OT: Contempory Best SciFi Series Ever

[Atrocities]

I know this has been done before, but please bare with me and cast your vote again. Thanks.

Edit: Babylon 5 is a Known Classic - It is already firmly entrenched in the Top Three. We just need to find the other two.

(Sorry I honestly had it on my list, but I had this damn song stuck in my head that I had to find the name to. Mission accomplished, see my other post, but in doing so I dropped the ball here. Please forgive me.)

[Arkcon]

Oh, I said Farscape. But I'd be hard pressed to say why -- I just really enjoyed it. I watched most of the others, and really liked them as well, but something makes me root for the surreal underdog.

[Will]

Ahem... you forgot Babylon 5.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Honor Harrington.

[Fyron]

Will said:
Ahem... you forgot Babylon 5.

Yeah... how could you forget some of the unarguably best sci-fi TV ever? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Possum]

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[tesco samoa]

bab5 was good. but all that build up and then season 4.

That almost ruined it.

Still like it.

But could not vote for it due to that season and how they handled the ending of the story.

Why does good always have to win?

Perhaps it would have been better for the cycle to repeat again.


I voted for DS9. As I really enjoyed the characters and the story.

[Gandalf Parker]

The best thing that came out of Babylon 5 IMHO was the little 3 book paperback series on the TechnoMages. Thats why I have techno-mage.com (dont bother going there, I havent dont anything with it)

[geoschmo]

If you like DS9, Spike TV is running them in order. Two episodes a day, 11AM - 1PM (check your local listings http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ) They just finished the Last season on thursday and started over with the two part pilot today. Don't know how long it will Last, but it's a good way to catch up on any that you missed.

[Atrocities]

Will said:
Ahem... you forgot Babylon 5.



Well GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY! I did, and it was on my list! Well this poll is over.

[Gandalf Parker]

Great Googley Moogley? You have small kids at home?
Maggie and the Ferocious Beast?
(and you all thought I sat at the computer all day)

[Fyron]

That phrase was popularized by... erm... I forget his name, but a cartoon character that was very old and very forgetful. Magoo? That sounds right... Anyways, it was a long time ago. Anything using it recently is a copycat. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Atrocities]

No, from the comercial where the old dude paints the CHEFS on the end field instead of the CHIEFS, or was it the CHEIFS?

[Grand Deceiver]

How about "V"..those HOT Alien babes that ripped there faces off to eat Mice..di I mention that they were HOTT?

[Grand Deceiver]

Here is Diana..the Hott Alien Leader if I remeber Correctly
http://http://thevisitors.info/visitors.html

[Atrocities]

V- was a mini series, and turned into crappy series that Lasted less than a year. So was SeaQuest.

Criminally speaking of course was what ABC did to Battlestar Galatica, first pulling it off the air because they could not aford to keep it on, and secondly by airing that horrid series Battlestar Galatica 1980. Ohhhhhhh I still get sick thinking about that brain fart!

[Fyron]

Atrocities said:
V- was a mini series, and turned into crappy series that Lasted less than a year. So was SeaQuest.


Didn't Sea Quest Last for several years? 5 or 6 or so?

[Sivran]

SeaQuest trudged on for a while.. even had Luke--I mean Mark Hamill on for a few episodes. Got really lame and cheesey. They should've left it dead at the end of the first season, I believe it was, where they ended up actually destroying the SeaQuest.

What, no Blake's 7? That show had balls, ending the series by killing everyone off, destroying their ship, leaving the main character's fate uncertain... Yeah, let's just see those Star Trek wimps do THAT with their series!

[David E. Gervais]

I voted for Star Trek (TOS) and Stargate SG1. The first is a true 'Classic' and SG1 has got to be one of if not the best example of Sci-Fi writing on TV today. (SG Atlantis has so far fallen way short of the original in terms of quality.)

now for some nostalgia,.. I remember a few old TV Sci-Fi series.. U.F.O., Space 1999, Logan's Run, Lost in Space, (the original Flash Gordan series was before my time, but worth mentionning.) there was Fantastic Journey, Quantum Leap, Sliders, The Visitor, 7 Days, TekWar, and we must not forget the 'puppet-classics'.. Captain scarlet, and Thunderbirds.

Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane,.. strange, the 'lane' seems a bit foggier than the Last time I passed through it. hmmm.

Cheers1 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Possum]

Lost in Space!

"Warning! Warning! Danger! Danger! Run, Will Robinson, run!"

Do you remember that old classic sci-fi movie, Forbidden Planet?

[tesco samoa]

T.Zone is my all time Fav.

Then Dr. Who

Then DS9

Then the survival series ( I liked the one that came out of Britan where the people froze in a train for 20 years )

Then TOS

Then Bab5 , and the rest of the star trek series...

I think Sci-Fi should stop beating the same stories over and over and over....

Very rarely does a show surprise me. I know you cannot kill off characters as it is rather pointless to have a show with no reoccuring characters. But why does it always have to end with the good guys being good and winning. It is such a simplistic take on the conflict resoultion story structure we all love and enjoy. But it needs to expand. Become more complex if Sci-Fi is to grow up.

I tried Adromminina ( worst spelling ever ) , Firefly and a few other of the current sci-fi and I found them to be the same old stories just retold with worse actors.

Not worth the investment of my time.

I look at the shows I watch now that are on tv.

Deadwood, The Office, 6 feet under, The Wire, Carnivale, Dead like me, Sopranos and entrogue.

They are well written with interesting characters who are just surviving with what is in front of them

Flawed characters who are neither good nor bad or with a lack of morality.

It is interesting and refreshing. Perhaps Sci-Fi needs to be reinvented because it has become stale and boring.

Now with all that ripping apart of sci-fi I will say that one of the best movies I ever saw was the BAB5 movie the beginning

With the story of the war with Earth and Mimbari. That was fantastic. With misunderstandings and a surprise ending. Good story.

[Atrocities]

I also did not include Jerimya (Sp) but it was an ok series.

[Iansidious]

geoschmo said:
If you like DS9, Spike TV is running them in order. Two episodes a day, 11AM - 1PM (check your local listings http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif ) They just finished the Last season on thursday and started over with the two part pilot today. Don't know how long it will Last, but it's a good way to catch up on any that you missed.



This is why I love to be homeschooled. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I can wake up do a little school work. STOP! Watch two hours of the best Sci-fi there is(and the best Trek IMHO)! DS9 became great when the Dominion came to the show. I have vowed to become a Dominion War expert when I grow up. And you have to love the Breen! Awesome ships and weapons.

[dogscoff]

Slightly OT, but bear with me...

I watched Sky Captain & the WOrld of Tomorrow the other day. It's not world-shatterin cinema or true scifi by any account, but well made, full of neat ideas and good fun. I'd happily watch it again.

Point is, having watched Angelina Jolie in it I've decided she would actually make an excellent Honor Harrington. If they made that into a series, I'd vote for it here.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

There's a problem...David Weber loaths her(Jolie). If you want to know why, ask him. I don't gossip.

[Slick]

David E. Gervais said:

... U.F.O., Space 1999, Logan's Run, Lost in Space, ... There was Fantastic Journey, Quantum Leap, ... puppet-classics'.. Captain scarlet, and Thunderbirds.





A trip memory lane indeed. I remember being scared BLEEP-less as a kid watching U.F.O. Also, Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds rocked!

Slick.

[Ruatha]

Not a series, but I've started seeing "The Chronicles of Riddick", sequel to "Pitch black".
Hasn't finished it due to certain reasons but will see it all tonight.
It seems like a really good SF film!!

I think I'll change my sig to "SG1 was really bad!" (Trolling)