What about Lexx?
Meanwhile, Babylon 5
The best Star Trek series was Babylon 5, just like how the best Star Trek movie was Galaxy Quest.
I thought the best Star Trek series is The Orvil?
The best modern one, yes.
I couldn’t get into The Orville. Seemed rather presumptuous that you can apply human morals to aliens.
So, I just started Babylon 5 and find it to be quite shit actually. Does it get better? It’s really just bad acting and not really engaging. I’m 4 episodes in.
If I was recommending somebody how to watch B5 for the first time, I’d probably just say to skip the first season (as well as the pilot). In my opinion, Commander Sinclair is the weakest link in the acting, and he leaves after the first season. His replacement is a very good actor, in my opinion.
Also, as far as acting goes, Ambassadors Mollari and G’Kar get more screen time as the series progresses, and I think they’re both great actors.
The first season does have a lot of background that sets up later seasons, and I’ve grown to like it, but I’ve seen the entire series probably over 10 times now, and for the first 3-4 times, I disliked the first season.
The first season had the TV execs meddling to make it be like ST:TNG because they wanted to mimic the popular thing at the time.
The writer got his way starting in season 2 and got to tell his story without the meddling.
Yes it gets better is what I’m saying. 🙂
And then in season 5 it gets way worse. Those middle three are alright, though.
Season 5 is worse than 2-4, but not worse than S1. The problem is that B5 was always on the verge of being canceled, and so I think they finished the main story in Season 4, and so there’s as much going on in Season 5, except for tying up loose ends and finishing character arcs. So, they added weak filler shit like the colony of rogue telepaths.
“They may have a point” -Farscape
What the Harvey?
It is a joke compared to the three mentioned. It’s one series with a few shitty tv movies vs three whole franchises with multiple series, movies, books etc. that are all known by everyone, it’s very much not the same.
B5 has a bunch of books too and there was B5 Crusade as its spinoff series which got Fireflyed.
TIL I’m genderfluid.
Just like water in Spanish: el água / las águas.
That fucking hurt my eyes. Agua aguas, no tilde there.
Make me. Actually, make my Portuguese auto corrector. I dare you.
Make you what? Now Portuguese? Are you ok?
Chill, dude. It’s a joke.
¡Es ño tilde señor!
In Spanish is called tilde, in English you don’t have a name for that so I use the Spanish name.
In English “á” is just an accentuated a, where a tilde is “~”
Graçias¡!
This is only because spanish doesn’t like repeating “a” sounds like la agua would have since it can create ambiguity in the sentence. If agua was la agua the words would probably eventually end up smushed together making lagua instead.
Other romance languages have words that really change gender tho. I think Italian and Romanian do. Arguably they are neuter but have in singular masculine endings and in plural feminine or was it the other way around
Meanwhile, in the cool sector of the universe:
My champion:
OP forgot an older one:
Battlestar won’t stand for this indignation!
if i pick starcraft, does that make me non-trinary?
“What’s in your pants?”
“5x5, in the pipe.”
Firefly?? Farscape?
There are only two genders! Sci-fi and fantasy! And I lay with both!
The collective fandom of Star Fox looks at one another awkwardly.
We don’t talk about the furries.
Not because we don’t like them, but because that shit’s complicated
It was never the same once Fox had to gather bafomdads…
I’m pretty sure Stargate is a slur when used this way.
The split is hard sci-fi / sci-fi fantasy.
I have always seen the soft/hard sci-fi as a sliding scale. I imagine it is like the mohs scale for minerals with diamonds as a 10.
Stuff like 2001 A Space Odyssey is a solid 10 until after HAL is shutdown and even with the bizarre ending it is fully in the “sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic” and still something like 8.5-9
Star Trek is pretty good about being internally consistent and having day to day stuff be pretty grounded but there is so much purely nonsense trecknobable that I only consider it a 6 out of 10.
Very different story and world but I would rate Stargate about the same. Maybe actually a bit higher. Mostly because it is a newer series that was better able to track its own weird stuff it had claimed and keep it consistent.
Star Wars something like 4.5. still gets ok because of mostly internal consistency but definitely leans strongly the fantasy elements that are mixed in.
I’m so fluid right now.
but where does that leave dune
Or Battlestar Galactica
What about Starhunter?
(please don’t tell me I’m the only one who ever watched this absolute trashfest of a series 😅)
