What's one youve had?
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Babylon 5 is great for those looking for a series.
I stopped B5 after the resolution of the shadow wars. which apparently only needed a plucky American to explain that that whole thing was pointless and they all just went away.
Seems pointless to continue after that.
Should I continue?
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Better Off Ted is just so good. Only 2 seasons but tbh I doubt they could have kept the pace past maybe a third season anyway. As much as I want more it's kinda nice it burned brightly and shortly
My favorite part is when the octochicken comes down from its web.
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Farscape. I never heard much, if anything about it in Denmark, but it's amazing. Good sci-fi great humor.
I saw it a lot many years ago, and I agree that its good, don't know how much it holds up today though
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Firefly was nice. So was the OA. And the one following up after Dark. Good stuff, killed off too soon.
I don't know if it was really good or just how I remember it, but the first season of Heroes was great. It was such a shame they fucked it up so bad in the next season.
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Keen Eddie, Better Off Dead, and of course Firefly.
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If you like Columbo, Poker Face is a spiritual descendant. It's honestly far better than I expected, and sometimes there's camera work that is intentionally straight from the 70s.
How many animals they gotta kill though?
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Firefly, of course.
On the plus side, what Joss Whedon did to Wash in Serenity made me hate him long before the revelations of what an asshole he is came to light.
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Not as old, but cancelling American Gods was a shame
Ouch, that hurts. Didn't know it was cancelled.
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Wise Guy with Ken Wahl.
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I finally got around to watching Dark. The show is insane. Im not sure if its niche but I have never heard any of my friends talk about it before.
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Farscape. I never heard much, if anything about it in Denmark, but it's amazing. Good sci-fi great humor.
surprisingly dark too, especially in the latter seasons. they just keep making the main characters fail and suffer and betray each other and get tortured and have their friends and family die in front of them after failing to escape the body horror mad scientist that wants to steal your organs and trap you in the matrix...
i actually had to stop watching it towards the end over the continuous concentrated negativity. it's not a very happy show very often. still good, i just can't deal with shows that never turn on the lights. like bojack horseman and mr. robot. two other shows that are just too depressing for me to watch. i resonate too hard the consistent downward spiral with no positive moments, then the feeling sticks with me. all three are really good shows that i had to turn off for my own wellbeing.
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Night Court
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I saw it a lot many years ago, and I agree that its good, don't know how much it holds up today though
wrote last edited by [email protected]thematically it holds up fine. productuon wise it's about what you'd expect from 90s scifi. it even has early cg aliens, with a tv budget. lots of big rubber suits or people with skin paint and wigs.
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I finally got around to watching Dark. The show is insane. Im not sure if its niche but I have never heard any of my friends talk about it before.
Yeah I'd consider it pretty niche. Most people I gushed to about it didn't want to give it a chance because it was dubbed, weirdly enough. Their loss. This reminds me I need to do a rewatch...
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Firefly, of course.
On the plus side, what Joss Whedon did to Wash in Serenity made me hate him long before the revelations of what an asshole he is came to light.
Top 3 hated deaths for me. Not even sure anything else quite takes the number 1 spot.
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Farscape. I never heard much, if anything about it in Denmark, but it's amazing. Good sci-fi great humor.
I'm currently through Season 1 and starting Season 2. Last time I saw it was in high school and the show holds up amazingly well. I've enjoyed it as much if not more.
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I saw it a lot many years ago, and I agree that its good, don't know how much it holds up today though
I left his in another comment before seeing yours but yeah, last time I watched it was quite some time ago and I still really enjoy it. One of the few times the 'rose colored glasses' didn't apply.
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The whole first season is kinda a low rent monster of the week show. Then there's a few seasons that cohere around sci-fi trope A that are worth the watch, then the last season or two revolve around sci-fi trope B and I basically kept watching just to finish it.
Yup this was me as well. Last couple seasons kind of go off the rails but overall the show is solid
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Not as old, but cancelling American Gods was a shame
wrote last edited by [email protected]idk, that had already changed the basic nature of how gods work from the book.
they also tended to go for cheap shots where the author really thought a lot about how to use certain gods.
for example:
in the epilogue of the anniversary edition of the book gaimam talks about wanting to incorporate Jesus, but deciding that the scene he wrote for him wasn't good enough to capture what Jesus was to Americans. but he includes the scene in the post script anyway. it's a quiet scene where Jesus comes and offers guidance in one of shadows most desperate hours.
in the show Jesus gets shot trying to cross the Mexican border. which is the absolute lowest hanging fruit when it comes to Jesus. i have made that joke before. I've heard others make that joke before. "if Jesus actually was alive right now he'd get shot at the border for being brown and communist". they clearly just wanted shock value at the lowest intellectual price.
i don't hate shows or movies just for adapting a story to a new medium. for example, the new dune movies really aren't actually capturing the point of the books very well so far. that's because the dune books are mostly people thinking about what people think it doesn't adapt into visual mediums well. what villenuve has made is a great movie series regardless. the shining is another great example of that. i had a Stephen King fan try to tell me that Stanley kubrik was a hack for not following the book better. I'd argue that Stanley Kubrik is a better filmmaker that king is an author. the shining is an all time great movie regardless of what it was based on or how much it changed that material. that said, i do hate adaptation that add story elements and change basic rules of reality without putting thought or effort in to making it worthwhile. these two examples are great because kubrik and villenuve are masters of their craft that made these movies with immense amounts of care and effort.
deviating from the source material isn't inherently a sin, but making a much worse story when you started with a good one that was already written and loved and using its name to draw people in is worse than just making a bad show. a bad show is easily ignored, but a bad adaptation will put people off of the source material you love. or worse, will supplant the source material in the cultural zeitgeist and you'll forever have to specify "i mean the book, not that terrible movie they did". i think tv American gods was... just ok. it completely failed to capture what i liked about the book, but others seem to like it well enough. it has gotten multiple people i know into the book, so i can't hate it entirely.
similar to the Witcher show. i hated it. it had nothing of the books in it. it was schlocky and the plot BARELY made sense. they just went off and did entirely their own thing after season 1 and it was shit. but everyone who hasn't read the books seems to still like it so maybe I'm just a hater.
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Recently?
Lucifer
Grimm
Leverage
Timeless
Lost in Space (2018)
Series that my family rewatch about every 3 years or so:
Stargate SG-1
Farscape
