If Firefly's your favourite show of all-time, what's your second favourite?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, December 5, 2005 21:40
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Bugger. Or rather, congratulations. Beat me to the Babylon 5 punch.
The Singing Detective (old BBC series) was brilliant.
Twin Peaks was funny and deepest pitch black. You can see the likes of Desperate Housewives smugly thinking they're soooooo daring and edgy. Blown out of the water, m'friends.
(If she's just bought some, my wife will still wiggle her toes and say "New Shoes." She's awfully cool.)
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"The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish."
Paolo Di Canio
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Homicide: Life on the Street (until season 7) is the only other show I have ever obsessed about.
I guess I just love gritty, real characters, interesting dialog, and handheld camera work.
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Surprised Veronica Mars hasn't come up yet. I'd give it second place on my list. Another one of those shows when you hear the premise (high-school drama, chick who does PI work in her spare time), think it sounds like arse and vow never to watch it.
You catch five minutes for some reason or another and BAM! - you're hooked. Buffy, Angel and even Firefly were also like that for me.
It's so good I'm surprised it's still playing on New Zealand TV.
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"She was naked, and all ... articulate."
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maybe Twin Peaks ( very weird ), murder of Laura Palmer - does it make sense? Well, more than the Average David Lynch film.
B5 ( great sci-fi stroyline ) - The writing is consistently good with excellent characters, plot twists and flashbacks, and story arcs - however Babylon-Five starts off slow but develops into a great show
or
the ...Outer-Limits ( spooky twlight zone type series )OuterLimits is an anthology science fiction show in which each episode is a self-contained story with a plot twist, it originally ran in the 60s on a U.S. broadcast network
honourable mention for the original Trek and Flash Gordon
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Monty Python.
It makes me laugh no matter how many times I've seen it, and those boys singlehandedly changed so much of popular culture...
Photoshop! Imagined by Terry Gilliam, funded by the N'tnl Enquirer.
I have heard the siren call of Dark Angel, from every corner of this site, so I went and bought season 1 today. *rubs hands with glee*
Shiny Trees! Yavanna made Shiny Trees!
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1st post (yay)
Firefly is definitely my first favorite, but it's hard to say what my second fav would be. Of shows that are currently on TV I would probably say Arrested Development. Of shows that are off the air, it'd be a toss-up between Buffy and M*A*S*H (as odd a coupling as that is).
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I'm another Twin Peaks geek...DEFINITELY my fave (after FF, of course)...I pull it out about once a year and lose myself in the craziness and creepiness all over again. Just amazing television.
X-Files Seasons 1-5 would definitely be next. Jumped the shark with Season 6 (IMHO).
Simpsons after that. It's comfort food to pop one of those in...
ZOE: “It’s just, the Captain’s so tense…”
WASH: “Of course he’s tense. He’s awake.”
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If I HAVE to stop at just one, I'd say
1. Firefly, hands down my favorite show EVER!
2. I'd say Buffy, up to the end of season 6
and now to unecessarily continue the list,
3. Dark Angel, really only because I thought Jessica Alba was hot.
4. Futurama, for best animated Sci-fi
5. Angel, because I liked Buffy
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Firefly is my all-time favorite TV show. The Rockford Files is #2 for me, followed by Batman: The Animated Series as #3.
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Firefly is far and above the best show out there, but second?
Hmmm...let me shock you all by saying Buffy. Monty Python, Ultra-Violet, and Rocky & Bullwinkle all deserve praise, but Buffy is longer running and more coherent, thus better able to make a case for my affections.
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Early: Where'd she go?
Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's NOT incorporeally possessing a spaceship, don't look at me --
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