Posted on 11/02/2009 3:09:41 PM PST by EveningStar
Here are my selections for the most pretentious science fiction - fantasy TV shows (RELAX - THE CYNICISM IS ALL IN FUN!):
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 - 2003) - Pretty much a chick series.
4. V (original - including miniseries' - 1983 - 1985) - Nazi lizard people invade the earth.
3. Alien Nation (1989 - 1990) - A message series with one message - racism is evil. We get it. Next. (amazingly enough, this series spawned five made for TV movies, which were viewed by all 500 of its fans)
2. Beauty and the Beast (1987 - 1990) - Nauseatingly sappy
1. Babylon 5 (1993 - 1998) - Yeah, I know that "true science fiction fans" like this series because J. Michael Straczynski is a fan of literary SF - and named a Psi Cop "Alfred Bester." Big deal.
I never saw the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, but from what I've read about it, it definitely would have made my list.
OK. Those are my picks. How about yours?
At least half the shows mentioned were fantasy and not sci fi. The original Star Trek was really pretty good... I think it would hold up and it was Sci Fi and so was SG1.
Once again everyone has missed the mark.
There is simply no more bodaciously pretentious, liberal/enviro wacko lecturing, all consumingly politically correct show than this jewel of colossal Sci Fi cheesiness.
I speak of none other than the grand puba of all televised PCness...
Seaquest DSV.
When my son was about 11 we caught the second half of a Blakes 7 episode while waiting for Monty Python. We thought it was a joke but it became part of our Saturday night routine and we got into it. Really not bad once we figured out who was who and what they were about.
He’s a great writer. He’s still an a-hole.
I’m not sure but I think that the Dresden Files was one of those shows that lived and died on another network that SciFi must pick up on the cheap.
They picked up moonlight which was shown on CBS, then cancelled after the first season. There will be no further episodes.
In those cases, it’s not SciFi’s fault, the corpse was cold when they got there.
Castle (starring Nathan Fillion) was funny last week. At the start he was trying on his "Space Cowboy" costume for Halloween including the brown coat and pistol from Firefly. His daughter said "Didn't you wear that five years ago? Don't you think you should move on?"
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
2. Mork and Mindy
1. Futurama
Red Dwarf was many things; but it was never pretentious!
It’s obvious...they’d evolved so far that they never excreted, much less have it stink.
Flash Forward
That is a seriously hilarious rundown of Smallville. I’ve never watched the show and probably never will; but I feel you’ve told me everything I need to know about it.
yes, I am warming to some of the characters. But they really REALLY need to get the lights on and the water running on that ship, or the whole premise is going to fart and fall over. It needs a lot of offworld adventure, something that SG1 had in spades. (Of course, SG1 also had O’Neil and Teal’c, too...)
"Genesis II" was really PC - the protagonist stopped a nuclear attack by the bad Tyranians on the peaceful PAX by making a Tyranian nuclear power plant blow up in some kind of fusion explosion. The PAX, far from appreciative, rag on the protagonist for killing the enemy that was about to kill them.
"Planet Earth" was better, as it dealt with 70s stud John Paxton putting the kibosh on a matriarchal society that used men just for our brawn and our wieners.
Does anyone remember “The Invaders”? One man saving the world from evil aliens, and never any proof as they disappeared upon their demise.
Obviously, it was true. If we had only stopped polluting, Obama wouldn’t be our president today.
Sorry, but I just can’t dog the show (B5) that made Jerry Doyle famous.
Andromeda wasn't pretentious, it was 1930's pulp SF.
There’s alot of shows on Fancast, I haven’t thought to look for Brimstone though. I still have to get caught up on Warehouse 13! I’ve been busy and haven’t watched the last couple of episodes and the season finale. I love Fancast- the show was put on there a couple days after air date each week. Since we canceled cable TV I don’t miss it at all between the internet and Fancast.
Now don't get me wrong, nice eye candy for us guys, but come on! A stripper who goes under the knife for breast augmentation and wakes up five hundred years in the future to battle robots that have taken over the surface of the planet??? Thankfully, this show only lasted two seasons.
Am I the only person who ever saw an episode of Star Maidens? Antimale feminists from the planet Medusa?
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