Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

"Best Sci-Fi series ever"

Hardly.

Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

Kwok, what do you consider the best Scifi series ever? Name another Scifi show were the ENTIRE CAST could act. Yeah...

TOS: Worse acting and writting than Lost in Space.
ST:TNG: No story arcs at all
Voyager: Sucked
DS9: Best Trek, even if it was a rip off of B5, actually people besides the Captain that could act, story lines were actually connected sometimes.
B5: Could never watch more than five minutes, the damn race of Napoleans freaked me out.

Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Get out of my sight!
And Napoleons? They weren't Napoleons! They were imperialistic!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You know I always liked "Space: Above and Beyond"......
It probally doesn't qualify for the bgest sci fi but it comes close for me.

_Tim

Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

I did some more checking, did you know Farscape was filmed on Fox Studios Austrailia?

I bet that had a major part in killing it.

As for a SE4 based TV series, I think it would be very affordable if done with all-CGI characters. Live action and puppet contruction would raise costs drastically. CGI is the way to go.

Now another issue with that pops up, most TV markets are strongly against an cgi series geared for intelligent people. This is a result of various high-named actors condemning the movies like Final Fantasy & S1MONE for use of CGI actors. (S1MONe didn't use a CGi actress, but they made everyone think it).

Japan and Korea would be great markets for a CGi SE4 series.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Why? and Why only the Far East?

Europe and Australia, also Canada will probably take it up a lot. America and others... It's a maybe.

Edit: Simone used a Canadian model.

[ September 10, 2002, 03:25: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

I just watched a season one episode of ST:TNG called The Neutral Zone where they rescue some crionically frozen folks from the 20th Century. Picard strongly emphasizes how people in the 24th century don't pursue material possessions anymore.

Bagh!! I'm a big fan of Star Trek. But this philosophy that everyone is going to spend all their time in the future trying to better themselves is just a bit too much to stomach.

I really like Babylon 5. It seems a much more realistic look at the future. Everything is pretty much the same as it is now but the technology is a little improved.

I think B5 should rate as the best sci-fi show simply because of the consistent plot throughout the entire series.

Farscape? Isn't that muppets in space?

The Prisoner was an interesting show. I think it might be interesting to see a modern Version of that.

Re: Best Scifi Series ever, canceled! (OT)
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Agreed. And also (as you suggested) becasue it is such a realistic vision of the future. Neither dystopian nor utopian.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No, but Muppets in Space was a damn fine film. In fact, I'd have to say it was the best Sci-fi film/ show EVER, because everything else sucks and what I like is best.

Sorry http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That was Roddenberry's vision of the future. It does tend to make Trek a little preachey at times. You almost find yourself rooting for the bad guys just because they are so much more interesting.

I hate to say it, and wouldn't dare to say it at a Trek converntion http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif , but I think TNG got better after Gene died. DS9 was definetly better. I even liked Voyager, although that gets a lot of scorn from most people, though I am not exactly sure why.

What I have seen of B5 I liked. It's one of my regrets that I never got to watch it from the begining. In my town it always was getting bumped around to different times, and sometimesz different channels in the early seasons. By the time it settled down and was always on one channel at one time I had missed so much of the storyline that I felt lost.

Maybe somebody will rebroadcast it from the begining some day, or I'll get rich and buy the DVD's. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Geoschmo

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The reason I love Farscape is that the show is about the characters, not the trappings around them (although Moya does count as a character to me). The show's "don't sweat the details" approach to high-tech is a vast departure from modern scifi, and it worked. The character interaction is what made people fans of the show. Too many scifi shows focus on the gadgets and whatnots. Whenever the Ratings started to slip these shows would have to one-up themselves to pull their audience back in- "Captain our Ratings are dropping! Quick, blow up the ship so we can get a new one!" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Oh well, enough rambling. Suffice to say I'm sadded by the loss of my friends on Moya. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif