Good Sci-Fi?

**HannibalExMachina** · April 04, 2018, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Gallus

Hated in the Nation and Nosedive were excellent. The Waldo Moment too. I didn't care for USS Callister though.

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maybe you missed a wider allegory

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**TheDarkKnight** · April 22, 2018, 01:05 AM

Not that anyone here watched it I imagine watched it but Ghost Wars cancelled.

Interesting premise,

title

**Jadli** · April 23, 2018, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Gallus

Hated in the Nation and Nosedive were excellent. The Waldo Moment too. I didn't care for USS Callister though.

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Maybe also check Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams from Amazon, similar to Black Mirror in some ways (each episode is also its own story, etc..). Pretty good, especially the second half

**Condottiere 40K** · December 17, 2018, 03:27 PM

**Condottiere 40K** · January 02, 2019, 03:22 PM

**Condottiere 40K** · January 03, 2019, 03:56 PM

**The Wandering Storyteller** · January 10, 2019, 11:52 PM

The Expanse

The Orville

**HannibalExMachina** · January 12, 2019, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by San Felipe

The Expanse

The Orville

ah, could we not mention McFartlame's self insert fan fic in the same space as "good" and "the expanse"? i like awful trash as much the next guy, but its kinda misleading in this thread....

**The Wandering Storyteller** · January 12, 2019, 04:49 PM

Well I enjoy it, it’s not a great sci fi but alright.

**HannibalExMachina** · January 12, 2019, 05:00 PM

oh, it has its moments. if they boot fartlame, both as writer and actor, there may be some hope to make it consistently watchable.

**The Wandering Storyteller** · January 12, 2019, 05:09 PM

Instead there's a really good Spanish tv series called Ministry of Time on Netflix. I think that is worth a watch.

**Condottiere 40K** · January 12, 2019, 06:31 PM

**TheDarkKnight** · January 14, 2019, 10:40 PM

Did anyone here ever watch 5ive Minutes to Midnight?

Watching it now...Old miniseries but looks interesting.

Speaking of which it has been 3 years since the last Syfy miniseries (Childhood's End). I'm kinda hoping they return to that soon cause their miniseries are typically very watchable. I was hoping we would be getting one every year but...

**Condottiere 40K** · February 04, 2019, 07:25 AM

Probably one of the best fanmade works out there.

Apparently, it's also one big audition tape, and Games Workshop has commissioned him to do something named Angels of Death, a reference to the Blood Angels.

The style moves from black and white animation to live action, and then ends back there.

**Gaidin** · February 06, 2019, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by HannibalExMachina

oh, it has its moments. if they boot fartlame, both as writer and actor, there may be some hope to make it consistently watchable.

popcorn sci-fi is still good sci-fi. One just has to be aware of what he is watching. :p

**TheDarkKnight** · December 14, 2020, 07:03 PM

So...reviving an older thread.

What are some of the current sci fi shows? I feel like the only one I'm really paying attention to right now is The Expanse.

Feels like maybe we have hit a wall for scifi again.

**HannibalExMachina** · December 16, 2020, 07:49 PM

I am sure you heard of The Mandalorian

and Discovery is still going, but yeah, not much new going on right now.

**Gaidin** · December 17, 2020, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by TheDarkKnight

So...reviving an older thread.

What are some of the current sci fi shows? I feel like the only one I'm really paying attention to right now is The Expanse.

Feels like maybe we have hit a wall for scifi again.

TV shows aren't much of a thing right now for about the same reason movies aren't. Companies are willing to invest extra health money in shows and movies they know about, Expanse, Mission Impossible, things like that. But new ideas will probably wait another year.

Right now you're probably looking at books for new ideas.

First book of the most recent trilogy by one of my favorite sci-fi authors:

Sci-fi thread but I'll throw in the fantasy recommendation as well(first book):

But uhh...see Hannibal's post for sci-fi shows that are pretty fun to watch if not awesome depending on which one you pick that were filming before the pandemic.