able to fly spacecraft they've never seen or imagined before with no prior training
― NINO CARTER, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Surely they can make one-directional shields in teh future.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
204. we've arrived on the planet..... it seems to be completely populated by women!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
205. Newly discovered life form intuitively interfaces with human technology to communicate with humans
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
if they could make one directional shields in the future, some wise guy would just flip the polarity on the weapons.also:
206. reversing polarities makes a gadget do the opposite and saves the day.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
207. "It's quiet...TOO quiet." *see also "In every mystery/thriller/war film ever"*
208. Hairstyles that are remarkably similar to everyday hairstyles when the movie was made.
― The Devils of Loudoun County (j.lu), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link