Sci-fi geek thread and poll
Mar 17 2007 23:48
Ok to get a rough survey of libcommers, if you were pushed to it desert island stylee, which is your favourite sci fi series
* Star Trek
* Star Wars
* Star Gate
* Babylon 5
* Blakes 7
* New BSG
* Doctor Who (only put it in here because someone is bound to be this much of a nob)
* Other- please specify
For those who hate sci-fi and are unable to contribute to this thread, you can watch this instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ng-BZbJXno
Mar 18 2007 01:59
#2
Star Wars easily, what's the point of doing a poll? Although its more a trilogy than a series (everything else is shit!).
For TV I would have to say Red Dwarf, and books Amtrak Wars...
Mar 18 2007 02:20
#3
jimmer wrote:
(everything else is shit!).
Mar 18 2007 08:36
#4
New BSG without a doubt, even though the last few episodes have been filler shite. Firefly/Serenity was pretty good, too bad it got axed after one season. I really enjoyed Total Recall 2070, mostly based of P. K. Dick. If we bring in Anime in the mix I would have Ghost in the Shell SAC close to the top of my list.
There's also Space: Above and Beyond and Space 1999 (?) and Surface, though these are pretty poor.
Mar 18 2007 10:41
#5
Doctor Who (not new Who, the good stuff) every time - and why the fuck isn't Buffy on the list?
Mar 18 2007 10:45
#6
Heroes, it's made of awesome and win 
ticking_fool wrote:
why the fuck isn't Buffy on the list?
Because it's not sci-fi, maybe? 
Mar 18 2007 11:03
#7
Firefly! At least, if we're not allowed Buffy...
Mar 18 2007 11:28
#8
Star Wars, if I get to keep the books and the Clone Wars, etc.
Mar 18 2007 11:31
#9
SG1
Mar 18 2007 11:50
#10
As deep as my entirely unjustifiable love for all things Stargate may be, it is pretty poor scifi.
Mar 18 2007 11:53
#11
madashell wrote:
As deep as my entirely unjustifiable love for all things Stargate may be, it is pretty poor scifi.
Dude. Every week the U.S. military saves the universe, fighting for morals and ethics with a purpose far beyond self-interest. And that isn't brilliant science fiction?
Mar 18 2007 11:55
#12
My favourite one was when they went to the planet where women were being oppressed and totally kicked the head patriarch's face in 
Mar 18 2007 11:59
#13
Exactly.
Mar 18 2007 12:05
#14
In order:
Doctor Who - except the Colin Baker episodes. Otherwise any of them.
Babylon 5 - the only American one that rates highly.
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Fireball XL5
And a very special mention to Starwreck:In the Perkinning http://www.starwreck.com
Mar 18 2007 12:51
#15
Babylon 5?! It was so shite they had to resort to showing it on Saturday mornings on Channel 4. I used to watch it when waiting for the cartoons!
Mar 18 2007 13:24
#16
Quote:
Because it's not sci-fi, maybe? tongue
Do I have to go for the full on academic beat down here? I can do it, just you watch. I'll rattle off five different definitions of sf all including Buffy before you've had chance to even start getting your geek on and then finish you with a quick one-two of the differences in genrefication between screen and print media. And then I'll do a big long-wordy poo on your still reeling geek crushed corpse.
Or possibly I might just get on with the work I'm putting off...
Mar 18 2007 13:53
#17
but buffy was absolute shit
Mar 18 2007 14:11
#18
Farscape.
Mar 18 2007 14:16
#19
Farscape? Muppets in space!
Mar 18 2007 14:26
#20
Quote:
but buffy was absolute shit
You take that back!
Quote:
You take that back!
And that!
vs.
No comparison.
Mar 18 2007 14:27
#21
Lone Wolf wrote:
jimmer wrote:
(everything else is shit!).
Yeah, everything to do with Star Wars apart from the original trilogy is shit, even Clone Wars, what's the point of doing 5 minute episodes?
Mar 18 2007 14:35
#22
knightrose wrote:
Farscape? Muppets in space!
As if there we no muppets in Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who.
I just watched "The Power of Kroll" last night.
Mar 18 2007 14:40
#23
Ah, but the muppets in Dr Who were always unpretentiously crap. So were the wobbly sets and awful effects.
What about Supercar?
Mar 18 2007 14:48
#24
farscape was awful, every character always had some shitty dark secret. The only thing that was vagualy acceptable about it was that the peacekeepers were the bad guys. Bjt apart from that it was like an angsty version of space preceinct or something. Andromeda was better, and that had kevin sorbo in it.
I'd have to say the new bsg or early babylon 5.
Mar 18 2007 14:51
#25
Mar 18 2007 15:27
#26
cantdocartwheels wrote:
farscape was awful, every character always had some shitty dark secret. The only thing that was vagualy acceptable about it was that the peacekeepers were the bad guys. Bjt apart from that it was like an angsty version of space preceinct or something. Andromeda was better, and that had kevin sorbo in it.I'd have to say the new bsg or early babylon 5.
You are so full of it. Andromeda was the worst crap. I kept expecting Xena to show up.
Farscape was great. It's like the iron column affinity group of uncharted space. Deserters, anarchist assassins, thought criminals, laughable deposed monarchs.
Mar 18 2007 16:28
#27
ticking_fool wrote:
Do I have to go for the full on academic beat down here? I can do it, just you watch. I'll rattle off five different definitions of sf all including Buffy before you've had chance to even start getting your geek on and then finish you with a quick one-two of the differences in genrefication between screen and print media. And then I'll do a big long-wordy poo on your still reeling geek crushed corpse.
Phrases and words are defined by common usage, not by some ivory tower academic scene.
And Farscape was a bit up itself.
Mar 18 2007 17:35
#28
Flint turned me on to Farscape, but i'm a Trekker at heart
.
In descending order
TNG
Voyager
DS9
enterprise
TOS
Mar 18 2007 20:38
#29
I haven't seen any of the new battlestar galactica. does anyone know where i can download it from?
Mar 18 2007 20:43
#30
nastyned wrote:
I haven't seen any of the new battlestar galactica. does anyone know where i can download it from?
www.tv-links.co.uk has most of it, I think.
Cantdo
You bastard!! I can't answer that!!! How could I choose just one? Desert island??? Would have to be a gun to the head mate to choose just one and even then i would prevaricate...
Anyways Revol and John. will be glad to see this thread am sure and will have a lot of wisdom to impart..
Wars v. Trek???? To the death!!
You could at least start the ball rolling by telling us your pick..
Wish we still had polls....
Also i can confuse the issue still more by offering other options - original "Twilight Zone" for example... Classic!
And opening music.. do de do de do de do de... classic!!
Anyone who does not like sc-fi is an unimaginative knob...
Love
LW X