Chathtiu t1_jegz6uz wrote on March 31, 2023 at 11:10 PM

Reply to comment by anasui1 in Seriously enjoyed the first episode of "The Power" on Amazon Prime. The series is based on a 2017 novel about how the world radically changes when millions of teenage girls suddenly develop electrical superpowers. Notably, none of them put on costumes and start fighting crime. by TJ_Fox

> love how socially relevant discourse in these shows is manifactured by creating an absolutely idiotic sci fi premise that will never happen, kinda killing the believability of the discourse altogether

Welcome to scifi. That’s the entire purpose of the genre: to re-contextualize social issues into fantastical and far flung societies. It, like the parent genre of speculative fiction, is a giant “what if?” testing chamber.

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