Favorite Sci-Fi? Why? Hi!

POSTED BY: Quicksand
UPDATED: Monday, June 28, 2004 13:17
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QUICKSAND

Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:25 AM

I was wondering what sort of futuristic Sci-Fi all you browncoats were into before you got into "Firefly" .... and also during and after "Firefly," and how "Firefly" affected the sci-fi you watch (or read).

I read in another thread how so-and-so liked "The Chronicles of Riddick" ... and while I maintain that the movie DID NOT suck, there are better sci-fi epics from our generation... among them, The Empire Strikes Back, and the directors cut of Aliens.

Who's with me?

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KOHAN

Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:26 AM

I am down with aliens, not too sure about that whole SW:ESB thing.... are you sure you didn't mean to say ATTACK OF THE CLONES?!!

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

BUZZARD

Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:27 AM

I grew up watching all the cheesy 70's apocalyptic sci fi movies like The Omega Man, The Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, Japanese monster movies (I think some were futuristic), THX1138, and others. Those movies had a big effect on me in my formitive years.

I hadn't thought about it too much, but that's probably one of the reasons why I like Firefly. Besides all it's other qualities, Firefly has a similar apocalypic cheese flavor.

IMHO: The Empire Strikes Back is great, The Chronicles of Riddick is a bit ridiculous but OK, and the directors cut of Aliens is not as good as the original cut. I did like the directors cut of Blade Runner better than the original. The author Larry Niven is one of the best in sci fi.

QUICKSAND

Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:03 AM

I'm sure that person didn't REALLY mean to imply that "Attack of the Clones" was a great sci-fi epic. Unless someone Carbon-Freezes JarJar, there's no comparison.

The directors cut of "Aliens" was EPIC. It was a far, far better film... replacing all the little nuances that scared the bejeezus out of the studio in 1986. This was Cameron's 2nd finished film as director. No WAY would they go for a 3-hour cut. Of course, 11 years later with "Titanic," the studio let him make the movie as long as he wanted.... and he won 7 Oscars. You decide. ;)

I gotta pick the directors cut, yo. Like the directors cut of "The Abyss" it's just so... so... MORE.

KOHAN

Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:41 AM

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Originally posted by Quicksand:

I gotta pick the directors cut, yo. Like the directors cut of "The Abyss" it's just so... so... MORE.

yeah.... I know what you mean by.... MORE

kinda like "The Lord of the Rings" MORE

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

QUICKSAND

Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:56 AM

Well, yeah. Sort of.

The DC of "Aliens" was sweet because it made an action movie into an Epic Film. Ditto on "The Abyss." It fleshed it out more and made it, like, larger... emotionally larger, if I'm making sense.

Lord of the Rings, to me, was big physically but not so much, emotionally. If I want THAT story fleshed out, I'll read the books. ;)

Plus, anyway, LOTR isn't Sci-Fi... it's Fantasy. So there.

CANDALL

Thursday, June 17, 2004 6:59 AM

Believe it or not, the only Sci-Fi show I've really gotten invested in other than Firefly was Nickelodeon's Space Cases.

I had no idea that Jewel Staite was involved in Firefly until my girlfriend and I sat scratching our heads for a few moments trying to remember where we've seen that actress before, and I recognized her... many years older and not wearing a rainbow wig.

As far as the lack of investment in Sci-Fi... it's not that I have anything against it, it's just that most of the more Sci-Fi-ish material out there... especially on TV... just isn't for me.

KOHAN

Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:02 AM

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Originally posted by Quicksand:

Plus, anyway, LOTR isn't Sci-Fi... it's Fantasy. So there.

oh hush..

I mean... there is... sorta, umm... science in LOTR.... yeah, sorta

"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

IDEFIX

Thursday, June 17, 2004 12:44 PM

I was a scaper (and still am) before Firefly came along.

Farscape and Firefly seem to have nothing in common with the almost only aliens <-> no aliens. but if you take a closer look they have some things in common that StarTrek, B5 and co don't. they are somewhat anarchistic. the big 'civilised' mititary presence are the bad guys. the group of underdogs are the heroes, or not. as they don't always have to be heroic, they need to survive first. that's something that's appealing to me. I always had a problem with chain-of-command stuff. so Simon did right (drugging Jayne before he could go get his chain of command) ;o)

plus I don't like the 'humans are superior' shit that most SciFi seems to establish. aliens are bad and humans are good and better. I sincerly hope there are better people out there somewhere. we can't possibly be the best there is. that would be too depressing for me. so I don't like SciFi where the humans are the leaders somehow.

and Farscape is more demanding and coherent and realistic and fresh than most SciFi. something I saw in Firefly too, despite it's short run. you can see it in Buffy and Angel too, to a degree. I love shows that make me watch with my brain switched on.

Idefix

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Thursday, June 17, 2004 1:01 PM

I've always been a big Sci-Fi buff, both written and TV/movies. Firefly hasn't changed that, it was a just a particularly good example of TV SF that did things differently. (Well, okay, it did change one thing... it made it harder to watch Enterprise knowing that _that_ survived and Firefly didn't)

Currently my favorite currently-running SF show is Stargate, but there's not a whole lot of competition. Jeremiah and Dead Zone also are pretty good for the most part (what I've seen so far, anyway).

In the past, there were the Treks (mainly TNG and DS9), Quantum Leap, The Prisoner, Nowhere Man, Buffy/Angel of course, Sliders (first two seasons or so anyway).

Farscape was a queer little show. Individual episodes were hit and miss... but over the long term, over the whole show, somehow the whole was much greater than the sum of its parts. The fact that they did things differently than most shows (They actually got back to Earth, and the fact that the 'Two Chrichtons' episode didn't end with one of them dying, and instead both played a significant role for the rest of the year) was a big part of that. So yeah, I'd count that as one of my favorites too. Can't wait till the miniseries (how lucky am I that two of my most recent favorite shows get a second chance after a lot of struggle?)

Probably are a good number of other SF shows I liked, but that's all I can think of now.

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