Your Favourite SF TV Series ever & Why.

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, October 22, 2010 14:46
VIEWED: 5302
PAGE 1 of 3

1 2 3 NEXT PAGE LAST PAGE

CHRISISALL

Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:09 AM

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

ECGORDON

Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:31 AM

Firefly, FTW!

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

OUT2THEBLACK

Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:57 AM

Quote:
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 ?

LWAVES

Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by out2theblack:
Quote:
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

THESOMNAMBULIST

Saturday, October 16, 2010 12:17 PM

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

IMNOTHERE

Saturday, October 16, 2010 4:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
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?

CHRISISALL

Saturday, October 16, 2010 5:54 PM

Quote:
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

VERASAMUELS

Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:05 AM

FIREFLY!!!

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

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

BORIS

Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:27 AM

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

WHOZIT

Sunday, October 17, 2010 4:05 PM

"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

1 2 3 NEXT PAGE LAST PAGE