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Since seeing how people are a bit upset at how bad 'Enterprise' was I thought it would be nice to talk about some of the 'Good' Shows on TV..

My top Shows are...

1) Sue Thomas FB-Eye (Great Cast, Great Acting, Great Stories)

2) Stargate SG1 (Awesome Cast, Great Stories, forget Atlantis, Keep this going forever.)

3) Smallville (Great Cast, Good solid Acting, Interesting stories)

4) The West Wing (still good but less so since Aaron Sorken left the show's writing and production to 'others'.

5) CSI: NY (Gosh Darn, but Gary is a Great Actor, he almost makes the other actors look bad.)

6) Extreme Makeover Home Edition (wow! and WoW!)

7) Holmes on Homes.

I know it's a short list, but these are the only shows I watch on a regular basis.

So, do I have good taste or what?

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I don't even know what some of those are, but I guess a description of my favourite shows would be the only ones I make sure to watch each week.

1. Justice League.
2. Enterprise (we haven't even finished season 3 yet)
3. Lost
4. Harvey Birdman
5. Stargate SG1. As for Atlantis so far we have had the first 2 episodes here and I managed to see another while on holiday. I recorded the first 2 and it took 2 days before I could be bothered watching if that means anything. To go off a bit I can't see the main cast of Atlantis being as good as SG1. For example the black junior officer doesn't seem to have much depth. He seems to just be the same as the black junior helmsman on Enterprise. I can't see any epsiodes being devoted just to him.

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These are "technically" on TV Still over here http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

1. Firefly - Need I Say More.
2. Stargate SG1 - Even with O'Neill possibly leaving it will still be excellent.
3. Farscape (ok, it's re-runs, But it's still good!)
4. 24 (I haven't watched this since the second season as I keep missing chunks of it, hopefully it's still as good as it was.)
5. Sharpe (Ok, technically this is Ancient, But again it's re-runs and I still love this show, I grew up on this.)

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Hmm Firefly. I'm not really into space westerns, but I see it is popular enough for them to make a movie (yet at the same time not popular enough to last longer than one season http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif). I looked at the trailer and it looks better. Two parts in particular, the fleets and the captains response when the other guys says he comes unarmed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

Edit: sorry to seemingly make this all about firefly, but I'm pedantic as all hell and couldn't get past the opening bit about mankind finding a system with hundreds of planets. yeah ok so I know they must mean sector or region but every time I hear it I think "gee some aliens must have been heavily into terraforming to place hundreds of planets in the one solar system http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif"

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1- Stargate: SG-1
2- Firefly
3- Law and Order, including the spinoffs, except for Trial by Jury.
4- Futurama
5- Family Guy
6- The Simpsons
7- Anything they show over at the Discovery or the History Channel.

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1. JAG
2. West Wing
3. House
4. Corner Gas

And that's about all I watch. The order is arbitrary; if they were all on at the same time I would have to clone myself http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

If you've never seen Corner Gas, you're missing something!

Well actually I do watch Holmes on Homes now and then. I'm in construction too and talk just like him!

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Deadwood
Unscripted
sunday night fox cartoons
History of war on thursday night ( what ever it happens to be)
I like that Holmes on Homes as well and await corner gas on dvd to catch up.
I also like that show where the guy goes for a cab ride for 100 dollars and the one where they constuct the restaurnt and open it up...

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1. Stargate SG-1. Simply the best Sci-Fi show on TV.
2. Battlestar Galactica. Looks to me like it has great potential, and I already enjoy it a lot.
3. CSI (The original, Las Vegas one)
4. ER. Good show, like it a lot.

Those are about it for shows I watch and enjoy regularly.

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In no particular order:

• Lost
• Law and Order
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer(it was a good clever show, had humor, horror, action, and drama)
• King of the Hill(one big Texas in joke)
• Most of the stuff on the cartoon network after 10:00 Central, the whole damn AS block kicks ***.
• Conan O'Brien
• Scrubs(this is the funniest show on TV, it's better then friends ever was)
• farscape, no longer shown even on reruns here but kicked ***

That's all I can think of at the moment, but that seems like just about everything..... Oh yeah, Cops and America's Most Wanted, both those shows kick ***.

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I just thought of two other shows I enjoy watching.. Numbers and NICS.

.. and I'm talking about shows that are on now, not stuff playing in reruns.

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Well, I don't have a TV, and I don't bother watching anything on the sets I have access to... I came to the conclusion a while ago that signal-to-noise on American TV is waaay too high, so I rely on other people to figure out what stuff is actually good, then I get copies somehow. I've bought the DVDs for "The Office" (BBC version, I've already heard the NBC knock-off is rubish), one of my friends has convinced me to go to the library to watch "24" ("It's better than crack!" he says). I borrow the DVDs for "Family Guy" fairly often too. Kind of old, but I've also... stumbled upon... digital copies of "Red Dwarf". Funny show http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I'm looking into buying the DVDs for Babylon 5, Farscape, SG-1, Scrubs, and Chapelle's Show, since I've either watched and enjoyed them, or have heard very good things about them.

Basically, the last time I sought out something to watch on TV was the Orange Bowl this year (January 4th). If I happen to be around other people who are watching TV, I might pay attention. Usually that's "The Daily Show" or Conan O'Brian though. The only other show that's watched regularly around here is "Friends". If that's on, I make a point of leaving the room, never could stand that show.

I'll have to look into some of the shows in this thread. I'll wait for more opinions to accumulate first, though http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Well here's my list:

Andromeda: (Season 1 and 2 and part of 3 before they fired Wolfe so they could dumb it down easily)

Farscape: Excellent Sci Fi show with great cast and it actually succeeded in pulling off the humor without making it look forced.

SG-1: Nuf's been said about this already.

Some Discovery shows: Most of it isn't even learning anymore it's just crap

Most of History: Great show!

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In the US:

24
Lost
The Shield
Alias

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Yep, Numbers is a good show, really like it too.

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Justice League, and that's about it.

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Just the other day (on an in-flight tv thing) I doscovered Samurai Jack. Ostensibly a kids animation, it actually has a very adult pace and mythology to it. Will be looking at getting me some more of that.

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Genndy Tartakovski, who made Samurai Jack (and I would have picked it if it was still on here) was chosen to make Clone Wars. Bit of Trivia, Aku is actually Japanese for evil.

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The shows i´m watching nowadays:

- Battlestar Galatica (i simply love this show and have all the episodes of the first season + the miniseries taped.... can´t wait for the second season);
- Farscape (i´m still in the 3rd episode of the 4th season, but i´m noticing that the series started to lost some steam after the third season);
- Andromeda (i´m still at the beginning of the 4th season, and in this series too i´m noticing that the plots are getting more confuse em boring, but up to the third season the show is one of the best space operas around).
- Smallville (just watched the "Blank" episode of the 4th season and think this is one of the best series around, in my personal ratings it takes second place after BSG)

Shows i started watching and found boring/stupid/not my style and stoped:

- Stargate SG1 - just wathed the first 3 episodes of the firsts season and simply could not stand the translation thing: how everyond in all planets speak english? without any kind of Universal translator or another excuse?

- Stargate Atlantis - same of the above.

- Lost - watched the first six episodes and, while somewhat fun, the show is simply not my style...


Shows i´m plannig to watch:

- Firefly - everyone is talking about this show and i´m curious to watch it, but i´m a little confused with the episode order... how is the best order for watchiong the episodes? And is best to watch the movie before the series or vice-versa?

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Battlestar Gallactica - well, duh...
Alias - the plot this season has been nicely twisted again
West Wing - the best-paced drama since season 1+2 of ER
House - always a hoot; brutally truthful about people in general
Numbers - kinda cheesy, but fun
CSI:Miami - some of the best special effects on TV right now

Man you gotta love Tivo... I never miss ANY of these anymore!

Woot!
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I got bored with smallville. The repetative use of 'Green rocks mutate someone' to provide plot turned me off.

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A list of shows I love to watch:

1) Jeopardy! I love this fast-paced game show. It's the ultimate test of knowledge. And today I called grandma to see if she got the Final Jeopardy Question like me. 'One of the 10 most populous cities in the U.S. is found in the book of Revelation'. Anyone? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

2)Golden Girls. I love this hilarious classic. I need to laugh like that when I first wake up.

3)Alias. What can I say about this great drama? The first and second seasons were splendid. The fouth is getting back to that splendor it once had.

4)Nanny 911. This shows makes you think twice about having little imps of your own. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

5)Oprah. Yes! You heard me right. I will at times watch Oprah. It really depends what her shows is about. But when Jeopardy comes on I always flip the channel.

6)Good Eats. I love this cooking show. The best cooking show on TV.

7)Everybody Loves Raymond. Now I just watched the last episode, I'm all sad. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

8)60 minutes. I love their interesting stories and who doesn't love Andy Rooney?

These are the main shows I watch habitually. I'm more into movies these days so I don't watch much television anymore.

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I mostly watch movies or sporting events, but these are my top 10 series -- although viewing gets pretty spotty after #6

1. BSG
2. Stargate:SG1
3. Boston Legal
4. Smallville
5. Stargate:Atlantis
6. Andromeda
7. JAG
8. Medium
9. King of the Hill
10.Las Vegas

I've heard pretty good things about Alias but only been able to check it out once or twice.
EDIT: I did watch Enterprise, and was pretty disappointed the way the series ended.

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No mention of the Simpsons? Funniest show out for years.

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I basically only watch two things on a regular basis

1)"Adult Swim" on catoon network (I like most of the shows on there really, too bad it's going to be a while before ore FMA.. I was really liking that show)

2) "Good Eats" on the food network. If you've never seen this show, I'd say watch. It's very entertaining and informative.

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Yes. Do what he says.