After reading Song In A Minor Key I’ve come to an awareness that Space Opera is ultimately stories of a relationship between life and space-time. A theme of unfamiliar realm outer space where the law of distances and speed separate not only objects but milestones of identities that make it possible to craft characters who are more complex than earthbound characters.
Song In A Minor Key is an example of a scenario where an expanded perception of time-space make us feel about our own Earth and our relationship to it differently. Smith is an example of a character whose life has been re-defined by this new definition of space-time. With an ability to travel across planets this character is able to show us what it means to live a new life in a different world and leave the past behind with other time and space. Distances between different planets are far enough to be able to separate his ex-identity to who he is at the present.
I think that characters who experienced a significantly larger perception of space-time has a potential to obtain identities that is richer in complexity and perspectives. I haven’t had much experience with Space-opera but I think Star-Child from 2001 is a good reflection of that aspect. I would like to see more space-opera characters grow significantly beyond what one life-time on Earth can offer. I believe that there has to be more to the people who has seen different things in the universe. There has to be more than experiencing different cultures as different beings may inhabit not only different way of life but probably live in an entirely different law of logic and mind. This doesn’t mean throwing away the essence of hero’s journey but adding the whole other level of definition to it.
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