Do you like Scifi?  |
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|  Now i love Science fiction...ive loved it for many years. im sure that i was exposed to it sometime when i was a child and just simply don't remember it. my earliest memory of watching science fiction is watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture. My uncle had let me borrow it one time and then i ended up borrowing and eventually buying the entire movie series up to the point that it was out at the time...it was only up to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Now i have the complete movie collection lest the new one coming out next year of course. i also have almost the complete series of Star Trek: The Next Generation and bits and pieces of the other series with exception of the classic series. I now also have the complete Stargate SG1 series and the new movie that had come out and the first season of Stargate Atlantis and and a bunch of oddball series that i found i liked. and as soon as i get the money too im going to start buying again, finishing the current collections and start new ones.
so do you like Science Fiction? if you do, why do you like it and what got you interested in it in the first place? also what is your favorite scifi series or movie that you just cant get enough of? if you don't what turns you off from watching it?
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1.  aplaza (511)
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4 years ago
| |  I'm not what you would call a fan. I'm certainly no trekkie. Can't stand Shatner in any shape form or character on anything. But I do like ST the next Generation. But only that one. Not any of the others. Can't tell you why, that's just the way it is.
I did like something that was called Quantum Leap a lot. Not sure if that fits into SF though. Too bad that's not on re-runs as much as some of the other shows that are shown ad-nauseum to infinity and beyond.
Live long and prosper.
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 Palmerhusky (736)
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4 years ago
| | oh yeah...Quantum Leap is definitely Scifi. its just set entirely on earth. thanks for the response. | | | |
| aplaza (511)
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4 years ago
| | Oh wow thanks for clearing that up for me. I really liked it. I like Stargate too, but mostly the first ones. The latter ones were just a little too far fetched for me. Well if you can say far fetched for anything in sci-fi that is. | | | |
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| 2. lissavalerian (144)
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4 years ago
| |  I absolutely LOVE science fiction! I couldn't even begin to explain what got me into it. I guess I watched a lot of television that was science fiction or bordered on it. The original Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek in all its incarnations, The Matrix Trilogy of movies, LOVE THEM!
In fact, I love science fiction so much that I actually majored in it in college. Can you believe that? Yes, there are universities out there that offer majors in SCIENCE FICTION. Seriously though, it was a masters in english with a concentration in Science Fiction/Fantasy. I got all the way through up to one more class and my thesis left to go. So just shy of a masters degree in science fiction.
Oh, for whatever it's worth, if you ever get into a discussion of science fiction with an academic, do NOT call it "sci-fi" Apparently that is some kind of horrible crime. Personally I think thats crap, and I've had long winded discussions with several of my professors over the concept, but for some reason, they hold to their argument that "sci-fi" is a lowbrow term only used by people who don't really know what science fiction really is. *RIGHT*. BS is what I say to that.
Anyways, I have enjoyed a lot of science fiction television shows, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, the original Buck Rogers and the original Flash Gordon.
Star Wars was okay, but that was more of a "space opera" than real science fiction in my book, but whatever, it is still GREAT "SCI-FI" :-)
As a kid I loved Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with Gil Girard and Erin Grey, who I have met at several Sci-Fi Conventions (okay I'm a geek).
I loved SeaQuest DSV and I was totally devastated when one of my favorite actors from the series, Jonathan Brandis, committed suicide.
Wow ... this thread just sent me off on a wild tangent of discussion with my partner about the history of science fiction, the debate between sci-fi and SF and skiffy (not the peanut butter!), http://www.sfwa.org/misc/skiffy.htm , the debate I had with one of my science fiction teachers about this very subject who happened to be an editor for the Journal "Science Fiction Studies" - thats like arguing with the referee over the rules. You know the referee is gonna win. As far as I'm concerned, she only won because she pulled rank. The majority of diehard science fiction fans seem to know that SCI-FI is an okay shortening of the term Science Fiction. At least the ones I know ...
I could go on, but I'll stop for now ... :)
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| Palmerhusky (736)
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4 years ago
| | oh no...please don't let me stop you ^_^. if i post something that strikes your brain feel free to make as long as a response as you would like. and since your a science fiction fan im gonna add you as well if you will accept the friends invite. | | | |
| Palmerhusky (736)
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4 years ago
| | well it seems i already added you :P. silly me. | | | |
| lissavalerian (144)
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4 years ago
| | yeah, I was about to say! LOL :-) | | | |
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3.  paidreader (2592)
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4 years ago
| |  I love scifi and have for quite a number of years. Like you, it probably started with Star Trek since my Mom liked the show so much. My interest continued with shows like Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories, Lost in Space, Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man etc.
I don't really buy the boxed sets of the shows I watch on TV, but we do subscribe to the scifi channel so I can watch and record as much as I want. I really liked recording SG1 and was so disappointed to see it finally end, but I'm glad Sam got transfered to Stargate Atlantis.
Another one I liked is KyleXY. I hope it'll be back next season.
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| lissavalerian (144)
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4 years ago
| | Oh, I totally forgot to mention the six million dollar man and the bionic woman! I loved those shows! I think I had such a crush on the character Jaime Sommers
Have you seen the newest version of Bionic Woman, with Michelle Ryan as "Jaime", and Katie (Katee?) Sackhoff as Sara Corvus?
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| 4. Timothy31 (471)
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4 years ago
| |  I do like sci fi. I'm not a huge fan of it like some people are but there is some sci fi stuff i like. I think what probably got me into it is the terminator series. I absolutely love all of those movies in the series and the tv show and i can't wait until the 4th movie is out next year.
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| Melloje (11)
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4 years ago
| | Growing up, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation a lot. And I'll co-sign on the Quantum Leap too. The Stargate movie ranks as one of my favorites. The shows were decent too, but compared to the movie? Miles away....
I don't think anyone has mentioned the Outer Limits though, especially the first several seasons.
You're probably going to laugh at me, but my first exposure to sci-fi (at least as a concept) was the Fluppy Dogs. Since then, my fascination with portals and dimensions has spiraled. Disney...who knew? | | | |
| Timothy31 (471)
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4 years ago
| | I could never really get into start trek or any that you mentioned. I don't know why they just never seemed to appeal to me much. I didn't even get into star wars all that much either. I saw a few of the movies but i'm not totally nuts about star wars and star trek like some people are. I don't think i have ever even seen the one that you said got you into sci fi so i can't laugh at you for it. Another sci fi movie series i really like is tremors. I just love those movies i know they're corny and all but i think they're really cool. I wish a 5th installment of the series wasn't on hold and probably never gonna be made. | | | |
| lissavalerian (144)
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4 years ago
| | Yeah, the terminator series was great! You can look at the terminator series, the Matrix trilogy, and a few others as exploring the whole "man vs. machine" phenomenon. Oh, yeah, add Battlestar Galactica to that. Will man create machines that then take over? It seems that the premise of all of these shows is exactly that. And what happens to mankind? Again, the premise of these shows is that the machines deem mankind defective and then start eradication. There is a really good bit of monologue in the Matrix where Agent Smith talks about the human race being a virus. Kinda interesting to hear a rant from the "machine" point of view.
The pop culture movies though, tend to be a bit (quite a bit) behind the literature. Isaac Asimov wrote about robotics and the Three Laws of Robotics (not sure how that would REALLY work in reality, but hey, it's fiction). Then of course you have the pop culture movie: I, ROBOT which, while attributed to Isaac Asimov, was really a conglomeration of other similar works: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Anyways, yeah, I'm looking forward to yet another T movie. The storyline is quite interesting! :) | | | |
| Timothy31 (471)
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4 years ago
| | Yeah i'm just waiting for when these robots become like they are in the movies in reality. I can definitely see it happening too. Yeah i can't wait either. Have you been reading the official blog? http://terminatorsalvation.warnerbros.com/ | | | |
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| 5. Zergonipal (627)
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4 years ago
| |  I really like sci-fi but only if it's quite smart. I don't specially like Star-Trek. I prefer old episodes of Star Wars.
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6.  funkykid (373)
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1 year ago
| |  When it comes to sci-fi films, i can't stand the likes of Armageddon. It's more of a schmaltzy, vomit-inducing chick-flick with a cringeworthy turn from Ben Affleck (Thank god he redeemed himself with The Town), along with Michael Clarke Duncan and Steve Buscemi embarrassing themselves to the point where it becomes intolerably unbearable. But then again, that's Michael Bay for you.
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