Is It Necessary?

Writers today are the authors of tomorrow who may be supplying the new themes for the filmmakers to produce and entertain the audience of the world. But when these masterpieces of literary achievement are studied you will find that in most cases the writer follows the rules of both content and planning.

The characters will be introduced, the basic plot will be outlined and then we just wait for the inevitable relationship to develop. Captain James T Kirk always ended up in a lip lock with some alien female and the list of other books, films and shows with the same plot would include just about everyone ever written. Some writers thrive on filling the pages with graphic detailed sensual moments in the middle of a good fast moving plot where time seems to stand still. The moviemakers exploit these moments and fill the screen with sentimental mush mostly with our hero's taking time out during a battle for survival to express their feelings for each other.

Now it's only my opinion but if someone wants to write romance there is a good market for it, but if you are writing Science Fiction why not keep to the theme and supply a good new imaginative novel, it seems all the writer has to do to stretch the imagination to new heights is only write a book without a relationship dominating the plot.

It does not seem to matter how much fantasy is incorporated in a new book, what time space continuum is used the inevitable human feelings will be exploited and envy, greed and jealousy will begin to dominate the key characters or their adversaries. The battle is once again an expression of human failings and the greatest failing is the use and abuse of the feelings of others. This mostly gives the writer the chance to fill several pages with confusion and the feelings of the characters in a graphic detail that we have read time after time.

Am I alone in what I am looking for in a gripping Science Fiction Novel with spectacular imaginative new ideas or do we all have to read great new themes with the expectation of the inevitable. Why should the hero only really get mad and fight when his or her partner is injured, kidnapped or killed and the flash backs begin in their head written in graphic detail of how their relationship was. If new alien characters are invented and their way of being is revealed lets see something new in a book. Keep the reader captivated with great new imaginative text, not expecting to page flick through the mush to keep in touch with the action.

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