I don't know if it really fits this topic exactly but I actually was just thinking earlier about how the hell the perfect suburban nuclear family image of the 1950's has pervaded for so long. I wouldn't even say that there was ever a whole lot of media that depicted it when you think about it, let alone modern media anymore, but it's something that took such a strong hold as an established trope that you still have some people idealizing the 50's.
Sometimes it's because it's a long running IP and sometimes it's because stuff is creatively bankrupt.
Like Otto the bus driver in The Simpsons. He is now based on a slacker stereotype from over three decades ago. Guys like him are in their late 40s and 50s now.
Peter Parker being an Spider-Man's exclusive photographer for a newspaper sounds ridiculous now. But most depictions seem to have moved away from that.
Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper.
What are some other examples?
Newspapers still exist and they use photos...
Is Homer really a millennial?Batman is too. The magic of sliding timescale media
Batman is too. The magic of sliding timescale mediaI don't want to be the same age as Batman
A ton of modern vampire shit in general has aged extremely badly. Twilight is arguably one of the ones that makes the most sense. Stuff from the Anne Rice/White Wolf era really stretches suspension of disbelief with the omnipresent surveillance we have today. If I was going to run another vampire RPG it would have to be set in the 80s.
Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper.
I never said they didn't.
But I think it's safe to say that it's not going to be a major way to find out information in the future.
If you meant Peter Parker then good luck having that as a job in an era where everyone has a camera on them that can film at any time. Why would people be buying the Bugle for Spider-Man pictures in the year 2024?
That's easy to take away though.
The government says no internet, that means no internet. It's not like you can start up an "internet generator" in your back yard. If there's no service to tap into, you're out of luck.
Most futures are dystopic, so that fits with a corrupt government. If you have a more ideal future without internet, it could be that they've learned we're not responsible enough to wield such power -- like how it invariably becomes a platform for spreading hatred and misinformation.
I think that does apply. I remember sitcoms still depicting the stay at home housewife when I was a teen.That's another thing in The Simpsons. The idea that Homer's income alone is enough to own a house and support a family of five was far more believable in 1990 than it is today.
Not sure how common it is now but it wouldn't surprise me if it still stuck around or that the concept of a working family is half assed.
I will say games like cyberpunk are weird to me cause they still use cords to connect into things and during Johnny's time frame they use decks which is like a keyboard when we got touch screen stuff nowadays.
Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper.One could make the argument that even in the most negative depictions of the future, society had enough sense to move past social media.
That's another thing in The Simpsons. The idea that Homer's income alone is enough to own a house and support a family of five was far more believable in 1990 than it is today.
Magneto being a holocaust survivorYeah, this is a good one. You just know that as soon as they properly introduce the mutants into the MCU there are going to be a lot of people asking why the 50-year-old Magneto is no longer written as a survivor from a war that took place 80 years ago.
Magneto being a holocaust survivor
Yeah, this is a good one. You just know that as soon as they properly introduce the mutants into the MCU there are going to be a lot of people asking why the 50-year-old Magneto is no longer written as a survivor from a war that took place 80 years ago.
Actually his dad bought the house for them, or at least fronted a huge chunk of the initial payment (there are some passing comments in other eps about having a mortgage, so Grandpa probably didn't buy it outright). Which makes it even more relatable by today's standards.It was also established last season that Marge has been secretly collecting monthly payments as per her father's will to keep the family afloat.
There being no such thing as CCTV unless its a plot point.
I will say games like cyberpunk are weird to me cause they still use cords to connect into things and during Johnny's time frame they use decks which is like a keyboard when we got touch screen stuff nowadays.Cords are more reliable and less susceptible to EM interference and signal interception.
Sci-fi and futuristic settings still want to ignore the internet, messaging and social media being a thing. People will talk via holograms and video calls or leave voice and text memos behind. The internet doesn't exist. Mobile phones don't exist. It's more likely that there's a futuristic version of a newspaper.I think some of this is that it's hard to create proper dramatic tension when there is very free flow of information. A significant number of stories revolve around things like:
Every gay man (especially in sitcoms) being portrayed as a hyperactive, sarcastic sex fiend who has dated and/or slept with every other gay man that appears on screen.
Magneto being a holocaust survivoriirc the comics explained it away by killing him and having come back to life younger. Same as they did with Xavier.
I will say games like cyberpunk are weird to me cause they still use cords to connect into things and during Johnny's time frame they use decks which is like a keyboard when we got touch screen stuff nowadays.
On the subject of sci-fi, most of the early stuff never predicted the computer. You got all kinds of weird shit like laser guns and so on but when they had to chart a path through space, they busted out good ol' pencil & paper & nautical navigation tools.my favourite variant of this is the settings where one of the most important roles for spaceflight is some kind of supergenius polymath where their brain is basically a giant calculator/computer that does math 1000x faster than the average person
vampire shit [...] omnipresent surveillance
aren't they immune to mirrors therefore cameras
Mass Effect is also guilty in that the entire plot could have been avoided if Shepard had a body cam in his armor.
Also the whole "no one knows what quarians look like" mystery when if they were advanced (which they were) there'd be tons a videos and images still available.
Do you not see a problem with invisible people doing shit on camera?
i get what you're saying but how do you prove it was them.
Mass Effect is also guilty in that the entire plot could have been avoided if Shepard had a body cam in his armor.Mass Effect is funny because they treat a sound file as irrefutable evidence, which would be laughable today, let alone 150 years in the future
Also the whole "no one knows what quarians look like" mystery when if they were advanced (which they were) there'd be tons a videos and images still available.
tough guy vigilante ex-cop who plays by his own set of rulesNo way. Detective Crashmore is timeless.