Good stuff for SF fans

**SallyAnne** · 13 November 2006, 11:28

Good stuff for all nerds you mean

I'm one myself like - just finished watching season 2 of Battlestar Gallactica....it rocks!

**DaveB** · 13 November 2006, 11:36

Never really got into that one, but I never liked the original either.

Mind you I've not seen a decent hardcore SF series on TV since Babylon 5 ( ignoring the last season, which was awfull ).

I tend to like the quirkier stuff like Ultraviolet ( TV series not the recent film ) and Neverwhere. Not strictly SF I know but still damn good

**snaw** · 13 November 2006, 11:37

Strange, I love sci-fi books, but apart from a couple of exceptions (Early red dwarf and some movies) I hate pretty much any TV sci-fi.

Especially all that Melrose place in space b0llocks like Babylon 5, etc.

**AtW** · 13 November 2006, 11:38

Originally posted by snaw

space b0llocks like Babylon 5

Beats crappy Star Trek.

**DaveB** · 13 November 2006, 11:38

Originally posted by snaw

Strange, I love sci-fi books, but apart from a couple of exceptions (Early red dwarf and some movies) I hate pretty much any TV sci-fi.

Especially all that Melrose place in space b0llocks like Babylon 5, etc.

Nah, your thinking of Star Trek: Voyager there

**snaw** · 13 November 2006, 11:40

Can't say I'm an expert but from the few times I've sat through Babylon 5 trying to see what all the fuss is about, all I ever concluded was that if you swapped the alien make up for some cosmetic surgery, the outlandish clothes for bikinis and moved it from space to some affluent LA suburb then my wife would be tuning into it every week.

**SallyAnne** · 13 November 2006, 11:43

Trust me about Battlestar like - its absolutely brilliant. You should all ask Santa for the box sets for Xmas and get snuggled up and watch the lot.

**DaveB** · 13 November 2006, 11:43

Sounds like you were watching the last season, which was crap.

You missed the huge space battles ( They had more ships fighting at one point than any other SF show or film before it ) planets being blown up etc.

**AtW** · 13 November 2006, 11:50

Last season of Babylon 5 was crap, and I'd say 4th was pretty bad too, 1st is not stellar either but 2nd and 3rd are top - unlike Star Crap there is a coherent line in Babylon 5 so watching just one or two in the middle is not right: I know because I thought it was crap until I watched it from start to (almost end), and it is certainly excellent work with really good actors.

BattleStart Galactica is pretty good too, though I think they don't reach level of B5 in terms of scale.

Good stuff for SF fans