Current Peeves:
Aug. 13th, 2009 02:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinue1. The "woman who has sex like a man" character type.
2. People calling things urban fantasy which are in fact stories of urban characters who escape to pastoral fantasy worlds. A la, for instance, C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, a cornerstone exemplar of traditional fantasy, and something used to define the genre (not subgenre).
3. Ridiculous explanations for artificial gravity. Look, I know that it's difficult to make a movie or tv show in which there's no gravity - we're not in space, and you'd need a budget you probably can't get. I can forgive you for having gravity. Just stop drawing my attention to it with explanations that don't hold up even to people who've never taken physics. And really don't flaunt your bad explanation by putting the word "gravity" in the title of your show, having your characters talk about it all the time, and throwing internal consistency out the window every time you have the opportunity to do a flashy effect. Jesus Christ.
2. People calling things urban fantasy which are in fact stories of urban characters who escape to pastoral fantasy worlds. A la, for instance, C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, a cornerstone exemplar of traditional fantasy, and something used to define the genre (not subgenre).
3. Ridiculous explanations for artificial gravity. Look, I know that it's difficult to make a movie or tv show in which there's no gravity - we're not in space, and you'd need a budget you probably can't get. I can forgive you for having gravity. Just stop drawing my attention to it with explanations that don't hold up even to people who've never taken physics. And really don't flaunt your bad explanation by putting the word "gravity" in the title of your show, having your characters talk about it all the time, and throwing internal consistency out the window every time you have the opportunity to do a flashy effect. Jesus Christ.
