De Babylon à Galactica : la nouvelle science-fiction télévisuelle et l’effet-réalité

Abstract

If science fiction and television series are both thought of in terms of escapism and daydreaming, science fiction series, more particularly those of the ultimate escapist genre of the space opera, have carried on a complex and rich relationship with the "real" since the 1990s and the “renaissance” of television series. The series Babylon 5 and Battlestar Galactica above all are the classic cases of science fiction that is thematically, aesthetically, and narratively more sophisticated and ambitious, but also darker, than their predecessors, about which the notion of “realism” itself, if it remains ambiguous, does not seem as incongruous as in the past. Taking advantage of the characteristics offered by televisual media, the science fiction novella carries on plural and dynamic relationships with the real(s).

Keywords

• Babylon 5
• Battlestar Galactica
• science fiction
• realism