Originally posted by Brian King
I loved Dr. Who. (snip) Some of the best Sci-Fi ever.
Star Trek has consumed a huge part of my life...between the old and new shows, video games, movies, books, fold-out board games, role playing games, and so on... it would rank second after Dr. Who.
Star Wars gets a nod, but gets a big negative mark for the two new movies. Fun to watch, but are such shabby stories it shames the series.
Glad you see you are a fellow Whovian Brian! Somehow I figured that our Time Lord friend wouldn't get as many votes as Star Wars/Trek, but he's in the lead at the moment!
I have to agree with you about the Star Wars films - I must have seen the original trilogy several dozen times, I've watched TPM and AOTC only twice each - which says it all really.
Originally posted by Lance Williams
The original Star Wars trilogy was great. I used to watch Battlestar Galactica, get all trashed and go out "Cylon hunting". Star Trek Deep Space Nine was OK (hot chicks), Since then I don't watch much sci-fi stuff at all. The most recent Star Wars movies were full of terrible acting, but great special effects. Thank God the Lord of the Rings finally made it to film (and was well done).
I don't really "do" fantasy (unless you count Harry Potter I suppose) and I've not seen any of the LOTR films yet - but I have told myself that as soon as they are all out on DVD, I will spend a day watching them all. :horse:
Originally posted by chrisvalla
Had to go with SG1. SW died when they jumped backwards in time. ST had it's ups and downs -down right now- (we all know the rule about odd numbered movies right?) B5 was good... and then it's time had passed. I never really watched Dr. Who, though it had cool theme music. Blake's 7? No idea.
I was so disappointed at not seeing Space 1999 on the list. Also missing (but mentioned) was Battlestar Galatica (and the remake with Boomer the Cylon) and the short stint of the super-Marine-pilot-infantry-in-fighters-and-cargo-boxes Space Above and Beyond. Earth 2 started out OK, but fizzled too quickly. V... now that was decent in both movie and TV series form. There's also Andromeda (some good, some bad), Earth the Final Conflict (ack!), Alien Nation (groan) and War of the Worlds (laughable after the pilot). And what happened to Robby, Twikie, Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes?
I wish to formally apologise to everyone for missing off their favourites (make the most of it, when I am Supreme Leader and Emperor I will be seen to be totally infallible and thus the word "apology" will not even appear in my vocabulary). I had considered putting Space: 1999 on the list, but I thought it would get even less votes than Doctor Who!
I agree that SW "died" when it went back in time - but then so has ST with "Enterprise". Talk about revisionist history!!
Blake's 7 is something you really need to check out - ignore the dodgy sets and cardboard spaceships, the scripts are, for the most part, fantastic, there's a super-sexy villainess in charge of the fascistic military and there was no happy ending for our band of freedom fighters...
Space Above and Beyond was great, and had Lee Ermey as the Drill Sergeant in the pilot episode! The only unrealistic thing for me was that the fully-trained fighter pilots were also expected to do regular "grunt" missions as well.
I also missed off the X-Files. But then, I was never really sure if that was Science Fiction or..something else.
Dr. S.