On Dec 14, 1:12 pm, "Jay E. Morris"  wrote:   
   > On 12/12/2010 11:16 PM, Duggy wrote:   
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   > > On Dec 13, 11:32 am, Amy Guskin  wrote:   
   > >>>> On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:05:59 -0500, Duggy wrote   
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   > >> <86c9f7a9-0e99-47e8-a183-f0a22b4c3...@n32g2000pre.googlegroups.com>):   
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   > >>> On Dec 13, 7:22 am, Doug Freyburger  wrote:   
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   > >>>>   Alien turned into a franchise with less plot potential than Star   
   > >>>> Wars.   
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   > >>> SF horror more than Space Opera.  It had 1 alien, 1 dead planet, 1   
   > >>> derelict and 1 active spaceship and 7 cast members.  Space opera needs   
   > >>> many, many more of all those things.  That costs.<<   
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   > >> Gotta agree with you here.  "Alien" was not space opera.  It was a   
   thriller   
   > >> that just happened to be set in space.  With an alien.   
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   > > Genre is a hard to define thing at the best of times, but Space Opera   
   > > is a particularly problematic one, and I think an out-dated idea.   
   > > It's too easy for people to assume "set in space" is all you need.   
   > > It's not.   
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   > > You need spaceships *and* ray guns.   
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   > And robots and a genius kid.   
   Nah, Robots and a kid genius are just icing.  Sweet, sweet icing.   
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