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[challenge entry] The Shroud of Krypton

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(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:33, archived)
# heh
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:35, archived)
# I've only just noticed Fluffy at top left
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:35, archived)
# Woo
I would like to pedant that Superman is not Sci-fi so you shouldn't compo it:P
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:36, archived)
# I would like to pedant that he is.
WIKI IS FACT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_films:_1970s
(see 1978)
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:37, archived)
# I would pedant that it's fiction not science fiction!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:37, archived)
# alien with super-powers flies around the place being bertie big baws?
sounds a bit science-fictiony.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:39, archived)
# See below.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:40, archived)
# Someone who comes to earth from another planet isn't Sci-fi?
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:38, archived)
# No
Sci-fi in my books is off planet or futuristic. Superman is based on Earth and alls into the superhero genre which tends to not be sci-fi based.

(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:39, archived)
# So by that logic
Alien Nation isn't scifi because they're on Earth?

(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:41, archived)
# I can see your point
But I've never concidered Superman sci-fi.


*sticks finger in ears and goes LALALALALALALA*
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)
# :D Riverghost in unpopular opinion SHOCKER
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:45, archived)
# Riverghost playing at Trolling and winding up the board SHOCKER
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:48, archived)
# RIVERGHOST SHOCKER
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:52, archived)
# How is having an opinion trolling?
A dog has a tail, it doesn't mean it is a tail. The way I see it Superman is in the superhero genre, the majority of superheroes are not
aliens? As the superhero genre has elements of sci-fi, does that make them aliens?
Just because something contains elements of something does make it that thing.
I stick with my opinion and know I'n not the only one with it.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:54, archived)
# I would have to agree that it is science fiction.
Superman is other-wordly. Saying that it has to be based in space, or the future, means that films like Independance Day, and The Day The Earth Stood still, indeed every invasion film, is not science fiction, just because it takes place on earth.
Fantasy is something happening magically, science fiction is there being a fictional science to it, and Superman's references to Krypton.

If 1984 is a sci-fi (which it is, I cite from references) then Superman must be.
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 11:39, archived)
#
(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:47, archived)
# where does "The Consolations of Boethius" fit in your theory?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:42, archived)
# I have no idea
Can it be milked?
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)
# The day the earth stood still, can't be sci-fi then?

Invasion of the body snatchers can't be sci-fi?
War of the worlds can't be sci-fi

as they all happened on earth.

they are based on sci-fi principles you twunt :)

(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)
# My point being is that I've never concidered Superman sci-fi
as it falls in to the Supehero genre. Superheroes, in the main, are from Earth so I don't class that genre as sci-fi.
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:49, archived)
# Since when is science restricted to outer space?
There is a lot of science happening on the earth, apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)
# No there isn't
they shut it all down to fix an electrical fault.

/lhc blog
(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:51, archived)
# rubbish. sci-fi can be earth based and set in the present or even the past.
to name a few:
hg wells: the war of the worlds
greg bear: blood music
mary shelley: frankenstein
michael chricton: jurassic park
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)
# well the compo refers to "science-fiction"
rather than "riverghost's own incorrect definition of science fiction"

science fiction
n. A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:47, archived)
# :)
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:40, archived)
# I think the correct response to such an incorrect pedant is
"Awa wi ye, ye talkin' pish."
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:41, archived)
# ^ haha
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:47, archived)
# i tend to agree on the grounds of the lack of science involved
i tend to not like plain 'alien' things as sifi.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:50, archived)
# Shhhh
They'll be after you next. They have pitchfork! Pitchforks I tell ye!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:54, archived)
# I shall hit them with my physics major.
(k3b/-\b Peace man., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:56, archived)
# That's not a physics major
It's a Home Economics Captain
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 10:06, archived)
# arf!!
(I helped save b3ta! ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:37, archived)
# What an image to open the board on.
Have a click.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:39, archived)
# you were thankfully late....
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:40, archived)
# How so?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:41, archived)
# we've had problems
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)
# Oh aye? Linkage?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)
# nah
the type which gets deleted... and not real problems really -- I came in late myself
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:45, archived)
# Well if it was deleted, tell me what it was please
I hate not knowing stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:46, archived)
# okay...
someone did something, and it was bad and things and then there was a long whole long thread of people getting upset and then ghostie said it should be a repost thread so there was some pearoasting and then God (who might be Cal or Rob or someone else) deleted the thread... and then we had jelly and ice cream and then my mum came to pick me up so we hid and then she said I could stay over!11!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:50, archived)
# I'm going to ask you a question
but I'll do it up there
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:52, archived)
# there was beeg trouble
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)
# DRAMA!
Do tell...
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:44, archived)
# thank you, dear.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:42, archived)
# You're welcome, sweetie.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:43, archived)
# hehe took me a while
I was looking for a cock imprint, obviously.
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:46, archived)
# :D You always say that
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:48, archived)
# I know
I'm a bit predictable really :)
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:49, archived)
# How are you doing, fuzzly manfriend?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:50, archived)
# Not too bad
Last day before holidays! I'm going to Edinburgh tomorrow
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:52, archived)
# Lucky you! Pretty place.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:56, archived)
# hahaha
obviously.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 9:49, archived)