Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Sci-Fi TV Shows - which were your favourites?

I liked Eva too, Drake. And since Zev morphed into Xev


I guess you could call it a win/win situation.

is now watching the Dead Like Me marathon series today on Sci-Fi....I really love that series. Anybody watch this series?

I've never watched it, but I DVD'ed the episodes today, largely thanks to the Bryan Fuller connection.

Stuff I liked;

Everything. Really. Even Misfits of Science and Automan and Manimal and Kindred: the Embraced and Wolf Lake (none of which are any more sci-fi than Buffy, but if Buffy counts, so do they!).

But favorites?

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was my favorite (Terry Farrell as Jazdia Dax was SOOOO hot), although I liked the other series as well (Kes was way cooler than Seven of Boobs).

Babylon 5, particularly those action packed third and fourth seasons.

Earth: Final Conflict. The first season only was amazing, and I would have liked to see it continue in that direction. Later seasons kind of blew.

Andromeda. Yet another from the House of Roddenberry that was amazingly cool in the first season, and then got a little wonky.

Tek War. Written by Shatner and acted by the dude from BJ and the Bear (the one who played the trucker, not the chimp) and yet, still surprisingly cool. Best cyberspace / hacking scenes ever.

Honorable mentions to Dark Angel, Space: Above and Beyond, etc.

I have some nostalgia for shows like V and War of the Worlds and Alien Nation, as well, but I suspect that I wouldn't like them on a reviewing.

I was pretty into that show for a bit, but they really lost it when they replaced the main character.

Very true. The new guy annoyed me, and I spent more time watching to see what sort of snippy catfights Da'an and Zo'or would get into... Their various schemes and machinations against each other were classic.

I think of the professional stuff, and all of the overacted melodrama involve with the genre, as Italian Slapstick.
The only legitamet show that I've ever seen that was billed as such, was a production of 'The Taming of the Shrew' by William Shakespeare, on PBS.

So that's where I'd put Wrestlemania and family, on PBS.

I agree, but I don't think it was just a Roddenberry creation.

Farscape, Lexx and Babylon 5 sort of went that way too, along with many others.

Primeval got kink of wonky at the end of the first season, I think.

BEST...SCIENCE FICTION SHOW...EVER!

I'm going to cast my votes for the following:

TV: Babylon 5, old school Trek.

Movies: The Matrix trilogy, The Star Wars movies, Bladerunner.

Let the debate begin!

I'm tossed up about the original Twilight Zone and Babylon 5. Kind of apples and oranges those two.

If entertainment was my purest criteria, I'd have to throw "Alien Nation" into the mix.

After watching the entire release of the new Battlestar Galactica, I'm not really getting the greatest show ever support? Makes me wonder if I missed a major point.

There's already a thread: here

WHOOPS!

No problem. I put in a request to have the threads merged.

Babylon 5 was awesome in the 3rd and 4th seasons. The 5th kind of fell apart, which, since JMS felt compelled to wrap everything up in season 4, believing that there wouldn't *be* a season 5, makes some sense.

My absolute favorites would have to be Farscape, Firefly, Lost, Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits. I've been really liking Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles, unfortunately, like Firefly the geniuses at Fox have canceled it.

I agree with Set some of Babylon 5 was really good some of it sucked, The more recent Dr. Whos are pretty good, I thought Lexx was enjoyable but I always felt like I was missing something major, Alien Nation was pretty cool, when I was a kid I loved the original Battlestar Galactica and though I've tried to get into the new one I find it overly "dramatic" and somewhat pointless", I REALLY don't get what people see in it.

I have a slight soft spot for Star Trek (LOVE the new movie) but always thought that a universe filled mostly with humans with funny noses/foreheads/ears who all just happen to speak English pretty lame and cheap. Of all of them, I thought Enterprise had the most potential but I hardly ever caught it when it was on.

I like Primeval, but to say wonky at the end of the first season is pre mature, i watched the first season which if i am not wrong was like 6 episodes, barely a start to a show. I am now into the 3rd season, and thats WONKY, MAJOR CHANGES. and i just watched a movie RED MIST which had Conner in it.

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I like the classics.

Just got done watching my tapes of TERRAHAWKS again. I've seen these more than any other Gerry Anderson show. The characters are so much better-written, and it's just plain funny so much of the time. Terrific show.

Am now wacthing my way thru SPACE PRECINCT. Without a doubt, this was the BEST-written Gerry Anderson series EVER. All the regular characters were likeable, I loved the concept (cops on another planet), the designs, the effects work (done the "old-fashioned" way with miniatures), the directing, the acting, the music... quite often it even had more interesting sci-fi ideas than anything I'd seen on other shows. Simply, this blows away ALL the late-model STAR TREK spin-off combined. (That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it!)

Star Trek:TNG
Star Trek
Quantum Leap
The Tom Baker Dr. Who (Never got to watch most of the others)
X-Files
Sliders (Kari Wuhrer )

Good news is, Eureka should be back next week after a very long wait.

I love this show. Next to Firefly, its probably my favorite. In some ways, it absolutely is. It has passed Firefly in shows, the characters have a good humor/seriousness ratio, and the stuff that makes it interesting is not so far out there.

Firefly was a great western in space, kinda like the original Star Trek was supposed to be. But it never really did what Trek did, which was use its imagination to lead tech to the future. I know the show wasn't put into place for that, but it was very prescient (sp?). Firefly was definately low tech.

Eureka combines the best of all worlds.