The Best Scifi Show?

[knowles2]

I think I will have to try and <snip> a re watch the series.

[kennythewraith]

i cant put every single scifi show on the list...theres too many to remember all of them!!!!thats wat the "other"option was for because i knew id miss a lot of em.

[Madeleine]

Lost is scifi simply because it uses science and technology to do the stuff it does.

Lost never uses science or technology to do the stuff it does. The 'weird' stuff sometimes happens *to* scientific paraphernalia, like when the flight computers go on the fritz, but there's never been one scientific explanation for how there comes to be a semi-conscious island full of ghosts and smoke-monsters, which moves around and magically repairs parapleigics. It's fantasy with added magnets.

[knowles2]

i cant put every single scifi show on the list...theres too many to remember all of them!!!!thats wat the "other"option was for because i knew id miss a lot of em.

Excuses excuses excuses. Just cannot get the service nowadays.

[kennythewraith]

Excuses excuses excuses. Just cannot get the service nowadays.

hey hey...i did my best aight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blencathra]

My two faves aren't on the list.

Red Dwarf and Blakes 7.

[LoneStar1836]

Voted Farscape. Great show. Real characters...including the puppets. Engaging story. Awesome writing. A fine cast of actors. I couldn't ask for more in a show.

I'd also say Babylon 5 and Firefly. Picked Farscape because I had to choose just one but these two are just as high quality. Babylon 5 had a great story.

The next tier down would be new BSG, LOST, The X-Files, DS9, and SG-1. They could be really great shows, but I also had problems (some being major) with them, some more so than others.

[Missster.Freeman]

Spoiler:

I took from it that it was going to be an endless unwinnable struggle - but one we'd make none the less.

That's why it's so great!

lol ok. I see what you mean, but I still aint gonny rewatch it, though.


Oh, aye, my vote went to that wee show set on a space station.

[Gregorius]

Oh, aye, my vote went to that wee show set on a space station.

Out of curiosity, which of the two? DS9 or B5?

[the fifth man]

Voted Farscape. Great show. Real characters...including the puppets. Engaging story. Awesome writing. A fine cast of actors. I couldn't ask for more in a show.

I'd also say Babylon 5 and Firefly. Picked Farscape because I had to choose just one but these two are just as high quality. Babylon 5 had a great story.

The next tier down would be new BSG, LOST, The X-Files, DS9, and SG-1. They could be really great shows, but I also had problems (some being major) with them, some more so than others.

On Farscape, my sentiments exactly.

[Hermiiod]

Farscape? Is that really what we've come to?

[kennythewraith]

Farscape? Is that really what we've come to?

hey!dont hate on Farscape...that is some great scifi tv and is the best as far as im concerned!!!....

Spoiler:

well the best that iv seen so far

[Madeleine]

Doctor Who was my pick.

If I'd been allowed runners up, it'd have been hard to choose between B5 and Farscape.

Red Dwarf and DS9 complete my top five.

[jenks]

I think the reason so many people don't find Lost to be SF is that although all the trappings of the 'impossible' stuff is pseudo-scientific, like magnets and computers couting down, the actual form that the impossible stuff takes - like moving islands, I See Dead People, smoke monsters, coincidental ties emerging between everyone that ever appeared onscreen and every other character - and all that is very Fantasy indeed. It's more Twin Peaks than X Files.

But the longer it goes on the more obvious it becomes things aren't all coincidental. Things that we can't understand always seem like magic, until we can, and that's where the science comes in.

[snip]

[Madeleine]

I suppose if the science does end up coming in to Lost, it might end up being SF. I did hope at first that it would, I just gave up waiting