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DeMichael Crimson
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6021 - 2016-04-25 11:38:06 UTC
Mhairi wrote:
235,000,000 SP and I'm an alt, news to me.

Haven't you heard, amount of SP's a character has doesn't mean sh*t.

Anyway, I'm out for the night.



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Yiole Gionglao
#6022 - 2016-04-25 12:12:24 UTC
Ria Nieyli wrote:
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Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6023 - 2016-04-25 13:19:06 UTC
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare and melodramatic adventure, and often risk-taking as well as chivalric romance.

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Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6024 - 2016-04-25 13:19:08 UTC
Set mainly or entirely in outer space; it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons and other sophisticated technology.

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6025 - 2016-04-25 13:19:11 UTC
The term has no relation to music but is instead a play on the term "horse opera", which was coined during the heyday of silent movies to indicate clichéd and formulaic western movies.
Rain6635
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6026 - 2016-04-25 13:19:14 UTC
Space operas emerged in the 1930s and they continue to be produced in literature, film, comics and video games.

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Rain6636
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6027 - 2016-04-25 13:19:17 UTC
Notable space opera novels include the Foundation series (1942–99) by Isaac Asimov et al. and the Ender's Game series (1985–present) by Orson Scott Card.

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Mhairi
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6028 - 2016-04-25 13:19:20 UTC
An early notable space opera film was Flash Gordon (1936–present) created by Alex Raymond.
The Kinetic
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6029 - 2016-04-25 13:19:23 UTC
In the late 1970s, the Star Wars franchise (1977–present) created by George Lucas brought a great deal of attention to the genre.
Kitt Letor
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6030 - 2016-04-25 13:19:27 UTC
Space opera is defined as an adventure science fiction story.
row
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6031 - 2016-04-25 13:19:29 UTC
The term "space opera" was coined in 1941 by fan writer (and later author) Wilson Tucker, in a fanzine article,[2] as a pejorative term.
Arilyn Moonblade
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6032 - 2016-04-25 13:19:33 UTC
At the time, serial radio dramas in the US had become popularly known as soap operas because many were sponsored by soap manufacturers.
Rain6637
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6033 - 2016-04-25 13:21:27 UTC
Tucker defined space opera as the science fiction equivalent: a "hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn".

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Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6034 - 2016-04-25 13:21:31 UTC
Even earlier, the term horse opera had come into use as a term for western films.

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Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6035 - 2016-04-25 13:21:33 UTC
In fact, some fans and critics have noted that the plots of space operas have sometimes been taken from horse operas and simply translated into an outer space environment, as famously parodied on the back cover of the first issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
Rain6635
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6036 - 2016-04-25 13:21:36 UTC
Still, during the late 20s and early 30s when the stories were printed in science fiction magazines, the stories were often referred to as "super-science epics".

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Rain6636
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6037 - 2016-04-25 13:21:38 UTC
Beginning in the 1960s, and widely accepted by the 1970s, the space opera was redefined, following Brian Aldiss' definition in Space Opera (1974) as (in the paraphrase Hartwell and Cramer) "the good old stuff".

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Mhairi
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6038 - 2016-04-25 13:21:41 UTC
Yet soon after his redefinition, it began to be challenged, for example, by the editorial practice and marketing of Judy-Lynn del Rey and in the reviews of her husband and colleague Lester del Rey.
The Kinetic
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6039 - 2016-04-25 13:21:44 UTC
In particular, they disputed the claims that space operas were obsolete, and Del Rey Books labeled reissues of earlier work of Leigh Brackett as space opera.
Kitt Letor
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6040 - 2016-04-25 13:21:47 UTC
By the early 1980s, space operas—adventure stories set in space—were again redefined, and the label was attached to major popular culture works such as Star Wars.