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DECK'ARD said:
BSG is a bit different for me from the others, the finale wasn't just a misstep it retroactively changed the entire show.

Stuff that was meant to be be ambiguous and worked because of that ceased to be ambiguous anymore. Every story-arc from them having a plan, to the Final Five, to the Opera House, turned out pointless or non-existent. Starbuck completely ruined and unexplainable as a character. It wasn't just a poor finale, not delivering on any of the things it had built-up, it also pissed all over everything that had preceded it.

Finally started watching the early episodes again, but it took a long time to forget all that and be able to like it for what it was when it started.
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Internet hyperbole all up in this place.

Edit: This is the second time today I've had a low content post top a page, god damnit.
 
Willy105 said:
I have no idea. I have been trying to find that gif for weeks, and I don't even remember what I was going to use it for in the first place.
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You just had to ask:

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Anyway, people are arguing about Lost, BSG, Firefly, and the occasional anime. The list succeeded perfectly.
 
MisterHero said:
Star Trek dared to make outlandish concepts believable and BSG by its own admission is a grounded rebuttal of everything Trek dared to try.

Doctor Who still exists in that same wacky realm of real and surreal, which is why it's so enjoyable.

Come on guys.

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Jexhius said:
You just had to ask:

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Anyway, people are arguing about Lost, BSG, Firefly, and the occasional anime. The list succeeded perfectly.
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There it is. Thank you.

And really, any list that does not have Star Trek TOS, Twilight Zone, and Doctor Who in whatever order in the top 3 is just not a proper list. No anime or other sci fi show ever should take those three from the top slots.

And reading back on this thread again, people were trying to argue that X-Files was not sci fi? Really? WTF?
it belongs in the top 5 as well
 
Dave Inc. said:
Can't read the article at work, but did they take into account the effect the writers strike had on the finale of BSG? They almost ended that show halfway through the fourth season and rushed the ending when the writers came back. Maybe they counted it #1 for what the ending could have been.

That said, I still enjoyed the last season of it, even if it wasn't near as good as the other seasons.
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I'm sure the writer's strike, and uncertainty about it's future, didn't help things. But the wheels had already started coming off in season 3 with what happened to Starbuck. Once they started going down that road, it was obvious you were getting mystery for mystery's sake and they'd never be able to tie it all up effectively.

I personally would have been happier if it had ended halfway through on the downer Planet Of The Apes style ending, not wholly satisfied but a lot better than the clusterfuck we got with season 4.5 and the finale.

There was another ending planned which would have made more sense, but that apparently went out the window when RDM was in the shower, had a revelation, went back and told the writers "Who gives a fuck about the plot!" *facepalm*

I agree though that BSG would be #1 for me as well if it was judged for what it *could* have been. It's just a shame they were making so much of it up as they went along, to the point where they didn't even care how they pulled it all together.
 
I can tell from the list that the final edit was done by someone who is 39-40 years old, loves peanut butter, and the people at his local comic book store curse silently when he walks through the door.
 
Matthew Gallant said:
I can tell from the list that the final edit was done by someone who is 39-40 years old, loves peanut butter, and the people at his local comic book store curse silently when he walks through the door.
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This guy?
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Exactly. Once you are into the show, the Muppets become part of the charm. And there are some awesome sci fi concepts and craziness to it. It is one that has to grow on you, and if you watch it in its entirety you see just how great it really is. And add in The Peacekeeper Wars mini series to finish it off, and it has one of the best endings for a series of recent memory as well.
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I haven't seen the Peacekeeper Wars... I take it it's good then? Maybe I'll look for it.
 
dude said:
I haven't seen the Peacekeeper Wars... I take it it's good then? Maybe I'll look for it.
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You've seen the entire Farscape series but NOT Peacekeeper wars? For shame! After the cliffhanger at the end of season 4 of Farscape, they finally scrounged up enough money and support to do a mini series to tie up the story.
 
Frankly, there are a number of anime shows that put many of these to shame - Planetes is one in particular, and GitS: SAC is probably the best sci-fi show ever made. But that's okay, I wasn't expecting IGN to be comprehensive.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
You've seen the entire Farscape series but NOT Peacekeeper wars? For shame! After the cliffhanger at the end of season 4 of Farscape, they finally scrounged up enough money and support to do a mini series to tie up the story.
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It was on a local sci-fi channel, so I saw all of it. They didn't bring The Peacekeeper Wars over though... I'll look for it though.
 
dude said:
It was on a local sci-fi channel, so I saw all of it. They didn't bring The Peacekeeper Wars over though... I'll look for it though.
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Oh yes, seek it out. Ties up everything quite well. We even get to finally see a wormhole weapon.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
It looks trashy. It looks silly. It has fucking Muppets. I always thought the show was corny and lame anytime I saw it.

Then I was bored last year and sat down and watched the entire series in a month, and it is truly glorious. It should be higher than number 21. It is one of those series where you are not immediately hooked, but it is a slow burn. But once it has its hooks in you, it is fan fucking tastic.
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Agreed, the show wasn't perfect (Got too dark for too long in the middle while it tryed to find a proper enemy) but a its best it was an actually funny adventure show.
The Lamb to the slaughter trilogy really shows just how well the show mix goof and epicness.
 
B_Rik_Schitthaus said:
Agreed, the show wasn't perfect (Got too dark for too long in the middle while it tryed to find a proper enemy) but a its best it was an actually funny adventure show.
The Lamb to the slaughter trilogy really shows just how well the show mix goof and epicness.
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The episode where they switch bodies is one of the funniest. Crichton in a woman's body was fantastic. All he wanted to do was play with the tits.

One of the best episodes was where we meet Scorpius though. The stakes were raised big time in that episode.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
It looks trashy. It looks silly. It has fucking Muppets. I always thought the show was corny and lame anytime I saw it.

Then I was bored last year and sat down and watched the entire series in a month, and it is truly glorious. It should be higher than number 21. It is one of those series where you are not immediately hooked, but it is a slow burn. But once it has its hooks in you, it is fan fucking tastic.
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Same here. When I saw an ad on TV for it I thought it looked like cheesy junk. Then I watched it, my god, how wrong I was. Scorpius is one of the best villains of all time.
 
Lost, Red Dwarf, and SG-1 should be top 5.

In SG-1's sake I feel in love with that show during re-runs of that last 2 seasons on local TV and Sci-Fi, when it was Sci-Fi. Claudia Black helped me immensely.
 
KuwabaraTheMan said:
I love Bebop, but Children of Earth was better than anything in that show.
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I always thought Children of Earth was utterly over-rated. The acting was still shoddy, setting lacked ambition, everything looked cheap, and the writing was terrible (but Jack suddenly has a family, oh my gosh the drama!). I seriously failed to see what set it apart from the usual tripe beyond the sacrifice of a child, and can't see how any element of it was better than Bebop.

Not that Bebop's the best SF show mind you.
 
styl3s said:
Clearly you don't understand what Science Fiction is, it can be many things, doesn't have to take place in the future, doesn't have to take place in space, doesn't have to just deal with lasers and space ships.

Did you even graduate high school?
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Top 50 lists... serious business.

Arnie said:
LOST should be number 1.
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This is a list of the best top 50, not the worst.
 
OnkelC said:
The only correct thing about the list in the OP is that Space:Above and Beyond is mentioned first.
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Yes. Col. TC McQueen is still one of my favorite characters ever, and Capt. Shane Vansen is everything the modern Starbuck wishes to be.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
It looks trashy. It looks silly. It has fucking Muppets. I always thought the show was corny and lame anytime I saw it.

Then I was bored last year and sat down and watched the entire series in a month, and it is truly glorious. It should be higher than number 21. It is one of those series where you are not immediately hooked, but it is a slow burn. But once it has its hooks in you, it is fan fucking tastic.
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Occasionally watching Farscape as I kid, I really did not mind at all.

I couldn't get past Scorpius' SM look though. :\
 
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