Comments | robyn_migratori: Science fiction

robyn_migratori

Science fiction

Jun 26, 2011 19:47

I finally watched the finale of Game of Thrones, and now I'm sad that there isn't any more good TV to watch until the fall. When does Mad Men come back again? Blech. I've still got an assload of Stargate: SG-1 to catch up on, but, while I enjoy the hell out of the show, it isn't really one I get excited about.

( TV thoughts behind the cut (no GoT spoilers, it's just boring) )

Comments 5

spectralbovine June 26 2011, 16:53:19 UTC

Yeah, I thought BSG's whole THING was legitimizing sci-fi, but because it was on SciFi, it still wasn't legitimate. I'm not really a hard sci-fi person, though, so I don't have any better candidates than what you've named.

robyn_migratori June 27 2011, 00:27:48 UTC

That's a good point about the SciFi network hurting a show's credibility in the eyes of non-nerds. I was mostly thinking about HBO's budget and their tendency to run short season and have nudity and violence and swearing, but there's the superficial aspect, too -- HBO is a "real" network and SciFi isn't.

That being said, I've never even seen BSG, so it might be all the things I'm hoping for, minus the FTL travel.

spectralbovine June 27 2011, 00:57:33 UTC

I think you should give it a shot. It is, indeed, a big, bold, expensive, well-acted series in space.

bionic_groin July 5 2011, 02:34:38 UTC

I don't know there's a lot of hard science that goes into FTL:

http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+warp+drive/0/1/0/all/0/1

robyn_migratori July 7 2011, 13:45:46 UTC

I'm not sure I follow. I was talking about hard sci-fi, not hard science. I generally prefer my science fiction to be lacking in FTL travel, though obviously I can't be absolute since I can't think of a single hard sci-fi television series, and what am I to watch if not Star Trek and Stargate?