-The Twilight zone -Stargate Sg1 -the x-files (until season eight)
my current favorite show: black mirror
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@aloysia I'd never heard of black mirror until someone on this post told me about it. I'm just about to start watching it. I'm excited as many people speak highly of it.
@SW-User Science Fiction stories and the suspense is a difficult medium to sustain after one full season. Probably why "Criminal Minds" managed to survive many more seasons. FBI stories can go on almost ad infinitum. But that's just my opinion.
@chrisCA Rock on man. Always a good show. long live the "Rangers."
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@chrisCA I am a J Michael Straczynski fan for his run on Spider-Man and remember speaking to some gentlemen here about whether I might enjoy Babylon 5 as something of a fan of TNG and sci-fi.
I will simply have to consume ALL sci-fi and see for myself. Not a bad plan if I do say so myself. 😀 Might do so in order of when everything was released. Easiest way to not leave anything out and get a sense of what is more or less coherent/retconned out the ass. 👍
@SW-User SHE IS GREAT AS *RED*. TOO BAD I AM NOT A FAN OF THE SHOW...🤷🏻😆
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@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON yes I’m not sure why I like it, the idea of watching people in prison isn’t entertaining yet there’s something loveable about the cast I think.
hi PerthSurfer The Sarah Connor Chronicles Best wishes :)
Sarah Connor [Monologue]: Every family has rules, and we had ours. Keep your head down. Keep your eyes up. Resist the urge to be seen as important or special. Know your exits.
Has anyone been watching the new Star Trek Discovery? What do you think so far? I really like it's dark feel although Stargate Universe went down this path and lost a lot of their followers who liked things brighter and more friendlier. Still, STU was my favourite Sci Fi now i think, so I have high hopes for ST Discovery.
Jean Luc is my favorite and the the one who's name I forget but he is in NCIS now @SW-User
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@Honeylove Ah you mean Scott Bakula, he's really cool. I liked him in Star Trek Enterprise and also in Quantum Leap. Did you ever see that show? from the 90's i think, great sci fi.
Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Star Trek Voyager. My dad loved Babylon V and I never got to see it but in honor of his birthday I'm going to give it a shout out.
So, you know we have a brand new Star Trek with Sir. Patrick Stewart reprising his roLe as captain Jean-Luc Picard. I know that O'Brien will be there too, who else, I am not sure :)
I'm liking The Expanse pretty well. When I was a kid, I loved the 'Kirk & Spock' Star Trek.
I'm a little picky about my science fiction. To me the rules are: postulate a few advances - say faster than light travel plus transporters - and see what kind of a world you can build with that plus existing science. Most TV science fiction (including Star Trek) will introduce new 'advances' just to make particular plot points work. To me that's pure lazy writing.
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@ElwoodBlues I haven't watched the expanse yet but everyone keeps saying it's good so i must give it a try. That's a good point about sci fi's and new advances just to make plot points work. I think a lot of longer running series fall for that at some point.
@Wishingwellguy That is true. Lets not forget the princess Pamela Hensley
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TOS deserves a mention for assisting with civil rights and having massive balls to flip the bird to the establishment arbiters. Always good.
But if we are talking pure genius of creativity: Tie between TNG and new BSG for me.
With an honourable mention of TOS for its own creative merits and using clever analogs to explore philosophy and ask interesting questions. Real sci-fi is always anthropological by nature. It always explores some fear or national mood or basic human condition - and it does so through imaginative means. This is its greatness.
@Cinnia Hi! Well I've had some time and I've downloaded the series of Firefly and I watched the first episode. It's taken me three goes at it because I really wasn't getting into it by the half way mark. But I have persisted and at the three quarters part I'm like... wow!! Now I'm about to watch the second episode and I think it's going to be great! So far just from one episode I really like the captain and how he deals with stuff.
Space 1999. In retrospect, it was really bad. But I liked it just the same, along with classic Doctor Who. [media=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLAsBzOOhLQ]
@SW-User And it was the concept that scared me - I like psychological thrillers, gore is just yeuch But freaky mind shit!!! Yeah
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There is one mockumentary that scared the shit out of me on YouTube. Pox and faking acting but it was a YouTube movie but the story line scared the shit out of me[ it’s called 22After.@BoobooSnafu]
Don't really have one now but at various times it has been, in no particular order: Star Trek Original Series, Dr Who, Doomwatch, Babylon 5, Red Dwarf. All for different reasons of course.
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@ninalanyon All those are great, i think Star Trek was my favourite out of those.
This thread is five years old so I have no idea if I’m on it.. But Star Trek Discovery is right up there now.
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@TheSirfurryanimalWales Yes i'd forgotten about this thread too, but "someone 🤭" brought it back to life, which is great because i'm catching up on some new show ideas from it. I'm behind on Star Trek Discovery so i need to catch up. It's a great series,
So, this Q bears asking: Have you ever seen Sanctuary with guesses WHO? AMANDA TAPPING.........YAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D
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@LunadelobosIAMTHEDRAGON Actually not yet. Everone keeps telling me to see it. I have the series ready to watch, so i must do it, as i liked her in Star gate.
@SW-User im currently watching another series thwfs finished and that's blindspot and also the blacklist I have heaps to watch when I get some free time
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@Aussieman I've heard of both those, i'll have to look them up. I haven't watched a sci fi since the new lost in space finished recently.