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Huh, you thought that everybody speaking English and Chinese was expected, or that it wasn't odd to be galloping on horseback to catch your spaceship wasn't unexpected, or that in the future a trained prostitute is considered an important, reputable fine lady?
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What’s that extraordinary about people in SciFi speaking Earth languages? Do you mean that specific combination?
Star Trek had its far share of transplanted Earth Cultures. Stargate seems to do that about every other weekend.
As a side note, in my experience, Sci Fi playing with sexual and social norms isn’t that unusual. Fiction written in the 60’s and 70’s is full of these sort of characters (Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels come to mind). So the well-thought-of-prostitute-in-a-western never struck me as cutting-edge character. Can you say Kitty from Gunsmoke?
My first thought on thinking of that character was, Oh, the old Cassiopeia storyline from Battlestar Galatica. I wonder how long before the writers redeem her?
None of those points I mention above has much to do with if the show is enjoyable or not, I just don’t think they really make your case.
P.S. A friend of mine mentioned earlier today that Serendipity has a release date at the end of September. As a side note, this is the time of the year studios dump movices they don't expect to do well.