How do the brain behind Battlestar Galactica , Prometheus , X - Men : First Class , and Torchwood go about hoodwink science fact and science fiction , to tell a credible story?Bad Astronomy‘s Phil Plait host a panel at San Diego Comic - Con yesterday to talk over this issue , along with the making and breaking canon in sequels and prequels .
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When Plait asked about the role of scientific advisers in shaping boob tube shows , writer Jane Espenson speak about how insight from one physician impacted Torchwood : Miracle Day . Espenson painted a cosmos with gruesome car accident victims and sick mass who will never die , with pharmaceutic company running amok .
The MD consulted by Espenson and the Torchwood piece of writing staff pointed out one major downside to immortality — the unstoppability of malignant neoplastic disease . Cancer cells are immortal , incessantly replicating cellular telephone . change by reversal off the “ switch ” that allows people to go within the world could also deactivate the “ permutation ” that forestall tumour replication .
One unused plot point brought up by the unnamed physician roll around the very creepy side effects of immortal sloughed hide cells . A human being sheds roughly3.5 kilogramsof tegument a yr . If each cell in this Torchwood storyline is sincerely immortal , each maculation of discarded skin live on , clog the sewer and streets with massive skin fiend . This plot point , luckily , did not make it into Torchwood : Miracle Day .
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Prometheus author Jon Spaihts talked about the hard science he looked at , while researching his former screenplay for Prometheus . The idea that these gargantuan “ Space Jockeys ” intermingled with manhood fascinated the author — lead him to conjecture that the jockey help humankind make evolutionary saltation , after he reckon at tangible - liveliness research into how rapidly our civilization advanced against a desktop of climate alteration .
Looking at a time business of humanity amidst the turn of ruinous extinctions , ice eld , and other affray , Spaihts equate the growth of human civilization to a “ bosom onrush on an echocardiogram , with all of human history get place in this 12,000 years of climatical calm . ” This extensive enquiry never saw the screen , as Spaihts finished by pronounce , “ All of this ( enquiry and thought ) , by the time the movie hit the screen door , ended up as a pictograph . ”
Spaights is not alone on the panel when it came to leaving scientific issues on the cut room during the course of craft a narrative . decade - Men : First Class scribe Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller spoke of a desire to have Charles Xavier give his PhD dissertation dissertation to Watson and Crick , stalwarts of transmissible enquiry .
The duo conceive the scene could be deplumate off , thanks to a four- to five - twelvemonth overlap in fabrication and world . The scene never made it to the screen . But now you may rewatch the scene of Xavier worrying over his dissertation defense with an additional stab of suspense — knowing who might have been judging his graduate oeuvre .
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