[quote]sugarfree wrote:
I was surprised at how much I didn’t like Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor in season 1. I really like the actor. This might be the only thing I’ve seen him in I didn’t like. His Doctor seemed forced.
Season 2 Doctor David Tennant’s inherit quirkiness is just fun to watch. If you didn’t like season 1, give 2 and up a chance.[/quote]
If by “Season 1” and “Season 2” you mean “Season 27” and “Season 28” you’d be on target.
I have… An unfortunate fascination with sci-fi. Although I don’t watch shit I don’t think is well produced.
Farscape remains for me the single great sci-fi series ever made, because it was the best sci-fi series I’ve ever seen at forming a scope that could be seen as a gigantic space opera while indulging specific individuals and making them relevant in the grand scheme.
Most shows either focus too much on the universe and mitigate the characters or they focus too much on the characters or ‘local’ events and they mitigate the universe. The new Battlestar Galactica is guilty of the second, I think.
Farscape also had a sense of humor and some of the more ‘real’ emotional and psychological drama you don’t see much outside of indie movies or cable series. I thought the ‘inner turmoil’ the lead had for a while was on-par with the quality of what Peter Krause did in Six Feet Under, and I am of the opinion that Six Feet Under is the best television series made in the last 20 years.
All the Star Trek series have been too campy (yes, even DS9), Farscape was just campy enough. Battlestar Galactica this season (the third) is starting to try too hard to be adult, and Stargate is an institution but the quality has always gone up and down, while Farscape remained steady.
I have no opinion on Babylon 5 because I quit after the first four episodes; as they were shit. Firefly was not nearly ‘grand’ enough, and it only ran for one season so it can’t really be compared to anything as a ‘series of adventures’ was not fully fleshed out.
Farscape remains the only sci-fi series I’ve ever seen that’s been absolutely huge in scope making space ‘foreign’ (all sci-fi’s outside of DS9 are guilty of not doing this, or doing it very poorly), original in almost every episode (it could be said DS9 or Firefly achieved this somewhat) while balancing focus on individuals who gave strong performances (the new Battlestar Galatica does this well at the exclusion of everything else).
With this, I am going to go back to my mothers basement, take my acne medication, eat some fritos, play D&D and jack off to crudely drawn photos of a naked wood elf.
