I mean… that’s the point of all good sci-fi.
It’s important to delineate between “action, just in a sci-fi setting” and “sci-fi”. The former is entertaining; the latter will have you discussing the movie/episode with friends and family after you finish watching, and actually makes you think about the human condition a bit.
Side note: if that’s the only sci-fi universe you’ve seen that’s less action-packed and more deliberate, I strongly encourage you to read more sci-fi (n.b. specifically sci-fi, and not amusing but often morally vapid sci-fi thrillers).
after yang was a great movie recently. the expanse is a pretty great tv series. for all mankind is a really cool alternate history sci-fi television series about a world where the soviets won the space race and so the space race kept going. then there’s the classic sci Fi authors like Philip k dick and Isaac Asimov. Andy weir is usually pretty grounded for a modern author, but honestly, i read more fantasy than sci-fi these days… plenty of decent anime in the genre. ghost in the shell, both the og movie and The “stand alone complex” series are decent.
This is why Star Wars is a fantasy series with sci Fi trappings and not sci fi.
