M Fnord Wrote:As for handwavium influencing storytelling, I think it would but probably not right off the bat. It's like horror movies: a lot of what used to be staple tropes don't work anymore because the world's changed from the 70 and 80s when that kind of movie was king. Clearly space operas or realistic space movies are going to change--Gravity would be a very different production ITTL--but that's going to wait on the concepts to filter down and take root.
I'm willing to bet that handwavium will be at least as much of a game-changer in special effects as computer-generated imagery was.
M Fnord Wrote:Concerning 2012 in particular, that movie started pre-production well before the wave, so it's unlikely that even with a 2009 release it'd be much different from OTL's version. However, the Soviet cable channel Kandor 3 ("We Make Cinema Better.") airs 2012: The Super-Special How It Should've Ended Cut where John Cusak and the arks full of entitled first-worlders are seized by a bunch of pissed African survivors. Also Woody Harrelson is there because he's the only interesting fucking character in the entire goddamn movie holy shit.
Well, that film was one that was an immediate example for me to use, since I'd figured that, assuming that the Fen still became a thing in the 2012-verse, their capabilities could've added an entire dimension to the plot. And yeah, Woody's character (conspiracy theorist/talk radio host Charlie Frost) has to be one of the more "Crazy Awesome" characters in fiction!
