OT: Contempory Best SciFi Series Ever

[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

[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.

[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.