Which is best?
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Two things: 1) I can't believe I used to watch that ... It was so cheesy! 2) Thanks so much for helping waste time on it yet again.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Not a franchise, but a worthwhile watch: Dark Matter[^]. Writing, acting, and production values are pretty good. Definitely worth a re-watch for me.
Software Zen:
delete this;I watched it all, but didn't like the physics in it. The "blink drive" bugged me especially. "Oh let's plug this chip into our existing drive and all of a sudden we can be anywhere in the universe instantaneously."
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Season One was dreadful - really, it was pretty poor. But unfortunately you really need to plod through it to get the most out of the rest - and, my own criticisms notwithstanding, it does improve, greatly. Personally I found Star Trek boring, and poorly acted. Voyager was alright, at least it had some more interesting characters and a sense of humour, but none of the rest of the ST franchise does much for me.
If a show needs more than a season to find its stride - especially back at a time when a season meant a full two dozen episodes - then it's off my list. As for Voyager - to me this one's near the bottom of the list, because by that time they had seriously run out of ideas. Of course that might not be that obvious if you haven't already seen everything that came before it. Only Enterprise is worse.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
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Luke Skywalker with his trusty sonic screwdriver, fixed the dilithium crystal chamber so that the stargate could be powered. All good in their own way.
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I watched it all, but didn't like the physics in it. The "blink drive" bugged me especially. "Oh let's plug this chip into our existing drive and all of a sudden we can be anywhere in the universe instantaneously."
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
Hooga Booga wrote:
"Oh let's plug this chip into our existing drive and all of a sudden we can be anywhere in the universe instantaneously."
I think it's called willing suspension of disbelief. It sounds like you need to stretch more :-D.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Third Rock from the Sun, hands down. John Lithgow Is terrific. He was even better in Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension, my favorite movie. Also look at Repo Man, a close 2nd in the movies category.
"Newer" is NOT automatically better, only Different. (And more complex and bug ridden when it comes to all of the "boutique" languages / frameworks out there)
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
If it qualifies, I'd have to toss in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD. SHIELD is/was a huge part of the Avengers, Captain America and Thor franchises and they credibly resurrected Agent Coulson in the TV series. It's up to season 5 and going strong. Aside from Clark Gregg (Coulson), several of the cast from the movies make appearances in the TV series. It's sort of "X-Files meets Mission: Impossible." Great show.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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I really like The Expanse, whose third season is planned to air on April, 11th. A story where Earth is confronted to two other entities who arose upon space conquest: Mars, and its military-based society, and the people living in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. If you did not see it yet, you may enjoy it.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
I've seen an episode or two and liked them although they seemed a bit slow. I had forgotten about the show. Maybe I should give it another try.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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I've seen an episode or two and liked them although they seemed a bit slow. I had forgotten about the show. Maybe I should give it another try.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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I can get that, the first episodes take their time to install the characters and describe the geopolitical situation of the show. You may enjoy it if you can get past them.
"I'm neither for nor against, on the contrary." John Middle
I believe it's available on iTunes so I may try it again.
Sometimes the true reward for completing a task is not the money, but instead the satisfaction of a job well done. But it's usually the money.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
For me, hands down Stargate-SG1 was the best of all the sci-fi franchises produced for television, followed by Battlestar Galactica... Planning on buying the entire SG1 series to see it all over again... :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
There is only one: Red Dwarf Never take the future seriously. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who? I barely remember Hartnell, I admit. I saw some of them, but I was young. Some of the Troughton episodes were, for their time, very good and scary - yetis roaming the London Underground system is one I remember well and it was well scary for it's time. Pertwee was a great Doctor, too. That era, with the continuing story of the Brigadier (a descendent of whom appeared in a recent Capaldi episode IIRC), and the story The green death in particular, was a classic. Ice warriors, Silurians, Cyber men, Daleks ... great enemies.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Star Trek Star Wars Stargate
Wait... These are not the same?
Star Wars: dumb fantasy for children. Star Trek: documentary of future events. Stargate: the truth about pyramids. :)
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What! No one mentioned Tomorrow People? The UK one (70's). And there was; UFO ('70's) Some good Brit Sci Fi. And for the silliness: Lost In Space (70's). (at the time thought Judy was cute and always hoped Dr. Smith or Robot would really obliterate the snotnose Will.) And let's not forget TorchWood - Dr. Who spinoff but grown up and with more action.
UFO was a great series. It's unfortunate that Space 1999 replaced UFO season 2. :(( As I remember, the first episode or two of Lost in Space seemed fairly serious. Then they bought express tickets on the crazy train. I like that the galactic currency was the Squandrill. On the anime end of things, Planetes (2003-2004) is more hard SF than space opera, and has a political backdrop that goes beyond the usual cardboard cutouts. Legend of the Galactic Heroes (starting in 1988) is pretty interesting, though since it was an OVA series with zillions of episodes, instead of TV, they did a lot to economize on animation. The author of the books it's based on is a major history fan, and it shows. It features a war between a dictatorial empire that is reforming itself, vs a corrupt democracy. It isn't "Good vs Bad" - both sides have their good and bad points. (It's also a little David Weber-ish -- fleets of hundreds of huge ships obliterating each other.
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For me, hands down Stargate-SG1 was the best of all the sci-fi franchises produced for television, followed by Battlestar Galactica... Planning on buying the entire SG1 series to see it all over again... :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
All on Hulu, if you are able to get it.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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How "early" do you go with Dr. Who? I barely remember Hartnell, I admit. I saw some of them, but I was young. Some of the Troughton episodes were, for their time, very good and scary - yetis roaming the London Underground system is one I remember well and it was well scary for it's time. Pertwee was a great Doctor, too. That era, with the continuing story of the Brigadier (a descendent of whom appeared in a recent Capaldi episode IIRC), and the story The green death in particular, was a classic. Ice warriors, Silurians, Cyber men, Daleks ... great enemies.
Alister Morton wrote:
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who?
Early but they are for canon; the more modern Dr Who (especially with Tennant) is the best.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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Alister Morton wrote:
How "early" do you go with Dr. Who?
Early but they are for canon; the more modern Dr Who (especially with Tennant) is the best.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
In the modern "reboot" era, Tennant was excellent, redefined the Doctor. Smith, Capaldi, not as good, which was disappointing. Eccleston had his moments. Tom Baker still takes some beating, mind.
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
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For me, there are really only 4 TV/film sci-fi franchises: Dr Who Star Trek Star Wars Stargate I'm not that keen on Star Wars and some of the early Dr Who is pretty poor. Been watching some early Stargate and it was very good. Which is your favorite? Have I missed any? Honorable mention: Firefly/Serenity. Would have been the best of the best. Sigh. [EDIT] To clarify: I mean shows where there are both TV and film episodes as well as spin-off or secondary series (like Torchwood).
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer. The End
Someone watched Heaven (The name of a fictitious town in New England) ? That was mostly quite good, but a few seasons were weak compare to the others.
Gilles Plante