So called “science fiction” on the small and big screens is in a rut.

The same ideas get rerun over and over. And the production companies keep trying to milk every old franchise for the last penny.

And the obsession with space-opera is really tiring.

What I’d like to see:

A story set in the far future on Earth. Not a post-apocalyptic alien-invasion Earth. Just Earth. Say in 200k years. Follow human evolution along some path and see what the species is like in the future roughly of the same distance from us as we are today from the emergence of anatomically modern humans 200kya.

How about a time travel movie that doesn’t involve killing Hitler or saving JFK? (Again, those are two ruts well worn.) Why leave “Jesus” to the fundamentalists? Take off on the wretched evangelical movie AD33. Have some time travelers go back and mess with Roman Judea and sidetrack the whole destruction-of-Jerusalem/birth-of-Christianity bit, and have the travelers come back to the present in a non-monotheistically-dominated society. Let the Greco-Roman polytheism run its course in a different direction.

There are so may possibilities, but the money-bags in the production companies want to keep with their same old stuff.