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Top 50 Science Fiction TV Shows

Posted by Zonk on from the self-sealing-stem-bolts-for-sale dept.

pbaumgar writes "Boston.com is running an article discussing their top 50 Sci-Fi TV shows of all-time. What are some of your favorites?" From the article: "Number 10 -'Sliders. 'Sliders' should have been a widespread hit, but it was ahead of its time. The show was about a wiz-kid genius Quinn Mallory, played by Jerry O'Connell, and his band of three companions who slide among Earth's alternate realities. Toward the end of the series, the show quickly slid in quality as three of its stars - O'Connell, Sabrina Lloyd and John Rhys-Davies - departed and were replaced by others. A tragic demise to a fine show." They don't even give a nod to greatest-trek-of-all-time DS9, so I don't know about this list.

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  1. DS9??? by thc69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    DS9 wasn't a sci-fi show. It was a soap opera, except for the first couple seasons...

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    1. Re:DS9??? by bynary · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Star Trek got the top spot because it's old. That's about it. Frankly, I think the show sucks. Granted, it's good in the way Elvis is good: it isn't but everyone says it is because it's old and genre-defining. Also, anyone remember Starman? I'm not saying it should be in the top 50, but since everyone's listing other sci-fi shows that didn't make the list I figured I'd better do it too.

      Also, the editors/writers of that piece need to go back to genre school. Xena is Fantasy. Superheroes are just that. Buffy is in the Horror-Comedy genre. Dark Angel is fiction. That's it.

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  2. New BSG is #2? WTF? by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I don't know why I even look at these sorts of "rankings" stories - the author may as well be posting a definitive ranking the "50 greatest ice cream flavors of the 20th century" - but I detect a weird, incomprehensible trend: there are people who find the new Battlestar Galactica to be a watchable show. Now I've tried it. Thanks to some of these people, I've watched MANY episodes of it, and I understand it less each time. How can even average-smart people put up with such terrible writing? Such stupid plots and stupider plot holes? Such transparent and flacid attempts to be edgy and gritty? Such... lack of immagination?

    I admit that I might be spoiled by Firefly, which actually did well all those things BSG tries but miserably fails at, minus that mystical crap about fulfilled prophecies, which just couldn't work and wasn't worth trying. But I've got to think that even without Firefly, I would see BSG for the vacuous soap opera that it is.

    Anyway, if they didn't want me flaming on slashdot, they shouldn't have baited me by giving that vomit the second ranking in all-time sci-fi.

  3. Re:Sliders by TheWanderingHermit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sliders was a poorly written, ill-conceived rip-off of an original idea by George R. R. Martin. The characters were less than real, and sometimes I felt almost like a characture.

    But, then again, once I learned to read well enough to understand Shakespeare and other classic writers who could really develop a story and characters, I've had higher standards than what most SF shows can meet.

    Sliders was a show for the masses who didn't want to deal with real sf that could actually make one think, like "The Prisoner" or 2001: ASO.

    It's pap for those who don't have the refined taste for the caviar of sf.