While set in a historical setting, Titanic is a melodrama, Jack has to die at the end. Plus I don’t think misleading people on door buoyancy is going to have much negative affect on society, unless you and your partner end up in a freezing body of water with a door as your only flotation device.

I’d say a bigger inaccuracy in Titanic that is actually bad and worth criticizing is that one crewman who shot a dude and then killed himself. He was based on an actual crew member of the ship but in reality neither shot anyone or killed himself, his family was pissed about that.

Okay, but I think misrepresenting how, say, forensic technology works is more likely to have more immediate negative impacts on society than how a warp drive works. I’m far more likely to interact with the former than the latter.

The degree to which I’m willing to excuse unrealistic shit in media depends on the degree to which that media purports to be reflecting reality.

Fantasy stories, yeah whatever magic.

SciFi? Unless you’re trying to write a hard SciFi I’m willing to excuse some bizarro tech.

Action or horror film. Eh, I can suspend my disbelief.

Cop shows? I mean considering how cop shows shape people perception of real life cops, yeah I’m gonna scrutinize them a bit more.

Show that’s supposed to be about the agency that investigates internal crime within the US Navy? The fact it’s gotten so ridiculous seems weird to me.

Not me, I have a soy allergy

I would point out, both Lenin and Stalin drew inspiration from fiction in their time, along with real world events. Stalin by The Patricide and Lenin by What is to be Done.

Not saying Andor is going to inspire the same fervor, just that fiction can be inspirational to people.