OT Farscape Best Scifi Series Ever? - Page 3

Desdinova · #21 March 15th, 2003, 08:48 PM

B5 for continuous plot line. but doctor who overall.

Captain Kwok · #22 March 15th, 2003, 09:18 PM

I liked Star Trek the best, mostly DS9 and TNG, not so much the others, although they've had moments.

The Beastmaster · #23 March 15th, 2003, 10:07 PM

I would have to vote for Babylon 5 as well.
No other SciFi series has come as close to a cohesive compelling saga as this one did.
Making the story from projecting Biblical stories, UFO speculations, etc. from our own understanding and crafting it all into a SciFi story line was quite clever and well done. And even if I don't agree fully with the ideas behind the show, I still love it for it's ability to maintain a fairly tight and interesting story line, in which doesn't stray much over the 5 years... bar the first telepath leaving the show.

- Star Trek (the original) is had to compare anything else to it, considering Lost in Space was it's same time/age comparison. It still holds up fairly well today, even though a bit simplistic. If we didn't have this show, how many people would really be SciFi fans today?.. in that, SciFi is much more accepted in the mainstream today because of this show. As I recall, to people in the early 70s still thought of SciFi fans as geeks, etc. Today it's not only acceptable, it's a sign of character.
- Star Trek TNG and deep space 9, etc. all have had their moments of greatness in parts, but the parts don't live up to the sum of the whole for me, not as well as the original Star Trek did.
- Farscape was very interesting to me in the first year, but it quickly got to be too cheesy for my tastes in a final years of Xena sort of way, if you know what I mean.

Just my two cents, gonna stop here. Too many other shows to comment on, but wanted to vote for babylon 5.

dogscoff · #24 March 15th, 2003, 10:17 PM

Bab5 was best, but Farscape comes a very close second for me. Most other scifi series are pretty sucky imho.

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f course, tv SF is even worse than movie SF, so this might not be saying much,

Really? I think tv scifi has much more scope to develop characters and stories than film. Bab5 and farscape for example=-)

Wizarc · #25 March 15th, 2003, 10:25 PM

I saw the word 'ever' and I wanted to bring up Space 1999 and Star Trek Original series.

I like FarScape but sometimes I cant handle some of the hard to believe, even if scifi, tangents it goes out on. Would I call FarScape the best "hardcore" scifi...no.
Babylon 5 was great. To bad it is gone.
I watch Stargate and I like it. I kinda get upset when they go off on tangents to the main plot of the Gou'ald (hope spelled correct). Like X-Files...we want to know about the alien plot and then there is this episode of a liver eating maniac...did the aliens put him on our planet? Suckin us in they are.

What would you consider the best SciFi game ever?

But....wasnt this question asked in another post. I think I remember...

tesco samoa · #26 March 16th, 2003, 01:09 AM

i liked bab5 but the acting was not very good.

And then their was the build up build up... Sugar were outta money... Silly ending...

If you could combine Bab5 with the acting from DS9 and take the best script writers from both you would have a good show.

I really enjoyed the X Files...

Nodachi · #27 March 16th, 2003, 02:01 AM

Whether or not Farscape is (was) the best ever, I don't care, I enjoyed it and am saddened to see it go. For me it's like reading a good book and that sense of loss when it's done.

Suicide Junkie · #28 March 16th, 2003, 03:41 AM

Thunderbirds!

It was sci-fi. They had laserpistols and rocketplanes

Taz-in-Space · #29 March 16th, 2003, 06:18 AM

I like Bab 5 and Farscape both. Both were well acted and well written. I thought Farscape did drift a little in the middle, but a few episodes of Bab 5 did that too.

One SF series that I liked initally was Sliders.
Great premise and the first season was innovative and well acted. Unfortunately, the series went seriously downhill thereafter. My guess is it just became a cash cow and was left to rot to death! Rhys Davies knew when to bail...

Owlman · #30 March 16th, 2003, 08:47 AM

I think we can pretty much agree, that atleast Farscape had the best acting of any Scifi series. Who knows what kind of bad *** story lines we will miss because of Sci-Lie. Again I personally couldn't stand the cheesy acting of B5 or the entire race of Napolean look-alikes, but maybe I'm retarded. Well, I'll enjoy the Last ep and pray that someone picks the show up.