Technobabble is fine as long as they stick to it. Like if a writer comes up with some mcguffin to get themselves out of a hole, that's totally fine as long as it persists as part of the show/narrative reality
As long as it is explained coherently and not just to crowd please and cover up a lack of a third act.
LOST's final seasons were an attempt at crowd pleasing by sorta making all the fan's theory possible, and then bam a Unitarian church is the afterlife. Whatever the fuck that was.
Was a single one of LOST's technobabble(s) explained?
The thing with JJ Abrams' "mystery box" bullshit is that like the actual mystery box he got as a kid, it was full of nothing but ads for more mystery boxes and other assorted trash.
Imagine how differently JJ Abrams might have turned out if that was what was in his mystery box instead of a bunch of ads and other paper trash. :thinking-about-it:
I'm not a big fan of technobabble. It's often just a cheap nonsense answer out of any plot issue the writters have gotten themselves into.
Technobabble is fine as long as they stick to it. Like if a writer comes up with some mcguffin to get themselves out of a hole, that's totally fine as long as it persists as part of the show/narrative reality
As long as it is explained coherently and not just to crowd please and cover up a lack of a third act.
LOST's final seasons were an attempt at crowd pleasing by sorta making all the fan's theory possible, and then bam a Unitarian church is the afterlife. Whatever the fuck that was.
Was a single one of LOST's technobabble(s) explained?
The thing with JJ Abrams' "mystery box" bullshit is that like the actual mystery box he got as a kid, it was full of nothing but ads for more mystery boxes and other assorted trash.
Bought a Woot mystery box once and got an Alf mask.
Worth it.
Imagine how differently JJ Abrams might have turned out if that was what was in his mystery box instead of a bunch of ads and other paper trash. :thinking-about-it: