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[Helpful Corn]

Loving the presentation/production value, but there are plot holes big enough to fly the whole fleet through. Feels like they really wanted to do a big galactic war epic so badly that forgot to make it coherent. I mean FCS, Space Above and Beyond was less campy than this. Olmos is great along with president stands with fist, and every scene with #6 makes my skin crawl (I asume that was intended), but it's really feels 1/2 done.

 

[Gundam Eclipse]

I would say try Steins;Gate, while it isn't in english yet AFAIK, its still awesome as hell.
If you don't want to, then um, go for Akira, its pretty awesome.
There's also the Gundam series, tons of em actually. Only one i have watched is Gundam 00, and that was p. good, not too bad at all.

 

[Helpful Corn]

I've never really gotten into any anime save Cowboy Bebop (all time top 5) I sorta liked trigun and FMA, the first ghost in the shell they aired here on adult swim was interesting enough. Anime has dissapointed me mostly, but I respect the medium a a means to tell a story without the budget required for live action. Most sci-fi in general is underwhelming and disapointing to me in general due to my heavy interest and wild imagination. Not to mention my superior intelect

I feel like a spoiled child when knocking these thing as I know they are quality but am far from blown away.

BSG update: 6 eps into season two, i'm on vacation and am gonna marathon this thing through til the end.

Thanks again to everyone for your input and suggestions.

 

[Wabsta]

Voyager and TNG are great series imo. So I vote for those 2! (I'm not really into the scifi genre, I just like ST)

 

[AlanWeird]

I've never really gotten into any anime save Cowboy Bebop (all time top 5) I sorta liked trigun and FMA, the first ghost in the shell they aired here on adult swim was interesting enough. Anime has dissapointed me mostly, but I respect the medium a a means to tell a story without the budget required for live action. Most sci-fi in general is underwhelming and disapointing to me in general due to my heavy interest and wild imagination. Not to mention my superior intelect

I feel like a spoiled child when knocking these thing as I know they are quality but am far from blown away.

BSG update: 6 eps into season two, i'm on vacation and am gonna marathon this thing through til the end.

Thanks again to everyone for your input and suggestions.

If it was superior, you would not have mis-spelled "intellect"

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Wow, all this talk about Firefly reminded me that I never watched it. Thanks for the reminder, downloading now. I'll make sure to nab Serenity too, I've seen bits and pieces of it but without any context I couldn't pick much up.

 

[Helpful Corn]

Wow, all this talk about Firefly reminded me that I never watched it. Thanks for the reminder, downloading now. I'll make sure to nab Serenity too, I've seen bits and pieces of it but without any context I couldn't pick much up.

watch it in order, don't take in preconceptions, don't make any judgements until you have seen all the eps+film, spend a few days away from it and write a review for us.

 

[Gahars]

Definitely check out Babylon 5; it's probably one of the greatest science fiction shows ever produced (I'd say it's better than TNG, and I love TNG).

I will warn you that the first season (especially the first few episodes) can be a bit shaky and inconsistent. Stick with it, though; the show finds its stride soon enough.

 

[xist]

Okay...i don't know how it slipped my mind when you were insistent on light hearted sci-fi.

It may look a bit dated and low budget now, but if you want some entertaining sci-fi situation comedy then please do give Red Dwarf a shot. It's one of my warm fuzzy good memory shows...

 

[Helpful Corn]

finished with the whole series, minus the two movies. moving on to farscape, babylon 5, and red dwarf. BSG should have been one season shorter.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Wow, all this talk about Firefly reminded me that I never watched it. Thanks for the reminder, downloading now. I'll make sure to nab Serenity too, I've seen bits and pieces of it but without any context I couldn't pick much up.

you're so lucky and don't even know it yet.
I sometimes wish I could erase my memory of Firefly
just so I could watch it again for the first time.

(not to mention falling in love with a dirty little mechanic all over again)

 

[Foxi4]

I've never really gotten into any anime save Cowboy Bebop (all time top 5)

Say no more.

Outlaw... Effing... Star. Watch it, it's brilliant.

 

[Helpful Corn]

vulpes have you seen farscape or red dwarf? i'm just starting both but omg omg omg

I don't regret watching BSG, but these two are just what I was looking for.

EDIT: I never really got into the main female cast, but a certain mrs. r was the hottest on the show. not to mention mrs. universe. hey a man can dream.

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Corn: I'm so glad somebody caught the veiled Red Dwarf reference.

Haven't watched much of Farscape, though.

 

[Helpful Corn]

I'm extremely grateful that I get to experience these wonderful things from begining to end at my leisure rather than wait weeks for episodes and years for conclusion.

 

[FAST6191]

Although I did not mind the film Dune I will say if you can pick up the now just over/around 10 year old SciFi channel miniseries' of Dune and Children of Dune then give them a go.

I have nothing I can suggest as a must watch this- personally I hope as we are now seeing some proper fantasy appear that sci fi also gets a boost. Plenty of stuff that I have enjoyed an hour or two watching but most sci fi I have seen lately is more "a cool technology, let us make a film with just that" and nothing quite like what seems to be being discussed here.