Just a heads-up: the first episode of SNW season 3 becomes fair game October 17.
Next, read all the fan zines from the 70s.
I fear that day.
then you watch all of star wars
will that get me crucified in this community?😂
Continues is amazingly good.
More than it has any right to be
This and The Orville.
Babylon 5?
Babylon 5 is DS9 in the right universe, with muppets!
Ivonova and Sinclair never attacked a populated planet. Technically Sheridan did, but I don’t think Za’hadum actually counts as inhabited…
Farscape!
Soooo… SG°1? Or is that too far?
I would definitely put Farscape ahead of the others because it’s had such a profound impact on the creators and writers of other space opera shows since its run, including newer Star Trek.
Babylon 5 is very good if one skips all but the ‘must see episodes’ of season one. The original principal actor suffered a major health crisis between the pilot and the first season. His wooden, not present performance, really damages that season but the other actors and show is very much worth the effort to watch around that.
I would also throw some 1970s classics in to the mix if OP enjoyed TOS. Space 1999 is definitely worth a watch, especially season one. BSG, the original, is a fun ride.
For a show that’s ambitious and appallingly bad all at once, but that features some classic Trek actors and writers, ‘The Starlost’ is a hoot. It really deserves to be purposed for memes.
I can honestly say that I have tried to get into SG1 several times but it never sticks. (I really liked the movie though.). I started again recently and drifted away in the middle of season one.
I agree with your assessments. Although I’ve never liked Space 1999, original BSG or Buck Rogers that much. Especially the original BSG, which had a very bad late 70s vibe akin to Love Boat, Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk and Man From Atlantis lol
SG°1 is fairly light hearted. The first season has the lowest average rating and boasts some of the worst rated episodes in the entire show. After that it gets consistently good. Up until Season 9/10 that is, when you suddenly have Farscape in your SG universe, and an ass-pull of a new “race” appears.
But by then you would start watching SG Atlantis, and the diamond in the rough that is Stargate Universe. The later which somehow makes it all worth it.
Ok, perhaps I should just power through SG season one and see if I can get into it.
BSG definitely is very late 70s American but, as a Canadian, I find Buck Rogers even worse. I don’t think I made it through two or three episodes at most.
Came here to say this.
Time to start again
Plankton Farts and Dies of course
If you’re into podcasts, I highly recommend Improvised Star Trek.
bsg, or you can always rewatch tng
Stargate.
Next step:
Wait… Are we only allowed to do it twice?
They just said “again”
the orville. written by and stars some of the pre-2010s talent
Had an argument with my dad about The Orville. He said it was too ‘woke’ and political. I told him that’s exactly what makes it feel like good classic Trek.
Has your dad watched classic trek recently? Its mostly woke.
Has your dad watched classic trek recently? Its mostly woke.
Or like…ever. haha.
That’s what I don’t get. It’s like the people saying Sesame Street has gotten too woke. Were you even paying attention the first time? That’s what I liked about many episodes of The Orville: it felt like classic Star Trek because it was pushing the envelope of social and philosophical issues through a sci-fi lens.
He asked me if he would like SNW and I wasn’t sure what to tell him. The cast may be more diverse, but honestly the plots have largely been focused on action.
Season 4 let’s gooooo! 🥹
i know im so excited!!
Fire up the beta canon!
Time to start watching Gundam
I just find it nearly impossible to get my hands on like 75% of gundam content
As a Gundam fan in the west, you really have to turn to the pirates. Part of me wishes Sunrise/Bandai would get their shit together and get it all available, but as somebody who has followed the series since the late 90s it’s kind of always been this way. You can buy the Blu Rays if that’s your thing, but you can also find everything in great quality from multiple sites.
The one tracker i have access to doesnt have any that arent widely available elsewhere unfortunately but maybe one day I’ll get on one that does.
UC or non-UC?
When I say Gundam I mean UC. Some of the other shows are entertaining, but they don’t feel like real Gundam to me. UC has hard sci-fi elements, political, space and mech battles. It’s a mix that hits pretty hard for me. Most of the non-UC shows are either goofy, or not ‘real robots’, or set mostly on earth.
Good answer 🙂
Yes
OG Gundam was too… cheesy? Juvenile? Old-fashioned? Anyway, I’m halfway through Gundam Wing right now.
Help.
Either we lost something in translation, the plot is super cut-down in order to adapt the manga into 50 episodes, or these characters really don’t make a lot of sense.
I started that path, I’ve only hit highlights.
Edit: it’s all good so far, but I sadly don’t have subtitle Time, so only dubs are in my future. (I’m usually doing something else while it plays)
You can watch a large chunk of UC with dubs. ZZ isn’t dubbed, and a few of the newest ones aren’t dubbed yet, but otherwise it’s probably one of the more accessible anime to get into. If you’ve only seen highlights I would say it’s a good time to just start episode 1 of 0079 and roll it. It’s not like every episode is amazing, but it’s fun and cool to see where the story begins.
