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What to watch next? Just finished The Expanse (sopuli.xyz)
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Give me your recent or ancient sci-fi shows that you like. I need them!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

In no particular order

  • Battlestar Galactica

  • Farscape

  • MST3K

  • Travellers

  • Most Star Trek and Stargate

  • Dr Who

  • Electric Sheep

  • Twin Peaks

  • X-Files

I'll probably add to this as they occur to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I really want to know why MST3K comes up on these lists so often. I sat down to watch it and it was just some shitty old movie being watched by 2 semi-funny average joes. Like, Gogglebox is better, and that's not even good. What am I missing??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

It was a show a bunch of us watched late at night for years. Cable didn't have a ton of great options in the 90s. But mostly I love it because it's made by huge nerds doing nerdy crap with props and generally having fun. It's just a comfort show for me I reckon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Agree. Also

  • Firefly — if you somehow haven't seen it yet
  • Babylon 5 — if you can stick with it past a very rough season 1, seasons 2-4 are very good
  • Stargate SG-1, and to a much lesser extent Atlantis
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ooh yeah all solid. Firefly obviously, Babylon 5 was a lot more enjoyable than I expected. And I did mention Stargate, but I'm only now kinda watching SG-1.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Farscape has been in my peripheral vision forever, does it hold up?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Farscape is excellent, but it's very trippy and the heavy use of Muppets may be offputting to some. And it's far from harder scifi like the Expanse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Just watch it. It's great

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, it's great. I've been watching it lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I second Battlestar Galactica. I keep meaning to rewatch it. All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.