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The whole series is worth watching Right now TV is in its "golden age" but there are no good sci-fi tv shows (hell even the word "scifi" is dirty somehow now,

by dcc1 12y ago

The whole series is worth watching Right now TV is in its "golden age" but there are no good sci-fi tv shows (hell even the word "scifi" is dirty somehow now, see > SyFy-lis). Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, Outer Limits all gone replaced by Vampires and all sorts of supernatural rubbish. Dr Who is the only interesting scifi show now worth watching, for the most part...

chrisgd 12y ago
Check out the 100 on the CW. Seriously
- nitrogen 12y ago
  It's not in the same optimistic genre as Star Trek TNG, but the 100 is watchable. It has a younger cast, so it might be better at getting younger viewers into sci-fi. Other current sci-fi, also not in the TNG genre but still enjoyable: Continuum, Defiance.
  - pwelch 12y ago
    Dr Who is really the best one right now. Continuum is pretty good but it's no Star Trek/Stargate. Falling Skies is okay but I don't think it's technically Sci-Fi. We could really use some new Sci-Fi shows.
- masmullin 12y ago
  OMG its terrible.
  - morganvachon 12y ago
    Actually it's a great premise, but it is overshadowed by the "cool teen" factor which plagues other shows on the CW (though Arrow has mostly been able to escape that..for now). The Vampire Diaries is a good example of what being on the CW does to a show. It started out in the first two seasons as a dark, violent, mostly serious take on the "teenage vampire" trope, and could be enjoyed by both teens and GenX/GenY fans of the vampire genre. It has a pretty good cast (Nina Dobrev's "Katie Holmes v2" notwithstanding). After those first seasons, however, it devolved into the stereotypical teen drama + nonsensical mysticism. Eventually, after seeing a school dance or town festival as the main plot device every two episodes, I had to stop watching it. My wife still watches, but she tends to enjoy the occasional plotless teen drama.
moron4hire 12y ago
Dr Who is fantasy, not sci-fi.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  Dr. Who is no less sci-fi than Star Trek.
  - theophrastus 12y ago
    someone needs to craft a Bechdel test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test) for sci-fi. 1. has to have at least two established theories (cosmological or otherwise) in it 2. they must combine to create a dramatic plot issue 3. in a fashion which doesn't involve a time-loop paradox that or some generic metric; "Firefly is delightful, but only scores 2.7 Asimovs" ...or not
    - jerf 12y ago
      You're probably looking for something like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienc... , though it isn't entirely clear what you're fishing for.
  - gknoy 12y ago
    I agree that Dr. Who is most certainly science fiction, but I've __noticed__ a lot more instances of script-writer-protection of the heroes in the 2005+ Dr. Who. So many times that the bad guys decide to do something other than Just Kill Them. I don't mind that the Sonic Screwdriver is a psychic Scotty in a stick ( ;) ), but the fact that the Doctor and friends don't get shot in the face (especially once he reveals who he is) more often is getting almost absurd. Star Trek certainly has it's share of that kind of writer-armor for characters, but many more of them are less overt. As in, the Romulans/Klingons aren't going to just kill Kirk or Picard for $Reasons, or $Treaty.
    - Frozenlock 12y ago
pasbesoin 12y ago
I just stumbled across "Continuum" on Netflix streaming. The first two seasons kept me engaged. I, too, am not one for the likes of SyFy's scary ("alien"!) monsters stuff.

by dcc1 12y ago

chrisgd 12y ago

Check out the 100 on the CW. Seriously

nitrogen 12y ago
It's not in the same optimistic genre as Star Trek TNG, but the 100 is watchable. It has a younger cast, so it might be better at getting younger viewers into sci-fi. Other current sci-fi, also not in the TNG genre but still enjoyable: Continuum, Defiance.
- pwelch 12y ago
  Dr Who is really the best one right now. Continuum is pretty good but it's no Star Trek/Stargate. Falling Skies is okay but I don't think it's technically Sci-Fi. We could really use some new Sci-Fi shows.
masmullin 12y ago
OMG its terrible.
- morganvachon 12y ago
  Actually it's a great premise, but it is overshadowed by the "cool teen" factor which plagues other shows on the CW (though Arrow has mostly been able to escape that..for now). The Vampire Diaries is a good example of what being on the CW does to a show. It started out in the first two seasons as a dark, violent, mostly serious take on the "teenage vampire" trope, and could be enjoyed by both teens and GenX/GenY fans of the vampire genre. It has a pretty good cast (Nina Dobrev's "Katie Holmes v2" notwithstanding). After those first seasons, however, it devolved into the stereotypical teen drama + nonsensical mysticism. Eventually, after seeing a school dance or town festival as the main plot device every two episodes, I had to stop watching it. My wife still watches, but she tends to enjoy the occasional plotless teen drama.

moron4hire 12y ago

Dr Who is fantasy, not sci-fi.

dragonwriter 12y ago
Dr. Who is no less sci-fi than Star Trek.
- theophrastus 12y ago
  someone needs to craft a Bechdel test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test) for sci-fi. 1. has to have at least two established theories (cosmological or otherwise) in it 2. they must combine to create a dramatic plot issue 3. in a fashion which doesn't involve a time-loop paradox that or some generic metric; "Firefly is delightful, but only scores 2.7 Asimovs" ...or not
  - jerf 12y ago
    You're probably looking for something like http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MohsScaleOfScienc... , though it isn't entirely clear what you're fishing for.
- gknoy 12y ago
  I agree that Dr. Who is most certainly science fiction, but I've __noticed__ a lot more instances of script-writer-protection of the heroes in the 2005+ Dr. Who. So many times that the bad guys decide to do something other than Just Kill Them. I don't mind that the Sonic Screwdriver is a psychic Scotty in a stick ( ;) ), but the fact that the Doctor and friends don't get shot in the face (especially once he reveals who he is) more often is getting almost absurd. Star Trek certainly has it's share of that kind of writer-armor for characters, but many more of them are less overt. As in, the Romulans/Klingons aren't going to just kill Kirk or Picard for $Reasons, or $Treaty.
  - Frozenlock 12y ago

pasbesoin 12y ago

I just stumbled across "Continuum" on Netflix streaming. The first two seasons kept me engaged. I, too, am not one for the likes of SyFy's scary ("alien"!) monsters stuff.