How does Seaquest only get 6 points if, by virtue of being the only show on my list, it should have ten points just from that?
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If anyone didn’t have the pleasure of going to a Star Trek convention in the 90s, it’s a lot of stalls selling fit to be signed 8x10s of Sirtis’ rape scene in Death Wish 3 beside copies of Spiner’s Sinatra cover album.
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Was I the only one who put TOS at the top of the proper trek shows? Is it an old people thing?
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You and my dad
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I didn’t consider your post a vote, because you didn’t allocate any points and just ranked two seasons of one show.
Other controversial decision: AutomaticTiger gave a ranking with no guidance on how to allocate points (do they all get 10 points? Does the top one get 10 points, descending? Does she even want to be counted?), so I decided to take the numbers of her list as her points, thus inverting her list and giving maximum points to her least favorite shows, because I thought that would be funny.
Though keep in mind, that whether I leave her out completely, try to guess at her point allocation, or invert them like I did, it actually wouldn’t change any of the rankings.
So you see, children: voting doesn’t matter.
Here is the full tally for transparency. I think I got everyone right, but I didn’t, like, triple check it.
Edit: Actually, I did find a mistake in my tally. Felix and Mikey also gave 10 points each to TNG, but I only counted them for DS9. This didn’t change the final ranking though. Also, the average points used was 45, so 60 was probably too many.
Also, I watched ep 1 of Farscape, and…I dunno guys.
just roll with the goofiness and keep going
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Too late it’s time to jump to Babylon 5!!!
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I love the goofiness in Farscape. John Crichton is such a fucking goober, an Australian’s idea of the ultimate American – a naive, intensely loyal beefcake with a heart of gold who won’t stop making stupid pop culture references to people who he knows won’t get them. So they build up this character who can’t lose and make him lose over and over again in the weirdest and most violating ways, while a deposed frog king wisecracks at and around him.
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Points are stupid. Qualitative is better than quantitative for media. I’m much more interested in why Babylon 5 is liked by people than if IGN gave it an 8.234 points.
I will not be IGN.
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just wait till you get to Crackers Don’t Matter, the show’s ultimate rejection of human exceptionalism (and one of the best episodes of the show)
Crichton’s ultimate use to the crew is being worse at everything than everyone else
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AND YET SHE PERSISTED.
Honestly, I liked the second ep better, even though it was nothing special. I mean, this is a show to watch while eating dinner, so it’s probably okay that it’s a Saturday morning cartoon. I’ll keep going until I don’t enjoy myself or find something better. So it will get a good shot at hooking me on the characters.
Right now the lore thing that most intrigues me is that there are space whites, and they’re the enemy and explicitly both fascist and cop coded. If they really go somewhere with that, they’ll get a lot of points with me (NO SPOILERS). If in the end, it’s just kind of there, well…okay.
It’s funny: I always loved Muppets and sci fi, but I remember flipping past Farscape as a kid, seeing the goofy puppets, and being like, “Nuh-uh”. Even as a kid, I wanted sci fi to look like a movie, and TV budget sci fi felt cringe to me until 2003 BSG, which…we all know what happened there, but the production is still unmatched in TV sci fi, imo. (Okay, I guess Andor beats it.)
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I recently had a chat with someone from Zimbabwe about modern day colonialism, and afterwards I’m like, “Man. I gotta watch V.”
Like, I never had an urge, because it’s like–I already know it’s To Serve Man, and To Serve Man is one of my favorite short stories. No way with V be as good as what it’s ripping off.
But when I think about how oppressors always fantasize about being oppressed, I think about what rich white countries were doing in Africa when V aired, and it’s like, “Hmmmm… So the aliens trade ‘civilization’ for resources, eh?”
There’s actually like 3 major flavors of space fascist in farscape and they’re all villains, its great. The show is very consistent about its ‘fuck fascism’ stance
this is so backwards, sci fi movies should aspire to look cheaper than sci fi tv
that’s why dark star is a classic sci fi film
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Yeah, I’m waiting for the bondage guy and for blue lady to get a wig.
I’m assuming one of them is a Riker’s beard moment.
NO SPOILERS.
Bondage man is, to me, an all-timer character in sci-fi TV, like Weyoun iconic
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the only regret i have about deleting my twitter is the one bondage man video i posted on there
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So by the end of Farscape, do you FULLY understand how ALL the races have sex? Or is it just a bunch of coy bullshit? Because they’ve already established that the Klingon jacks off with some kind of pointy bone.
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I don’t understand how anyone has sex bigheadmode
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