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Best Sci Fi Currently On Television?

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. SciFi Channel by gbender · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Speaking of SciFi...back to the future 3 is on SciFi channel right now. Hell Yeah.

  2. Tv Media by Faizdog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The best Science Fiction on TV is how the Media manages to overlook important science related issues such as MS practices, Dimitri in Jail, and tries to pass of fiction as fact, and gets away with it.

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  3. Re:Good and bad by CrackElf · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Yes, you are a bad ass. Please post your name /addy. Did I mention that I was a punk (before I sold out and started working for the man)? That i ride a motorcyce? that my father was x-spc forces vietnam? that I can fight well with my hands, chains, a broken bottle, and just about anything else that I can get my hands on. That I work out at the dojo 3-4 times a week (a dojo roughly corrolates to a gym for martial artists, except that it is mental as well as physical). Just because muscle heads believe that they are 'smarter/faster/stronger/more ambitious/more talented' does not make it so.

    Not exactly the 'ugly, weak, undernourished geek/nerd' that you portray is it? Intelligence, lack of a frat membership, and not using steroids does not, in fact corrolate to unambitios, stupid, slow, weak, and a lack of talent. In fact it usually implies the opposite. I despise ignorance and stupidity, both of which you appear to have in abundance. As does Crichton.

    Only a fool picks a fight without knowing his/her opponent. And you obviously do not know me.

    -CrackElf

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    "Blake is an idealist, Jenna. He cannot afford to think." - Kerr Avon, Star One, Blakes 7