Dude, I didn't know you were watching BSG! Yippee!
I think part of the problem arises with the very real and yet difficult to lay your finger on difference between hard sci fi and soft sci fi. I love soft sci fi; I quite dislike most hard sci fi, and tend to be pretty iffy about the stuff in between the two.
There really are some people who just dislike anything with lasers and spaceships, period, just because it has lasers and space ships. But I think there's a great deal of people who actually would greatly enjoy soft sci fi, if only they didn't confuddle it in their heads with hard sci fi. But since they think they don't like sci fi, they don't know enough about it to know the difference, which is disappointing. Those are the people to whom I give the "it's sci fi, but..." schtick--because they don't know any better.
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I think part of the problem arises with the very real and yet difficult to lay your finger on difference between hard sci fi and soft sci fi. I love soft sci fi; I quite dislike most hard sci fi, and tend to be pretty iffy about the stuff in between the two.
There really are some people who just dislike anything with lasers and spaceships, period, just because it has lasers and space ships. But I think there's a great deal of people who actually would greatly enjoy soft sci fi, if only they didn't confuddle it in their heads with hard sci fi. But since they think they don't like sci fi, they don't know enough about it to know the difference, which is disappointing. Those are the people to whom I give the "it's sci fi, but..." schtick--because they don't know any better.
It's the same with the fantasy genre.