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"Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramaticadventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera
From Star Wars, Saga, Green Lanterns to Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Halo andMass Effect. Space operas are simply amazing grand scale masterclass epicness of story telling.
Discuss the genre in general, your favourites and recommend content! {sorry if its to general; bump the thread for a while at least haha if anything we can discuss how we will one day become a space-faring civilisation and the various facets of it for example the recent understanding for navigating space using pulsars https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-jus...-where-to-now/ }
https://www.ranker.com/list/space-op...ries/reference TV
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/...a_Comics_Manga Comics and Manga
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show...ce-opera-games Games
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/...last-70-years/ Books
https://honeysanime.com/top-10-space...commendations/ Anime
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/02/g...this-february/ New Books
I am super keen for a reboot of Legend of the Galactic Heroes btw, watch the original its amazing!
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...titles/.121619
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Thread: Space Opera Appreciation
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02-08-2018, 01:15 AM #1Quantum AI
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Space Opera Appreciation
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02-08-2018, 08:54 AM #2Death becomes you
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Some of my favorite Supergirl episodes are where she goes to outer space, the one on Slaver's Moon, when Supergirl and J'onn J'onnz go to Mars, the one on Fort Rozz.
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02-08-2018, 09:07 AM #3BANNED
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Nothing like the original Macross and Zeta Gundam when it comes to space opera.
One of my favorite genre i must admit.
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02-09-2018, 07:55 PM #4Quantum AI
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While on the topic of anime I wish they make a Ghost in the shell type space opera movie/anime series or comic book even!
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02-09-2018, 08:47 PM #5Invincible Member
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I liked Puccini's Girl from the Golden Planet.
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02-09-2018, 11:26 PM #6older
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When it comes to Gundam, my absolute favourite is still Gundam Wing. It's because the setting has so many elements from the late 19th and early 20th Century. I like how it not just follows one main Gundam pilot, but also a bunch of others whose stories interweave from episode to episode. Really need to get a DVD boxset of it.
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02-10-2018, 12:01 AM #7All-New Member
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Can anyone recommend me any good movies from the space opera genre? New to this genre. I have only watched Star Wars episode 4: A New Hope a week ago and I really didn't like it that much due to the visual effects and the whole cinematography itself (maybe because it's made in the 70s)
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02-10-2018, 02:07 AM #8BANNED
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The Guardians Of The Galaxy movies are the most successful and popular ones at the moment. Nevermind the Marvel logo, they're not actually in the superhero genre. Originally Posted by crenshaws
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02-10-2018, 05:01 AM #9BANNED
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There will be no Star Wars without Flash Gordon.
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02-10-2018, 05:25 AM #10Extraordinary Member
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I'm still desperately hoping that JMS can one day get that Babylon 5 revival off the ground.
What a criminally underrated show.Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson--
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02-10-2018, 06:30 AM #11Invincible Member
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The Alex Raymond comic strip and Buster Crabbe serial. Not the Sam Jones movie. Originally Posted by Sandfall
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02-10-2018, 09:37 AM #12Boisterously Confused
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If so, hopefully, the initial cast will stay on board and he won't have to employ the trap doors. Even tho I much preferred Boxleitner to O'Hare, and the show adjusted admirably, the substitution put a noticeable dent in the plot's backbone. Originally Posted by Vanguard-01
While I'd like to see it too, I don't know if I could ever enjoy a reboot quiet as much, knowing in advance where destiny was taking The Third Age of Man.
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