Re: Sci-Fi gets "Ghost Whisperer," "Star Trek: TNG," "Charmed," "Highlander," "Mork & Mindy"

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Obveeus <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"PV" <pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>By that logic, you must think that Superman is Sci-fi as well?  Does
>>>anything counts as 'fantasy' or do you count everything as 'Science'
>>>fiction?  Mork and Mindy was about 1% sci-fi at best.  It was a sitcom 
>>>about
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>> Um, if you're going to play that game, Star Trek is rarely if ever
science
>> fiction.
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>I think the 'science' element of Star Trek is much higher than
Mork&Mindy, 
>even if I do think FTL travel is crap theorized to fit the needs of
beings 
>with very limited lifespans.
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>> Distingui****ng SF from Fantasy is mostly a wanking exercise. *
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>So, why claim that CSI isn't sci-fi, but Mork&Mindy is sci-fi?  What 
>non-wanking distinction was made there?

These are genre distinctions, and thus they are defined by genre 
conventions. If you cannot figure out for yourself what the genre 
conventions are that make CSI a police procedural and Mork and Mindy a 
scifi sitcom, then I suggest you go read a book or something.

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