Best sci-fi of last few years?

Tristram

Farscape imho.

ixoy

Edit that poll to include Stargate . The franchise has nine seasons under its belt - think it deserves an option.

Tristram

dang ur right.dunno how i left it out.not sure how to edit poll tho...lol...n00blar to these boards.

Fenster

I would have put down one of several written works that I've read and love, but hey, they're not in the poll.

So I picked Galactica, due entirely to there being no option for Firefly. Oh Kaylee, how you're hated by some.

azezil

stargate pfftt... i'll add atlantis

Tristram

Never saw Firefly myself.It was from Joss Whedon wasnt it but got cancelled after a few episodes?

I thought Farscape wud run away with this tbh.Surprising.

Scruff

big stargate fan but have to go with Battlestar Galactica.

TerrorFirmer

Battlestar all the way....

Vokes

BSG it is!

.....and July can't come quick enough.

Tristram

this is incredible.u guys have seen Farscape right?

Vokes

Yep. Great series!

But you've seen Galactica, right?!? Its fantastic

Stark

Farscape : 88 episodes + miniseries, big fantastic roller coaster thrill ride the whole way through
Battlestar: 13 episodes. Grim. I enjoyed it alright, but it's certainly no Farscape yet.

halenger

Farscape for me... Battlestar is good but it's got a long way to go, as Stark put it so very well.

Tristram

Voices of reason, thankfully

BSG has a LOT of ground to make up b4 it can be rated above Farscape imho.

Tristram

hehe

just after noticing the poll has been altered to include Atlantis.

cheeky mod

if ya can think of ne other possible contenders throw em up too seeing as how i dont know how/cant.

dceire

Futurama

Mr E

I liked Stargate Atlantis and The 4400.... Never got into Firefly or BSG.

Daelus

Firefly is brilliant, but I voted for Farscape. Although I've only just started watching it, I'm just about to finish season 1 on DVD.
It's great so far.

I missed Battlestar in it's original run so I haven't seen that yet.

Tristram

Was The 4400 good.Didnt manage to catch it at all.Ads didnt see that promising not that u shud judge a book by its cover.

Inspector Gadget

Don't know what constitutes recent; I'd like to be able to shoehorn Babylon 5 in there, but if not, Farscape would be the one for me from that list.

Gadget

tvnutz

The 4400 wasnt great now...but Id put Taken on that list even if it was only a mini series.

ixoy

Babylon 5 ended a few years ago, so I assume that's why it's not there - otherwise it's an inexcusable oversight

Voted for Farscape here. I love BSG but, come on, we've seen 13 episodes only - too early to really judge.

Tristram

Inspector Gadget wrote:

Don't know what constitutes recent; I'd like to be able to shoehorn Babylon 5 in there, but if not, Farscape would be the one for me from that list.

Gadget

Babylon 5 was incredible alrite.Jus thought it ended too long ago to include.

Tristram

its remarkably close, very surprisng have to say.

iguana

I'd say Battlestar, I also liked Firefly a lot but BSG has the edge. I never really watched Farscape though, so I can't judge that. But BSG is the new B5, except I think it might end up being b-b-b-b-b-b-better. (I find it hard to say that, I loved B5 so very, very much).

Raz

Firefly for me. It was short but soooo sweet. I'd guess, depending on how serenity does, that we'll see it come back in about a year or so.

CiDeRmAn

BSG, avoids the pitfalls of most sci-fi, whatever the medium by actually having characters with more than 1 dimension, well rounded tormented people, with ambitions, fears and flaws, everyone of them. It does not rely on special effects to fill in screen time, to bring along the fx freaks, yet the stuff they do use is some of the best stuff I have seen, with no exceptions.
The show seems to have taken an old rather rubbish tv programme and turned into, well, art.
On witht the next season, lets hope it doesn't go the way of all the other great american tv shows, like Nowhere Man, Odyssey 5, Millennium, American Gothic.

ixoy

CiDeRmAn wrote:

On witht the next season, lets hope it doesn't go the way of all the other great american tv shows, like Nowhere Man, Odyssey 5, Millennium, American Gothic.

I assume by that you mean it doesn't get cancelled and gets to tell its story? Good enough selection there too. I'm acquiring "Millennium" and realizing (again) just how great a show it was and how criminal it was to cancel it. Very high production values and interesting arcs.

"Odyssey 5" is a different kettle of fishies. I thought the plots were actually pretty poor generally but made up for by some of the best characterisation that I've ever seen in sci-fi. You could watch the show for Paul Weller's wise-cracks alone.

"Nowhere Man" was quite interesting because we were never really sure what Hidden Agenda was all about, least until "Gemini" came along and completely flipped the tables at the end. I've just last week acquired the entire series, so I'll be giving it a rewatch.

"American Gothic" also had some real potential - really liked this show. Good strong characters - Buck with a B - and a great cliff hanger ending that never got resolved. Currently being posted slowly to me by my cousins since they've not released this show on DVD either...

foxybrowne

I voted other, for Doctor Who

Tristram

Ive been watching Odyssey 5 on TV3 now for the last while.Not sure that Ive made up my mid yet.I loved the first episode

when the earth got destroyed and they died and wud hav thought it sheer genius if they had just left it there.

I think ill stick with it altho i take it didnt last too long?

Tristram

Also didnt include Taken bcos it was a miniseries.Should be pointed out that it was fantastic tho.