Posted on 03/25/2021 8:57:11 PM PDT by tbw2
So why are there so few mothers, so few fathers, so few families of any size in modern science fiction stories? As I said above, the answer is that, in the so-called modern mindset, families (especially large ones) are considered pathologies. They are considered an abnormal “deviation giving rise to social ills.” When families are portrayed at all, they are made individually and collectively the butt of tasteless jokes; this provides the social reinforcement for the ideological notion that having a family is irresponsible. These insulting stereotypes encourage the absurd notion in our collective ultra-modern hubris that children, families, and parents are passé. This ideology is propagated as the “scientific” gospel and thereby that of science fiction as well. If that does not frighten you, readers and future writers, it should.
This is why there are so few mothers in science fiction, readers and future writers. This is also why the families, large and small, from the original Star Wars expanded universe were discarded when the new timeline was formed. It is, deliberately or not, a commonly stated reinforcement of the Malthusian Nihilism so currently in vogue today, which has been proven false in every case, every time.
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Where Are the Families in Science Fiction?
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Lost in Space?
The last SciFi family were the Robinsons from Lost In Space. The latest edition of the show has the mom as the uberwoke, uberintelligent and manblaming head of the family and the father and son as the cause to all of their problems.
Let’s just take Guardians of the Galaxy...
Star Lord’s mother made him mixed tape before she died. And his father, an arrogant planet, hired private investigators such as Yondu to find him. Yondu, his adoptive father, didn’t deliver Star Lord to his real dad, but he didn’t eat him either, so that’s something.
Gamora parent’s were killed but she was rescued and raised by Thanos, who cares so much, he is willing to sacrifice half of everything.
Rocket was created in a lab, so caring scientists acted as his surrogant parents raised him to be super intelligent.
Drax’s family was killed by Thanos, so Kronos put his spirit in a new powerful body.
Groot, a human tree hybrid, was also made by a scientist.
So inconclusion, they don’t have families because they were all either made in a lab or their families were killed, or as in the case of Star Lord’s dad, you just don’t want to know, because it leads to “Luke I am your father” moments.
I don’t remember that in the movies. Is that from the comic books?
All I recall about Groot is that his species was rare (comment from the Collector) suggesting his species was near extinct.
Checkout the pre-publication blurbs for the sci-fi book titled “The Bookeaters” if you want a strange family in fantasy/sci-fi
https://www.tor.com/2020/11/10/announcing-the-book-eaters-by-sunyi-dean/
Yeah I googled “Groot Backstory”.
Had to do that for Drax too.
Bookeaters sounds much better than The Sin Eater from Night Gallery.
“Malthusian Nihilism, so currently in vogue today”
David Weber, Eric Flint, David Drake, Lee & Miller, Tom Kratman and Mike Shepherd all write stories centered around families.
Child actors are rare, expensive and annoying. And they have a horrible tendency to grow up. Unless you are aiming at a audience where a child will be a major attractor you don't want them.
What is June Lockhart? Chopped liver?
And is unusual for doing so, much less married parents with three kids.
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