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[badninja]

I need something new and sci-fi to watch.

Battlestar Galactica or Star Trek can not sign up and apply. Nor any anime.

Action sci-fi is the best.

Any suggestions? :D

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[penta2.livejournal.com]

I think that covers most "watchable" sci-fi on the air since 1999, except maybe Dr. Who.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Did Doctor Who a few months ago. But I bet there's more than that. BG doesn't have the right tone I want at the moment, anyway.

[rincredible.livejournal.com]

I've really been enjoying Eureka?

[badninja.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about trying that, but I could never work out exactly what it was about.

[rincredible.livejournal.com]

Eureka: (taken from the wiki page) The show is set in a fictional town called Eureka, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest inhabited almost entirely by geniuses and scientists. Nearly everyone in Eureka works for Global Dynamics, a huge advanced research facility responsible for the development of all major technological breakthroughs in the last 50 years. Each episode features a mysterious accidental or intentional misuse of technology which is then solved by the town Sheriff, Jack Carter with the help of town scientists. Each season also features a larger story arc concerning a particular major event or item.

From ME: Basically its a very character driven (first season anyway) fish out of water story. Jack Carter is an average joe who has to deal with this town of crazy, messed up scientists. I've watched the first season and I'm really enjoying it so far?

Also: Primeval! (BBC series)
And Kyle recommends Fringe (which I don't watch).

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Have I recced Ultraviolet to you yet? Six episode BBC miniseries featuring a purely scifi reworking of vampire mythology.

- no wait, come back! It's awesome, and it has awesome people, such as Jack Davenport, Philip Quast, and Idris Elba. And the whole thing is right here.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Sweet. And it's online, too, thank you! I admit to actually enjoying Underworld in the theatres (though I haven't watched more than the first) exactly because it was scifi reworkings. So it interests me a lot to see what BBC would do with that.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

No problem! It's a bit slow in the beginning, I think, but it picks up steam. Lots of steam. By the last episode I was like O_O because I couldn't seem to get my eyes wide enough to take everything in.

[minkhollow]

Warehouse 13 is a fun ride, if you haven't already investigated.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I've always meant to try that, I'm not sure why it slipped from my mind. Thank you!

The premise always sounded a bit like Lost Room to me - not like they have a similar plot, but more like they could easily be in the same universe. Does it come across that way while watching?

[minkhollow]

I... have never heard of Lost Room, so I can't speak to that.

What I can say is that it takes a couple episodes to really hit its stride; the pilot is okay, the couple after that are better, and by the time Claudia shows up it starts getting good more often than not. (Granted, when they fail at continuity they make sure and do it big, but 99% of the time they're very on top of things in that regard.)

[fullmetal-cute.livejournal.com]

Doctor Who, Firefly, Dollhouse if you don't mind something heavily based in Here-and-Now (and Joss Whedon), Red Dwarf, Fringe, Primeval, Babylon 5, Space Cases.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I love Dollhouse. I've always meant to watch more of it. It kind of makes me think of La Femme Nikita turned super extreme.

That is a good list, thank you! I've never tried Fringe because the first episode summary made it sound eerily like Lost, but I know it's not. But I've never exactly understood what it is about.

[fullmetal-cute.livejournal.com]

To sum Fringe up... FBI agent is assigned to babysit a mad scientist and his brilliant but lazy estranged son while they try to figure out what is causing a rash of bizarre (and often deadly) occurrences.

Appropriate icon is appropriate!

[rincredible.livejournal.com]

I am totally seconding the vote for Primeval! :D

[badninja.livejournal.com]

I got as far as the fairy episode and then I stopped watching halfway through that one. I'm not sure why, I should try it again.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Possibly because that's the most boring episode of the show's entire run to date and if you skip to the next, you will have lost nothing of value.

Just a thought. :D /thread hijack

[badninja.livejournal.com]

LOL I am so glad to hear that. I was like "...is there anything to this past some guy throwing up his lungs?" I pretty much lost interest when they killed off Jack's elderly girlfriend and I didn't understand why they killed her anyway.

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Nope, that's about it. Pedo chokes on flowers, a random bit of Jack's background that will never be referred to again is established, awesome old lady dies, episode fails to provide acceptably alien explanation for inexplicably supernatural occurrence on scifi show, THE END.

The same dude wrote another episode for season two, and it's just as bad, but I seem to recall at least being entertained in a bewildered sort of way.

[quinby.livejournal.com]

I... realized the other day that the only thing I really like on TV is police procedurals of various shapes and sizes. I am absolutely no help. Sorry. :(

[badninja.livejournal.com]

That makes me want to rewatch Boston Legal, now. Though they're as far from police as like, Elvis from Jesus.