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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson
FTL and artificial gravity have become genre conventions. FTL is not counted against suspension of disbelief because it lets you more plausibly have stories with people on habitable planets, since RL space exploration has made SF readers very familiar with the inhabitability of our local solar system. Artificial gravity is likewise a very familiar staging convention of SF TV for budget reasons.
Of course, if you concentrate on these issues, making them plot devices rather than genre conventions, then they count again.
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Yeah I'd say FTL counts as like half an implausibility. You just can't tell a lot of stories without it and it's often a background feature rather than a change that drives the story. Budget concerns also trump the one implausibility rule to an extent. I'd say they still count to an extent but you can stretch to two or possibly even three seperate implausibilities while remaining within the spirit of the rule.