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Topic: War In The Stars

Posted By: geekfreak
Subject: War In The Stars
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 03:07

Well i’m a sci-fi geek so I was wondering if there’s any other sci-fi freaks here my own choice of number one favourite as to be “Doctor Who

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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 03:10

Trek

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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 03:27

Doctor Who with Jon Pertwee for me and I'm old enough to remember the original Tomorrow People too.

Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 03:45

I've been a Doctor Who fan since Patrick Troughton but I have to go for Star Wars.

Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 04:41

I'm a near lifetime fan of Doctor Who (but not into the Chibnall/ "fam" era -- I also went off Doctor Who in the 80s), The Tomorrow People, UFO and Star Trek, but when I saw the title I looked for one specifically in the list that I have also been into since I was young, Blake's 7. That show could be quite bleak indeed. A bold start and a bold finish.

While I loved Star Wars, the earliest-made two especially, as a young child, those didn't continue to hold my interest. That said, I do want to see the Mandalorian.

Sci-fi TV, books, and film has been my comfort food in a way for most of my life. I did stop watching and reading most sci-fi kind of things throughout my 20s and into my early 30s, but came back to it in a sort of nostalgic way.

By the way, one who likes Farscape might like Lexx. I like a tonne of sci-fi, most of it being Earth based.

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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 10:18

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Doctor Who with Jon Pertwee for me and I'm old enough to remember the original Tomorrow People too.

me to

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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 10:18

chopper wrote:

I've been a Doctor Who fan since Patrick Troughton but I have to go for Star Wars.

Love Star Wars

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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 10:22

Logan wrote:

I'm a near lifetime fan of Doctor Who (but not into the Chibnall/ "fam" era -- I also went off Doctor Who in the 80s), The Tomorrow People, UFO and Star Trek, but when I saw the title I looked for one specifically in the list that I have also been into since I was young, Blake's 7. That show could be quite bleak indeed. A bold start and a bold finish.

While I loved Star Wars, the earliest-made two especially, as a young child, those didn't continue to hold my interest. That said, I do want to see the Mandalorian.

Sci-fi TV, books, and film has been my comfort food in a way for most of my life. I did stop watching and reading most sci-fi kind of things throughout my 20s and into my early 30s, but came back to it in a sort of nostalgic way.

By the way, one who likes Farscape might like Lexx. I like a tonne of sci-fi, most of it being Earth based.

That’s what makes sci-fi cool

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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 12:00

Firefly

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:14

Star Trek?

enough said man... and not that Next Gen stuff... old school Trek...

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:30

I was trying to decide between Star Wars and Star Trek and broke the tie with Stargate SG-1. :) I am a sci-fi fan. I am actually currently binging on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I have watched a number of episodes over the years but with the power of Netflix I am now watching them in order from the beginning. Still in the first season but hoping to make it through all of them and then doing the same with Voyager. I've watched most of the Next Gen episodes years ago and watched all of the Star Trek Enterprise episodes when it was originally airing. I've always been a big Star Wars fans...even the Jar Jar Binks movies and the latest three. For my birthday I got an annual membership to Disney +, mostly so I can watch the Mandalorian.

My vote went to SG-1 though, because that was one that I bought all the seasons on DVD and was must watch TV for me.

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:33

micky wrote:

Star Trek?

enough said man... and not that Next Gen stuff... old school Trek...

While I always have favourited the original series, I loved the last series Star Trek: Picard. It was heartfelt, poignant, it was really meaningful to me.

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:36

nah man..... can't really say I dig Picard.. perhaps had something.. well.. a LOT with dating this hard core Trekie who called me Picard and told me to make it so...at a most inappropriate time.

sort of killed the love for him from then till forever man.... some scars never heal

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:47

That's too bad, because the recent series Picard was so beautiful (even if it went too body horror at least once -- really gruesome). The way it dealt with his frailty, mortality, and 7 of 9 was kick-ass great. Issues of friendship, loyalty... I loved it. To me this was a wonderful continuation. I have watched every Star Trek series to date and the latest was amongst my very favourites (it would help to know and like TNG).

Just last night I watched the Star Trek pilot again, with Jeffrey Hunter. I like Kirk, but I would loved to see more of the direction that Roddenberry was going with the pilot (I did prefer post-pilot Spock).

By the way, those that haven't seen Blake's 7 and are into classic sci-fi are I think really missing out (check youtube).

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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:54

yeah... I can dig that... but you'd understand if you had been in my sheets

he was a great character.. and suppose I can understand the love women seemed to have for him. The Hawkeye Pierce of the.. whatever those were.. 80's.. 90's.. minus the Lothario shtick. I love having long hair... but he did once tempt me to try the whole bald is sexy thing... but again.. any thoughts of that went up in smoke and suds..

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 17 2020 at 14:58

geekfreak wrote:

Well i’m a sci-fi geek so I was wondering if there’s any other sci-fi freaks here

Ahh, Ming the Merciless, nice choice. In fact, I'd have to go with the original Flash Gordon serial. Really well done for the time, and you can't tell me George Lucas wasn't directly influenced by it.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFlash_Gordon_%28serial%29&psig=AOvVaw04F7p4sYxwiN88mWN1eALZ&ust=1595105656847000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCMj5s-WV1eoCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" rel="nofollow"> Flash Gordon (serial) - Wikipedia

https://thepulp.net/yellowedperils/files/2016/01/flash-gordon-serial.jpg" rel="nofollow"> Flash (Buster Crabbe) fights a disguised Prince Barin (Richard Alexander) in a "tournament of death" using swords in the 1936 movie serial "Flash Gordon."

Flash (Buster Crabbe) fights a disguised Prince Barin (Richard Alexander) in a &quot;tournament of death&quot; using swords in the 1936 movie serial &quot;Flash Gordon.&quot;

Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: July 18 2020 at 06:02

Star Trek but I like this one too.

Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 18 2020 at 10:05

Star Trek was my first exposure to a serial space wars thing...but came to be a fan of Dr Who after 1975 so I guess Who, but I loved Babylon 5 , Stargate , and of course the Star Wars saga.

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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: July 18 2020 at 17:10

I grew up on a diet of Gerry & Sylvia Anderson particularly later with UFO and Space 1999. Also loved Blakes 7 and Tomorrow people. Loved the original Star Trek, loved the whole concept, the multinational-ness of the crew and whilst I enjoyed the later films and series (what I saw of them) I remained loyal to the original. I have always been ambivalent about Doctor Who though I did enjoy the Jon Pertwee era. A special mention has to be made to 'Quatermass and the Pit', 'Them' and other 50's and 60's Sci-Fi films which scared the sh*t out of me as a young boy!

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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 18 2020 at 17:44

^ Wasn't Space:1999 originally conceived as a followup to UFO ?

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Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: July 19 2020 at 00:30

Atavachron wrote:

^ Wasn't Space:1999 originally conceived as a followup to UFO ?

I Think So

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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: July 19 2020 at 15:31

Atavachron wrote:

^ Wasn't Space:1999 originally conceived as a followup to UFO ?

They're not connected apart from the fact they were both G&S Anderson and both part acted, part models.. as far as i'm aware anyway.. There were no conceptual links, characters or plot connections that I recall Confused

but I could very easily be wrong! Anyone else got any ideas/ recollections?

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Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: July 19 2020 at 15:38

This is what it says on Wikipedia though of course you can make of that what you will..

A proposed second series of UFO was not undertaken, and a return to marionettes in the television pilot for a series called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Investigator_%28TV_pilot%29" rel="nofollow - The Investigator failed to find a buyer. Elements of the abandoned second series of UFO were eventually turned into what became the most expensive television series ever made at that time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999" rel="nofollow - Space: 1999 .

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Posted By: essexboyinwales
Date Posted: July 23 2020 at 06:07

Atavachron wrote:

geekfreak wrote:

Well i’m a sci-fi geek so I was wondering if there’s any other sci-fi freaks here

https://thepulp.net/yellowedperils/files/2016/01/flash-gordon-serial.jpg" rel="nofollow"> Flash (Buster Crabbe) fights a disguised Prince Barin (Richard Alexander) in a &quot;tournament of death&quot; using swords in the 1936 movie serial &quot;Flash Gordon.&quot;

Flash (Buster Crabbe) fights a disguised Prince Barin (Richard Alexander) in a &amp;quot;tournament of death&amp;quot; using swords in the 1936 movie serial &amp;quot;Flash Gordon.&amp;quot;

Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 23 2020 at 10:49

rushfan4 wrote:

I was trying to decide between Star Wars and Star Trek and broke the tie with Stargate SG-1. :) I am a sci-fi fan. I am actually currently binging on Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I have watched a number of episodes over the years but with the power of Netflix I am now watching them in order from the beginning. Still in the first season but hoping to make it through all of them and then doing the same with Voyager. I've watched most of the Next Gen episodes years ago and watched all of the Star Trek Enterprise episodes when it was originally airing. I've always been a big Star Wars fans...even the Jar Jar Binks movies and the latest three. For my birthday I got an annual membership to Disney +, mostly so I can watch the Mandalorian.

My vote went to SG-1 though, because that was one that I bought all the seasons on DVD and was must watch TV for me.

I really miss that show. Like what you're doing with DS9, I found the complete SG-1 on DVD about a year ago and watched them all in order. What a delight!

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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 30 2020 at 11:25

Hi,

Can't vote ... too much stuff I can not make up my mind on. That said, here are some observations:

ST -- I was doing a lot of theater at the time ... and if there is one thing I really dislike in "film" and "theater" is the idea that a blue or pink scrim in the background is a "set" ... but if it worked for "A Star is Born" then it worked for "Star Trek" ... and I disliked it ... but just when it seemed they had a good idea, they turn it into a schmuck little nothing! I do think that ST trying in its reincarnation to being in better actors was nice, but they only brought 2 of them ... one English and one French ... but after them, the show suffered acting wise as it looked like the directing didn't bother with them.

SW -- I enjoyed the original, but then, I saw it in a theater that had the floors wired, and sound going every each way in that hall ... and the experience was insane specially in the ending sequence with explosions going off below some seats in the audience and all that ... well defined sound design for its showing ... but after that .. the whole thing became way too cartoonish for me, and I dropped out ... I think I have only seen the first 3 of these films ... and not bothered with the others.

Babylon 5 -- A nice premise and an interesting thing, that also was able to get Christopher Franke involved. However, the whole series is just a bunch of horribly directed and defined things within an hour, and the music was so badly used to the point that if my name was CF, I would have it removed, and have them go get a conventional idiot for the jingles!

Stargate SG1 and SG Atlantis -- the first person to play the part of Daniel was very good ... his replacement later was pathetic and the show did not survive it I do not think. The follow up was OK in its original line up but when they brought in that pair from England, it died a quick death ... it didn't fit them at all! The show also suffered when RDA left, and I enjoyed some of the guest stars in the original show ... some nice stuff. The pair from England, on their original show (Red something?) was much better and a lot more fun!

Doctor Who -- Maybe the day before I pass on, I will find out what the big thing about these really was ... I still don't get it, and find the whole thing really boring, specially the stuck up, upright acting!

Flash Gordon -- The original movie was more fun ... the redo was crap!

Of all these, I liked best FIREFLY and its movie SERENITY ... which had a great cast and was really well defined character wise, which is one of the things that hurt a lot of these sci-fi things.

There was a series of a show that was about the astronauts doing a time travel to 5 years earlier to stop the earth from blowing itself up or something like that ... it was an excellent show and its story line was very well done. I do not know the name of that show ... and would like to find it and see it again.

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Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 01:35

Battlestar Galactica, anyone?
Firefly and BSG rule.

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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 07:13

moshkito wrote:

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Hi,

Anyone know the name of this show? Plz and Thx

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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 08:42

There was a time travel show called Seven Days that I really enjoyed where they went back in time 7 days to prevent certain things that happened within the past week from happening. I don't think that is the show that you are referring to though.

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Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 09:26

I do like/love some of the stuff among the poll options.

Does anyone know The Last Starfighter [movie (1984)]? An underrated gem methinks. I love the 80s and it mesmerizingly reflects the spirit of that grand decade.

The Arrival [movie (1996)] is also one of the most adventurous movies that I've watched. I don't want to give spoilers but I can say that I only like it as an adventure movie; I'm not buying the American grandiose delusions, paranoia etc. Cool

Anyway, I'll vote for Doctor Who.

Posted By: JD
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 15:26

From this list Star Trek.

I find that Star Wars movies are just the same story over and over, gets a little boring. Only thing worth watching in it are the light sabre battles. Better off searching light sabres on the utube machine. It's like John Wick's gun kata. They could have put all the plot points from all three JW movies into one and had a great movie but you watch it for the gun fights, not the story. So they don't really give you any.

But what about Continuum?

Plot for those unaware:

To avoid their execution, a terrorist group escapes and travels back in time. A cop named Kiera is forced to follow them and bring them to justice with the help of experts.

Recent shows like Legion and The Umbrella Academy are gaining viewers as well.

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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 27 2020 at 15:58

Ugh, I just lost a very long post.

Suffice to say, I have been watching Doctor Who after a long break, mostly the Capaldi/Moffat ones and I so miss them. Capaldi's Doctor had such gravitas. "Heaven Sent may be my favouite Doctor Who episode of all (even if he could have broken that wall down much faster) and I really liked the Doctor, Missy, Bill and Nardole dynamic. Much prefer those to the current "Team Tardis".

I did watch a Chibnall/ Whittaker era episode last night, "Orphan 55" -- ooh, I found that so very bad.

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Posted By: SolNiger
Date Posted: March 03 2021 at 06:08

Pre-Disney Star Wars.

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