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i have to get the dvd's or watch online, so please make some recommends. .
i liked Dark Angel the best, The Dresden Files and Firefly. . .after that maybe Heroes, season one.
any other suggestions? I don't really watch tv and there's whole shows that I know nothing about.
Angel is an example. . .I know it is an off shoot from Buffy, which I didn't get too excited about. . .but maybe it's good.
Did you like it? Or what others??
i liked Dark Angel the best, The Dresden Files and Firefly. . .after that maybe Heroes, season one.
any other suggestions? I don't really watch tv and there's whole shows that I know nothing about.
Angel is an example. . .I know it is an off shoot from Buffy, which I didn't get too excited about. . .but maybe it's good.
Did you like it? Or what others??
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Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .
Sun, September 27, 2009 - 9:27 PMWell of course there's the new Doctor Who. If you like that, then there's Torchwood. I'd also recommend Babylon 5 (it really does get better after season 1, but you MUST start with season 1), Lexx (completely bizarre, surreal, and erotic), and Max Headroom (mid-80s, WAY ahead of its time). An awful lot of people like the new Battlestar Galactica, but I haven't even finished the first season yet, so I can't really say much about it, except that it's extraordinarily well done, but very dark. If you like sci-fi comedy, the gold standard is the British series Red Dwarf. -
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Sun, September 27, 2009 - 9:30 PMI haven't heard of Torchwood or Lexx. . .
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Sun, September 27, 2009 - 10:24 PMJust checked Wikipedia and both series sound pretty interesting in concept, although it seems that Dollhouse started out a little erratic, but during the season gained strength. .
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Sun, September 27, 2009 - 10:34 PMTorchwood sounds great. . .thanks for the suggestions, Enrika!!
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 3:47 AMI liked season 1 of Fringe quite a bit. I'm not yet convinced that season 2 is going to measure up.
I liked Dollhouse as well, but you have to get maybe five or six episodes in before it starts to get good, so exercise some patience.
Torchwood is a Doctor Who spinoff series. Lexx was a combined Canadian/German effort, I think, and it's a *total* trip. Make sure you get the DVDs as opposed to watching the version that was broadcast in the U.S., since a lot of it was censored (it was *full* of sex). It's like one long surreal erotic nightmare. It's awesome. :) -
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 4:23 AMFringe is a lot of fun if you don't take it too seriously
just watched the pilot of a new show on ABC called Flashforward and it looks promising
they took the sarah conners chronicles off dammit that was really cool
and they took off Life on Mars which I thought was one of the best shows ever
Warehouse 13 sort of sucks but i've been watching it
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 11:18 AMI'd put Lost into the mix as well. Seasons 4 and 5 very sci fi. And if you start watching now, you'll be all caught up for its final season beginning in January.
About Flashforward - I read the book quite some time ago and it was pretty good. From what I understand about the tv show, I think they took the 'idea' from the book and will be going off into a completely different direction.
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 11:30 AM"Fringe is a lot of fun if you don't take it too seriously"
Agreed.
"just watched the pilot of a new show on ABC called Flashforward and it looks promising"
Agreed.
"and they took off Life on Mars which I thought was one of the best shows ever"
I would agree with that, if the ending wasn't such a steaming pile of horseshit. I felt *thoroughly* cheated. I want those hours of my life back.
"Warehouse 13 sort of sucks but i've been watching it"
Agreed, and same here. It's kind of fun. That's about all I can say about it.
"Defying Gravity is cool with that Office Space guy"
Defying Gravity is AWESOME!! I'm so very pleased with this show so far. It's thoroughly unique.
And, yes, LOST rocks. However, I will say that if they don't end the series well, I'm going to storm ABC studios with a torch and pitchfork. At least Life on Mars only lasted one season. -
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 11:37 AMAnd don't forget "Deadwood." People just "think" that's a western.
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 12:42 PMdefying gravity is the only really good sci fi show on. Plus Office Space was a really iconic piece of art and it hit me like a ton of bricks - seriously - and it was hilarious!
damn a little gay for him and i can't remember his name??
O man and I so agree about the ending of Life on Mars man there was just no honor in that. So they pulled the show man be professional and keep doing your best. Not like we didn't have to do that we training someone for our job that was about to be canned! They so obviously just said F it and threw out that piece of garbage.
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 1:19 PMWell, my question about the Life on Mars ending is: Was that going to be the deal all along (as far as what was really going on), or was it going to be something totally different, and they changed gears at the last minute when they found out it was getting pulled after one season? They said in an interview near the beginning of the season that they were planning on making the reality behind the main character's predicament totally different from what it was in the British version, but they (obviously) didn't say what it was going to be. If that was the idea all along, then I'm GLAD it only lasted one season, because even if they put together a more polished ending over, say, a couple of episodes, if that was the reality, I still would have felt just as cheated; more cheated, in fact, if it had lasted longer (because I would have wasted even more of my life).
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 3:55 PM>However, I will say that if they don't end the series well, I'm going to storm ABC studios with a torch and pitchfork.
I'm with you on that!
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Sat, November 14, 2009 - 1:21 AMRed Dwarf & Lexx, shit yeah! I can't stand allot of the new "sci-fi" tv shows(BSG,LOST,HEROES...) but I'm really starting to dig Torchwood.
I've seen a bit of the new DR. WHO & It was alright,I'll probably check out more of it.
Oh & They Live is classic gold!
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 2:31 PMThe best-written scifi TV of all time was certainly Blakes7.
4 seasons; easy to find
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 6:09 PMI think they should make a series out of the movie 'Primer'.
Every episode would require charts and graphs to make any sense of.
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 6:20 PMwow. . .meticulous use of spray paint. . .great idea! -
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Mon, September 28, 2009 - 7:23 PMyea these mysterious guys in black suits go around priming everything right
but you don't know what they're gonna do next! Paint - or so you would think!
Join us on FOX for "Primer"
Immediately following a special edition of - Survivor Island: washed up no good cheatin politicians (so many had to find a really really large island) -
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 6:28 PMNo... THIS Primer
www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
DO NOT read the summary and spoilers.
Just watch the movie ever so slowly and nonchalantly reveal what it's really about.
By the time you 'get it', you'll be saying 'I cant f###ing believe this movie is about THIS.'
But it is.
Total lack of any special effects.
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 6:30 PMGot a link handy? :) -
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 6:34 PMHere's a torrent of it: torrentportal.com/details/1...vi.torrent
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 6:39 PMThanks! :) -
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 8:08 PMthat sounds really good!
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 10:00 PMSliders! I liked that one. : ) -
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 10:03 PMIf I recall, I liked Sliders, but it jumped the shark when they changed their main actor. -
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 10:09 PMI don't know that series, but all I can say in response is. . .
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Tue, September 29, 2009 - 10:15 PMhere's a treat, the original soundtrack and the original sound artists. . .moog players eat your heart out. .
www.youtube.com/watch
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Mon, October 5, 2009 - 6:49 PMThere is a new Stargate series that just started, Stargate Universe:
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Mon, October 5, 2009 - 8:24 PMi found it unwatchable but i'm very loyal to the original stargate crew -
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Tue, October 6, 2009 - 8:21 AMMy loyalty is with the Wormhole eXtreme crew.
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Sun, October 11, 2009 - 9:40 AM<<There is a new Stargate series that just started, Stargate Universe: >>
The Robert Carlyle character looks like he might turn into Dr. Baltar from Battlestar Galactica. It'll make the series more edgy. I'll have to see how well they do it before I know if I'll like it or not.
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 6:01 AMI know it's not a tv series but I'm watching District 9 and there is much more to this film than I was expecting. -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 9:16 AMDistrict 9 was *brilliantly* made. Stunning.
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Sun, October 11, 2009 - 7:21 AMIf The Trailer Park Boys isn't sci-fi, I don't know what is.
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Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:41 PMStill waiting for anything to ever reach Blakes7 level... or even half of it.
Dollhouse turned out to be better than it actually is but the 2nd season is threatening to get silly already. I liked the mom instinct ep, though.
Fringe is actually *not* pissing me off which is amazing. Blame Walter; I love the guy. I'm even warming to Dawson's Creek guy as I see now that he is from the other dimension, which explains him and gives him a purpose for existing. What they have done to Astrid's hair is... actionable but I still tune in. Er, click on.
I need things to be well-written so I end up more or less manufacturing decent series in my head and trying to project them onto reality which ends up making me cranky.
Nothing but perhaps certain aspects of Farscape has yet to approach the depth of Blakes7. Finest sf series of all time - even the shitty episodes are better to me than anything else done before or since. I like hard sci fi with grim true-to-life bleakness and ruthless philosophy built in. Or fantastic thought-variant sci fi - the likes of which I haven't really seen since the glimmers of it in Twin Peaks. -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 8:03 AMSeasons 1&2 redeem seasons 2.5+ only if you wait long enough for the stink to fade. Razor was good.
Season 1 suggested B7 level writing was possible. That, in retrospect, is criminal. The choking 3 year end of that series made me fucking nauseated. What a waste. -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 9:16 AMYikes!
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 10:26 AMSorry! I assumed you'd've seen it all by now. Er uh pretend I said "I like the first 2 seasons pretty well; I recommend letting it end *right* there, though, especially if you like it at all, so far" -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 10:33 AM"I recommend letting it end *right* there, though, especially if you like it at all, so far"
Hmmm... Stickboy, and/or anyone else who's seen BSG, what say you to this? -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 11:00 AMSet the controls for the heart of the sun -
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 11:06 AM*laughing*
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Wed, October 14, 2009 - 12:17 PMWho knew? Skinny and Plain are actually vamping it up there.
Ham sammich, Trisha! Make it three! You're just normal, Grace; that's all! Asian ≠ automatically hot!
I'd wet-kiss Bill Adama more readily, myself. Just to freak him out. "Who is this man?" He'd rumble. Then I'd explode into a CGI spacemushroom cloud and that would be the end of the whole "wah wah we're the humans" sob story.
SPOILER:
Season 3 *and* 4 summary: "Space cancer is *so* sad! Let's watch her cry about it for another half hour or so, this week. So sad, so sad - but hey don't worry - because there actually is a Christian god!"
PS: re: Primer (and a semiSPOILER alert)
Great film; too bad about the audio - I mean, for a flick in which dialogue is ultraimportant I feel like some effort could have gone into making it intelligible in the middle there. The thing about that one is: how much sympathy can you generate for someone you kind of actually don't care at all about? I'm sitting here watching dude suffer... OK.... am I supposed to be feeling something, here? Die, dude, die. You deserve it. As for the science of it - holy SHIT that was a great premise. *Brilliantly* nay *perfectly* handled. But yeah... go ahead and just die, protagonist dude. Quicker. -
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Thu, October 29, 2009 - 1:37 AMGrace is pretty hot
people.tribe.net/freethewe...dda7c88710
I've lived with like 200+ asian girls and I would rank her way up there -
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Thu, October 29, 2009 - 2:20 PMDiffernt strokes, I guess. I'm not sure how the living with asian girls affects attractiveness, but hey: rock out. I bet she's hard to get next to, in any case!
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Thu, October 29, 2009 - 2:21 PMDollhouse has taken a sharp turn toward being intriguing. How unexpected! It's as if they were listening to my thoughts (now *theres* a hot asian lady SB; see? we're wired differnt) So the whole Joss Whedon thing is being eeeever so slightly vindicated.
In these cases, the network tends to be the joy killer... let's pray they keep their stupid mitts off it
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Mon, October 26, 2009 - 10:49 PMdoes highlander count? -
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Mon, October 26, 2009 - 10:54 PMsure. . -
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Mon, October 26, 2009 - 10:56 PMi don't really watch tv but i have seen the dvd's and watched some stuff on the web.
my favorites were Dark Angel and Firefly. . .both of those delighted me.
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Tue, October 27, 2009 - 12:08 AMtime traveling immortals trying to kill each other spanning basically the history of time. great saturday night television on wpwr. -
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Thu, October 29, 2009 - 1:14 AMwith decapitation by sword.
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 11:14 AMBringing this thread back to the top: I watched the original V miniseries when it was on syfy the other night and just now watched the new V pilot. The new series is going to be some awesome scifi, because the original provided a lot to build upon. Hulu won't have the pilot up until the 7th, but you can watch it on ninjavideo.net or elsewhere on the net. -
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 11:31 AMI enjoyed the new V as well, but my roommate HATED it. She said it was poorly written and lacked any semblance of subtlety, and it conveyed a very-thinly-veiled politically conservative message; an apparently ethnically diverse group of people bringing a message of "hope" and "change," and providing "universal health care," who are actually evil aliens who want to destroy us and must be stopped at all costs. (Oh, and she also made the observation that one of the complaints Republicans had before the last election was that the Obama campaign had the media in their pocket and so they refused to ask tough questions, like the one-on-one interview with the V leader.)
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 11:45 AMThat is what makes it great scifi... these aliens are totally scary because they appear exactly like humans and they bring the promise of a better world with healing and very advanced technology, but enslavement is their ultimate goal. I love "They Live," so this is going to be a treat for me. -
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 11:50 AM"They Live" is *awesome*. :) (She hated that, too.) So is "Cripple Fight." :) -
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Thu, November 26, 2009 - 9:04 AMThere is a new SciFi series, Paradox, first episode aired yesterday. It's up on ninjavideo if it doesn't make it to hulu. -
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Thu, November 26, 2009 - 9:06 AMBy the way it is a BBC show: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para...TV_series) -
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Thu, November 26, 2009 - 9:34 AMThanks SB, we'll have to take a look at it. . -
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Yesterday, 7:04 AMI'm enjoying it so far. 3 episodes have aired.
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