u/ChalHattNa

I have seen this weird superiority complex within SciFi fandoms that I have begun to detest. I will admit, I once was a part of that but as I've grown older I find myself more critical of that side of me.

I see this very clearly in Ricky & Morty and Nolan fans. I also see some of that, to a lesser extent, in this very fandom.

Many people reading SciFi hold degrees (or at least a keen interest) in STEM. So it's very easy to wave off any criticism of their favorite book/film franchise as just the readers "NoT bEiNg SmArT eNoUgH"

When in one book coffee is described as flowing down in a crooked stream due to the coriolis effect, it made me fall in love with the whole Expanse series because that was such a nice detail I only thought of after I read it. And let's be honest most people without a grasp on physics wouldn't understand why that happens without looking it up. And even then if they could "intuitively" make sense of it, their brains wouldn't visualize the same force vectors in their head and model it as curves of increasing centripetal force and angular velocity.

BUT that same thing makes people unable to hear any criticism of the series. In a literary sense, I don't agree with a lot of narrative choices made by the writers. They don't ruin the books or anything for me, I'm loving them. But they do kill my immersion a lil. Any time I express that online I'm only met with downvotes. Though the comments seem to be more measured and thoughtful. Maybe I'm just wrong but oftentimes that feels like a knee jerk reaction by fans.