New Poll: Sci-fi wars, which of the below US series(excluding Lexx) wins your vote?

[ThryllSeekyr]

I would vote for 'Red Dwarf' if it was there.

[radiator]

'Actually I must be one of the oddest 'sci-fi fans' there is, in that I seem to loath about 98% of it. Anyone else know where I'm coming from?'

Totally. I hate all of that stuff.
You don't know pain until you've shared a house  with a smelly hippy who watches nothing but Trek, Charmed, Buffy and fucking Stargate fucking sg1 all day.
However, I quite like Doctor Who, but wouldn't call myself a fan.

I tend to think its because I like the darker side of sci fi (Alien, Dredd, Terminator, Robocop etc, Transmet, Akira), and I find all those shows to be a bit twee. Haven't seen either BSG or Firefly (serenity was ok), though, so I may like them.

[Dudley]

Would've been nice to have a multiple-choice poll

I can't be a sci-fi fan, as I have never watched any of these: Star Trek: Enterprise, Farscape, Firefly, Earth 2, Earth: Final Conflict, Battlestar Galactica: Original Series, Lost In Space, or Space: Above and Beyond.  And only one episode apiece of Lexx and Stargate: Atlantis, both of which were piss.

Babylon 5 and Stargate were pretty good fun for their first four series.  Nothing else on that list really tickled my fancy at all.

[Noisybast]

Dudley - I insist that you watch Firefly immediately! Best of the bunch by far!

[Max Kon]

apart from a few star treck episodes i have never seen any of these, or heard of most

but the best US scifi type series has to be the dead zone.

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281432/" target="_blank">The Dead Zone

[The Adventurer]

Most of those shows listed are both fantastic and classic (Especially Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5, Space Above and Beyond, Firefly, Farscape, Earth 2, and Lexx), though I can't stand Star Trek in any incarnation.

I voted New Battlestar though, just because it is the best TV show on right now, and will be the sci-fi show to beat for years and years too come.

[SamuelAWilkinson]

Faaaaaarscaaaaape!



That is all.

[Jim_Campbell]

"I voted New Battlestar though, just because it is the best TV show on right now"

Sorry ... can someone explain the unearthly amount of praise that's being heaped on new BSG?

I managed to watch six episodes of the first series, and those only out of a sense of fairness and a desire to 'give it a chance' ...

From the ham-fisted 9-11 metaphor of the opening, carried through in the 'enemy within' subplot, I found the whole thing bordering on the offensive.

The Doctor-Whatsisname with the Cylon Bird inside his head running subplot stretched credullity to breaking point -- what? Again they fail to realize that the unbelievably flaky scientist with a habit of talking to himself and responsibility for half-a-dozen mission-critical projects that somehow never seem to come to fruition is the major cause of all their problems?

Some nice space battles, yes. Hackneyed, paper-thin characters and hole-riddled plots, also yes.

And I'm inclined to watch just about anything that has Edward James Olmos in it, but I really couldn't stomach this incarnation of BSG.

Sorry ...!

Jim

[philt]

...and I thought I was alone in thinking Battlestar Galactic was kack. I'd add it's witless embrace of "sci-fi" cliché as well "they've....gasp...assumed...Human form!!!". A thing I can't understand either. Why is it that completely by chance the political system that exists in this separate humanity is exactly the same as the US system President et al (Yeah a blue and white ship called Colonial One). If it's supposed to reflect the world today then it's nothing more than allegory by TV focus group.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Maybe, there should be a poll for Sci/Fi series from all around the world.

Then, submission of Red Dwarf would look so bad.

Though I understand the America is in the lead for best Sci/fi.

Then there is the U.K.

Sadly the closest Australia gets to really good Sci/fi is Mad Max.

[I, Cosh]

Sadly the closest Australia gets to really good Sci/fi is Mad Max.

Sadly? Nothing to be ashamed of there. Mad Max pisses all over every single programme in this list from a very great height.

As Time Goes By was good too, but Pitch Black was fairly shit.

[JOE SOAP]

Red Dwarff was baaaaaaaaaaaddddddddddd.

[ming]

Dark City (1998) is definitely another Australian (mostly, I think) Sci-Fi flick that's worth a look.

[TordelBack]

"Sadly the closest Australia gets to really good Sci/fi is Mad Max.:

I think we could happily add the TV version of "The Nargun and the Stars" and the ambiguous-to-say-the-least "The Last Wave" to the roster of cool Oz SF.  Don't be so hard on yourselves!

[Devons Daddy]

that was tough

needed more then one vote there.
firefly excellent.
 (many thanks to all whom reccomended that)
all the treks. ok not enterprise,that one does not count.
new battlestar. want to watch. not on here,will buy the dvd set.

babylon 5 ace.
to many good ones.
i like sci fi even if its low budget stuff.