Your Favourite SF TV Series ever & Why. by chrisisall

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Your Favourite SF TV Series ever & Why.

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Friday, October 22, 2010 04:46
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Friday, October 15, 2010 2:09 PM

Okay, everyone here knows Serenity is my favourite movie of all time, but my favourite series?

I dearly love Firefly and Dark Angel, however, my favourite series on TV has been, and ever shall be, Star Trek.

A dichotomy? My favourite series depicts future harmony, and my favourite movie depicts future discord.

I guess I'm... complicated.

How about y'all?

The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, October 15, 2010 4:31 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Firefly, FTW!

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Friday, October 15, 2010 4:57 PM

OUT2THEBLACK

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

A dichotomy? My favourite series depicts future harmony, and my favourite movie depicts future discord.

I guess I'm... complicated.

How about y'all?

You're not just complicated , you are also something of a puzzle...

Like , one thing that I don't quite get , is how some Folk hereabouts spell some words in the King's English , and they're not even British...

Not sayin' you're the only one...

Anyways , back to your question.

Firefly , of course.

Second , Earth2.
My favorite scifi TV show prior to Firefly...They had a decent run , with about 2x the number of eps , but without a satisfying Summer-ization ala Serenity...

Admittedly , I'm an Alba-lover too...Even though I'm pretty 'Normal' in real life , I could get a little lickity widdat chick...

Were she unwed...
Whut the firetruck ?

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:33 AM

LWAVES

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Originally posted by out2theblack:
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Originally posted by chrisisall:

A dichotomy? My favourite series depicts future harmony, and my favourite movie depicts future discord.

You're not just complicated , you are also something of a puzzle...

Like , one thing that I don't quite get , is how some Folk hereabouts spell some words in the King's English , and they're not even British...

Not sayin' you're the only one...

I assume you are referring to Chris's spelling of 'favourite' instead of 'favorite'?
He is, of course, spelling it the correct way, as it should be. Nice one Chris. The fact that most Americans spell it wrong is their problem just like the way they spell 'color' instead of 'colour' and 'honor' instead of 'honour'.
In the not quite right words of Jack Nicholson "You can't handle the U."
Just for curiousity how do Canadians spell these words? Do they use the 'u' or not?

Anywho back on track.
I would probably have to say Firefly as well just because of the way it has influenced me. It brought me to this site and I still love visiting here and it's the only forum that has kept my interest. But, as we know, we didn't get much of it and sometimes I do wonder if we'd all feel the exactly the same way had we got several seasons and seen some of the inevitable 'lesser' episodes.

For longer running series I really love Star Trek TOS, I quite like DS9, can't stand TNG and have middling views on Voyager and Enterprise. The ensemble cast worked well, for it's time, and it has had such an influence on more modern shows.

I have to add Lost as well. Not to everyone's taste but I don't think another show has pulled me in as much as this one with it's story and characters except maybe Firefly. It had it's weaker spots, like any long running show, and I can understand why people didn't like it but for me I loved every bit of it and fall into the 50% that even liked the ending.

I'd also add The X-Files for it's early to middle seasons. This was the first show I remember watching that had an ongoing arc mixed in with the 'monster of the week' episodes. It was an arc that really caught me and I loved trying to figure it out.

I would put Buffy down as well but I don't consider it to be scifi like others do. To me it's supernatural fantasy not science fiction and it is something that bugs me when folks class it as scifi.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:17 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

FIREFLY without a doubt. I'm not a Star Trek fan at all. In fact for the most part Star Trek put me off sci-fi. Thereafter it probably has to be Red Dwarf or V (the original V from the 80's - not the new thing). LOST is obviously sci-fi but not enough for me to consider it within this category.

So yup:
FIREFLY - way, way ahead of anything else....
RED DWARF
and
V (80's)

Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 6:04 AM

IMNOTHERE

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The fact that most Americans spell it wrong is their problem just like the way they spell 'color' instead of 'colour' and 'honor' instead of 'honour'.

Well, speaking as someone perfectly entitled to use the Queen's English (check your 20th Century History - she still aint'nt dead!) I'm going to have to wave the flag and go with Doctor Who, if only because (apart from 15 years in the wilderness with only books and radio plays) its always been there.

Despite it being partly aimed at kids (and the Doc occasionally getting a touch too messianic), I find it less preachy and patronising than, say, the Star Trek spinoffs (Voyager in particular was horribly PC and preachy). Plus, the revised version is awfully ambitious in what it tries to do on a British-sized budget (far less dependent on standing sets and a large regular cast than, say Trek with a new location, a new monster (and cast of victims) in every episode.

Plus it gets marks for impact - it might not be obvious from the other side of the pond, but its one of the biggest shows on British TV (probably the biggest after soaps and Simon

Cowell).

Don't push me too hard to choose between that and Firefly, though - how do you compare 756 episodes and counting with 14 episodes and an untimely demise?

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 7:54 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by out2theblack:

Anyways , back to your question.

Firefly , of course.

Prior to the release of the Trek TOS eps with the cleaned-up FX, I would have said Firefly. But the new visuals just let me enjoy the shows SO MUCH MORE (not dragged out of the story anymore wishing for decent opticals)- it just barely edges out our BDH's for me.
Barely.

If I could call it a tie, it'd go like this:
#1 Firefly/ Star Trek
#2 Dark Angel

However, no Trek film (or movie of any kind, for that matter) comes close to Serenity for me.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:05 PM

VERASAMUELS

FIREFLY!!!

[Though 'Chuck' is running into current second place]

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 12:27 AM

BORIS

Firefly because it resonates with me. That's my ideal world and circumstance. second to that it's Battlestar Galactica the original for sentimental reasons. I just thought is was so cool and edgy compared to all the sci fi I had seen up until that point...of course seeing the Empire Strikes Back completely blew that perception but i still have a fondness for Starbuck and Apollo et al., plus the Cylons and some of the other aliens were so beleivably scary compared to the baddies on Star Trek and Dr Who. And the special effects kicked ass...at the time. I liked watching Dr Who and Star trek and Lost in space but I was never that passionate about them. Exception being the Christopher Eccelston and David Tennant seasons.I watched about two episodes of Tomorrow People and just hated it. Current faves include Life on Mars (British version), Ashes to Ashes and Being Human.
Rose S

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:05 AM

WHOZIT

"Firefly" will always be my fav, but "Fringe" is my fav that's on the air. I would love to start my own "Fringe" fan site, but I know very little about computers so that'll never happen

Those arn't boobs, they're lies! - Stewie Griffin

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:35 AM

OPPYH

Kind of hard to pick favorite for me. I love sci-fi just in general. If a series is more than decent to me, I consider it a favorite. So in no order other than my all time #1 favorite.
1. Star Trek TOS.
What's not to like about the original series?

-Planet of the Apes

-Space 1999

-Star Trek TNG

-Firefly

-Star Trek animated

-Twilight Zone

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70's TV FOREVER

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:23 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by OPPYH:

-Space 1999

I remember that series had a strange hypnotic quality- the photography, the music...

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:14 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
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Originally posted by OPPYH:

-Space 1999

I remember that series had a strange hypnotic quality-

Or were you just stoned?

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:21 AM

CHRISISALL

LOL, no, that wasn't my thing.
"Geek."
Remember?

No, it just always looked & sounded great to me. Very high production values.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:23 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Well, that was my thing for a few years, and I know there are things I thought were way cool back then that seem very lame now.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:25 AM

CHRISISALL

Only thing I ever saw stoned was Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and THAT was a mistake. It scared the S**T outta me like that!
No friend of the evil weed am I.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:27 AM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

If I could call it a tie, it'd go like this:
#1 Firefly/ Star Trek
#2 Dark Angel

#3 CHUCK (it's SF, right?)
#4 The Outer Limits
#5 Planet Of The Apes

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:35 AM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

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Just for curiousity how do Canadians spell these words? Do they use the 'u' or not?

We spell with the "U," officially. Though other words we use the American spelling for odd reasons...

For me, Firefly is the Numero Uno, but it's closely followed by:

- Doctor Who

- Red Dwarf (got the entire series and Back to Earth on DVD)

- Dark Angel

- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

- Legend (Richard Dean Anderson and John DeLancie as a drunken penny dreadful novelist and a crazy inventor? You bet your pigu it's awesome! Plus it's like a proto-Firefly or a post-Brisco County Jr. with it's steampunk-western fusion themes)

- Space Precinct (Gerry Anderson does a police procedural on an alien planet? Sold!)

"The revenge of the beaten comes in refusing to fall." -- Mal, in "The Losing Side - Chapter 45" by jetflair

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 11:35 AM

BLUEEYEDBRIGADIER

Quote:
Just for curiousity how do Canadians spell these words? Do they use the 'u' or not?

We spell with the "U," officially. Though other words we use the American spelling for odd reasons...

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 2:50 PM

CHRISISALL

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Originally posted by BlueEyedBrigadier:

- Dark Angel

Quote:

- Space Precinct (Gerry Anderson does a police procedural on an alien planet? Sold!)

THAT was a fun show!!!

The laughing Chrisisall

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Sunday, October 17, 2010 3:20 PM

TRAVELER

Men into Space was the show that introduced me to serious science fiction. I still have a memory of one of the episodes. I can't say that about to many other shows from that time period, science fiction or not.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:25 PM

IMNOTHERE

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:
Originally posted by OPPYH:

-Space 1999

I remember that series had a strange hypnotic quality- the photography, the music...

Hmm - giant tentacled monsters spitting out digested corpses; people entombed alive and conscious in suspended animation chambers... when I first saw it it scared the bejeezus out of me (but I was fairly young at the time).

However, that doesn't compete on the scare-ometer with watching Doctor Who in the 1970s during a miners strike when you knew that sometime during the show the power was going to go off and you would be plunged into darkness. (The Curse of Peladon I think).

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:48 PM

STORYMARK

I'd like to say Firefly, but I don't really even count it as a series, as short lived as it was. I classify it as a mini-series.

My favorite strict "sci-fi" show would be Babylon 5. As bad as the FX look these days, and as cheesy as the acting could be, nothing holds up to it as for as writing goes.

LOST and Star Trek DS9 would be my runners-up.

My favorite "fantasy" series (I assume we are considering that an alternate category) would be probably Highlander. Granted, it's often not very good, gets very melodramatic, and is very dated. But hey, I still dig it.

Better shows that I also love (that just don't quite hit that "favorite" sweet spot for whatever reason) would be Buffy and Angel.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:59 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER

Firefly of course

Star Trek DS9 I loved DS9 cause they stayed, more or less, in one location and built a fascinating 'verse around them with recurring characters and the like that kept if from feeling the "planet of the week" roaming spaceship show like the other treks. 'Course, I imagine they were called Star Trek for a reason...

Stargate SG-1 How can you not like it, they've got fricken Macguyver in charge! The other three are amusing characters as well. I haven't scene Atlantis or Universe yet, but I doubt they can match the awesome that is SG-1.

Chuck Clumsy nerd spy hero + Jayne, oh sorry I mean Casey = awesome!

Star Trek original Series This might climb up the list as I see more of them. Something about the characters Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are just more interesting than most characters I'm used to seeing in modern television.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:09 PM

GREENKA61

A dichotomy? My favourite series depicts future harmony, and my favourite movie depicts future discord.
*****

I guess I'm... complicated.

I guess I'm complicated too, because I understand your dichotomy. I used to like Trek a lot - DS9 was my favorite because it was the first of the Treks to feature a Starfleet officer who was a jerk (at least for the first season)That, to me was realistic.

But actually, aside from Firefly, my favorite sci-fi show is either The Wild Wild West (which I consider to be steampunk) or Lost. I guess neither of them are traditional scifi, but in my mind, they fit.

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. --Teilhard de Chardin

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Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:30 AM

JONGSSTRAW

My favorite TV show of all time is definitely Star Trek. With 79 episodes, there are enough to always keep it fairly fresh. As I get older I appreciate the genius of the show, the actors, and the production team. I love Star Trek more today than at any other time in the past.

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Friday, October 22, 2010 4:46 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Six Million Dollar Man.

Firefly.

Dark Angel.

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