Re: OT: Bionic Woman again

In article <9ujgg31hc3qorsqkue4fd42qiqpu1vh9oc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
ManfredMann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:29:58 -0400, Forge
> <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >The only limit is the level of suspension of disbelief you're able to 
> >sell to the viewer. You can get an audience to believe there is a 
> >clandestine government organization capable of cybernetically enhancing

> >people to the point they're superhuman, but you're not going to get
them 
> >to buy that the same organization can manufacture an artificial person.

> >These are the very most basic rules of telling a story. Mister Data was

> >believable because (a) it was the 26th century A.D. and (2) he still
had 
> >limitations that made him not-human.
> >
> >
> Heck it's not any more far fetched than the idea that someone 
> could have super powers after being bitten by a radioctive spiider.
> 
> It's a fantasy people.   Fiction.   

It's all about context. Telling a comic-book superhero story, no matter 
how vigorously you try to couch it in terms of what's really real or 
not, is still way different than doing a story about something that's 
supposed to be happening now, in our world, but it's just a big ol' 
secret 'cuz if we made it public, we'd lose our advantage over the bad 
guys. And Stan Lee will tell you exactly that if you were to ask him.