Better Off Ted is just so good. Only 2 seasons but tbh I doubt they could have kept the pace past maybe a third season anyway. As much as I want more it’s kinda nice it burned brightly and shortly
Babylon 5 is great for those looking for a series.
I read that as “great looking” at first.
Yeah it uhhhh has some rough visuals lol. Works well though, and the uniforms are mostly incredible
😂 that being said, is crazy to think that that was actually cutting edge CGI, pretty sure we still called them Silicon graphics at that time maybe. B5, ReBoot, crash test dummies, those three were pioneers from a tv show production CGI.
I’m curious what those first shows in other countries were like
Crash dummies is basically unwatchable hahaha. I remember watching it so many times.
B5 also notably has inertia physics in space, mostly, which was unique
Was later on, but Space Above and Beyond handled inertia physics well iirc
I stopped B5 after the resolution of the shadow wars. which apparently only needed a plucky American to explain that that whole thing was pointless and they all just went away.
Seems pointless to continue after that.
Should I continue?
Yes. And do so knowing that the whole thing was supposed to be a five season arc, then they got told “no you get four” so hastily wrapped up the war only to be told “have another season!”
So they pulled an entire season out of their arse on the fly and in this year it is very. Very relevant
Heroes
Was going to be my second pick after the considerably more niche VR.5. Which involved the MC entering the minds of people via modem because it was 90s scifi about virtual reality. It also tended to be trippy as hell in a way that is just amazing. Also basically impossible to find without sailing the seven seas, and not easy even then.
Was going to throw Kindred: The Embraced in as a third choice. Also considerably more obscure than Heroes, it was basically a White Wolf Vampire: The Masquerade TV series.
Save the cheerleader, save the world!
I’m one of the 135 worldwide Farscape fans. I will love this show to the very end.
Frell yeah
2 more in my household. My husband is always saying he wishes we could find another show like that, when he isn’t saying he wishes we could find another one like Scavenger’s Reign.
Over The Garden Wall.
I watch that show yearly when fall comes around.
It’s so good. And the soundtrack is great too, except IIRC it’s missing the thrilling chase music or something.
Firefly was nice. So was the OA. And the one following up after Dark. Good stuff, killed off too soon.
Not as old, but cancelling American Gods was a shame
idk, that had already changed the basic nature of how gods work from the book.
they also tended to go for cheap shots where the author really thought a lot about how to use certain gods.
for example:
in the epilogue of the anniversary edition of the book gaimam talks about wanting to incorporate Jesus, but deciding that the scene he wrote for him wasn’t good enough to capture what Jesus was to Americans. but he includes the scene in the post script anyway. it’s a quiet scene where Jesus comes and offers guidance in one of shadows most desperate hours.
in the show Jesus gets shot trying to cross the Mexican border. which is the absolute lowest hanging fruit when it comes to Jesus. i have made that joke before. I’ve heard others make that joke before. “if Jesus actually was alive right now he’d get shot at the border for being brown and communist”. they clearly just wanted shock value at the lowest intellectual price.
i don’t hate shows or movies just for adapting a story to a new medium. for example, the new dune movies really aren’t actually capturing the point of the books very well so far. that’s because the dune books are mostly people thinking about what people think it doesn’t adapt into visual mediums well. what villenuve has made is a great movie series regardless. the shining is another great example of that. i had a Stephen King fan try to tell me that Stanley kubrik was a hack for not following the book better. I’d argue that Stanley Kubrik is a better filmmaker that king is an author. the shining is an all time great movie regardless of what it was based on or how much it changed that material. that said, i do hate adaptation that add story elements and change basic rules of reality without putting thought or effort in to making it worthwhile. these two examples are great because kubrik and villenuve are masters of their craft that made these movies with immense amounts of care and effort.
deviating from the source material isn’t inherently a sin, but making a much worse story when you started with a good one that was already written and loved and using its name to draw people in is worse than just making a bad show. a bad show is easily ignored, but a bad adaptation will put people off of the source material you love. or worse, will supplant the source material in the cultural zeitgeist and you’ll forever have to specify “i mean the book, not that terrible movie they did”. i think tv American gods was… just ok. it completely failed to capture what i liked about the book, but others seem to like it well enough. it has gotten multiple people i know into the book, so i can’t hate it entirely.
similar to the Witcher show. i hated it. it had nothing of the books in it. it was schlocky and the plot BARELY made sense. they just went off and did entirely their own thing after season 1 and it was shit. but everyone who hasn’t read the books seems to still like it so maybe I’m just a hater.
Recently binged The Prisoner, which is an absolute delight
I finally got around to watching Dark. The show is insane. Im not sure if its niche but I have never heard any of my friends talk about it before.
Yeah I’d consider it pretty niche. Most people I gushed to about it didn’t want to give it a chance because it was dubbed, weirdly enough. Their loss. This reminds me I need to do a rewatch…
Just quickly learn German if you mind the dubbing. It’s easy, I did it as a toddler.
This made me lol. German humour is underrated 😀
Toddlers don’t have very good languages skills though, I think you’d probably need a school aged child’s skill level.
I’m about to jump into The Twilight Zone from 1959.
I’ve always been meaning to go through and do a serious watch of that in order.
Same, it’s a cool piece of art I never appreciated as it deserves…
I have decided to see all Star Trek series.
I have gone through The Original Series. The Animated Series and now doing The next Generation about half way through season 5!
TNG is my favourite star trek! Who is your favourite character?
I quite like Q even though he’s not a major character really. But Data is probably my favourite of the main characters. Likewise Spock from TOS
Good call! Funnily enough they’re my 2 favourites too. Although now I’m older I appreciate Picard more…
Moonlighting with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis makes me feel alone & lonely & yearning to re-plant myself into a glorious time in the past that no longer exists.
