I must say though that I can't watch this now and I used to enjoy it when it was originally run. It has just not aged that well.
These days I really prefer my sci-fi to be dirty (alien) and hard (no beaming up and down in Lycra jump-suits with never a helmet in sight).
Moments like aero-braking around Jupiter in 2010 are more interesting to me than a sanitized space where humans are practically magical beings. I want my disbelief to be suspended and to watch something that surprises me with it's concepts, designs and engineering solutions.
Needless to say I am hard up for sci-fi to watch.
Edit:- They flushed the alien franchise down the toilet with the last installment.
The only television i watch (which is only in the minutes before I go to bed to help me unwind) is 90's scifi. I can't stand modern shows, scifi or not. The older shows were just better quality imo. The next generation was filled with unlikable characters but the stories for most episodes were brilliantly written, i see nothing like it today. Farscape was by far the most funny and creative and original scifi show ever created - pure entertainment gold and they were using puppets instead of cgi, and stargate sg1 seemed to hint that there was some truth being revealed to the public through the show, and the more I watch episodes over and over, the more of this I catch.
Yeah, my critique could be a little simplistic.
I must say though that I can't watch this now and I used to enjoy it when it was originally run. It has just not aged that well.
These days I really prefer my sci-fi to be dirty (alien) and hard (no beaming up and down in Lycra jump-suits with never a helmet in sight).
Moments like aero-braking around Jupiter in 2010 are more interesting to me than a sanitized space where humans are practically magical beings. I want my disbelief to be suspended and to watch something that surprises me with it's concepts, designs and engineering solutions.
Needless to say I am hard up for sci-fi to watch.
Edit:- They flushed the alien franchise down the toilet with the last installment.
The only television i watch (which is only in the minutes before I go to bed to help me unwind) is 90's scifi. I can't stand modern shows, scifi or not. The older shows were just better quality imo. The next generation was filled with unlikable characters but the stories for most episodes were brilliantly written, i see nothing like it today. Farscape was by far the most funny and creative and original scifi show ever created - pure entertainment gold and they were using puppets instead of cgi, and stargate sg1 seemed to hint that there was some truth being revealed to the public through the show, and the more I watch episodes over and over, the more of this I catch.