Best Sci-Fi TV series Round 1g

[Lord Jubjub]

This is a MULTIPLE CHOICE POLL.

Please select what you think are good series. I, myself, have not seen all of these series. I may well select some on the basis of reputation or premise. If you wish to make comments about these specific shows, they are welcome to those who may not have seen those shows.

. . .

Silly me. I called this an elimination round because I had planned to eliminate all of the series nobody liked. Well, it turns out every show (but one so far) has gotten at least one vote and most have gotten several votes. So let me rephrase the elimination part.

I had always planned to put the smaller polls into a larger list. I'm thinking that the Top 25 on the list will be the "Consensus List of Shows Everyone Likes". The second round will be to choose your top 5 from among that list. It will also be a multiple choice set of polls.

[ToSeek]

Finally some decent programs and nobody's commenting....

[Swift]

Finally some decent programs and nobody's commenting....
Too many polls and I don't care all that much. I understand the polls have a limited number of choices, but do we need every TV program ever?

[Lord Jubjub]

Well, honestly, I've never heard of Lexx and it's among the top shows on the list so far. Had the task been up to me to choose the original list, I would have left off a good many of the series that people appear to like.

The first polls will start closing in a couple of days. This is about the maximum number of polls you'll see open.

[Inferno]

Tripods!!! Most depressing end to a TV series ever! Such a shame they never did the last book.

[ciderman]

:cry: I was gutted.
They had got to the exciting part in the trilogy (ok, they had drawn it out a bit much at times) & then axed it!
Having already spent loads of money on sets(possibly "the largest single model ever built by the BBC"/costumes/(some rather good non humanoid aliens, I thought, you have to get into the spirit of things;) )etc. for the 2nd series which would be reused on the finale:doh: .
Good detail here (& quote source);
http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/Tripods.html
Mind you, not as depressing an ending as Blake's 7 I reckon.

[Roy Batty]

I agree. Has Tripods ever been repeated? At least I've seen Blake's 7 several times, but Tripods never again! :(

Oh & fwiw Lord Jub Jub, I'm glad you let everybody nominate as many as they did. Some of us still remember great shows that others haven't heard of & despite some of the moaning I've heard, I think people just mentioned ones they liked, not just any old shows, I know I certainly did :)

I think it's been mentioned before but maybe it might be worth letting the board accept up to 10 options on polls, Admin?

[PhantomWolf]

They had got to the exciting part in the trilogy (ok, they had drawn it out a bit much at times) & then axed it!

Dang, that explains it, I just thought that our TV never showed series Three. :doh:

[Van Rijn]

Wow. I had never heard of the Tripods series which surprised me a bit (I don't miss at least hearing about science fiction series very often), and unfortunately most of it isn't available on DVD, but I'm glad I found out about it. I had read the Tripods trilogy in the very early '70s, and remembered a bit about it, but could never remember the specific author or book titles. . . until the flash of recognition when looking this up.

It's always fun when you can connect the dots on an old memory.

[Gillianren]

I'd never heard of it, either, but I have several of the books. (Two, I believe. Does the prequel count?)

[SeanF]

I'd never heard of it, either, but I have several of the books. (Two, I believe. Does the prequel count?)
The prequel counts as a book. :) My question is, does two count as "several"?

[ToSeek]

Tripods!!! Most depressing end to a TV series ever! Such a shame they never did the last book.

I was watching the fancy opening sequence to the "Trial of a Time Lord" season to Doctor Who with folks from the local DW club and someone muttered, "This is what the BBC spent its money on instead of the last series of Tripods."

[Gillianren]

The prequel counts as a book. :) My question is, does two count as "several"?

This is what I get for posting at 5 AM.

[HenrikOlsen]

Several 2. pron. A moderate number, more than two but not many....

We again show that on this board, catching established authorities in errors is so much more fun that catching proponents of random theories, which relates back to the discussion in "About BAUT" on what would happen if one of the pro-mainstream people used a false argument against an ATM proponent.

The answer was that they would be caught and gleefully roasted, since it's so much more fun to catch someone you respect in an error that it is to catch someone you expect to be wrong in the first place.

I think it was Clarke who suggested that the way to get a Nobel Price is to take an established respected authority and show him wrong.

[ciderman]

the way to get a Nobel Price
:confused: That's a new one for me!
I've heard of the Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/ though:).

[Lord Jubjub]

Wow, is there a lot of love for Futurama. Doesn't mean anyone thinks its the best sci-fi out there, but it leads the polling by a margin. Firefly is in 2nd. Notice a theme here? As in both cut off at the knees by a network not terribly interested in showing them. . .

[Jim]

Since when have networks been interested in quality that wasn't supported by ratings?

Or gave a flip about lack of quality if the ratings were good?

[Doodler]

This one hurt to choose, but I went with the new BSG.

[PhantomWolf]

This one hurt to choose, but I went with the new BSG.

You do realise that you can select more than one in this round?

[Jim]

This one hurt to choose, but I went with the new BSG.

You do realise that you can select more than one in this round?

Or none... simply don't vote if none are worthy.

[Doodler]

This one hurt to choose, but I went with the new BSG.

You do realise that you can select more than one in this round?

I didn't initially, but even after discovering that, I've still kept myself to one per poll