kunkmiester wrote:I did like some of Monk, and stuff like Mythbusters.
The episode of Mythbusters where the revisit the car cut in half by snowplow myth by building a steel wedge onto a rocket powered sled, launching it at 550 MPH, and cutting a car in half, engine block and all, might be my single favorite moment in TV history.
I laughed so hard for so long that I literally hurt myself.
I think I damaged my DVR by running the show's super slow mo in DVR slow mo and frame by frame for so long. So funny!
BSG, though it didn't make a lot of sense at the end. Lost, though it never made much sense. House, though half of it is just throwing around medical jargon.
n*kBolt*Te = B**2/(2*mu0) and B^.25 loss scaling? Or not so much? Hopefully we'll know soon...
Absolutely agree with Firefly and Rome. Very good shows.
I'm going to agree with honorable mention for Lost here, and also add in X-Files. On that point, I'm going to add this idea:
X-Files Syndrome.
X-Files Syndrome is when you have a sci-fi show with good actors, good production values, and a very interesting premise, which gradually becomes more and more convoluted and eventually ceases to make any sense.
I would say that Battlestar Galactica and Lost both suffered X-Files Syndrome. I'm afraid that Fringe seems to be going that way as well.
If you want to go back to the 1960s, you could call it The Prisoner Syndrome... except that somehow the fact that The Prisoner never makes sense is part of what makes it enjoyable.
Heck, I gotta give a full thumbs up to The Prisoner.
Firefly
BSG (reimagined)
SG-SG1/SGA
Supernatural
X-Files
Fringe (essentially X-Files II but funnier)
Last Exile
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Sanctuary
American Dad
Family Guy
Simpsons
Doctor Who (new shows, esp latest season)
Farscape
Lost
The Prisoner (I dispute that The Prisoner doesnt make any sense, though the final episode is a bit psychedelic, I recommend rewatching it on video a few times...)
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CaptainBeowulf wrote:Absolutely agree with Firefly and Rome. Very good shows.
I'm going to agree with honorable mention for Lost here, and also add in X-Files. On that point, I'm going to add this idea:
X-Files Syndrome.
X-Files Syndrome is when you have a sci-fi show with good actors, good production values, and a very interesting premise, which gradually becomes more and more convoluted and eventually ceases to make any sense.
I would say that Battlestar Galactica and Lost both suffered X-Files Syndrome. I'm afraid that Fringe seems to be going that way as well.
If you want to go back to the 1960s, you could call it The Prisoner Syndrome... except that somehow the fact that The Prisoner never makes sense is part of what makes it enjoyable.
Heck, I gotta give a full thumbs up to The Prisoner.
I have to plead a contrary opinion on "Fringe." When it started, it was convoluted and didn't make any sense. It has been slowly working to a climax of confrontation between parallel and competing Universes. It tied up all the previous loose ends by explaining them as the results of the competition between the differing technology existing in our Universe as opposed to the Alternate Universe with which we are competing.
(With an occasional non aligned mad scientist or unrelated weird event thrown in.)
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —
kunkmiester wrote:I did like some of Monk, and stuff like Mythbusters.
The episode of Mythbusters where the revisit the car cut in half by snowplow myth by building a steel wedge onto a rocket powered sled, launching it at 550 MPH, and cutting a car in half, engine block and all, might be my single favorite moment in TV history.
I laughed so hard for so long that I literally hurt myself.
I think I damaged my DVR by running the show's super slow mo in DVR slow mo and frame by frame for so long. So funny!
Personally I liked the rocket chair swingset episode, as well as, of course the several episodes about archimedes secret weapons. The one about the airplane propeller shredding another plane was awesomesauce too.
CaptainBeowulf wrote:Absolutely agree with Firefly and Rome. Very good shows.
I'm going to agree with honorable mention for Lost here, and also add in X-Files. On that point, I'm going to add this idea:
X-Files Syndrome.
X-Files Syndrome is when you have a sci-fi show with good actors, good production values, and a very interesting premise, which gradually becomes more and more convoluted and eventually ceases to make any sense.
I would say that Battlestar Galactica and Lost both suffered X-Files Syndrome. I'm afraid that Fringe seems to be going that way as well.
If you want to go back to the 1960s, you could call it The Prisoner Syndrome... except that somehow the fact that The Prisoner never makes sense is part of what makes it enjoyable.
Heck, I gotta give a full thumbs up to The Prisoner.
I have to plead a contrary opinion on "Fringe." When it started, it was convoluted and didn't make any sense. It has been slowly working to a climax of confrontation between parallel and competing Universes. It tied up all the previous loose ends by explaining them as the results of the competition between the differing technology existing in our Universe as opposed to the Alternate Universe with which we are competing.
(With an occasional non aligned mad scientist or unrelated weird event thrown in.)
Honestly, all the rest are crap. Maybe you mean my least disliked.
There are a number theme songs I've scanned YouTube for. The theme from "Twelve O'Clock High" still gives me thrills. I have a secret fascination for the theme from "Fireball XL5", though I preferred the competing series "Space Angel" (featuring the coolest looking rocket ship ever on TV). The fat sidekick Tarus may be the prototype for both Spock and Scotty.
Honestly, all the rest are crap. Maybe you mean my least disliked.
There are a number theme songs I've scanned YouTube for. The theme from "Twelve O'Clock High" still gives me thrills. I have a secret fascination for the theme from "Fireball XL5", though I preferred the competing series "Space Angel" (featuring the coolest looking rocket ship ever on TV). The fat sidekick Tarus may be the prototype for both Spock and Scotty.
Loved the "Connection" series with James Burke. (Wonder if he was kin to Edmund?) I remember "12 O'clock High" but wasn't really into it. Never watched "Quincy."
How about Kolchack the Night Stalker?
Or one of my favorites "The Sixth Sense."
How about "Night Gallery?"
Who said entertainment nowadays is better?
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‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’
— Lord Melbourne —
