Absolutely.
Jayne made the show incredibly funny.
Fav line from "Serenity."
Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?
And he was really all about himself most of the time.
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Posted on 03/26/2014 8:22:15 PM PDT by EveningStar
While we wait to see if freshmen series like Almost Human and Tomorrow People survive for a second year, we thought it’d be a good time to take a look back at some of our favorite one-season sci-fi wonders.
We’re drawing close to the dog days of summer, and though there’s more original sci-fi fare than there used to be, it’s still essentially the doldrums for a genre fan. Luckily for all of us, that’s where streaming services like Netflix come in handy. What better way to spend the downtime than to catch up on some gems that never got a second chance?
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No Quark, either!
‘Jaynestown’ may be my favorite episode. OK, no spoilers.
I’ve been wanting to see Firefly for some time. I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.
I tried watching Caprica once...eh. I think my disappointment at the final season or two of BSG soured me on a spinoff. I probably didn’t give it a fair chance.
I wish SPACE: Above and Beyond was on that list. I really enjoyed that one, though the (obviously unresolved) cliffhanger at the end of the first and only season bugs me. I would love to know where they would have gone with the storyline.
I was going to give that show a chance, watched a behind-the-scenes where someone mentions the religious center is also a brothel. That was the end of my interest.
I’m with you. I only really care for tv-series with episodes that offer self-contained storylines. Have zero interest in anything serialized. Remember an interesting academic discussion on this several decades ago, reflecting the differences between the tastes of men and women. Supposedly, women looked at ‘life’ as a long, winding, unresolved thread, and men looked at life as a series of singular, individual incidents. Supposedly this explained the female predilection for soap operas. But now serialization is the norm. Which could also conceivably reflect the feminization of the culture. Although I’m not so sure things are so much feminized any more as they are all-out faggoty.
Anyway, the only sci-fi series left that I’m awaiting to arrive on dvd is the old 1950s “Science Fiction Theater,” hosted by Truman Bradley. It’s more ‘science’ than sci-fi, but I still enjoy its dated vibe.
Thanks, I used to just love it when one of those aliens would burn up. I wonder if we could get that to work with illegals.
Absolutely.
Jayne made the show incredibly funny.
Fav line from "Serenity."
Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?
And he was really all about himself most of the time.
.
True! I remember that show. When I tell people about a TV show about a space faring garbage scow they don’t believe me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJjB4nGtdU
Damn big heroes sir!!
Surface was really good, they could have gone a ways with it.
I’ll kill a man in a fair fight.....or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight.
He tried to trade his favorite weapon for Saffron.
It went for 2 shortened seasons, but Dollhouse was incredible.
The acting was great, as was the writing.
The episode where Sierra finds out why she’s in the Dollhouse was heart-wrenching to me. And this time Fox let Joss finish the story.
I totally forgot about Surface.
I enjoyed a show from 2005 called Threshold. It explored some interesting, somewhat creepy ideas about how aliens could infiltrate earth using, in part, an audio signal that somehow rewrites the DNA of the human race in such a way that they become alien themselves. Central to all this is a fractal triskelion pattern that keeps appearing – in electronic signals, blood, and even the pattern made by city lights.
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