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.
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.
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?
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.
I hear that one a lot honestly, wonder if I should skip SG-1 and go straight for it.
Don’t! SG-1 has an incredible charm.(Especially the earlier seasons where they use less CGi.)
After I finish up DS-9 I’ll have to give it a shot.
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?
It’s free on YouTube but idk if the quality is better.
The show is over 20 years old, now.
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!
Silo was great fun. I really want to get to the book now and see the rest of the story, but there are just so many other things to read.
I read the book when it first came out and the series is, IMO anyway, a superb implementation.
Series is better than the book
First two episodes are absolutely superb. Brilliant hook.
I’ve never heard of For All Mankind. Good?
And I’ll be giving Foundations a try. Never read the books but I keep hearing good things about the show.
Foundation has been interesting so far and very pretty. For All Mankind is amazing.
It’s the best show on this list. Watch it for sure!
Very good. Alternate history that makes the moon missions bigger and better like we should have done all along
Oh man, I remember buying the DVD set of Terminator: SCC and binging the whole thing! I’m still sad that season three never made it.
I still love Summer Glau to this day
I just got from isle of sky… I’m not very big, but I’m awful shy… Lassies shout as I walk by… Donald wheres your trousers?
Fuck never thought anyone can punch me in the gut with an Andy stewert song.
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.
Foundation and For All Mankind, absolutely. Also planning on finishing up Star Trek TOS.
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.
I liked both of those shows and watched them when they were running. Think they aired back to back or around the same time. Maybe I’ll try a rewatch.
They did, at least the first seasons were on back to back. Both had amazing first seasons and fell off rarher badly. Great concepts that seemed like they were under funded and could of been something special if handled properly.
I remember being pumped thinking it was the revival of the sci-fi channel. Then it just all went to shit.
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.
Damn I was excited
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.
Just finished Severance! Watched most of it on 1.5x speed and skiped a lot of the 20 second visuals scenes with no dialogue but besides the pacing issues, its one of the most interesting shows I’ve seen in years. I love how they developed the dynamics between split personalities.
Dude, just watch it at normal speed and don’t skip anything. There’s a lot going on in that show.
Uh, no dude? I don’t feel like a word was said or a scene played out that I did not understand. You might find fulfilment in watching a 40 second sequence of someone drinking coffe with a pensive look but I don’t have time for that. I slowed down when I had a reason to.
You do you bro. It’s fine if you never learned how to calm yourself long enough to get the full experience the writers and directors wanted… because there’s a lot more than “pensive looks” going on. There are several dozen layers of subtlety happening on screen at any moment, and you’re bound to miss some shit. But whatever dude. I’m not here to tell you how to enjoy what is arguably one of the best first seasons of a television show in ages.
You literally showed up here to tell me how to enjoy it, bro. I don’t actually need to feel the boredom and desolation that the innies do.
I didn’t demand, I suggested. Because it’s a show with tons of intentional subtlety. Every moment on the screen has a purpose. Not to mention all the brilliant dialog. There are so many great lines that come out of nowhere.
Sure, you can get the basics by skimming it… but you’re not going to get the full experience that way.
Hell, I’m on my fourth watch through and I’m still finding new shit.
Maybe I can try that. I just can’t get into it the couple times I tried to start because it grinddddssss.
Just started watching (the fanmade 4k remastered version of) Farscape. Only my second time to watch the series.
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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
