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Part question for my own work, part discussion.
What stuff would you like to see more in Space Operas these days?
What tropes, trends, devices or elements do you think are over used or played out?
Cartoonishly incompetent authorities on the side of the good guys. I adored the Valerian & Lorelein movie amongst other things because the station's government is actually rather benevolent and smart and the villain is a bad egg who gets summarily dealt with.
By the same token the government in Babylon V has its foibles but they generally keep it on the level.
I think internal conflict is good but when the main driver of issues on the home front are a leadership somewhere between depraved inbred nobility of the 1700s and biotech startup bros it becomes kind of a slog.
I don't care how much of a pertinent commentary it might be — It's genuinely tiresome and trite, not to mention that it feels like the protagonist is being posited as preternaturally just & infallible as a result.
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