favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

topic posted Sun, September 27, 2009 - 8:52 PM by  lorenzo
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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??
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  • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

    Sun, September 27, 2009 - 9:27 PM
    Well 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.
    • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

      Sun, September 27, 2009 - 9:30 PM
      I haven't heard of Torchwood or Lexx. . .

      Doing a little research, I just found out about Fringe and Dollhouse, but I don't know much about those yet. .
      • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

        Mon, September 28, 2009 - 3:47 AM
        I 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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          Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

          Mon, September 28, 2009 - 4:23 AM
          Fringe 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

          Defying Gravity is cool with that Office Space guy
          • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

            Mon, September 28, 2009 - 11:18 AM
            I'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 - 12:42 PM
              defying 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.
              Shame on them
              • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

                Mon, September 28, 2009 - 1:19 PM
                Well, 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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      Sat, November 14, 2009 - 1:21 AM
      Red 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!
  • Re: favorite modern sci fi tv series. . .

    Tue, October 13, 2009 - 12:41 PM
    Still 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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      Thu, October 29, 2009 - 2:21 PM
      Dollhouse 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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