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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Cnut said:
Well I saw the film in the theater which was exciting, but I thought my nerd card was all filled up by Star Trek so I never tuned into SG-1, Babylon5, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, or any of those other 90s sci-fi shows. My elderly father has been bugging me to watch Lexx for 20+ years so it's probably where I'll start when I dip into that milieu.
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Stargate is basically Canadian Star Trek. They go out to find new technology to get Earth to be ready to resist crazy feudal lords with God complexes. The show gets a decline in quality after about ten years (and that clip I showed is actually during the decline) because the studio wanted more seasons after they killed off all the good antagonists. Babylon 5... I'm less familiar. It's similar to Mass Effect in that most of the drama is about diplomacy slowly falling apart for interstellar war. BSG remake by Ron Moore, my opinion of it aside, is a mostly good show that fumbles at the end.

Now that you brought it up, the 90s and 00s were the last time Sci-fi was actually interesting or willing to take creative risks. Now, it's a superhero veneer for MovieBob to say "Science is magic!"
 
Cnut said:
I've heard of this guy, I don't know who he is, but he sounds dumb. I'm thinking of pursuing the other cable sci-fi series. Been maxed out on Star Trek for a while.
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He is a very popular lolcow on this site, actually. I think they had to make a second thread because the first one got full. I think you made pretty good choices to consider too.
 
TVBForever said:
Thank god Stargate, X-Files and (in some certain areas) Futurama fans aren't as pozzed as either Star Wars or Star Trek fans.
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X-Files and to a vaguely lesser sense Stargate have been left to rot. We got the new season a few years ago that mostly sucked and even the new Darin Morgan episode wasn't exactly a classic. I thought for sure they were doing a formal reboot post-season because they introduced the two new hip young and equivalent-but-reversed agents.
 
In all fairness, I’d rather a show do the rememberberries and give a satisfying ending to characters I liked compared to the last outing they had over being told they were all shitty terrible people but these new super progressive characters are actually the best and put the original cast in their place.

I’ll take pandering over shitting on my face and told to like it or I’m a bigot or whatever.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
In all fairness, I’d rather a show do the rememberberries and give a satisfying ending to characters I liked compared to the last outing they had over being told they were all shitty terrible people but these new super progressive characters are actually the best and put the original cast in their place.

I’ll take pandering over shitting on my face and told to like it or I’m a bigot or whatever.
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All of this is true. However the problem is not only that we don't need memberberries (the studio needs them to sell tickets/subscriptions) but those berries are unripened and grown from a plant that's absorbed too much arsenic and mercury.

After x-many abominable 'rebootquels' of the last ten years [bringing back old heroes under new management for ill-guided swansongs or torch-passings] I think it's ok to be satisfied with the endings of yore.
 
Cnut said:
Well I saw the film in the theater which was exciting, but I thought my nerd card was all filled up by Star Trek so I never tuned into SG-1, Babylon5, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, or any of those other 90s sci-fi shows. My elderly father has been bugging me to watch Lexx for 20+ years so it's probably where I'll start when I dip into that milieu.
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well BSG, at least the good version of it, wasnt 90s, it is 70s. it is pretty good imho, just got to go into it remembering that it is a low budget, cheesy 70s scifi show. but dont let the cheesy description turn you off, it's not that cheesy or corny for the most part. then again im a bit weird, i prefer these older scifi stuff compared to the newer stuff.
 
Cnut said:
Well I saw the film in the theater which was exciting, but I thought my nerd card was all filled up by Star Trek so I never tuned into SG-1, Babylon5, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, or any of those other 90s sci-fi shows. My elderly father has been bugging me to watch Lexx for 20+ years so it's probably where I'll start when I dip into that milieu.
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Lexx is probably one show that's safe from rebootitits. Popular, but not popular enough to have fans clamoring for a new series. Plus, it would be too "toxic" for modern audiences with its misogyny and gay panic (even though Stanley had a backstory that explained the gay panic. Being raped by degenerates would probably do that to you).

Plus they'd probably make Kai a woman, and Zev would be a tranny. And Giggerota would be a good person that only eats conservative people.

As for Mike and Rich liking Star Trek. I, like many others, got the impression that they liked it because it wasn't S1/S2 bullshit.
 
Man, I am coming up snake eyes on RLM recommendations lately.

I absolutely hated Midnight Mass and now I'm watching Star Trek Picard season 3 and I can't figure out why they thought this was what the TNG movies should have been - it feels very, very similar to the mediocre, hammy TNG movies to me.
 
Matt Damon said:
Man, I am coming up snake eyes on RLM recommendations lately.

I absolutely hated Midnight Mass and now I'm watching Star Trek Picard season 3 and I can't figure out why they thought this was what the TNG movies should have been - it feels very, very similar to the mediocre, hammy TNG movies to me.
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When it comes to Trek and Mike/Rich, all those keen critical faculties they bring to bear against every other piece of media turn to absolute shit. You cannot trust their opinions on Trek because they are Trekkies. Sad but true.
 
Matt Damon said:
Man, I am coming up snake eyes on RLM recommendations lately.

I absolutely hated Midnight Mass and now I'm watching Star Trek Picard season 3 and I can't figure out why they thought this was what the TNG movies should have been - it feels very, very similar to the mediocre, hammy TNG movies to me.
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the thing is, while i like them talking abotu stuf, it has been a very long times since i was actually interested in watching something they covered. this is especially true when it comes to half int eh bag or mike and jay talk about. ilike their jokes, and i like their movie criticism, but jsut seems that me and them have far different opinions on what is interesting or entertaining movies/tv.
 
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