OT Farscape Best Scifi Series Ever?

Ruatha · #1 March 15th, 2003, 09:05 AM

Just wanna reply to the topic, No way! I could see three episodes and then I just couldn't take anymore, it was bad.

Hrothgar · #2 March 15th, 2003, 10:18 AM

If we eliminate shows like "Twilight Zone" and "Outer Limits," which I think is a legitimate exclusion because anthology shows are vastly different than ones with continuing characters, etc., and, if we eliminate "X-Files," which could also be legitimate as many of the shows were more horror than SF, then I'd have to agree that "Farscape" is number one. Of course, tv SF is even worse than movie SF, so this might not be saying much, but I think that "Farscape" easily beats most movie SF also. I'm sorry it's being cancelled.

As for MST3k, it's possibly my favorite show ever, but it doesn't seem fair to compare it to "normal" SF series.

Fyron · #3 March 15th, 2003, 11:16 AM

Farscape doesn't have much when compared to Babylon 5.

Crazy_Dog · #4 March 15th, 2003, 12:47 PM

For me, the best is B5

Desdinova · #5 March 15th, 2003, 08:48 PM

B5 for continuous plot line. but doctor who overall.

Captain Kwok · #6 March 15th, 2003, 09:18 PM

I liked Star Trek the best, mostly DS9 and TNG, not so much the others, although they've had moments.

The Beastmaster · #7 March 15th, 2003, 10:07 PM

I would have to vote for Babylon 5 as well.
No other SciFi series has come as close to a cohesive compelling saga as this one did.
Making the story from projecting Biblical stories, UFO speculations, etc. from our own understanding and crafting it all into a SciFi story line was quite clever and well done. And even if I don't agree fully with the ideas behind the show, I still love it for it's ability to maintain a fairly tight and interesting story line, in which doesn't stray much over the 5 years... bar the first telepath leaving the show.

- Star Trek (the original) is had to compare anything else to it, considering Lost in Space was it's same time/age comparison. It still holds up fairly well today, even though a bit simplistic. If we didn't have this show, how many people would really be SciFi fans today?.. in that, SciFi is much more accepted in the mainstream today because of this show. As I recall, to people in the early 70s still thought of SciFi fans as geeks, etc. Today it's not only acceptable, it's a sign of character.
- Star Trek TNG and deep space 9, etc. all have had their moments of greatness in parts, but the parts don't live up to the sum of the whole for me, not as well as the original Star Trek did.
- Farscape was very interesting to me in the first year, but it quickly got to be too cheesy for my tastes in a final years of Xena sort of way, if you know what I mean.

Just my two cents, gonna stop here. Too many other shows to comment on, but wanted to vote for babylon 5.