January 2012

Love in all forms

spreading it all over the universe baby.

  Reproduction comes in all forms, Sci-fi writers have always done a wonderful job of illustrating this. From the A-sexual Hutts of Star Wars, the mono-gender Asari of Mass Effect, the self replicating...er...replicators of Stargate and countless other forms all have their place. Love and romance sometimes reflects this, sometimes not- but is it that there is a lack of romance forms in sci-fi or is it simply something that is largely ignored because “ it's common sense that all forms of love are afoot “

Gay robots?!? MY WORD!

Are we seeing too much or is Hollywood sneaky that way?

Prissy protocol droids, naked terminators, android fighting to understand himself and what it means to be human while lovingly petting his fur baby cat. Sometimes you just have to stop and wonder what it is that makes so many droids in sci-fi come across this way. Sure it's sort of easy to see how C3-p0 can come across this way, as well as his parodied counterpart on Red Dwarf ( c'mon!An American film with a prissy British nanny droid/ British series with a prissy nanny American droid. I can't be the only one seeing it ) picked up that flag, but what about the others?

Not too sure they foresaw this.

Timeless is sometimes a bad thing or is it?.

“I want a little black book and the gay nightlife” That quote by the quirky sidekick character “ Winky” from the classic man hunt in space got me thinking. Not that I make a habit of doing so mind you. I was starting to notice little things that separated classics- from cult classics. Granted I'm sure it was MST3K that helped preserve several of these films more than the film itself.

Can they pull it off twice?

Bioware to pump Same sex romance back into the Star Wars universe.

Most people who know gaming are fully aware that Bioware, makers of such iconic games such as the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, the original Knights of the Old Republic as well as others are not afraid to tell a deep character story including romance options into their games. More over they have never been too shy about including same sex romances. While one can argue that there are times the gaming giant seems to “ tip toe” with the issue, or pander more to the female/female options more than the other to win over the 16-35 year old male demographic more- the fact remains that they are still one of the only companies to approach the subject in a way that feels more ' natural' and not overloaded with a stereotyped characterization many other games have used. “ oh, a gay male quest giver? write him as flaming as you can for lols!”