I consider LOST to be sci-fi. It may not be traditional Sci-fi, but it’s still got many elements found in traditional Sci-fi. Lost is something me and my wife are really into. We do the whole internet search thing after each show, and I listen to all the Lost podcasts as well. I personally like The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack about the best, because it’s funny as well as informative. Btw, my wife and I just returned from Hawaii last weekend, and of course, we visited as many Lost filming locations as we could!! I’ll pimp pictures to my Flickr page full of images from Lost locals we saw. It’s funny, but my wife’s CPCU convention was at the Hawaiian Convention center, and that is what they use for the Sydney airport, as well as Sun’s father’s office building and other things. Here’s a link to the images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/13839436@N07/sets/72157602087194501
Enjoy! It was cool seeing these locations in person!
You know, I just watched it again two days ago. I hadn’t seen it since it was in theaters, either. I noticed that my Series 3 recorded it, so I decided to go ahead and check it out.
I have to admit that it wasn’t nearly as terrible as I thought I remembered it being. Clearly it’s no cinematic masterwork, but I’ve definitely seen far worse flicks. Sure, the acting can be week at times, but the effects were decent and I think William Hurt brings a degree of gravity to most everything he does.
whoa, cool!
last year I took my brother around to some filming locations of The O.C. (which is not filmed in Orange County). I don’t watch the show but it was fun to try to recreate scenes from the screenshots I had. it would be so much fun to do that with the Lost locations.
-UFO (the Gerry Anderson live action British show). Miniskirts! Purple hair! Secret bases on the moon! What more could you want? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_yNbJFP2c
-Space 1999
-Red Dwarf (Duane Dibley!)
-Space: Above and Beyond was yanked from Aussie TV before the season finished.
-Blakes Seven
Fenatic: I used to watch Babylon 5 occasionally, but never got into it for two main reasons. 1. It came on at something like 1 a.m. on Saturdays when I was in high school. I wasn’t out at parties; rather, after watching Voyager and then Deep Space Nine I’d usually fall asleep in the beginning of Babylon 5, lol. And, 2. I couldn’t get over the weird hair.
Yeah, Babylon 5 was not shown at good times and often changed times in its initial run. I find most current fans of the show did not get into it until it was repeated on the scifi channel or when the DVDs came out. As for the hair, well, you get used to it.
Since everyone is now listing their favorite shows now, I’ll do mine.
Sci-Fi:
Star Trek TNG and DS9
Babylon 5
Stargate SG1
LOST
Futurama
I read through 5 pages of comments before Venture Brothers was mentioned and that’s one of my favorites! And I owe it all to the podcasts. After hearing about this show on a couple of the podcasts, I bought Season One and proceeded to laugh myself silly. When Season Two came out, I got that and laughed myself even sillier. Love that show!
As for others, the list would literally be too long. Almost all sci-fi shows get at least one shot from me and I often find I’m hooked. I agree with the most common ones listed so far:
Heroes
Firefly
Babylon 5
Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager (well, parts of it)
But I also really enjoy some of the more obscure shows that I’ve seen listed:
Space 1999
UFO
And a couple other Gerry Anderson gems:
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
It’s a pity that they’re quite ridiculous with the DVD pricing. 1999 was a fairly decent show with awesome production design (the Eagles are probably still my favorite ship.) UFO was a tantalizingly good show (probably the best candidate out there for a remake.) I’d love to take a look at the Supermarionation shows, but they want silly amounts of money for them.
I absolutely love Lost and Jay and Jack are awesome, if you’re a fan of lost you have to listen to these guys.
Other than the obligitory Firefly and obviously BSG, I’m only 21 so I have many guilty teen shows. I love the OC, Veronica Mars, Friday Night Lights, (although don’t understand any American football), The Office. I watch Futurama, but that’s only because it’s always on . . . yeah it’s pretty hilarious.
DS9 was my favorite show growing up. I even wrote about it in English Comp when we were supposed to pick a topic for persuasion, and I decided to argue for it being the best Trek series ever. I loved that there was real character development, consequences that stuck around with characters week after week who couldn’t just warp away to the next adventure at the end of the episode, that there was political intrigue that made it feel like a real universe, that it had the guts to tackle religious issues, to show families in conflict, and that it was all set against an epic battle for freedom and survival against a well-drawn villainous power.
But as time went on, and my filmmaking education continued, I found Star Trek’s style stilted and conventional, surprising for a series that broke so many boundaries when it debuted forty years ago. And there were so many other good stories out there on film, TV, and other media that had good character development, etc., without having to fight against Star Trek’s storytelling limitations. Then came Voyager and Enterprise, neither of which won me over.
I’m kind of in a funk about Star Trek now. It was a huge part of my life growing up, but with non-pulpy shows like BSG and Firefly, not to mention other stuff both Sci-Fi and not to entertain and enlighten me, I just can’t watch the old Trek series with the same wistful glow that I used to.
Sigh
Well, while we’re at it, I love:
Battlestar Galactica Heroes Lost Futurama (got me through my last year of college) Firefly ("…a very special place in Hell, reserved for child molesters and people who talk in the theatre." Preach it, Preacher.) The Matrix (first one) Dark City (watch it before The Matrix) Star Wars (the first three…I mean the REAL first three) Alien (first one’s best, second one’s fun, third one’s not as bad as I thought it would be, fourth one shall not ever be mentioned again in my company) Children of Men (favorite movie of last year, along with United 93) Galaxy Quest (“Her translator is broken.” “Ai-aiaiaiaiaiay!!”) Space: Above and Beyond (had forgotten about it until someone mentioned it in another thread; one of those one-season wonders that Fox dropped too early) La Jette (The short, B&W French film on which “Twelve Monkeys” was based. See? My film degree got me something.) Batman and Batman Begins (can do without the others, but I think the one is a classic and the other is a prequel done right)
And while they’re not sci-fi, I also enjoy The Wizard of Oz and its redheaded stepsister Return to Oz…and anything else with Muppets.
BTW, I got an A on that paper. And thank God only the teacher read it. (Is there a smiley with gigantic dorky glasses?)
Did you listen to this week’s Ramblecast by Jay and Jack? They have Hurley “Jorge Garcia” on the entire show as guest host, and he will be for part 2 again for the Ramblecast this coming week! It is sweet if you’re a Lost fan!
Most of my favorites have already been mentioned. 2 that go into the less-than-reputable-but deserving-a-watch category are Event Horizon and Supernova. both are based on familiar/overdone concepts but have an interesting twist and/or really good cast.
More fantasy than sci-fi: Dogma–absolutely brilliant, and the reason I fell in love with Kevin Smith
But as time went on, and my filmmaking education continued, I found Star Trek’s style stilted and conventional, surprising for a series that broke so many boundaries when it debuted forty years ago. And there were so many other good stories out there on film, TV, and other media that had good character development, etc., without having to fight against Star Trek’s storytelling limitations. Then came Voyager and Enterprise, neither of which won me over."
Glimfeather (formerly snookie) the same thing happened to me with a lot of music I loved while growing up that, as I learned more about music in pursuit of an education in that artform, lost its appeal to my more sophisticated mind. It’s both cool and sucks at the same time, since there’s a part of me that I will never again have (the same thing happened to me with religion, sadly, though that’s another thread).
" Batman and Batman Begins (can do without the others, but I think the one is a classic and the other is a prequel done right)
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I hate to be a stickler (isn’t that a Batman villain? No? Well, it SHOULD be) but Batman Begins is technically a revamp. It really bears little resemblance or relation to the world Tim Burton created for his two Batman films (which were awesome in their day, though they’ve lost their appeal with me, at least ever since I saw Batman Begins) and never really acknowledge them. (Unlike, say, Superman Returns, which is sort of both a revamp AND a sequel.)
I am going waaay out on a limb here and just say that one of my favorite SF movies is “Colossus: the Forbin Project”.
Cool martini-drinkin’ lifestyle, great ending, and the computer scenes are surprisingly not as dated as you would think for a B- movie made in 1973 or so.
