Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (12/12/10)

12/12/10 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (12/12/10)

Tues:
8/7 -- No Ordinary Family -- ABC

Fri:
10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy

On 12/25/10 Dr Who BBC America

On 12/31/10 Twilight Zone Marathon SyFy Channel

Coming Soon:
Outcasts -- BBC America -- Unk

[KevinDavis]

This looks like the last posting for 2010 (unless something shows up). I would like to wish you all and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Here is hoping that SciFi improves in 2011!

A very good Eureka..

List of SciFi shows that is respectful to religion:
1. The Old Star Trek
2. Babylon 5
3. Stargate (SG1, SGA, and SGU)
4. The Old Battlestar Galactica (Despite the influence of Mormonism and nothing wrong with it).
5. The New Battlestar Galactica

Anything else??

[KevinDavis]

[wally_bert]

Right now, I can’t. Considering B5 was written by an atheist, it was very fair towards religion.

[Carbonsteel]

Interesting that your list has the best sci-fi shows ever.

Maybe it has something to do with when writers don't have to go out of their way to be politically correct, they can more easily work on writing a quality show.

[KevinDavis]

I agree..

[KevinDavis]

However, you noticed that I don’t have the other Star Trek shows on the list..

[wally_bert]

I bought (and later misplaced) the script writing book that JMS wrote. It was one of the best non fiction reads I had come across in a long time.

[GeronL]

Hulu says it has the 7th and 10th episodes of this season.... eh? What happened to 8 and 9... were they THAT bad??

:P

[GeronL]

I kind of liked DS9 but they surrendered to the fluff too quickly

[Carbonsteel]

I assume because they were nothing more then a weekly lessen in leftist, environmental wacko, PC, feelgood nonsense.

Am I off base?

[poverg]

Totally agree! To this day, the Season 3 episode “Passing Through Gethsemane” is one of the most moving items I have seen on TV - SciFi or otherwise.

[JoeProBono]

http://watch-series.com/serie/x_files

[KarlInOhio]

List of SciFi shows that is respectful to religion:

Firefly. Shepherd Book (Nathan Fillion) is treated with respect (even if Crazy River decided that his Bible needed some modifications). Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) is shown kissing a cross hanging around his neck before going into battle when he was a sergeant in the Independent army. After the loss in that battle he turned bitter about religion and many other things

[BenLurkin]

TNG = the gayest Star Trek.

[Vanders9]

The new Star Trek is very respectful to religions (as long as they are pagan). I mean come on, in the last seasons of TNG and DS9 every other episode featured Klingon spirituality.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” was usually allegorical, but respected religion because he wouldn’t have lasted on the air at that time otherwise. Yeah, look past the spacemen Adam & Eve and Robert Redford as Death, and there were other stories of Heaven and Hell, which were played fairly straightforward.

[Tanniker Smith]

Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” was usually allegorical, but respected religion because he wouldn’t have lasted on the air at that time otherwise. Yeah, look past the spacemen Adam & Eve and Robert Redford as Death, and there were other stories of Heaven and Hell, which were played fairly straightforward.

[Tanniker Smith]

One thing on SGU (particularly directed at those who can’t get past the lesbians): when they thought they were dying because they were about to fly into a star, those behind broke into two camps: party till the end and prayer service. The people playing were playing the Our Father (and presumably the Rosary), not some generic New Age spiritual whatever.

[AU72]

I remember a Star Trek movie portraying God as a narcissistic blowhard.

[geege]

I still love Lost In Space....It was suppose to take place in the year 2001....Should have been 3001.....