Hello again fellow /c/sciencefiction peoples. What have you been watching lately and what do you plan to watch?
Here is last months post. What are you Watching? (August 2023)
Finished the first season of Silo.
Pretty good!
Rebecca Ferguson is really good.I’m about half way in, and the acting has been patchy - the guys playing Trumbull and Sims are bad, but when contrasted with Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson, they come off a lot worse.
I agree. I enjoyed most of the season, but Common (Sims) consistently ruined any immersion for me.
They Cloned Tyrone is DAMN GOOD once you get past the language and settle in.
What do you mean by get past the language?
Get past what language? Not used to hearing AAVE?
First season of Westworld is a masterpiece. The rest of the series is pretty good (S3&4 are simultaneously fairly self contained and open ended) but it suffered from the high expectations set by the first season.
I finished Farscape (for the first time) a couple weeks ago. Now I am binging Stargate Atlantis. It always amazes me that this show didn’t become more popular.
I love both of those shows. I actually like Stargate Atlantis better that SG-1.
The last time I tried to watch Farscape a few years ago on Netflix, the video quality was terrible. Is there a streaming service that’s better? Or should I just hunt down some blurays?
Foundation and For All Mankind, absolutely. Also planning on finishing up Star Trek TOS.
Foundation, and Futurama, now that Strange New Worlds is an hiatus for a loong time.
I plan to start watching Silo in about an hour though!
I’m watching Foundation. Watched one episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and I might continue watching that until our subscription to Paramount Plus runs out.
SNW, Lower Decks and Prodigy are all fantastic Trek clearly written by people who love Trek
I’m fucking sorry, did they reboot Lex and Red Dwarf?
No, if you are referring to the image on the post this is curated from some of the most upvoted comments of last months post. It doesn’t imply much beyond these are some shows people have been watching. Many of which may be very old or very new. There seems to always be a good mix.
Red Dwarf reboot does not make sense as it seems they are not done making episodes.
In some way I hope someone creates a new Sci-Fi comedy that can be as long running as Red Dwarf, or make sure a Red Dwarf reboot starts in a parallel universe or something.
Altered Carbon. Very competent cyberpunk action thriller with some awesome ideas and outstanding world building. Loving it.
The second season is a real let down. It’s passable, and expands the universe reasonably well. Just don’t expect it to live up to the first at all.
Hm maybe I should just read the book then. Classic Netflix.
I hope others chime in since I might be talking out of my ass, but I heard that the other books don’t meet the bar set by the first to a similar degree of the show. I enjoyed season 2, but season 1 was damn good.
Loved it too. My only gripe is a character change that IMO isn’t necessary. The book is pretty straightforward and could’ve been directly adapted to TV without that major change.
Hey, you gotta change the lead actor to make sure it’s not as good. Otherwise you might have to keep the show going.
Getting ready to watch Lower Decks in one week!
Watching Ahsoka and also season one of SW Rebels which is kind of an interesting juxtaposition.
Not sure if anime counts here, but I just watched Cyber City Oedo 808 and it was pretty dope.
It absolutely counts. Some of my favorite science fiction shows are anime. I’m not sure why it doesn’t come up more often in this community. I tried bringing it up a few times early on. Also our communities icon is from Cowboy Bebop.
It has some of the best animation I’ve ever seen, and it has the perfect mix of being over the top ridiculous but also taking itself seriously. Also the swearing and banter in the dub is hilarious.
I’m watching all the similar ones I haven’t seen yet next, like Genocyber, Angel Cop, Battle Angel, Angel Cop, Parasite Dolls, etc.
I’ve heard a lot about Babylon 5, even though I didn’t watch it when it first aired…it ended in 1998, and I didn’t have access to a TV until about 2 years later, so that’s probably why I didn’t watch it as a kid. But I’m trying to go back and watch it now.
I like the alien characters more than the human. Sinclair is way too smarmy for my tastes, and Garibaldi is written with too much casual perving–although I bet I wouldn’t have noticed if I’d watched it when I was in middle school and it was airing. So it suffers a bit from social norms shifting.
I haven’t gone back to watch older shows in a while–but it sticks out to me that this show which aired in the 90s has such an old-school way of acting so prevalent in it. Again, it would have seemed totally normal to me if I’d seen it in the 90s, but nowdays it sticks out as quaint.
Anyway, I don’t know if I like the show…I know they lose Sinclair after Season 1 so I might hang on until then. I don’t dislike it either–I think I’m just reserving judgement.
A funny thing though–I’m a fan of the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold. And one of her characters, Simon Illyan, is partly based/influenced by the looks of a certain actor (David McCallum). I have never actually seen anything with this actor in it before B5, I only saw a wikipedia headshot of him when he was younger. But he guest-starred in a Babylon 5 episode, the one where he’s pressuring the Dr. as an old artifact-hunting colleague. And somehow I was like–wait, is that Simon Illyan? Is that the actor he was based on? Which was wild, because all I know of him is whatever homages made it into the Vorkosigan books and a wikipedia headshot of the actor earlier in his career, and I somehow managed to correctly identify him.
Was a weird crossover between entertainment mediums.
I watched a few slightly older shows recently: Killjoys, which I really couldn’t get into, and now Dark Matter. I’m finding it a bit cliched, but I like it so far.
