• bigtiddygoth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    Finally started watching Mindhunters after years of reading glowing reviews and… totally get it. Can’t stop watching.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Anybody for “Caprica”? The Battlestar Galactica spin-off?

    It’s the origin story of the cylons. I am not obsessed with it, but I was surprised at how good it was.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Haibane Renmei. For a show that’s 23 years old with only 13 episodes, I manage to hear new and unique opinions about it like once a week

    It’s a perfect anime for people who like anime, but not, like, anime anime. No fight scenes, no sci-fi, no spellcasting, just a girl with amnesia trying to get used to the strange walled town she recently woke up in. There are not enough superlatives to describe how much I love this show

  • madjo@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    NBC shouldn’t have cancelled The Pretender days after that explosive cliff hanger!

  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    I have decided to see all Star Trek series.

    I have gone through The Original Series. The Animated Series and now doing The next Generation about half way through season 5!

    • bier@feddit.nlEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      I don’t know if it was really good or just how I remember it, but the first season of Heroes was great. It was such a shame they fucked it up so bad in the next season.

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        idk, that had already changed the basic nature of how gods work from the book.

        they also tended to go for cheap shots where the author really thought a lot about how to use certain gods.

        for example:

        in the epilogue of the anniversary edition of the book gaimam talks about wanting to incorporate Jesus, but deciding that the scene he wrote for him wasn’t good enough to capture what Jesus was to Americans. but he includes the scene in the post script anyway. it’s a quiet scene where Jesus comes and offers guidance in one of shadows most desperate hours.

        in the show Jesus gets shot trying to cross the Mexican border. which is the absolute lowest hanging fruit when it comes to Jesus. i have made that joke before. I’ve heard others make that joke before. “if Jesus actually was alive right now he’d get shot at the border for being brown and communist”. they clearly just wanted shock value at the lowest intellectual price.

        i don’t hate shows or movies just for adapting a story to a new medium. for example, the new dune movies really aren’t actually capturing the point of the books very well so far. that’s because the dune books are mostly people thinking about what people think it doesn’t adapt into visual mediums well. what villenuve has made is a great movie series regardless. the shining is another great example of that. i had a Stephen King fan try to tell me that Stanley kubrik was a hack for not following the book better. I’d argue that Stanley Kubrik is a better filmmaker that king is an author. the shining is an all time great movie regardless of what it was based on or how much it changed that material. that said, i do hate adaptation that add story elements and change basic rules of reality without putting thought or effort in to making it worthwhile. these two examples are great because kubrik and villenuve are masters of their craft that made these movies with immense amounts of care and effort.

        deviating from the source material isn’t inherently a sin, but making a much worse story when you started with a good one that was already written and loved and using its name to draw people in is worse than just making a bad show. a bad show is easily ignored, but a bad adaptation will put people off of the source material you love. or worse, will supplant the source material in the cultural zeitgeist and you’ll forever have to specify “i mean the book, not that terrible movie they did”. i think tv American gods was… just ok. it completely failed to capture what i liked about the book, but others seem to like it well enough. it has gotten multiple people i know into the book, so i can’t hate it entirely.

        similar to the Witcher show. i hated it. it had nothing of the books in it. it was schlocky and the plot BARELY made sense. they just went off and did entirely their own thing after season 1 and it was shit. but everyone who hasn’t read the books seems to still like it so maybe I’m just a hater.

          • NKBTN@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            “inspired” isn’t the word. Gaiman pretty shamelessly ripped it off for Sandman. Never even acknowledged it IIRC, despite her asking him for a shoutout because she was so hard up.

            N.B. this is half-remembered gossip - do your own research, don’t just take my word for it

            • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              The funny thing is that I almost always call Gaiman out for stealing her ideas. I was a fan of hers for years, but never got into the gossip. I hope she’s in a better place now.

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      Yes! B5 is awesome!

      What seems to start as a cheesy Star Trek monster of the week ripoff turns into amazing character development and years-long plot developments from an era where that’s not what TV was.

    • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I’ve been watching that and Deep Space Nine.

      DS9 is the more well known, but I think Babylon 5 was more hard sci-fi

      They’re both good

      Farscape was also on TV way back then right after so it was amazing

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        The Penn and Teller episode was amazing. I can’t think of a better use of comedy in science fiction. There may be funnier shows, but this one actually dealt with humor as a part of people’s culture.

    • davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      I stopped B5 after the resolution of the shadow wars. which apparently only needed a plucky American to explain that that whole thing was pointless and they all just went away.

      Seems pointless to continue after that.

      Should I continue?

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Yes. And do so knowing that the whole thing was supposed to be a five season arc, then they got told “no you get four” so hastily wrapped up the war only to be told “have another season!”

        So they pulled an entire season out of their arse on the fly and in this year it is very. Very relevant

      • MintyAnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        That arc is great. The followup is the earth civil war arc which is pretty great. You won’t enjoy the last season, even though I find a lot of it good.

      • MintyAnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Yeah it uhhhh has some rough visuals lol. Works well though, and the uniforms are mostly incredible

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          AFAIK the visuals were designed for a 3:4, SDTV world. The problem is that when they filmed it they framed it for 4:3 but they included some content to the sides so it could be used in a 16:9 format. The problem is that the CGI was all 4:3, so when they released a 16:9 DVD they had to do something about the CGI stuff, and they made a horrible decision. Instead of having vertical black bars, they cropped and zoomed the 4:3 CGI scenes so they had a 16:9 ratio. That meant they took something that was already in SD, then cropped out 25% of the content, and zoomed in so you couldn’t see the whole frame.

        • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          😂 that being said, is crazy to think that that was actually cutting edge CGI, pretty sure we still called them Silicon graphics at that time maybe. B5, ReBoot, crash test dummies, those three were pioneers from a tv show production CGI.

          I’m curious what those first shows in other countries were like

          • MintyAnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Crash dummies is basically unwatchable hahaha. I remember watching it so many times.

            B5 also notably has inertia physics in space, mostly, which was unique

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    371·
    8 days ago

    Firefly, of course.

    On the plus side, what Joss Whedon did to Wash in Serenity made me hate him long before the revelations of what an asshole he is came to light.

  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
    34·
    9 days ago

    Better Off Ted is just so good. Only 2 seasons but tbh I doubt they could have kept the pace past maybe a third season anyway. As much as I want more it’s kinda nice it burned brightly and shortly

      • ThirdConsul@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        8 days ago

        For me it’s when Veronica gives deposition in as little words and meaning as possible while technically not refusing to answer. It was perfect.

  • gjoel@programming.devEnglish
    29·
    8 days ago

    Farscape. I never heard much, if anything about it in Denmark, but it’s amazing. Good sci-fi great humor.

    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      surprisingly dark too, especially in the latter seasons. they just keep making the main characters fail and suffer and betray each other and get tortured and have their friends and family die in front of them after failing to escape the body horror mad scientist that wants to steal your organs and trap you in the matrix…

      i actually had to stop watching it towards the end over the continuous concentrated negativity. it’s not a very happy show very often. still good, i just can’t deal with shows that never turn on the lights. like bojack horseman and mr. robot. two other shows that are just too depressing for me to watch. i resonate too hard the consistent downward spiral with no positive moments, then the feeling sticks with me. all three are really good shows that i had to turn off for my own wellbeing.

    • cute_astronaut@feddit.dkEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I saw it a lot many years ago, and I agree that its good, don’t know how much it holds up today though

      • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        I left his in another comment before seeing yours but yeah, last time I watched it was quite some time ago and I still really enjoy it. One of the few times the ‘rose colored glasses’ didn’t apply.

      • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        thematically it holds up fine. productuon wise it’s about what you’d expect from 90s scifi. it even has early cg aliens, with a tv budget. lots of big rubber suits or people with skin paint and wigs.

    • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I’m currently through Season 1 and starting Season 2. Last time I saw it was in high school and the show holds up amazingly well. I’ve enjoyed it as much if not more.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      It’s good, but I’d hardly call it “god tier sci-fi”. It is much more an actioney, comedy, adventure show than it is a serious sci-fi show. It’s not the kind of show that really challenges the viewer in any way. The “sci” part of the “sci-fi” is basically fantasy. It has some great characters, lots of fun adventures, a little bit of danger, but you know basically things are going to be wrapped up at the end of the episode.

      It’s one of my favourite shows to re-watch, but I put it on when I’m doing other things because I know it’s going to be some fun adventures and fun interactions between great characters without any deep thinking or deep emotions. Meanwhile, there are other shows that I don’t rewatch often because they’re not well suited to being background entertainment.