Are there any science fiction TV series you are currently in the middle of watching? I’m sure there are plenty of people watching Silo. What else are you guys watching?
Personally I’ve been on a bit of a Star Trek Next Generation binge. I’ve also recently completed the Chinese version of Three Body Problem as well as the animated Three Body Problem which is actually just The Dark Forest.
The animated Three Body Problem was kind of a let down as they strayed from the source material in a weird way and made some aspects of it a comedy as well as a love story. Hopefully if it is renewed for a season 2 they get back on course and get to some of the good stuff. There are some scenes I would love to see animated. The trailer for it was so cool too. It seemed like they knew what they were doing.
Just binged Severance, which was really good. Now I’m watching through Star Trek Next Gen, getting towards the end of season 2.
Only loosely related to sci-fi, but I just finished Station 11 (twice) and think it might be the best TV show I’ve ever seen. I nitpick details and plot holes in stuff I watch all the time, and Station 11 just… didn’t have any. It’s the most well thought, cohesive story I’ve seen in ages. Watch it a second time and your mind will be blown at all the little details that crisscross perfectly across the entire arc.
The characters behave like real people. The acting is incredible. The score is perfection. It’s a masterpiece.
I finally got through and began the Expanse proper :)
Just bought the full box set of Babylon 5 and started watching from the beginning. Never had the opportunity to see all the episodes in order, and never got to finish it. Here’s hoping!
I’ve been watching through Babylon 5 for the first time and it’s so good. I was aware of it when it was running in the 90s but I wasn’t big into scifi TV shows at that point. I’ve watched through Star Trek TNG like 3 times (until they took it off Netflix) and The Orville twice (until I cancelled Hulu).
After I get through Babylon 5 I will choose between X-Files and Stargate SG-1, two other 90s shows I slept on. Overall I’m loving this. Because it’s all new to me, and yet it’s nostalgic at the same time. I remember the ads for all these shows, I recognize a lot of the actors from other things.
My youngest offspring has been making their way through X Files and loves it but they are such a fan of horror. I love it too but it’s pretty scary, more than just sci-fi. Though I did always find the filming annoying, so many minutes of black screens with flashlights! So many shows are dark now (and I hate it) but back when this series came out it was novel.
Been watching Silo, loved the books and really like the show. The author had a lot of input into his season. He wrote the first but as a short story and he was glad to be able to revisit the early parts and flesh it out more. Good to hear there’s a second season. I’m eagerly awaiting Foundation season 2 which starts next month! I’ve been watching Black Mirror in small doses. I do want to check out the New Trek sometime soon, too.
Foundation was the biggest let down. It has no connection to books, except for its name.
I felt that despite the distance from the source material it was still worth a watch. Maybe I’m just starved for any sci-fi shows, but I too am looking forward to season two.
I won’t be watching.
Silo. It’s a decent show despite the wooden acting from Common. Looking forward to season 2.
Finished The Silo and started Outer Range. Silo was very good all season and Outer Range is very weird and interesting.
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I’ve been slowly working my way through Stargate, midway through season 3 right now. It’s almost refreshing how shamelessly they reuse old Star Trek plots and tropes, but it kind of works because the show doesn’t seem to take itself as seriously as Star Trek does either.
Silo, Strange New Worlds, Secret Invasion, and Foundation.
Really liking Foundation so far, I wish we’d watched it sooner.
I was rewatching sliders for a while. Corny, but it reminds me of my childhood
Sliders is great, except for the last season or two. I rewatch it every five years or so.
I’m currently finishing TNG, on the final episode, also watching Babylon 5, SNW, Farscape, getting ready to start DS9 and SG-1
I also just recently binged all episodes of seaquest DSV
That is a ton of things to be watching all at once. Have you ever seen these shows in the past or is this your first time watching them?
I’ve watched some episode of all of them here and there over the years. I’m disabled and don’t work so I have plenty of time to kill watching them. I binge so many shows so that I don’t get bored with watching just one straight through. It took me 3 months to watch all 7 seasons of TNG. SNW is easy since I’ve been watching the series since it started, so catch a new episode weekly.
I’ve been working my way through The Expanse again. I couldn’t get into the books for some reason, despite being an avid SFF reader, but I love the show. (It happens to me for some reason–most of Gaiman’s works I’m meh about in book form but like on the big screen. Same deal with Game of Thrones–never got through the books in HS, even though I was reading other big fat fantasy at the time, but found the series…until the last few seasons…good.
Anyway. The Expanse probably the only SFF show I’ve encountered that actually feels like lit SF.
And for me, given most movie/TV SFF is a deacde or more behind lit SFF in ideas, it’s nice to actually see the types of stories made into a show.
I’m currently watching stargate again.
