OT: Contempory Best SciFi Series Ever

[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 ) 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. 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)