Where are the decent scifi series?

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There are some good anime sci-fi series out there if you like that sort of thing. Not on TV mind, you need the broadband :-/

IMO, TV is fairly useless in general. Not just sci-fi. There's one or two comedy programmes that are worth tuning in for, but they are rather weak compared to the standards I grew up with.

You'd think with all the money they pour in to television, combined with the latest amazing technology, TV would absolutely rock! But no... it's {bleep}!

As for sci-fi movies. Apart from the first, and at a push second Matrix films, nothing has really been worth the bother. I heard years ago that the excellent music video director Chris Cunningham was going to turn the fantastico Neuromancer into a movie. And I got really excited about that idea. But it came to nothing.

Well, I guess it saves having to hear people say it rips off the Matrix, unaware that the book was published in 1984. A Gibson-esq sci-fi series would be something special, wouldn't it? But not likely.

Did anyone watch Cold Lazarus in the mid-to-late-nineties (I forget when exactly)? I liked that.

Let's see what this new Dr Who turns out like. My money is on pish! If you like sci-fi, best stick with books and repeats of the classics.

-zudo

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cecilia,

I totally agree. That's gotta be what is happening. Because I know commercial channels make a lot of money through advertising, and the Beeb is rolling in licence payers money.

It reminds me of an Armando Ianucci sketch with three TV producers singing "we are good at telly" and dancing after coming up with a totally lame idea for a new reality show.

We'll never have a half-decent sci-fi series so long as people continue watching bad TV and supporting the parasites in the industry.

-zudo

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Ah, Captain Dylan 'Hercules' Hunt. Or as I like to call him, The Big 'C'.

I couldn't get into Andromeda. My former housemate watched it so I'd sometimes sit down and try it out, but it seems like another one of those "if we put some beautiful half-naked women in, maybe no-one will notice how much this sucks" kinda shows.

Some nice ideas, but every episode I saw started off with them going into some sort of epic war thats been building up for centuries, only to have it all sorted out and finished by end of the same episode. "Onwards to our next massive battle! or maybe a planet full of half-naked beautiful women... depending how the mood takes us."


[edit] LOL. I take it all back. I just remembered my favourite quote from the show which I have forged in my memory (sorry if it's a bit wrong.) Dunno which ep exactly this is from.

Beka: "where did you get all the candles?"
Tyr: "I rendered them from the fat of my enemies."

:lol:

Good line!

-zudo