Ghost in the Shell

Re:Ghost in the Shell by smhost on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:08PM (#14038820)

What do you mean by "becoming" more mainstream? To me, it feels like scifi has been mainstream for a good 10~15 years.

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Re:Ghost in the Shell by radley on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:08PM (#14039091)

cough 40.

Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, Buck Rogers in 25th Century, ET, Back to the Future...

And I'm going to get massively downvoted if I don't mention Dr. Who....

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Re:Ghost in the Shell by wyldfire on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:57PM (#14039308)

Hardcore sci-fi fans like to draw a distinction between the fantasy and science fiction genres. They would probably decompose your list like so -- Fantasy: "Star Wars", "Buck Rogers", "Back to the Future"; Science Fiction: "ET", "Close Encounters", "Battlestar Galactica". I've never seen/read "Space: 1999" so I wouldn't know where it belongs.

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Re:Ghost in the Shell by msh on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:39AM (#14041096)

Starwars and close encounteres might have been mainstream for adults, but until a bit more recently it was not considered a normal genre for mainstream audiences.

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Re:Ghost in the Shell by mathewsanders on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @09:17PM (#14038859)

I Agree. (and I updated my passive wording)

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