Friday, November 26, 2010

The 6 staples of science fiction and fantasy television

From the alternate dimension, to the inevitable dream episode, this story runs you through the now-predictable scenarios.

Look, there are only so many ideas in the multiverse, and they occasionally get reused, some more than others. TV Tropes lists many hundreds of them, but this article is about the special few that provide the basis for episode after episode of television.  Some ideas are so common that just about any science fiction or fantasy television series (if it runs long enough) will end up using them at some point. These are the top six.

You’ll be hard pushed to find a genre show that doesn’t use these eventually!

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