The suspension may be across genres but the world building is quite highly driven by genre. The more a world looks like ours, the more we take for granted—we tend not to question the politics or technology in a romantic comedy because it isn’t valuable to the plot. We simply assume it resembles our world. The fewer parallels with us the new world has, the more we might fall into two camps: wanting answers to absolutely everything, or ignoring the details for the spectacle. Each has its own school of disbelief and genre provides the means to suspend that. Especially fun if they’re both in the same movie: Iron Man builds a fusion reactor into his chest to power his suits, and Thor throws a hammer so hard, holding on to it propels him into space. Cheerio,
Ashim Design & Build The Random Lines www.therandomlines.com On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 9:57 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Ashim D'Silva <as...@therandomlines.com> wrote: > Funnily enough that was among the criticism of the new Star Wars—using a > sci-fi plot style in a fantasy world. The tension in the movie depended > heavily on a craft running out of fuel and therefore generated a tonne of > questions about how the spacecrafts worked rather than the fantasy that > normally surrounds Star Wars films. So this critique is then confusingly at > odds with fans who want nothing to do with sci-fi at all. I imagine this is > what separates Star Wars and Star Trek fans. The key thing with willing suspension of disbelief intrinsically has nothing to do with which genre the story is part of, but being internally consistent. Udhay PS: I wanted to work Godel into this reply, but will resist.
