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ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 13, 2002 16:58
what is your fav? i really like outerlimits (the new ones) good old' invisible man, and some of the twighlight zones ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 13, 2002 17:00
im a Voyager child.. only scifi show that i will watch for one reason: Seven of Nine and yea i watch some Enterprise for one reason again: the hot vulcan chick
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ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 13, 2002 17:03
quote: lol, voyager is good, but enterprise really sucks ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 13, 2002 19:11
no voyager had a lot of really stupid episodes... but i have only seen a hand full of enterprise... but the ones i have seen the new chick T'Pol really is carrying the whole series.. ------------------ IP: Logged |
Hikaru Super Geek Posts: 160 |
posted June 14, 2002 01:06
ooh lets see, in no particular order SeaQuest before it got weird, Earth 2 Voyager Space Rangers of fort Hope Original Trek Quantum Leap V V2 Twilight Zone that show from the early 80's that was a Tron ripoff about the dude who was made by some geeks computer and Battelstr Gallactica Others I just cannot remeber them at the moment ------------------ IP: Logged |
Hikaru Super Geek Posts: 160 |
posted June 14, 2002 01:08
that Disney TV Movie Earth Star Voyager I quit watching TV a few years ago, I only catch new stuff if Im at a freinds house so pardon my not mentioning any new stuff ------------------ IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 14, 2002 02:59
quote: lol. yeah, some voyagers were bad, but i think they were in general a lot better than enterprise if you can understand my sig, then you may be able to understand better my expression towards star trek ------------------ IP: Logged |
Lukasha Newbie Larva Posts: 3 |
posted June 14, 2002 07:40
Babylon 5, natch. IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 14, 2002 11:31
quote: ack, i hate babolon 5 ------------------ IP: Logged |
Erbo Super Geek Posts: 154 |
posted June 14, 2002 11:46
quote: Blasphemer! In order to really appreciate Babylon 5, you have to check out the Babylon 5 Web pages first, and you'll probably need to watch at least three episodes before you figure out who's doing what to whom. (Figuring out why will take longer.) It is most decidedly not like any incarnation of Star Trek; things are not resolved in the last 10 minutes of the episode, resetting all the characters back to where they were at the start. It's a real story that evolves over time. (Deep Space Nine started doing the story arc thing later in its run, which greatly improved the show.) None of the characters stays the same throughout the show's run; they all change and transform in some fashion. IP: Logged |
Hikaru Super Geek Posts: 160 |
posted June 14, 2002 12:16
my only comment about B5 is "If it was that great of a show and the storyline was an evolving story, then they would have shown it at a time that the audience could find day to day and in order" I watched it three times and each time it was the exact same ep, and this was over the course of 3 months ------------------ End geek code
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magebard Geek Posts: 62 |
posted June 14, 2002 12:21
Stargate SG-1, Andromeda, Enterprise, Babylon 5, Crusade, ST:TNG, ST S9, ST:Voy, ST:TOS, Seaquest, Earth 2, Earth: Final Conflict (til they killed Augur), I watch too much TV, Quantum Leap, Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, 7 Days, Special Unit 2, and I must be forgetting tons more. IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 14, 2002 14:25
quote: nah, ive seen the first episodes, and the ones which have been on lately and HATE them ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 14, 2002 14:31
andromeda is messed up... babylon 5 wuz good what about the other 4 babylons where were they? ------------------ IP: Logged |
LifetimeTrekker Highlie Posts: 527 |
posted June 14, 2002 15:32
My favorite of all time was Lost in Space--the original, not the crappy movie. The first six to ten episodes (in black and white!) were really great sci-fi. Then it slid into schlock and stayed there, but I was hooked and too young to give up hope that it would remember it's root.
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greycat Alpha Geek Posts: 303 |
posted June 14, 2002 17:54
quote: The first three were destroyed. The fourth was completed, but mysteriously vanished. If you watch the whole series, you'll find out exactly what happened to it. That's all I will say. IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 14, 2002 18:04
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Frost Neat Newbie Posts: 11 |
posted June 14, 2002 20:55
Andromeda, defently the best show on now for series with story arcs, Enterprise is ok, Mutant X is fairly good. From the 90's you have ST:Voyager, Farscape,Stargate SG-1 From the 80s you have Quantum Leap, ST:TNG From the 70s Six Million Dollar Man, Space 1999 IP: Logged |
rw Super Geek Posts: 244 |
posted June 15, 2002 07:40
Does The Prisoner count as SF? Thanks for reminding me about Lost in Space, LT ... definitely a great show. No one has yet mentioned Dr. Who. And don't forget about My Mother the Car! (Ha ha, just joking about that last one ) IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 15, 2002 08:53
which reminds me of earth: final conflict, in the begining it was good, then it got realllly bad when i see the re-runs of quantum leap i shudder.... first wave is ok too along with taht new show on sci fi... theone that is like outerlimits ------------------ IP: Logged |
FatGnome Super Geek Posts: 221 |
posted June 15, 2002 13:47
Ok so I like Andromeda, Deep Space 9, and I am not sure if you would call it a sci-fi but I am kind of partial to Red Dwarf as well. I know I know it is a comedy but it is based against kind of a sci-fi back ground. IP: Logged |
Steen SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1245 |
posted June 15, 2002 15:04
I'm not too discriminating when it comes to sci-fi on TV. I enjoy just about all of it, but my current favorite show has to be Farscape. I've developed a love of the color blue.... IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 15, 2002 17:31
quote: haha.... ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 15, 2002 19:02
quote: yea i know.. i watched most of it.. im just asking why they didnt make four other babylon shows? i kno what happens to them.. ------------------ IP: Logged |
MariRumpus Newbie Posts: 5 |
posted June 17, 2002 09:55
quote: Well, for the longest time the SciFi channel was showing every episode of B5 in order at 7:00 p.m. on weeknights, about as mainstream as you can get. I saw it all the way through at least three times that way. I picked it up in the second season of its original run, which was a good idea, since the first season sucked pretty bad, even though you need the info to figure out the rest of the show. I like it because it's intelligent SF, stuff that takes an actively angaged brain to figure out. Politics that pull no punches. And because it had stuff from _The Demolished Man_ in it, with a nod in the form of the author-character, Al Bester, easily one of the creeepiest villains around, if only because he's so reasonable (and played by ST TOS Ensign Checkov!). _The Domeolished Man_ was the first novel ever to win the Hugo Award, the biggest award in SF. It was written more than half a century ago, and remains one of the greatest Sf books ever written. That JMS (a damn fine writer in his own regard) could successfully incorporate its ideas and ideals into B5 speaks very well of him. SF is the literature of ideas, and JMS proves that it can successfully translate to the small screen. We all watch the various incarnations of Star Trek, even if it is High Camp. I watch it for the same reason my kitchen resembles an authentic 1950's diner. But it's terrible. It was originally amrketed as a western in space, _Wagon Train_ to the stars, as I believe Roddenberry pitched it. There's no thought to the plots, no overarching storyline. No character ever changes significantly, which is the whole point of character development. And every ST show has to have some chick with "huge tracts of land" in an outfit that wouldn't cover a grape, just to get the target demo to tune in. :::shrugging::: It's never grown beyond the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later 1960's western mentality. I'm also a fan of the SF anthology shows, back to the original _The Twilight Zone_ and _Outer Limits_. Some very difficult concepts can be explored in a show like that, with no worry about returning characters. ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 17, 2002 15:26
ive changed my mind.. i think the best scifi show out there is Roswell... it has some good ideas... or it did.. i didnt watch it this past season.. now if only they would get rid of teenagers it would be a good show or how about this... The Adventures of Jar Jar *crosses fingers* i hope george thinks of doing that.. it would make a great show ------------------ IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 17, 2002 16:53
quote: ahhh, but after the pilot, the whole plot would be the hunt of jar jar ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 17, 2002 19:36
no jon.. the world loves jar jar.. thats why episode 1 made a one billion gross worldwide at least according to lucas it did.. ------------------ IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 18, 2002 03:53
quote: ay2k doesnt like jar jar (before ep2 when in the side comic anakin chops off jar jar's head) ------------------ IP: Logged |
DigitalBill Alpha Geek Posts: 319 |
posted June 18, 2002 06:31
I'm glad someone mentioned Farscape... Though I'm surprised it took so long to come up. They're doing the most innovative and character-driven stuff in Genre TV today, picking up the Torch from Babylon 5. B5 was the most ambitious series ever done. a single 5-year story, comprised of 5 1-year stories, where the characters actually changed and grew. Other favorites, in no particular order: =bd IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 18, 2002 11:24
quote: lol yeah, i could follow e:fc for a while, but then when they strap the woman into the plane and send her off, i knda lost it ------------------ IP: Logged |
Twinkle Toes Highlie Posts: 501 |
posted June 18, 2002 12:08
I like StarTrek, old and new. I don't, however, really enjoy Voyager... too modern and fake-looking effects, makeup, etc. for me. It's just not really exciting. I miss the Tribbles (even though Ewoks still rock!) But is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel? And are they still running? Tom Servo was the cutest talking gumball machine I'd ever seen... and Joel was a super geek, was he not? What about Red Dwarf?? I loved Kryton... And where the hell did Monty Python go?!? - sorry, just getting more and more into PBS... ------------------ IP: Logged |
ilovemydualg4 Alpha Geek Posts: 292 |
posted June 18, 2002 12:15
quote: mystery science theater 3000 still is there... i have tribbles on dvd ------------------ IP: Logged |
SpikeSpiegel Super Geek Posts: 110 |
posted June 18, 2002 15:03
monty python wuz the shiznit..
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LifetimeTrekker Highlie Posts: 527 |
posted June 18, 2002 18:16
quote: I agree about the Treks...There was TREK(TOS), TREK LITE(TNG--all of the outer space, less action), DIET TREK (DS9--didn't move around much, more action, but why did they keep the kid? At least TNG got rid of Pestley!) and TREK FREE (No sugar, no caffeine.) MST3K is, sadly, out of production. They really killed the series, by blowing up the satellite and sending Mike (Joel's replacement) and the 'bots to live in Milwaukee to joke about bad movies in their living room. Reruns of the last two or three seasons are played weekly on SciFi, I think they're on Saturday mornings. RED DWARF is currently in production as a feature motion picture. 'Tis a pity, I'd kill for new episodes. I have most of the seasons on video tape and I'm waiting for DVD issues. MONTY PYTHON has been out of television production since the 70s...every bit you see is over 20 years old. But, it's first-run until you've seen it. Sadly, one of the members, Graham Chapman, has passed on, so a full cast reunion will not be possible, unless they gather his ashes and display his urn prominently--which wouldn't surprise me if they did! IP: Logged |
LifetimeTrekker Highlie Posts: 527 |
posted June 18, 2002 18:18
BTW, I love the old OUTER LIMITS. I just feel that the photography, while still in black and white, was so superior to what is being done today. Black and white, color, it's all the same to me...I forget it is monochromatic. IP: Logged |
matt Newbie Posts: 8 |
posted June 22, 2002 07:22
Well most of the shows that i like have been listed, bar one, its old but i think it was great...Blakes 7...you have to love orac Come to think of it, star fleet (x-bomber outside uk, i think) was pretty kewl too. IP: Logged |
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