Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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Post-apocalypse = sf, anyway
Why? I mean, I'd assumed Jericho was sf, but I can't support it with an actual argument. Did the nuclear bomb going off in 24 move it into sf status? If NY isn't destroyed (bear in mind I'm not up to date--so maybe it has been since) is it an apocalypse?
New Amsterdam: watching the Immortal with his dog. I found myself wondering how many dogs he's had in his life - 50 plus?
I found myself wondering how many dogs he's had in his life - 50 plus?
I would guess thirty nine, since that seems to be the dog's name.
Jericho has an SF premise, but I don't consider it to be an SF show because the episodic plots are straight drama. And yeah, unless they've established that the rest of the world went away, some US cities getting nuked doesn't equal post-apocalyptic to me.
But I still don't get how Due South counts, so.
Due South was grandfathered, yes? Also, ghost dad.
But I still don't get how Due South counts, so.
I raised that at some point, apparently he talks to someone who's a ghost or something. Believe me, we had an extensive, full-on Buffista discussion :)
I think the thread originally started for the hoYay and the porn, and it was kind of a coincidence that the SciFi stuff (i.e. Smallville, Highlander) were slashtastic.
The original Due South thread morphed into the de facto Stargate thread, so it came along for the ride with the Smallville and Farscape threads when the three were folded together into Boxed Set. Plus, as noted, ghost dad.
I know the line between fiction fiction and science fiction is a wavering, lightly penciled line, but to me, post-apocalyptic fiction shows life after a world-changing disaster. Nuking millions of Americans and having the country break up into fiefdoms is world changing to me. Books like Alas, Babylon, The Postman and No Blade of Grass are largely straight drama, past the apocalyptic event, but I think of them as SF. As I draw the line, the SF premise per se makes it SF. YSFMV.
Well, The Road - surely that's Science Fiction? But it's not.