| rdfs:comment | - Research is hard. When it comes to science and history, we can't expect the writers to get all the facts right. Maybe we should be able to expect this, but such expectations will lead to disappointment. To be fair, though, good story will always trump good science. Hollywood Science is common in Science Fiction, but does not generally apply to cases where the writers step outside the bounds of known science by applying generous quantities of phlebotinum to circumvent the normal rules. Often times, there's a Techno Wizard to help explain how it works. Examples of Hollywood Science include:
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| abstract | - Research is hard. When it comes to science and history, we can't expect the writers to get all the facts right. Maybe we should be able to expect this, but such expectations will lead to disappointment. To be fair, though, good story will always trump good science. Hollywood Science is common in Science Fiction, but does not generally apply to cases where the writers step outside the bounds of known science by applying generous quantities of phlebotinum to circumvent the normal rules. Often times, there's a Techno Wizard to help explain how it works. If it's an intentional change from real science, it's not Hollywood Science. Thus, for example, the claim that the pyramids are much older than Pharaonic Egypt in Stargate SG-1 is not Hollywood Science. However, the scene in the Stargate movie where they track a probe sent through the gate, while it's dematerialized -- that's Hollywood Science. It's not always a bad thing. See Artistic License.
* The Air Not There
* Artistic License Astronomy
* Asteroid Thicket
* Baby Planet
* Counter-Earth
* Gravity Sucks
* Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
* Weird Moon
* Weird Sun
* Artistic License Biology
* Devolution Device
* Evolution Power-Up
* Goal-Oriented Evolution
* Hollywood Evolution
* Hollywood Genetics
* Artistic License Chemistry
* Artistic License Geography
* Hollywood Atlas
* Artistic License Geology
* Artistic License Physics
* Artistic License Nuclear Physics
* Slow Electricity
* Explosive Decompression
* Formulaic Magic
* Frictionless Reentry
* Hollywood Acid
* Hollywood Density
* Hollywood Psych
* All Psychology Is Freudian
* Hollywood Silencer
* Improbable Taxonomy Skills
* Instant Cooldown
* In Theory
* Liquid Assets
* Magic From Technology
* Science Cocktail
* Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
* Snow Means Cold
* Space Does Not Work That Way
* Space Friction
* Stealth in Space
* Square-Cube Law, Violation of
* Technicolor Science
* Variable Terminal Velocity
* Unit Confusion
* Universal Universe Time As Science Marches On, mistakes can result from discoveries made after the show was written. In these cases, we must forgive the writers, since they had no way of knowing. Thus, I Want My Jetpack and The Great Politics Mess-Up are not really Hollywood Science. Examples of Hollywood Science include:
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