Where are the decent scifi series?

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KennyR wrote:

The closest Asimov ever got to big screen popularity was Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which he co-wrote the story for. It sucked.

I know most of Asimov's stories don't suck though. I'd be frustrated beyond belief if I was the man. He must be the most successful scifi writer who's been ignored the most by Hollywood.

I didn't know Asimov was involved in ST Motion Picture!  The story wasn't THAT bad IMHO.  The film sucked because the acting was poor, the characterizations were awful and the director seemed to be biased toward special effects at the expense of everything else.

Anyway, there have been a great many Sci-Fi writers who deserve to have their work adapted to film.  There's the likes of Arthur C Clarke (isn't Rendezvous With Rama sitting unreleased somewhere?), Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - Lucifer's Hammer would have been the ultimate disaster movie, much better than Deep Impact IMHO.

Isn't there a remake of War Of the Worlds due soon?  If it's set in the original Victorian Britain then it will something different...

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odin wrote:
Now, you can't be serious if you mean that the original Battlestar was good. Great fun in a camp-ish sort of way, but good? Nah :-).

Camp as a field full of tents :-)

Do you remember the battle scenes in Battlestar?  They used to play the same three or four dogfight sequences in a slightly different order to give the illusion of big battle taking place.

That's directing on the cheap  :lol:

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they obviously tried to make Riker be another Kirk, but the actor wasn't up to it and changed their minds).

What an damning verdict on Jonathan Frakes's acting skills! ("Spaaaaaahhhhhhk!  Some.  Kind.  Of.  magneticenergyfield". cue lots of arm waving, slow fighting and pouting at camera.  Shirt rips).

With TOS, none of the character's histories were relevent, which made it easy to watch without having to think back to old episodes or follow a drawn out plotline.  Nothing else mattered but the story being played out during the 40 minutes of storyline because it was all about plot.  Again, it allowed decent writers to come and go (inlcuding Harlan Ellison IIRC) because they didn't have to write around comlex character guidelines.  Ironically, the most complex character was the one portrayed as unemotional, thus Spock was the logical choice (groan) to cameo in TNG.

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Is it me or is one of those purple dudes giving Picard the bird?

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