Best Current Sci-Fi Show?

[electric-eye]

Poll question: Best Current Sci-Fi Show?

And why the hell is good Sci Fi soooo hard to come by???

[Goldom]

1. Correct answer: those all suck. nt

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

19. I second that . nt

[Brundle_Fly]

2. picked star trek

mostly out of habit.

god I miss Angel.

[electric-eye]

6. I miss Babylon 5

should old acquaintance be forgot....

:cry:

[Wat_Tyler]

3. Doctor Who.

(well, current in about four months)

[Az]

10. Yay (in four months)

I just hope they can keep the writing up there. Tired of these US commitee produced excuses for Sci Fi.

[Wat_Tyler]

14. Well, at least it'll be quirky.

Whether good quirky or bad quirky remains to be seen.

[Deja Q]

15. Well, I've heard...

that Dr Who (and Blake's 7) are coming back because of popular demand - or, rather more accurate, their fanbase that buys any dumb thing with "Dr Who"s stamped on it. (watch out, Gareth Roberts is a huge * fan and goes out of his way to mix politics with his Dr Who reviews. And I'm definitely going to write to the editor and boycotting anything new he writes. He's a big fat jerk, even after everything that's come out against *. sigh.) But I digress...

The BBC, thanks to 20 years of "thatcherific" policies, has been losing money and they need to make more money. So why not exploit the two commodities they've refused to sell to anyone else despite not making it themselves under the excuse that sci-fi isn't popular?

Also, from the grapevine, many Brits feel that their quality of television has declined over the years as well; it's been 'dumbed down'. (it's still better than ours is, but still.)

[GAspnes]

4. Stargate

Best science fiction since the original Outer Limits.

[MrScorpio]

5. Just wait for the Battlestar Galactica Series redux

That show is gowing to rock

[NewJeffCT]

20. I hope it's good

I thought the miniseries was decent, but nothing special.

[porkrind]

21. No doubt! Can't wait!

[Lerkfish]

7. unfortunately "current" is the problem...

I miss Farscape, the Invisible Man, the Outer Limits, the Chronicle, and other scifi channel offerings.

[Mr.Green93]

8. I ;like Andromeda

it's cheesy.

[LeftCoast]

9. Andromeda is SO painfully bad!

How could IT survive, but Babylon 5 & Farscape not? Just baffles the mind...

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

11. Farscape not surviving, I have no idea...

but Babylon 5 ran its run, and JMS didn't intend the show to go past 5 seasons.
Of course, the spinoff's demise (Crusade) is the fault of TNT's crappy execs wanting a frelling bar fight in every episode and a crewmember of the ship who had to understand each new alien race they encounted by having sex with said new species. :eyes:

Good news is that filming starts soon on a Bab 5 feature movie.
(No kidding.)

[LeftCoast]

12. Re: Bab5

Glad to hear they're making a movie! Hadn't heard about that. I can hardly wait!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

16. Here's all the info that I know:

www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7515

It's not much, but it's a start.

[LeftCoast]

22. Thanks for the link!

'nt'

[Deja Q]

17. B5 was originally cancelled after season 4. Knowing in advance, the

writer had truncated a bunch of story arcs and rushed to make a bunch of new ones after the fan write-in worked.

Fucking networks. Money and what they see as ratings means more than art. The corporatization of America, while nice at times, can be sickening too. Art is expression. Not money.

[LeftCoast]

23. It was really a crime to have to truncate the story line

Very frustrating. GRRR

[Deja Q]

13. Currently, they all suck skunk glands... and why is the good stuff hard to

come by? Because a lot of them are star trek wannabes where people go explore and find things and they're monsters with a moral claim and whatever. The characters are as bland as recycled paper, all the same.

B5 was also conceived of, long before DS9 came out. :P :D

[TrustingDog]

18. That ScottyTissue episode, he does the Press releases for the WH.