Doea anybody, like, watch these horrible science fiction television shows?

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You know the kind - like Mutant X and Andromeda and stuff - the stuff on UPN and crap. I always catch the end while I'm waiting for The Honeymooners to come on, and aside from some chicks in black leather spacesuits, there seems very little to recommend these shows.

Who in the non-Simpsons universe watches these shows? Any of you? I'm curious...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

What, pray, is "the non-Simpsons universe" before I can answer this????! ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also what are you including in this? Alias? Dark Angel? Farscape? Buffy/Angel? B5?

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

... oh, I'm a geek.

― comic store guy (trayce), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost I meant, like, real people. Not Comic Book Guy types.

Trayce - aside from Farscape, those others are too primetime and high budget for what I'm talking about. But yeah, like Farscape.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 23 August 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The only sci-fi show that I found particularly watchable was Lexx, but only the first few series. There were some awfully drab laer episodes where they'd spend hours walking through caverns and not do a whole lot. Otherwise I found it a pretty original and often amusing take on the sci-fi genre.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 23 August 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i still have Andromeda as a season pass on the tivo but can't say i've enjoying it. the title sequence is the most ridiculously pompous thing going. and Spike from Buffy was on it during the last season.

> and aside from some chicks in black leather spacesuits

ah, that would be Lexa Doig in this case 8) she appears both as a projection of the ship's personality and as a solid avatar and sometimes both together.

(saw 7 of 9 in something a week or so ago, some kidnap drama from 1991, was terrible. the russian woman from babylon 5 was in something like CSI recently as well)

even i draw the line at Lexx 8)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 23 August 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. Lexx is pretty wacky and offbeat in places. It's almost a comedy like Red Dwarf but not quite. I especially liked the episode where they go to the TV planet where they had to work in loads of different channels or get beheaded. The other one that springs to mind was the monk planet where only men existed. They lived lives of abstinence apart from one night of the year where they all sodded each other. Fucking hilarious.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 23 August 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Sodded each other? What is 'sodded'?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Monday, 23 August 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It involves lumps of grass and the anus.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 23 August 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like any of them, not even Firefly. I never go out of my way to watch Buffy or Angel. I find most of the ideas in the sci-fi ones either too hackneyed conceptually or too post-post-modern/ironical, tho for all I really know they could be great (sometimes I see a neat thing in SG1 or whatever but it's cancelled out by all the shitness).

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 23 August 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I…I watched two episodes of Team Knight Rider. Plus most of SeaQuest. I'm clean now, though…

― carson dial (carson dial), Monday, 23 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a big fan of Firefly, I think character-wise it's better than just about any other show on right now. I've also got to admit that I watch Andromeda and don't think it's awful at all. It has a completely idiotic first and second episode, it takes a while for the plot to take momentum over the cuteness/gag factor, but it really isn't as bad as all that.

I think many old-school Star Trek fans would appreciate Andromeda's small homages to the original, such as the fact that nearly every time the ship gets hit, the computers on the bridge inevitably release spark showers and people go flying halfway across the room.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched the first series of Farscape and enjoyed it quite a lot.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My husband watches all of them (Alias, Lexx, Dark Angel, Andromeda, Jake 2.0 etc etc). I have never watched any of them. But he'll be the answer to your question.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

my old roommate was a fan of Farscape/Lexx, even to the point of dressing as one of the characters for Halloween..

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't see them as being any more or less innocuous than any other television shows. It's just tv.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hercules in Space is funny at times.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

also, who actually watches "Relic Hunter" or "Stargate SG1"?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i suppose the same people who read cheap sci-fi novels watch these shows. someone is probably watching them for a smarmy graduate thesis too where s/he will discuss their symptomatic meanings.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Back when I had a sort of kind of "scheduling problem" let's put it that way I would occasionally watch Andromeda and/or Mutant X. They kill an hour, like, STAT. In the end it's not particularly different from watching Law & Order or something, except that Law & Order will always try to affect or surprise you in some way, and is therefore inappropriate for when you wake up not feeling so great at 2pm on a Sunday afternoon and don't want to get out of bed yet. Okay, I admit it, having a television in your bedroom (and no cable) means you will watch anything and everything, and Andromeda / Mutant X = anything and everything.

Mutant X works because it's sort of comically rip-offy, and the acting is engagingly bad, and that one girl with the scary eyebrows is very cute. Andromeda is actually half-decent, as far as those things go; sort of like a Star Trek franchise but with more of a dark-humor Buffy vibe (instead of that ethics-class parliamentary vibe that always comes with the Trek).

The worst of all of these is (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's) The Lost World. This is seriously the stupidest show I have ever watched more than ten minutes of. I think it thinks it's making up for its general crappiness by being somehow tittilating, but the people aren't hot and it's not really that appealing when their shirts get "accidentally" wet / torn off during the climactic battle. It's truly awful, I totally recommend it.

For Saturday hangovers I also recommend Power Rangers: Dino Thunder!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

In closing, if you have a moment to come kill me, that'd be super.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the name of the show with musclebound mute guy in the fur panties? Because that's easily the dumbest show I've ever watched (maybe it was a new Conan series?).

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the problem w/some of these shows is that they seem--to be--to require a familiarity with the main plot threads to make heads or tails out of any given episode. but they aren't the kind of things that you are likely to watch week-in/week-out. i suppose this is why they tend to cast some buxom lady in a lead role: it will provide a reason to keep people watching even if they can't understand the episode's plot.

an opposite problem, of other of these shows, is that the producers are VERY aware that you won't be watching regularly and thus each episode is essentially a very facile recycling of an archetypal plot. most tv shows are organized this way. for example almost every episode of "will and grace" has the same plot (or maybe t here are two or three basic plots that get rotated). but for most of these shows the enjoyment is in the dialogue, the revealing of character, not the plot. but these cheapo sci-fi shows often have terribly weak dialogue/character/etc., revealing only the very rudimentary recycling of essential plot material. which can be v. depressing to watch.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i think the latter pretty much explains why the sort of tv you watch when you are sick at home is fundamentally numbing/depressing (even the trashy talk shows are basically tired variations on a few set themes).

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if I'm remembering his from reality or dream, but I seem to recall an episode of Andromeda where Captain Kevin Sorbo got it on with the hollographic projection of the ship's CPU (affectionately known as "Rommie"), and I remember being boggled attempted to come to terms with the moral implications of what was essentially man-on-machine love making.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

...remembering tthis...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm doing a smary structural reading see, not a sympomatic reading)

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, for the days of Xena

altho, i don't know anybody who watched the show at all after they killed off Callisto, cut their hair, and got henna tattoos

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

shit, dude, if you could fuck the walking talking hotass incarnation of your computer, why WOULDN'T you?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

altho, it would certain have turned SeaQuest into a MUCH different show

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont watch much tv, but these are some of my favorite shows. i just caught part of MutantX yesterday and was struck how inbred the brunnette looks. then i switched over to PBS and Cher had a stage show that was right out of Beastmaster. then i decided to make somehting of the afternoon and clean the toilet.

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i think, Conan and Xena ,at the time , were sort or new and dare i say refreshing, in a 'hey this isn't so bad for sunday morning television' but i'm the guy that who for the cooking show to go into the 45minute 'spatula that does it all' commercial. yes, i said cooking

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost to story arcs in sci fi shows being difficult to follow:

I usually download the shows I watch, which makes it easier to see them in order and follow the plot. Despite Overnet being maddeningly slow, I still probably get about three or four shows a week of whatever it is I'm watching at any given moment, so it's not too bad. In any case, my memory is completely useless for remembering fixed times of any program except the Daily Show.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to feel sorta-bad posting this, given the recent state of ILX, but then what the hell, I think it's obvious to everyone that pretty-people (or at least interesting-looking-people) are a major part of what these shows have to offer. This is Karen Cliche (!!!) from Mutant X (inbred and, apparently Canadian?):

http://i.imdb.com/mptv1.gif

― evil twin logged in as good twin (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Daily Show has like the WORST story-arcs of all -- it's like the plot changes with every episode.

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe this will work:

http://www.karencliche.net/kc_photos/KC_modeling_photos/images/KC_modeling09_jpg.jpg

― evil incompetent twin (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Karen Cliche ... or Clare Danes???

http://www.karencliche.net/kc_photos/KC_modeling_photos/thumbnails/KC_modeling01_jpg.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry about all that, please resume structuralist discussions.

― evil twinthingy (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.poster.net/cliche-karen/cliche-karen-photo-karen-cliche-6205509_tn.jpg

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

, I think it's obvious to everyone that pretty-people (or at least interesting-looking-people) are a major part of what these shows have to offer.

ah, thank you Herc & Xena ripoffs.

hee hee. does anybody remember "Sinbad"? it lasted for like a single season.

it reminded me of the shows that the USA Network did in the early/mid 90's as an excuse for pretty people in scanty clothing, like "Silk Stockings"(which i liked the original brunette lead) or "Acupolca H.E.A.T" (which had Fabio AND John Vernon!). Then again, i think they were just taking the "Baywatch" model and slightly changing the genre settings.

Still, despite all this, Heidi Hudson Leick 4-EVA!

http://www.xenaville.com/articles/callisto.jpg

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Was "Sinbad" the one with mute fur panties dude?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Admit it, you just wanted to say "mute fur panties" again.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Duh.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

You just know this is going to spike the monthly percentage of googlers up. Way, way up.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

heh. we haven't really had a lot of those lately, have we?

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I always get annoyed when people list their background/occupation/sexuality before expressing their opinion on anything, i.e. "As a gay father of two adopted children who sells scrap metal out of an abandoned foundry, I'm a big fan of Art Garfunkel's later work."

But I think it'd be really refreshing to get some opinions from lovers of mute fur panties, let's say on the Le Tigre thread. "Now these guys are a real bunch of freaks."

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: mute fur panties vs talking fur panties (aka "PEOPLE LET'S NOT MAKE THIS WORSE THAN IT ALREADY IS oh too late")

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

aieeeeee. there is one (v. nice) ilxor regular who does this constantly and it annoys me to no end.

― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's applicable in some situations but sometimes it just makes people look ridiculous and self-important.

xpost "let's not make this any worse" - I dunno, this is a pretty natural progression for a thread about horrible science fiction television shows.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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LEX

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But all of TV isn't reality. I mean, no TV is reality. Except reality TV.

-- n.a. (nu...), August 23rd, 2004 8:33 PM.

Yeah, but stuff like The Sopranos or Six Feet Under is rooted much more firmly in real life than 24 or Farscape. And 24 has a science fiction-like techno fetishism thing going on. I'm not saying it IS sci-fi, I just thing it has some things in common with the genre.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 23 August 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

every time i happen to see lexx there's some obscuro english guy slumming it. once i saw craig charles even, but tonight it was vic windsor out of emmerdale playing a druid.

― prima fassy (mwah), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw no love for Babylon 5?

Its interesting right at the top that Roger said "aside from Farscape, those others are too primetime and high budget for what I'm talking about. But yeah, like Farscape."

In Australia, ALL these shows are non-primetime (ie usually on at 10 or 11pm, or at some weird hour like 5pm sunday night): Farscape, Buffy, Angel, Stargate (actually thats the only one that was close to primetime), Bab5, Andromeda, Dark Angel bla bla bla.

Not a fan of most of them, but I like Buffy and I *love* Babylon 5, and as brainless McDonalds style entertainment I enjoy shows like Mysterious Ways and the like.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to totally love babylon 5

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps the lack of Babylon 5 love on here is because this thread is about horrible shows. I watched a couple episodes of it a long time ago and it didn't get my hooked, but I hear there's an enormous multi-season story arc and with that sort of plot I could see it being all good 'n epic.

But this is just one more reason to wait till a show gets on dvd (or at least the net) to watch it. I hate waiting a week for an episode that may just be "filler." I want my filler now, dammit!

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

heh what about stargate?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Stargate is meant for lonely MacGyver fans.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

was there any other kind of macguyver fan?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not...

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://thevitalvoice.com/2003/2003_1212%20Issue/images/SimpsonSisters.jpg

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Bab5 already was on DVD.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm only slightly ashamed to be a Stargate SG-1 fan. What makes it work is what made the X-Files work; it's set in the present day and makes frequent use of irreverent humor. The nice dose of moral ambiguities helps, too. Unfortunately, there is quite a bit of backstory at this point, but generally it's not too difficult to ken since it toes fairly strictly to an episodic format. Another plus: a disctinct lack of resolutions like "oh, of course, let's connect the flux capacitor to the deuterium shields with a hyper-phasic relay!"

Stargate: Atlantis, however, fouls everything up by moving to another galaxy. Been there, done that. Standard sci-fi schlock with extras from the Norwegian Black Metal scene.

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm surprised Onimo hasn't posted this already, but there is a group of fucktards at our work who watch everything in the Sky 'SF' slot, even unforgiveable shite like Tru Calling, to try and prove they're "into science fiction". When you ask them about any actual SF, they're like startled deer.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think anyone watched Tru Calling.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 27 August 2004 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched two episodes. It made me dummer.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

B5 is on dvd. I love it. My girlfriend made me watch it right when Sci-Fi started running it in order five nights a week, so I watched all five seasons in about five months. It's certainly embarassing trying to get new people into it though. If you start at the beginning, you have to say, "Okay, yes, you have to overlook some horrible acting, cheesy jokes, and CGI from 1990, and yes you have to watch like 25 episodes before it starts to get REALLY GOOD, but it all connects and it's worth it!" And if you just watch an episode in the middle they'll have no idea what's going on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

CLEOPATRA 2525

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i was pissed at tru calling cuz that's why there was no FAITH THE VAMPIRE SLAYER show!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

> B5... CGI from 1990

but at the time, Star Trek (TNG?) was still using models so Babylon5 and it's LightWave spaceships was The Future (and they still look good to me)

The Shadows always fascinated me with B5, just their dark otherworldliness. plus the overarching plots were great (where STTNG was still very much alien-of-the-week)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of B5 still looks pretty good, but the pilot is painful. I always thought TNG looked good, models or no.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And when I say "TNG", I mean "Deana Troi's ass", of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just about to mention those crazeeeee (their spelling) bastards.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

They say things like "I can't believe they cancelled Generic US Space Opera #19, what were they thinking?!?!?!!!1!"

They were thinking it was fucking shite and only wankers like you were watching it. Cnuts.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

guys relax

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't have to work with them. :-/

Their favourite shows at the moment are Tru Calling, Stargate: Atlantis and Enterprise. They loved Mutant X and are looking forward to Dead Like Me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

mutant x is such a bald ripoff of the x-men... the x-mutants!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

haha god ams. you just described like the theme of this thread:
This is the Andromeda Thread
(structuralism and space-opera)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, you know that Mutant X was inspired by the X-Men and is acutally titled after one of the offshoot series, right?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

is it actually connected with the x-men?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really; the book they were jumping off of was the "Alex Summers in parallel universe" one and they decided not to actually go with that storyline. They did take the broad idea for the TV series, though.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Goodness, most of you have far more tolerance for things than I.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heavens! I kill TV with guns ;-)"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a beautiful image! I'll be an ambulatory Presley.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(Who comes back from the dead and is chased down by a ragtag bunch of misfits and a dog. No Bubba Ho-Tep but what is?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids, uh-huh-huh!"

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you ever think Don Knotts thought his Scooby-Doo appearances were career highlights?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Jerry Reed certainly did.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, man, Smokey and the Bandit 3.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's certainly embarassing trying to get new people into it though. If you start at the beginning, you have to say, "Okay, yes, you have to overlook some horrible acting, cheesy jokes, and CGI from 1990, and yes you have to watch like 25 episodes before it starts to get REALLY GOOD, but it all connects and it's worth it!" And if you just watch an episode in the middle they'll have no idea what's going on.

Hahahah thats so fucking true! I tried showing an early Sinclair ep of B5 to my boi and he seemed totally uninterested. And I'm all "er well, yeah it seems a bit trekky now, but you have to stick with it!"

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

in hindsight, VR5 was pretty sucky. That doesn't mean I didn't like it and want to see how it ended, though.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 29 August 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember that Fox had all these friday night half-hour-long series in the early-mid nineties that never really went anywhere...

― Lt. Kingfish Del Pickles (Kingfish), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Half-hour long rubbish sci-fi shows? That's just wrong! They need to be an hour long so you can wander away in the middle and come back to discover that everything they believed in the first three sections has been a lie and they now have five minutes in which to completely reverse their plans using some convenient technobabble they just happened to have lying around.

I have this awful soft spot for... I think it was called Witchblade? Hideously pretentious schlock with lots of fight scenes == my type of comfort-food telly. Better than watching the new Justice League cartoon, anyway. Somehow it's easier to watch something where they're always battling aliens and death and that than soaps&c where people are faced with slightly real dilemmas and actual embarrassing situations.

Thing with most truly bobbins sci-fi shows is that by the time they're shown on the sci-fi channel over here they've usually been cancelled in the US already. Which makes it extra rubbish to find yourself watching the cliffhanger last episode. I always suspect they actually didn't know how they were going to resolve it, they just left it hanging to torment you.

― cis (cis), Monday, 30 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

apparently, judging from her viewing of the Seaquest marathon today, my sister does.

― kingfish holiday travesty (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

my dad.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

DARWIN!!!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/Lucas.gif

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

i almost bought the first season of the Prisoner today, but they wanted fifty bucks for only the first four episodes! ridiculous! so i got the twin peaks movie inssteadd. i love twin peaks. get that on netflix and watch that instead of crappy scifi tv.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

also: i got the first season of HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE for my birthday! 30 fucking episodes!! two full-length documentaries!! epic.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

i'm not a sci-fi fan at all, but i do love the lexx as i mentioned upthread. it's very different from all the other shows. very tongue in cheek, often very funny, knowingly tacky, sexy(!) in parts. the whole point is the main characters go round the universe in a massive living ship that can blow up planets, in the hope of finding people with whom to have sexual relations.

The crew consists of a bumbling middle-aged janitor-turned-ship captain; a sexy-loveslave-cum-reptilian-snake-creature-woman and her pet robot head who worships her every grace; and a reanimated serial killer named Kai.

Episodes include a planet made of tv quiz shows (if your ratings go up, you can leave. if they drop, then you die); a visit from a 300 year old party shuttle; and a trip to a sex planet.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

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