>finished farscape
>finished babylon 5
>finished stargate sg1 and atlantis
>finished TOS, TNG, and DS9
Bros... I'm running out of sci-fi kino to watch.. What show do I go to next for my fill of comfy space anomaly/diplomatic problems of the week with an endearing colorful cast?
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I got baited by Reddit into watching Firefly and it was an overall miserable experience but you could try that
What was so bad about it anon?
Healthy young anon watches Firefly, falls in love with Kaylee, realizes she isn't real and weeps– SADNESS. Many such cases!
Nothing, its a good show. People get influenced by the internet and think theyre supposed to hate it
Maybe they just don't like quippy, campy joss whedon garbage.
Something similar, heard it was a 10/10 show and I couldn’t finish it, got like halfway through. Put on Farscape right after it and never looked back.
I agree, what a shit show.
Hot take SG was never good.
Come home white man.
Frick you b***h.
Star Trek: Enterprise isn't even in-universe real. It's a holonovel owned by Riker.
Nope. This is a troony opinion propagated by the general. I won't have it.
troony OPINION DETECTED
PLEASE KYS
troony OPINION DETECTED
PLEASE KYS
Transvestite detected. Only the last episode is a Holonovel.
Correct.
filtered
SG is really fun and different from those other shows but the whole Egyptian ayys thing is always fun. Had a huge dip in like season 7-8 I think in quality but the final 2 + atlantis were great again.
I haven't watched VOY or ENT but have heard mixed things. I think it would be tough for me since DS9 was just so fricking good that I dunno how another trek series could compare. I started with TNG of all these shows actually.
Haven't watched that actually, are there any aliens characters in that shows cast? Not like its necessary but it is a plus.
>are there any aliens characters in that shows cast?
No, but some of the technology the Cylons use feels a bit alien, but that's about it.
Try the two-part miniseries and first episode of S1 - if you don't like those you won't like the rest
Do angels counts as aliens?
in the EU wiki bullshit yeah
I've recently watched all the shows you mentioned for the first time (except Babylon 5), but BSG is still probably my favorite out of all of them, except maybe Farscape. Also Firefly is fricking great too.
Babylon 5 is kino, do watch it. It's greater than the sum of its parts really
Might not be an A class in every aspect but its something truly special when all together and the high concepts with a really nuanced perception of subverting "good vs evil" (in an actual smart way) make it for sure worth a watch. And worth watching just for the Londo and Gkar development too.
>with a really nuanced perception of subverting "good vs evil" (in an actual smart way)
Nah, I felt like some parts of it weren't developed well enough and they clearly had issues on writing season 4 although some of it was because they obviously couldn't deal with the earth problem when they wanted to and ended up streching the show too long.
It still is a top tier show not like the other sci-fi shows and is a definite must-watch shows. The way they handle some characters, the acting and the general consistency is really good and not what you would expect when you just google the show and see Londo's stupid hairstyle.
Season 5 doesn't exist btw.
I think season 5 was good honestly, what didn't you like about it?
I’m not him, but what I find jarring about it is that they clearly had to rush to wrap up the show with a satisfying conclusion in season 4 cause the show got cancelled. But then another network renewed the show for a 5th season, and they had already shoved everything they wanted to do in season 5 into season 4 before the renewal, so they had to scramble to come up with something. It just feels really disconnected from the rest of the show
Fair enough I suppose. I think it did do some nice things and I guess my outlook on Babylon 5 is that the variety in its seasons was a big strength in my eyes even though it wasn't really intentional. Season 5 has some great character moments I think and the different vibe while not as profound or "epic" as 3 and 4 does have some good highlights that fleshes out some things. I don't think it actively hurt the show like some other seasons of shows do.
Babylon 5 does feel very cobbled together at times but I think that's part of what makes it special.
It's very clear the story is finished and all the character arcs are over by then. The only real remaining issue was the telepath problem and it's handled poorly.
The show had two different points where they could've gone ''yep, that's all folks'' in s4 with the end of shadow war and the last episode of the season. The new captain is also not that interesting.
The atmosphere and the way characters act become more like of a generic sci-fi show, G'kar and Londo run around, Dellen is now the generic cupcake-type female.
It's not horrible, it just doesn't feel like Babylon 5 and more like any other sci-fi show out there.
BSG is great imo
It's hard sci-fi but plays out more like a naval drama. No aliens or laser beams, but it has the best story of any western television sci-fi.
better than star trek but still is generic "scifi", the military flavoring makes the slave morality more palatable
There is nothing generic about Star Trek: TOS
I havent watch a ton of it, but I'm pretty sure it's still the same morally/culturally as tng
So morality and culture make a show generic?
I'm sure in other aspects it wasnt generic when it came out but I'm talking post hoc.
B5 is a really mixed bag half of everything sucks and half of everything is pretty good. But if you can stand it it's worth watching for the overarching plot
It's incredibly generic but the humor, lore and characters hard carry.
>Hot take
More like snot take, zoomer.
Things SG does well:
- Some of the characters are great and have excellent development
- The continuity is excellent compared to other shows, and there's constantly plots that throwback to previous episodes that reward you paying attention to what's going on
- The Military stuff is kino, compared to other shows it's more consistent with real life military, and it's not constantly about soldiers backstabbing each other.
Things SG sucks for:
- Repetitive plots, always visiting a village of relatively primitive people and freeing them from their slavery.
- Not knowing where to go with the story after the latest big bad is defeated, and ass-pulling a new big bad afterwards. But with it lasting so long that's bound to happen.
- SGU sucks in every aspect
>- The continuity is excellent compared to other shows, and there's constantly plots that throwback to previous episodes that reward you paying attention to what's going on
>- The Military stuff is kino, compared to other shows it's more consistent with real life military, and it's not constantly about soldiers backstabbing each other.
These are only true for s4+
Everything that happens in early seasons gets handwaved away to make sure the humans never improve and the military has the tactical and strategic sense of a three y/o playing with action toys in first few seasons, no fricking common sense or professionalism.
SG was always considered corny and generic at the time. It was a guilty pleasure kind of show that was just supposed to make you hapi and if it did anything actually interesting it was like a dog standing on hind legs. Go in with low expectations and treat it like nice shot of morphine
>Go in with low expectations and treat it like nice shot of morphine
This explains why I watch it twice a year I guess.
Only reason homosexuals say stupid shit like this is cause the first two seasons and last two seasons weren’t good. They don’t know about the kino middle seasons
red dwarf
You forgot to mention BSG on your list, right?
BSG is Reddit garbage.
BSG turns to shit after Season 1, it's great before that though, season 1 cliffhanger does make it tempting to keep watching, don't.
Like Lost, this fricking series got progressively worse as they kept changing the story arc because the fans kept guessing where the writers were going with it. In the end they just fricking gave up and threw us a "God did it!" ending that made no fricking sense at all.
There was plenty of lead up from the very start for a “god did it” ending. Leoben’s interrogation that’s in the first or second episode is full of allusions of what’s to come, and the religion guides the BSG throughout the series.
You could always do that blue box show that's been on for like 80 years
Just stop when it switches from black & white to color & you'd be fine
Try reading
You're on the wrong board moron
the first two seasons of Andromeda are worth watching
No, they're not.
VOY and ENT have a lot of problem-of-the-week stories, at least in initial seasons, though ENT's meddling with continuity is infuriating, but then I didn't like most of DS9.
BSG is like the least scifi of any space scifi you'll watch.
I'm watching the show episode by episode right now and man do things go bad quick in season 3
From fun stuff like the Indiana Jones treasure hunt or the four-dimensional assassins to taking care of a shipload of literal morons
It's a shame because I still like the characters, especially the Tyr-Dylan interactions
it's a huge shame because Tyr and the nietzscheans in general are the most complete and interesting warrior race in all of scifi. Although if you like the characters enough I would power through S3 to get the end where it actually starts picking back up and becomes OK again. S4 and S5, however, are irredeemable trash through-and-through.
Fringe is better than any of that cringe you posted OP.
>creator: JJ Abrams
that's a redflag for me dawg, no thanks
Fringe doesn't hold up. I tried watching the first season and it was shit.
Frick you
Andromeda is half great half bad. It's worth watching until whenever you lose interest, but it's not on the level of the other shows.
Yeah, the original premise was ST but post-apocalyptic future. There was so much opportunity for traditional problem stories or even some decent space geopolitics. Instead we got Hercules in space, minus the stuff that made Hercules fun.
Is Sliders worth a watch? Might not be the same sorta thing but still
It starts really good as a mostly episodic series, but goes way down the drain as it gets more serialized. Worth watching for Rhys-Davies character at least. And prime Kari Wurher if you're a coomer.
The Expanse
season 1 and 2, maybe. the rest is trash
LOGH
This, and quite emphatically unironically.
Come home, Cinemaphileners... come home to Anime.
this, give a try, preferable older version, newest remake is incomplete
>anime
No thanks
I love the homos but it's not remotely what OP is looking for. He wants adventure and ayys not space opera.
>comfy space anomaly/diplomatic problems of the week with an endearing colorful cast?
Close enough. Supernatural
Not even close. That shit's not even scifi
May as well recommended Riverdale or 12 monkeys
Its the exact same format. Just different set dressing.
>two person cast and not an ensemble
Nonsense. More than enough reoccurring characters. Give it a go OP. It will scratch the itch.
Completely different genre with a two person cast and not an ensemble.. literally as far away as possible.
Dark Matter is comfy with cuties but it got cancelled early.
red dwarf
The Expanse was good last time I checked but its not comfy.
They canceled it on a cliffhanger. Pissed me off. I'm not going to read the fricking books.
>The Expanse was good last time I checked but its not comfy.
agreed
it's still as far as I'm concerned the last major scifi series that first one that had been around in a while when it came out
Still waiting for the Day of Airlock for Marco, considering Day of Rock failed.
I never got it why the show gained its cult status (maybe back then I was too stupid to dig it). But I guess it must be mentioned.
because it was dumb late night fun. stuff like this just doesn't hit the same when you watch fully awake with the sun still out.
It is surreal. It is fantastic. And a right mine for memes and reacion images.
Its great. Also has neat sci-fi concepts.
it was cringe how they would just switch on the guy from the cure to resolve the problem in most episodes
I haven't watched it but Battlestar Galactica always looked like a trek to me
Not really.
Very different tone and story from trek I feel like
It is what Star Trek Voyager was supposed to be
Yeah the year of hell 2 parter should’ve been the entire show, with at least a few episodes (or even a whole season) at the end when they’re back in the federation which explores the ramifications of voyager finally getting back
Time to watch Battlestar Galactica and then play Mass Effect 1 & 2
>watch Battlestar Galactica
Whatever you do OP, do NOT do this. Do NOT watch BG.
Don't listen to this effeminate homosexual. BSG cool
The Orville, it's kino starting about halfway through season one, current season is best scifi show on in years.
The Orville is great but IMO has waaaay the frick too much relationship drama. How many hours are wasted just on characters struggling with their romantic relationships? I wish they'd just stick to the sci fi part of the plot a lot more often.
delusional
Yeah, The Orville is fantastic.
Space: Above and Beyond
Seconding this, its its own thing in its own universe but it still manages to capture the spirit and themes of Starship Troopers better than anything else that made it to the screen
Firefly
Close Up (1970)
Looks interesting. Might have to look for it on the torrents. These obscure ones are often missing or have half a dozen leechers and no seeders though.
What's the deal with Dr Who? I never see it mentioned in threads like these.
it's cringe
There are some good episodes but it's mostly like watching a kiddy show
It's a great way to introduce kids/early teens to the overarching concepts and tropes of sci-fi, much like Harry Potter for fantasy. But it doesn't go any deeper than that aside from a handful of episodes over its 60+ year history.
why would you want to per-emptively ruin a genre for someone?
Because it's easily digestible. Trying to throw a 10 year old into the deep end is more likely to ruin the genre for them.
that sounds like you're trying to indoctrinate them. if the child is a moron he's not going to like scifi regardless.
Watch red dwarf
Red Dwarf
picked up Red Dwarf a few weeks back
I had briefly tried it years ago and hadn't liked it at the time but it's great
very comfy show, not done yet but I sort of prefer the early episodes where it's just Rimmer and Lister just fricking around on the ship, the whole time and dimension travel makes the whole feeling of isolation in the distant future in a universe devoid of alien life or surviving humans set in the first series especially moot. same with adding things like GELFs and stuff
Space Dandy
I'm not kidding every episode is a space anomaly which Dandy must unravel the mysteries of, which sometimes includes diplomatic solutions.
you could try lexx but it's pretty fever dream show
>implying Farscape isn't a fever dream show
if its anything like that I think I'd like it, haven't seen Lexx yet
Farscape has episodes like that. Lexx is nothing but those. The budget, cast, props etc isn't on the same level, but they maintain a high level of weird.
also worth saying that farscape's crazy episodes are always couched in the reality and setting whereas lexx is just random garbage with nothing grounding it.
The first two seasons are somewhat "conventional", still a lot of coomer bait and weird shit but overall still kinda comprehensible. Seasons 3 & 4 I'll give you as it lurches from one utterly bizarre situation to another. Compelling in its own way as it's kind of a mystery that it carried on a long as it did.
well yeah season 3 and 4 are definitely more random except it was a bit bummer that as far as i remember season 3 was at least mostly on one planet and i think 4 was on earth, but i think it was pretty weird show overall.
i'm not even sure if i'd call it good or bad, but it's "interesting". mostly mentioned it because it didn't seem to have been mentioned in this thread yet
For All Mankind is the best sci fi show currently airing
>media produced after 2016
No thanks. I'm not gay or black.
85 percent of this show is boring woman relationship drama
started season 1, have urge to drop it because of random border-hopping Hispanic plot and the fact it is days of our lives with spaceships. I came here for sci-fi drama, not relationship wankery
just drop it, the main characters wife literally cucks him and divorces him. season 2 is almost all relationship shit
who are these people who just shit up every bit of media with: "OH WE NEED INTERPERSONAL DRAMA, WE NEED GOSSIP, WE NEED THESE PEOPLE TO BE ABSOLUTELY INSUFFERABLE TO EACH OTHER".
If I wanted a drama, I'd watch a fricking drama. Every good storyline gets ruined by this bullshit. It's literally worse than an ad break in between scenes.
women
they need to do something to appeal to women
Killjoys was kinda fun show from more "modern" stuff. Also defiance wasn't bad, another syfy show
>Killjoys
I enjoyed this and finally figured out there were two of them
The nox always cracked me up. Except one of the women who made my pepe tingle.
It's a shame they disappear from the show after their episode.
You could try Earth: Final Conflict but be warned its kind of a mess because they replace the lead every season
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Battlestar galactica
Bsg, Strange new worlds and Discovery
>Bsg, Strange new worlds
these
>Discovery
frick no
Lexx.
Watch sgu, bsg, tscc, lexx, firefly, andromeda and red dwarf.
>but
Frick you
what's tscc?
The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Terminator show with Summer Glau
Sarah Connor chronicles
You've already seen it all. Time to move into more fantasy shows like Buffy and Angel.
blakes 7
production values; not great but imaginative
cast; perfect
stories; good solid scifi and character moments
villian; one of the best
What's the best encode to watch farscape? The UTR one I found has a weird audio issue and nigh random black bars on screen
Lexx ofc, when u'r done continue to Cleopatra 2525
A man of refined upbringing, I see.
im kinda in the same boat
finished TOS,TNG,DS9,VOY,ENT
finished SG1 on last season of atlantis
finished xfiles,battlestar,person of interest and some other shows i cant even recall now
im in dire need of more 'mystery of the week' type scifi shows with 5+ seasons of content available
Would you recommend X files and Battlestar to someone who's watched those others?
xfiles yes it has a similar 'monster of the week' vibe
as for battlestar its an excellent show but very different, more politics
oh yea i finished that too, crazier version of xfiles although the show kinda loses it in the end
ill try those
>'mystery of the week' type scifi shows with 5+ seasons of content available
fringe
Farscape, Babylon 5
It’s not really related, but this is one of the best sci fi trilogies I’ve ever read. This series is the book about mars Andy Weir wishes he was talented enough to write
I'm downloading an ebook. Better be good, fricker
This is what Arthur C. Clarke had to say about the first novel
Just got it from zlibrary. Exactly that cover too.
Thanks for the recommendation honestly
Make sure you read them in the correct order. Lots of people understandably assume Blue comes before Green.
What are some shows with coombait costumes? Preferably good and sci fi, but just coombait costumes are enough.
Rec me sci fi books with good prose pls
The mars trilogy has pretty good prose, here’s the first page and you can read the first chapter free
https://books.google.com/books?id=R8OTfyIAmdEC&pg=PT9&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
try recent Foundation, it is woke, but watchable
>woke, but watchable
I'd rather watch nothing.
Should've been Empire the show
Enterprise my dude
BSG and the other pre-2010s Star Treks are worth it
i just got to s7 of ds9 and i am extremely pissed about the change in kiras hairstyle, as she has gone from being one of the more attractive women on the show to looking like a MR ROBOT character and even though the new dax character takes up the role as the 'cute shorthair' she doesnt give the authoritative vibe kira did before the hair change
unironically Buck Rogers
If you don't mind incredibly cheap 70s production quality then Blakes 7 is worth a watch.
>Blakes 7
is that costanza on far left?
You've got face blindness
Person of Interest. It won’t be instantly obvious how it’s sci-if but keep watching until season 3.
Someone told me this was good but I couldn't get into it. Is it a slow starter?
Yes, extremely good. The first season is mostly setup though. Starts out seeming like a run of the mill crime series and evolves into something very different.
i heard star trek picard is pretty kino
shills are getting lazy these days
literally the only scifi show you should ever watch and keep watching
>Sliders
*thumb up*
BSG. Don't understand the hate ITT. I mean, if you can sit through all 5 seasons of fricking Stargate Atlantis then you should be able to enjoy BSG.
It does go downhill eventually, but that applies to a lot of sci-fi. At the absolute latest you should probably drop it at the mid-season finale of season 4 and just pretend that that's the ending (and maybe watch the mutiny two-parter).
Drop it at the end of season 1 maybe. I haaaaaate hack mystery box shows and BSG hackery is just fricking insolent.
It's been a while since I watched it but I thought season 1 and 2 were both solid. It's the cliffhanger of season 3 where it really jumps the shark and becomes clear they're just throwing shit at the wall. If you drop it at season 1 you still miss out on a lot of great individual episodes.
It may be corny and generic but its still the most comfy scifi tv show I've ever seen.
Frick all you guys, I thought the ending was great. The lead up to it was lacking in places and the reveal of the final 5 was shit but there was a lot of great stuff in there
Pilot apu, top tier
Watch Garo.
>watch my homosexual weeb shit
>not watching scifi with breasts and blood
>scifi with breasts and blood
That's not why I watch scifi.
Video related.
give apple TV 'foundation' a look
space above and beyond
Space: Above and Beyond
Battlestar Galactica.
Battlestar Galactica 2003 if no one's mentioned it yet.
>ctrl f Battlestar galactica
>10 results
Shut up already
are there any comfy fantasy shows that hit the same beats as sci fi shows? an ensemble cast of enjoyable characters, monster of the week stuff, some serialized plot is ok too
for some reason ive never considered it but there must be something like that right? i dont think ive ever heard of any
the star trek formula doesn't really work well with fantasy, I can't think of anything other than the obligatory Xena and Hercules.
i think it might not be good for a whopping 20+ forty minute long episodes a season, but i think it could work well. you just have a main quest which draws the main ensemble together and sends them on a journey, some monster of the week and character development episodes, some "fun episodes etc, as filler, then some episodes once and a while that relate strictly to the main plot line
Also Xena, Buffy, and Supernatural.
I like the orville.
>What show do I go to next for my fill of comfy costume anomaly/spy problems of the week with an endearing colorful cast?
The theme tune lives rent free in my head.
Twilight zone