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Best Sci Fi Currently On Television?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-do-you-think-kids? dept.

A few months ago a friend recommended Farscape, and I started watching. The first season was flat, but the current season is absolutely amazing. So I started watching Lexx just because I had hope in TV sci fi. (I blame Voyager) I'll run a poll on this later, but I'd like to just throw this out: what is the best sci fi on TV? What do people like? Why? I like Farscape because the plot this season has been really interesting (and I even dig the device where the split the main char so they could have silly episodes interspersed with serious ones) and Lexx... well Lexx is just seriously bizarre: I love the wacky humor and terrible B effects. (thanks to everyone in Germany that recommended it. Wow! You werent kidding). Are there any other nuggets of joy out there that I'm missing? The scary thing is that the Sci-Fi channel has finally edged out Comedy Central and Cartoon Network on my Tivo for disk space.

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  1. Re:define scifi by WowTIP · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wonder if Miami Vice could be defined as scifi? Seems like a totally different universe... :)

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  2. Forget about the Special FX... by MrEfficient · · Score: 3, Funny
    The most important reason to watch Lexx is Xenia Seeburg. She is absolutely amazing. Shame on you for not mentioning her.

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    1. Re:Forget about the Special FX... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      Xenia Seeburg is great if you want luscious lips, big tits, lots of curves - in short, your high school sexual fantasies.
      Explain why this a bad thing again? :)
  3. I'm coming out: I watch Andromeda by IvyMike · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a science fiction snob, I should never ever watch this show, let alone admit it, but the only episodic television show I watch is Andromeda. Even worse, it's pretty much just because Lexa Doig is so hot. (For those who don't know, she plays the avatar of a massively powerful warship, so she's not even playing someone real, and yet that's part of the appeal. Psychoanalyze me now!)

    I'm going to science fiction hell for sure.

    For non-episodic science fiction shorts, I try to check out Exposure . It's a mixed bag, but usually has something worth watching every show.

  4. By Far The Best: Baywatch by veddermatic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what kind of futuristic world it is where all the babes look like that, but I wanna go there =)

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  5. Andromeda by Octal · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm personally a big fan of Andromeda, although I do also enjoy Earth: Final Conflict and Stargate SG-1. I'm not holding out much hope for Star Trek: Continuity Error, though.

    (<sarcasm>Cable? What the hell is cable?</sarcasm>)

  6. CLEOPATRA 2525!@# by Repvblic · · Score: 2, Funny

    IN THE YEAR 2525
    THERE ARE WOMEN WITH THE WILL TO SURVIVE
    FIGHTING FOR A BRAND NEW DAY
    NOTHING'S GONNA GET IN THEIR WAY

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    Christ, I'm so sorry. I don't know what overcame me. Oh yeah, the character Sarge gives me wood. that's what it was. Bad TV show, bad acting, nice abs. Now it's cancelled. I hope. It disappeared off local TV like an indicted infomercial king.