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Jewel Runner
Why would you say that?
Best Space Themed TV Show
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Why would you say that?
Because it's true? The number of votes the show receives has nothing to do with how good it is. Now, it may be a very good show; it may not.
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Jewel Runner
I was trying to make a joke, given my user theme and occasional use of "shiny" and "rutting" as legitimate slang. That being said, I'd say that 14 consistently great episodes and a decent movie probably bode better for a series than 100s of episodes of wildly varying quality and 11 movies that alternate between god-awful and pretty good.
I don't disagree, dude. Firefly might have been the best thing ever on TV, sure, but you can't tell that from the voting.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
Its clearly Doctor Who
katipunero
Prince
ditto. the poll options are incomplete. this poll can kiss my shiny metal
i'm kidding.
GoodGame
Red, White, & Blue, baby!
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I'm only voting for Star Trek because of familiarity. Star Gate definitely deserves to be neck and neck with Star Trek, except for the lack of multiple movies. I'm only passingly familiar with Andromeda, Babylon 5, Firefly, and the others.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Having watched at least a few episodes all the shows up there except for Space 1999, I'm picking the new Battlestar Galactica from that list. I tend to like gritty reboots over the cheesy old-school, so old Galactica just didn't cut it for me. I always thought Babylon 5 was under-appreciated.
It would have been a hard choice with Futurama in the poll. I love that show. Right now, myself and some labmates greet each other as Animatronio or make the Zoidberg scuttle noise when leaving the room.
It would have been a hard choice with Futurama in the poll. I love that show. Right now, myself and some labmates greet each other as Animatronio or make the Zoidberg scuttle noise when leaving the room.
Aye. The original series of Star Trek had some kitsch value, I suppose, and usually avoided the extreme mawkish, moralising nonsense that blighted subsequent versions. Everything else in the poll is just awful.
You haven't missed a thing. It was godawful.
Classic Doctor Who or the new stuff? Or Doctor Who in general?
And there's one space-themed show that I've never found anyone else who liked (but I loved it!): Space Island One.
muhtesem insan
Amateur Revolutionary
I used to watch it when i was little and barely remember, i liked it back then. But again children have very low threshold for liking things.
de Maistre
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Easily Babylon 5 in my opinion. Granted, I hated the first season, but I enjoyed the second and fifth about as much as anything, and the third and fourth were just godly. Once JMS took over the writing it became by far the most consistent show I've ever seen.
SuperBeaverInc.
Groucho
New Who>Classic Who, but I did enjoy Classic Who, which did have some awesome episodes. City of Death, Caves of Androzani, Genesis of the Daleks, etc., as well as quite a bit awful stuff (The Web Planet, Colin Baker, etc.)
Communisto
Condottiere
What, no Red Dwarf?
Everyone hates Sinclair trying to Sinclair his way out of bad situations! That's right, his name is a pejorative describing his... you know... Sinclairishness. You just have to watch the first season to understand how poorly cast he was.
Some things on B5 haven't aged well. Their pre-9/11 security and customs detail is just comical. But back in the day, I would watch seasons 2 through 4 and the 5 finale over and over again.
Serutan
Eatibus Anythingibus
Lost In Space.
