Well, Luke was having psychic flashes in Empire Strikes Back, so it's not like the element was introduced by Clone Wars TV. And Eureka has skirted the psychic thing with Kevin's interactions with the artifact, or with the "regrets come to life" episode. They just dress it up in more sciencey stuff. Of course, Warehouse 13 and Eureka are in the same universe, so if psi exists in the one, it exists in the other
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I only mentioned clone wars and animated series because those are TV series, rather than movies and the 'scope' of my grumping was confined to TV shows. ;)
Good point about Eureka... someone on Rpg.net (where I mentioned this) mentioned Dollhouse.
What annoys me is that in at least some cases the psi is utterly tacked on for no particular reason, and that the range of SciFi in print fiction is much broader. It's like enjoying mystery novels and every single mystery TV series is basically a Sam Spade pastiche.
For example, in Seaquest, Firefly, V, and Alien Nation I think the series would have been BETTER without the stuff that lead them into adding psy stuff.
Babylon 5, on the other hand -- psychics were pretty central to the story and setting, and I wouldn't at all expect or want them to be absent. Same with Star Wars.
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Good point about Eureka... someone on Rpg.net (where I mentioned this) mentioned Dollhouse.
What annoys me is that in at least some cases the psi is utterly tacked on for no particular reason, and that the range of SciFi in print fiction is much broader. It's like enjoying mystery novels and every single mystery TV series is basically a Sam Spade pastiche.
For example, in Seaquest, Firefly, V, and Alien Nation I think the series would have been BETTER without the stuff that lead them into adding psy stuff.
Babylon 5, on the other hand -- psychics were pretty central to the story and setting, and I wouldn't at all expect or want them to be absent. Same with Star Wars.
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