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I fell out of love with Doctor Who when I realized all the sci-fi bits were complete made-up bullshit. Kinda the same reason I don't much care for Star Wars.
Star Trek is at least plausible if far-fetched, and Stargate actually tries to make the technobabble compatible with theoretical physics, which is a major reason I've come to adore it.
And I came to hate the writing of Doctor Who because it has the same problem as BBC's Sherlock (which makes sense as they shared showrunners and writing staff): they make the main character seem clever by figuring out the mystery before the viewer, but only because they deliberately hide or obfuscate key details until they're ready for the big reveal. So the solution feels less like a brilliant show of deduction and more like a batshit insane ex Machina.
Star Wars just isn't sci-fi. Its technology should be treated the same way one treats magic in a fantasy story. Because that's what it is: a fantasy story. It's just space fantasy, rather than the more typical mediaeval or urban fantasy genres.
Sherlock Holmes is kinda meant to be that way. It's not the BBC version's fault, that's just faithful adaptation. Sherlock isn't meant to be a mystery series in the style of an Agatha Christie novel. It's more of a character study of a character so different from normal people. It's ok not to like Sherlock Holmes or adaptations of it (gods know...there's plenty of criticism out there for the BBC adaptation), but if you dislike it because it breaks Knox's rules of detective fiction, that's because you went into it with entirely the wrong expectations, rather than because it's poor storytelling.
i started watching The Orville recently and while it is quite good and gets many parts absolutely bang-on, it does pain me that they didn't also take the opportunity to take themselves more seriously.
Like haha yes star trek has technobabble that makes no sense, very funny, but imagine how fucking good the show would have been if it took the action from stargate! Maybe they do so more in the later seasons, but in the early episodes there are several extended scenes where i just have to skip past it entirely because i can feel my soul exiting my body through my ears.
It's sad because right after those scenes that inflict profound suffering on me, they have things that make me feel genuine non-agonizing emotions. Bortus and Klyden are amazing characters with brilliant actors, and i wouldn't have ended up watching the show without them in it.