"Wandering Earth coming to Netflix" Topic

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It looks like fun, but I hope they explain why humans still exist 5 billion years from now, when the Sun is actually going to start expanding into a red giant.

"Science" has very little to do with "science fiction" these days.
If it ever did.

The movie took in 500 million the first week!

The Wandering Earth was a short story by Liu Cixin. I haven't read this story, but I did read his trilogy "Remembrance of Earth's Past", perhaps better known as "The three-body problem" (the title of the first book). This is definitely science (the three bodies are three stars that have a complicated structure with the one remaining planet that circles around them). I assume that Winston does not pay attention to SF-books (literature) where there often is hard science involved. And remember that some SF-writers are or were scientists themselves (for instance Fred Hoyle and Gregory Benford).

I'm not going to comment on the series coming to Netflix, because frankly I just don't know enough about it. But if you base your opinions on SF just by what comes out in movies or TV, yes, you are going to have the same opinion as Winston. But SF is FAR more than just that, with a vast body of literature out there. Some is still space opera, but a lot is still Hard SF, my preferred sub-genre. So plenty of science out there if you want to look for it.

Damon.

If it has time travel, faster than light speed and a few others, it's not "Science" Fiction. It's fantasy.

No one actually cares, Winston.

It's all entertainment, much like war movies have little resemblance to war.

You either go and enjoy, go and grumble, or stay home. Like much of life, that being said if you enjoy grumbling- enjoy that also.