Other sci-fi series as good as Firefly

POSTED BY: KillerK
UPDATED: Sunday, October 3, 2004 18:40
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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, October 2, 2004 8:14 PM

I've said it before and I'll say it again !

THERE IS NO SCI FI AS GOOD AS FIREFLY !!

However, Farscape might rank as a very close second but it isn't as good as Firefly for a number of reasons. Most of the reasons Farscape hasn't done as well, or the reasons the alien world is hard to understand have been brought up by other posters but given time Farscape grows into a wonderful show

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....haven't seen a whole lot of Farscape. However, from what I have seen, I can say this: Farscape is far more willing to take risks than Stargate. Sometimes it works out great; sometimes it falls flat on its face. But the willingness to risk is there.

.... Farscape world is rather deep, there are many characters and some episodes are complex. A show like Enterprise you can sit down and watch almost any epsiode and you'll understand what's been happening for the past 30 episodes almost immediately , Farscape isn't like this there are lots of sub-plots with the show, characters evolve and change, and there are many many cool aliens and ideas. Farscape starts out pretty regular , but if you have patience to and pay attention to the details it develops into a Fantastic show. It then becomes a gorgeous, mind-blowing series with the best aliens ever shown on TV, but the show requires viewers to pay attention.

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Farscape, on the other hand... EVERYTHING is overblown and twisted. The start of the show, half the crew of Moya doesn't trust the other half. The characters all have their own problems and angst, and our hero John is literally the runt of the pack to start. The sci-fi cliches that get pulled out are usually stood on end to be a bit zanier, and are used as clubs to beat on our crew, and eventually hammer them together into one hell of a dysfunctional family. The relationships take over the core of the show, really - the sci-fi stuff, their constant on-the-run from enemies, one insane situation after another, all becomes just a backdrop for how these guys start to get along. More importantly, a backdrop for the love story between John and Aeryn, an epic of Herculean and Shakespearean troubles and twists. You can't really miss anything, or you'll miss everything. It gets complicated, it gets messy, and it gets crazy, and then when it gets serious, it gets worse... and that's why the people that love the show, LOVE the show (I happen to be one).

...Yes, the show is an acquired taste...but many Farscape fans (Scapers) are also Browncoats (like me) and the SaveFarscape campaign folks participated in the campaign to save Firefly. Lots of us bought the DVD's, which helped convince the fine folks at Universal to make the BDM. So, you might say that Farscape fans rock just as hard as Browncoats, just at a different party!

I heartily recommend Farscape to Browncoats. Start at the first season, and work your way up, and you'll be fine. You wouldn't want to watch the series out of order and lose interest, would you?

Farscape is a wonderful universe, it can look weird and with all the sub-plots and new creatures it is sometimes hard to understand what is great and where the show is going. However if you pay attention, catch the early episodes and have a little Patience it becomes one of the best shows ever shown on TV.
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If you want to watch a sci-fi show with aliens then Farscape is simply the best.

KIRIKOLI

Saturday, October 2, 2004 9:48 PM

There hasn't been and never will be a show as good as Firefly.

*sigh*

Anyway, my second favorite is Stargate SG-1 but that's been mentioned a coupla times, so let me bring up something new. This isn't really sci-fi and not really fantasy, though it has elements of both...does anyone watch The Dead Zone? I think it's very entertaining.

LINDLEY

Saturday, October 2, 2004 10:25 PM

I watched The Dead Zone regularly in season 1, but I've only caught it sporadically since then.

Another show I watch reguarly is Joan of Arcadia. Don't be scared off by the "religion thing"----a lot of atheists have said they enjoy it as well. I'm agnostic, myself.

I've taken a look at the pilot of Dead Like Me, and that strikes me as another good show. Haven't seen enough to confirm, though.

LENNIER

Sunday, October 3, 2004 12:45 AM

I just have to say, although I think Firefly could eventually have been the best show ever made, I think it's ridiculous to claim that the 14 episodes we got can stand up against the entire run of some of the heaviest hitters out there, certainly not either of joss's other shows! (which in some ways, because they had stronger thematic purpose and style experimentation, as well as being THE best *metaphoric* representation of 'real life' and 'stages of maturity' that exists, actually go a lot farther artistically ...though I definitely think Firefly could have surpassed them given time, because its historical metaphors and future/past fusions and 'in the moment' style have huge untapped potential).
I'm not saying that the best episodes of Firefly aren't amoung the best sci-fi episodes ever made, i'm just saying that collectively these 14 episodes do not amount to the best run in tv history.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy shows that I think are incomparably better than Firefly (for now):
Buffy (season 3-7)
Babylon 5 (season 2-5)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Experimental Serial: Lain
Angel (season 3-5)
and Millennium and Twin Peaks, if you consider their fantasy elements 'large' enough.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy roughly comparable to Firefly:
The Xfiles (season 2-4)
Kino's Journey
The Prisoner
Key: The Metal Idol

good Sci-Fi/Fantasy, but not comparable to Firefly:
Carnivale (!)
Star Trek:TNG (season 2-6)
Star Trek: TOS
Cowboy Bebop
Dune and Children of Dune (miniseries)
Farscape (season 3-4)
Xena (season 3-6)

FLYINFREE

Sunday, October 3, 2004 6:40 PM

Good Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

Babylon 5
Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Buffy
Angel
New Battlestar Galactica
Dune & Children of Dune
Star Trek DS9
Smallville

Good Drama:

The Shield
Deadwood
Carnival
Dead Like Me
The West Wing
Wonderfalls
Nip/Tuck
Alias
Las Vegas
Medical Investigation
Dr. Vegas

Good Comedy:

Penn & Teller: Bullshit
Family Guy
Futurama
Rodney
Tripping the Rift
Two and a Half Men
Scrubs

Good Cop Shows:

CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: New York
Law & Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Without a Trace
Crossing Jordan
Hawaii

Good Reality TV:

Doesn't Exist

Good Daytime TV:

Doesn't Exist

"...we're still flyin'."
"That's not much."
"It's enough." Malcolm Reynolds and Simon Tam - Serenity

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