So I found myself rewatching old sci fi TV shows.
So far have done Firefly plus the film ending. Did not see the comics that explain what happened in the middle. Originally I saw it on DVD some years after its cancellation. I am more interested in the world/universe than the series but what else is new.
First few episodes of Babylon 5. Knew what it was but never really saw it before as far as sitting down to figure out what was going on. Not sure why the super important base commander keeps going out into dogfights with spaceships but I can see why many enjoyed it as much as they did.
Going to give Farscape another spin. I stopped originally after about 4 or 5 episodes but others in the house at the time really liked it and watched to the end.
Andromeda I stuck with for longer originally but ultimately became a casualty of my departure from TV. Is another option afforded to me here.
The Dresden Files I also managed to get all the way through, though not sure that counts as sci fi as much as fantasy. Interested in the books now though.
A while back I watched the first episode of Star Trek Next Generation. Some tell me the first few episodes were not good (and I can believe that compared to my memories of later episodes) but I did it mostly as a comparison to Picard and even the weak early episodes blow that out of the water.
Stargate was an option in my source of choice but it was not so very long ago I watched them all and there are an awful lot of them.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/stargate-viewing-order.79173/
That said some have tried to say Universe actually got good after everybody stopped watching it (there was a little break in broadcast). The masochist in me does wonder.
Battlestar Galactica (2004) is a possibility as well, though I would rather go find that Caprica show as I never got around to watching that and ultimately it was not that long ago that Galactica actually finished.
I did see the Alien Nation film which was a good time but not sure about going for the TV show it spawned.
Anyway in some ways it is hard to shut science boy up (watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g was a mistake if I planned to ever shut brain off and enjoy something that was not sci fi books) but I am actually having a good time which is a stark contrast to most modern stuff -- other than the Expanse and guilty pleasures by way of Dark Matter and Killjoys (did not see much past series 2 I think) there has been precious little here in recent times that has risen up to interest me. I will note however as part of this I have not seen a single episode of the Orville. If the Boys counts as sci fi rather than superhero deconstruction then I liked series 1 of that, have not done 2 yet.
Anybody else been rewatching older sci fi shows and have some suggestions, realisations it was all awful or realisations that modern stuff is seemingly almost devoid of fun.
So far have done Firefly plus the film ending. Did not see the comics that explain what happened in the middle. Originally I saw it on DVD some years after its cancellation. I am more interested in the world/universe than the series but what else is new.
First few episodes of Babylon 5. Knew what it was but never really saw it before as far as sitting down to figure out what was going on. Not sure why the super important base commander keeps going out into dogfights with spaceships but I can see why many enjoyed it as much as they did.
Going to give Farscape another spin. I stopped originally after about 4 or 5 episodes but others in the house at the time really liked it and watched to the end.
Andromeda I stuck with for longer originally but ultimately became a casualty of my departure from TV. Is another option afforded to me here.
The Dresden Files I also managed to get all the way through, though not sure that counts as sci fi as much as fantasy. Interested in the books now though.
A while back I watched the first episode of Star Trek Next Generation. Some tell me the first few episodes were not good (and I can believe that compared to my memories of later episodes) but I did it mostly as a comparison to Picard and even the weak early episodes blow that out of the water.
Stargate was an option in my source of choice but it was not so very long ago I watched them all and there are an awful lot of them.
https://gbatemp.net/threads/stargate-viewing-order.79173/
That said some have tried to say Universe actually got good after everybody stopped watching it (there was a little break in broadcast). The masochist in me does wonder.
Battlestar Galactica (2004) is a possibility as well, though I would rather go find that Caprica show as I never got around to watching that and ultimately it was not that long ago that Galactica actually finished.
I did see the Alien Nation film which was a good time but not sure about going for the TV show it spawned.
Anyway in some ways it is hard to shut science boy up (watching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g was a mistake if I planned to ever shut brain off and enjoy something that was not sci fi books) but I am actually having a good time which is a stark contrast to most modern stuff -- other than the Expanse and guilty pleasures by way of Dark Matter and Killjoys (did not see much past series 2 I think) there has been precious little here in recent times that has risen up to interest me. I will note however as part of this I have not seen a single episode of the Orville. If the Boys counts as sci fi rather than superhero deconstruction then I liked series 1 of that, have not done 2 yet.
Anybody else been rewatching older sci fi shows and have some suggestions, realisations it was all awful or realisations that modern stuff is seemingly almost devoid of fun.
