This is why I love Science and Speculative Fiction as a class.  Not just the literary kind, but in all its forms and functions.  The thought processes that go along with the genre, the way the artists, designers, directors and writers think is almost 45 degrees from the rest of the creative process.  Take, for example, in the new TRON: Legacy film:

Joe Kosinski: We were just starting the sound portion, and the guys at Skywalker [Ranch sound studio] were telling me, “You have all these arenas and all these specific chants — that’s a very hard thing to fabricate. You’ve got to find a thousand people who are willing to follow chants.” So we were looking at sports arenas, and I realized, “Wait a minute! I’ve got Comic-Con coming! Let’s record the Comic-Con hall and get our crowd reactions in Hall H.” So we did it — all the crowds in the disc wars sequence are Comic-Con fans in Hall H. It was fun to put the fans who supported us in the movie itself. 

Taken from:   http://io9.com/5709777/7-awesome-facts-you-need-to-know-about-tron-legacy.

This kind of thing doesn’t seem to happen as much when you’re working with drama, or cosies, or true crime, or romance.  With Science Fiction there seems to historically be an openess to ideas that may, at first glance, just be totally bonzo, but when the final execution comes down the line, you come out with a development experience that couldn’t have been created in any other genre.

Okay, so I get all the wackiness that’s been going on with Wikileaks.  On a good day, or perhaps given enough beer, I can even see both sides of the battle.  It feels, from an outsider’s perspective, very much like a “no bad attention” sort of situation for all concerned.  Immaturity on all sides of the table, people jumping to conclusions, people jumping on bandwagons, people jumping off cliffs, all kinds of jumping going on.

The thing that’s got me puzzled right now is the hacker assaults on the site.  I mean, okay, probably a percentage of these are govt. controlled hackers doing what they get paid to do.  They’re probably *our* govt controlled hackers, though I can see the benefits of taking out Wikileaks for any number of other, more tightly controlled countries.  I always thought of hackers as being the “information should be free” set, the rebels, the guys who truly want transparency in all things information related.  So shouldn’t they be helping Wikileaks out?  Or is the “me too” mindset taking hold and Wikileaks has simply presented itself as a target worth taking on.  How the heck do you grade such things?  I mean, with the number of assaults on the site, how can you tell whose hack brought it down?  Or does it even matter.