Good science fiction shows?

arabianights

while staying in a ski lodge last week, i tuned the TV to Syfy channel, playing all day low budge horror movies

feathermoon

Really, Firefly is probably worth the cash. It really great.

I'm surprised this hasn't come up, but AMC's The Walking Dead is really entertaining, as long as you aren't afraid of zombies.

x2791258

Yes, firefly is indeed great. Sadly, it got canceled, just like many others.

You also have the stargate series (Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe).

There's also Eureka and Sanctuary (both canceled, viva syfy!)

Khuratokh

Towards the end of season 1 Farscape really hits it's stride with the introduction of Scorpius. I don't understand why people are so hung up about the puppets, as they provide the possibility of showing aliens that are truly alien and not just humans with rubber foreheads.

Although it does have a larger story arc, the show is more character driven and after a while you'll see Rygel and Pilot more as fleshed out characters and less as puppets.

Don't expect to see any hard science though.
as the main character John Chrichton points out:
"we break the laws of physics every time we go out for groceries."

GregJ

I am enjoying Star Trek: Voyager at the moment (just started season 03 the other day). I like the premise and the characters are actually pretty good. A huge bonus, is that there isn't much blab (for now at least) about Starfleet's prime directive.

I may read through this thread again soon to find my next series, as right now I am drawing a blank.

Stevo_tred

Eureka was a cool show, wish we had some of those 'toys' in real life

jbunniii

There was an article recently at SFGate (that's San Francisco [Chronicle], not Science Fiction):

Sci-Fi TV through the years
http://blog.sfgate.com/dwiegand/2012...ugh-the-years/

Passable list of recommendations in the slide show, but see the comments section for a lot more.

Nstraw

Fringe i guess is good one

Calabi_Yau

Fringe and Lost, 'nough said.

Riemann Metric

My mom watched this show a lot, and I must say it is part of what got me into not just physics but science in general. Awesome series.

brenan

Stargate-SG1 suprised me at being so enjoyable. They did a good job on that one for sure. I hated voyager and predicted enterprise would be cancelled pretty quick even
before it started.

I'm still p* off they cancelled the sarah conor chronicles just so (it seems to me)
they could do another crappy and pointless movie.
That series was far superior to the last movie in every respect.

Actually I'm becoming paranoidially (is that a word?) convinced that hollywood
puts the knife in somehow every time a really good looking TV series gets going
that shows up their multi-million dollar budgets as nonesense.

I still think LEXX is the best SF show ever produced (well - some of it) and Farscape
kicked in really well after a while. (I'm in agreement with the above comments about scorpius and the puppets)

Currently we only seem to have Warehouse13 here - and I can't say I'm a fan of
endless regurgitations of the X-files under different names.

Fredrik

I realize that you posted the question in 2011, but the thread is still active, so I just have to say that I hope you didn't dismiss the original miniseries V just because it looked dated. It's definitely worth watching. It's just 5 episodes, and a few orders of magnitude better than the reboot. Unfortunately they decided to follow it up with a series that was very very bad. You should definitely not watch that one.

I agree with these comments. T:TSCC was the most annoying cancellation in the last few years, along with Stargate Universe.

Since this is a recommendation thread, and no one has mentioned Continuum yet, I will. It's a Canadian show about a police officer (Rachel Nichols) who finds herself in the past (i.e. our time) when a group of terrorists use some weird technology to escape from prison. It's really silly, but still pretty entertaining. Season 2 is expected to start in April 2013.

Riemann Metric

SG-1 was just plain awesome: longest-running North American sci-fi series ever! I wish they'd done Universe better, though, since that could have gone on as long as SG-1 did, with all the new things they could have added...

brenan

I havn't seen it but if it has Rachel in it .....

Mentioning her reminded me of Alias - not really SF but the whole Rambaldi thread
was good fun and made the entire show stand out. It could be argued that made it SF.

As someone mentioned Lost I've always said the pilot was stunning TV but it was clear
the writers had no concept at all about what they were going to do after that. The only thing lost were the writers. That made it very quickly unwatchable for me.

Fredrik

I really enjoyed Alias at the time, especially season 2. Season 3 was OK but not good. Season 4 was pretty bad. Season 5 was the worst kind of garbage. Alias is one of three shows I like to mention as examples of an enormous drop in quality after the best season. The other two are Prison Break and Heroes.

I thought Lost was watchable until just before the end, but that ending...by far the worst in TV history. It ruined the earlier seasons for me. I still get angry when I think about it.

R_beta.v3

My favorite science fiction shows are, in order, Babylon 5, Farscape and Stargate SG1. I tried watching Sanctuary and Falling Skies but I didn't enjoy them. Continuum is fun.

In my opinion, if there is one sci-fi series you have to watch, it should be Babylon 5.

Riemann Metric

Sanctuary wasn't too bad, but I'd have to draw the line and say it was more of fantasy than actual science fiction...