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).
This is why Star Wars is a fantasy series with sci Fi trappings and not sci fi.
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.
