Favorite Sci-FI show

[Fuzzy Fungi]

Babylon 5

I havn't seen it for ages though, as Space took it off the air a few years back. Depressing

My next favourite would be Stargate, followed by Star Trek and Star Wars at a happy little tie. (Tie, more like Tie Fighter! Ahahaha!! *ahem*)

 

[Phil Caracas]

I voted Farscape. A rich, complex evironment and exotic colorful personalities seem to always be a good mix. An exciting and dramatic storyline goes a long way as well. Too bad the series had to get cancelled.

 

[Palatka44]

Star Wars
Star Trek
SG1
Babylon5
Battle Star Galactica
Andromeda
Lost IN Space
All 6 above shows are grate stuff. and are in the order by which I like. In regards to Lost In Space I refer only to the movie I actualy thought that the TV show was somewhat cheesy.

 

[Isidore_AK]

Babylon 5 was good. It actually had a story arc. Amazing...it took 3 Star Trek Series before they got a real story arc...and then they ripped it from Babylon 5!

 

[Femme Savante]

Of the limited choices given, I voted for The X Files. Why ?

1. Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny have the best onscreen sexual chemistry since The Thin Man's Myrna Loy & William Powell.
2. A wonderful noir ambience to virtually every episode. Chris Carter has done his film homework, and many episodes have brief hommages to some of the great noir cinematographers -- like the half-shadowed Cancer Man's face obscured with smoke ; the dramatic use of chiaroscuro ; and figures backlit with smoke and fog.
3. Of course, noir has its roots in German Expressionism, and X Files has many Expressionist elements -- the low, off-center, or high-angle camera shots ; the first-person point-of-view camera shots, and the sense that reality can easily become fused with dream.

Okay, now I see the ballot for "Other". If you've never seen Firefly, you missed a really great series that glowed on the small screen with the same longevity of a firefly's glow, exactly 15 weeks. If Star Trek is discovering distant galaxies with intelligent ships that meet a full crew's every creature comfort, Firefly is a rough band of homesteaders travelling out to the territories in covered wagons -- science fiction-cum-western. As Captain Mal Reynolds says in the opening narration :

Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much. Central Planets, them was formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of the Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, his genius sister [River] from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.





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And there's some great dialogue :

Jayne Cobb (the muscle): Are you saying River (the doctor's sister) is a witch?

Pilot 'Wash' Washburn: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne Cobb: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech?


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The series is out on DVD now, and definitely worth renting.



FS

 

[none the wiser]

Haha, I loved X-files. I had alot of em recorded on VHS :X But my vote went to other, because I loved Firefly. Missed that show when they cancelled it...but hey...movie, right?

 

[CRIOSTAIR]

Star Wars for sure. This storyline could go on forever. I was only thirteen when I went to see episode IV. My jaw dropped when I saw the opening scene with the tie fighters. Awesome. I reminded me of old cliffhanger repeats we saw on tv when I was little, only with more fx. It had a great theme, great fx, story, characters, planets, a neat furry creatures.

 

[DanteRisen]

I had to say other because I could not make the decision between Bab5 and SG-1. They're both great and I have to watch them both, whether they're a repeat or not.

 

[Yahweh Nissi]

Until very recently, I would not have believed my vote could go to anything but Star Trek, but having watched the entire first series of Battlestar Galactica on DVD last week that has captured it.

 

[SilvrLoreena]

I can't believe that wasn't on the poll. It's an awesome show...but I don't have it on my stations anymore cause it's on the Sci-Fi Channel..which I don't have...

 

[die2live]

Star Wars is a classic, and for good reason. It will always be my favorite.
However, SG-1 is awesome as well. I love that show.

 

[~I'm_Not_Okay~]

I chose Other because I like Star Wars, X-Files, Andromeda, and Roswell.

Or is Roswell more of a fantasy? lol, I'm not sure, but anyhow, those are the ones I luv.

Sliders is my favorite, though. For some reason I just never tire of it.

 

[Dmckay]

Babylon 5, hands down, but Firefly is a very close second, and if it had not been cancelled probably would have gone on to surpass them all.

 

[The Fire Faerie]

The X-Files is my favorite. You can't beat the chemistry between Mulder and Scully. The show had it all: humor, darkness, depth, lightness. No wonder it's a cult favorite.


I also love Star Trek, esp. The Next Generation and Deep Space 9. I grew up around Trekkies, and thus became one.

 

[Lenora56]

I had to pick Star Trek, mostly thinking of the original series. Star Trek and I go back a long way. I remember, as a child, sitting with my family on Friday nights and watching it.

I like Twilight Zone too. It can be chilling with very little in the way of special effects.

 

[MidnightBlue]

SG-1, definitely, though DS9 is a not-too-distant second.

Never did care for the original Star Trek, but liked TNG and loved DS9. Then I lost track, somehow.

But I mostly watch the Star Trek series, any of them, with friends. SG-1 is the only one I've ever actually set to record so I wouldn't miss it.

 

[MidnightBlue]

The original Twilight Zone was also excellent and perhaps nowadays underrated.

Excellent point!

 

[Alive again]

So m,any to chose from!!! But I enjoyed Quantum Lep the most, so I'll have to go with that tho they all have their good points and drawbacks.

 

[MidnightBlue]

In regards to Lost In Space I refer only to the movie I actualy thought that the TV show was somewhat cheesy.

Now I think it was really cheesy, but when I was a kid I loved it.

Not sure cheesy is all bad, though -- for some series, that's part of the charm.

 

[Lenora56]

Once I was watching an old rerun of Lost in Space, the one early in the series, where they were without gravity for a while. It looked like one of the sisters was holding up the pony tail of the other sister, to enhance the look of weightlessness.

Now I think it was really cheesy, but when I was a kid I loved it.

Not sure cheesy is all bad, though -- for some series, that's part of the charm.