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Originally Posted by angels_and_daemons  People keep telling me I should watch Battlestar Galactica... but I think it has a lot to live up to
Babylon 5 - terrible acting, occasionally dire direction and the CGI now looks very dated, but the story was good (gets a little fuzzy after they had to write an entire series after they'd re-writtn the series before on the premise that they'd not have another series)... but its edgy, its political, it's engaging
Firefly - good all round series, would have been excellent I think if they'd got a couple of seasons (unless Jos Weaden ran out of plot ideas and just got silly like he normally does)
Farscape - best sci-fi acting bar none, good plot and reasonable CGI, only occasionally did they get close enough to the henson made puppets to show they were made of rubber. good plots, very edgey at times...
Space Above and beyond - great fun, woefully under rated (though again bad acting - it seems typical of sci-fi)... good space battles
Stargate SG1... well, it had good effects... and... a bald guy with a shiney thing on his head... ok it was rubbish
So to be good enough it needs lots of great space battles, great plots, something a little more edgy that "we're americans in space aint it great" by way of plots, and decent acting... does it live up to those that came before? |
hmm slagging off Bab5 AND praising farscape? considereing that makes you the exact opposite of me and i love BSG i wouldn't hold your breath on liking BSG
i'm guessing (tis just a guess mind as i dont' actually have sky tv) that sky 1 will be showing season three sometime soonish, as they normally run about a month or so behind the states (due in part to the huge fecking gap the sifi channel stick in the middle of the season, something which english tv channels don't generally do)
oh and when it comes to liking BSG forget everything about the original crappy series from way back when, this modern one is so much better