Thank you, lots of interesting thoughts, of course varying in familiarity to me. I appreciate ST:SNW remaining largely episodic (and redeeming the Gorn), especially as I thought the Xindi arc episodes of ST:Enterprise the poorer, and thank you for moving me to discover that a new season comes this summer.
I also enjoyed The Expanse. (Being a bit vague because spoilers:) Honestly, the protomolecule aspects sometimes weren't great for me - dramatically, it's important to go light on contact with powerful mystery - then the last part of the television adaptation felt a bit of a let-down after the heady things of the previous - it's unfortunate we didn't get the later books adapted too to return to and resolve the headier stuff. The impressive realism and characters definitely made it worthwhile, though, the show was a godsend for things like the longest flight legs between the US and Asia. (Much nicer from Western Europe, we easily split halfway in the Middle East.)
Curious how For All Mankind goes for you ongoingly, I've yet to see any and I'd separately run into another person enjoying at least the earlier episodes. I shall have to check into it.
Of the older things, while I've rewatched plenty, I may well have largely missed the rebooted The Outer Limits, I'll have to look into that as I have only very hazy memories, I'll check if/where it streams. I wish more of the shows aged a bit better: in particular, Babylon 5's really outstanding in some ways (especially for the time) but some scenes make me cringe, I wish the reimagined version would have happened. Incidentally, I was interested to hear of JMS' move UK-wards.
In the original airing, I would watch Blake's 7 with my mother, who was a fan, then a later rewatch was on RRW's small television whereon the gun aimed at the red phosphors had failed so it was all rather blue-green-cyan. (-: Now I think about it, that explored interesting ideas in some episodes.
I do appreciate some of the witty writing in Firefly, the environment feels realistic but the scripts are what make it. I was sad that The X-Files was cancelled when it was, I'd found the whole where's Mulder? a bit tedious but liked the last Scully/Doggett stuff as they found their footing; Gillian Anderson was recently on Radio 4 chatting about the filming (I always find her apparent dual-accentedness quite a thing). That could well be due a rewatch, actually, I know R. liked it too.
I noticed that Amazon's now advertising Caprica to me. I've watched that only once so far, my memory's vague but it felt as if it was cancelled just as it was getting interesting.
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I also enjoyed The Expanse. (Being a bit vague because spoilers:) Honestly, the protomolecule aspects sometimes weren't great for me - dramatically, it's important to go light on contact with powerful mystery - then the last part of the television adaptation felt a bit of a let-down after the heady things of the previous - it's unfortunate we didn't get the later books adapted too to return to and resolve the headier stuff. The impressive realism and characters definitely made it worthwhile, though, the show was a godsend for things like the longest flight legs between the US and Asia. (Much nicer from Western Europe, we easily split halfway in the Middle East.)
Curious how For All Mankind goes for you ongoingly, I've yet to see any and I'd separately run into another person enjoying at least the earlier episodes. I shall have to check into it.
Of the older things, while I've rewatched plenty, I may well have largely missed the rebooted The Outer Limits, I'll have to look into that as I have only very hazy memories, I'll check if/where it streams. I wish more of the shows aged a bit better: in particular, Babylon 5's really outstanding in some ways (especially for the time) but some scenes make me cringe, I wish the reimagined version would have happened. Incidentally, I was interested to hear of JMS' move UK-wards.
In the original airing, I would watch Blake's 7 with my mother, who was a fan, then a later rewatch was on RRW's small television whereon the gun aimed at the red phosphors had failed so it was all rather blue-green-cyan. (-: Now I think about it, that explored interesting ideas in some episodes.
I do appreciate some of the witty writing in Firefly, the environment feels realistic but the scripts are what make it. I was sad that The X-Files was cancelled when it was, I'd found the whole a bit tedious but liked the last Scully/Doggett stuff as they found their footing; Gillian Anderson was recently on Radio 4 chatting about the filming (I always find her apparent dual-accentedness quite a thing). That could well be due a rewatch, actually, I know R. liked it too.
I noticed that Amazon's now advertising Caprica to me. I've watched that only once so far, my memory's vague but it felt as if it was cancelled just as it was getting interesting.