This is the flip side for that other thread. Please list only long-running shows or movies series (5 seasons/5 movies or more) that ended well and never lost you. Which series left the shark thoroughly unjumped?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Especially noteworthy are sitcoms. It's very difficult for a sitcom to last 7 or more years and still be watchable.
Anime has a wonderful tendency to not be allowed to outstay its welcome. There are tons of wonderful examples out there.
I actually don't watch a ton of TV specifically because its tendency to get extended beyond the point its compelling. There's a lot of shows where fans rage at the ending that I quite enjoyed the conclusion of, even if I'd happily cut a season or 2 out of it. HIMYM being the prime example for me.
Star Wars is the obvious one for me... Despite the Prequels and Sequels each having their own issues, I've enjoyed them all for various reasons.
Likewise with Star Trek... Some of the movies were better than others, with Nemesis and TMP probably being my least favorites, but they're all still quite rewatchable. The original series and Voyager are the only Trek series I've actually seen from start to finish, although my wife and I are currently working through DS9, which is nice for filling in the gaps.
I enjoyed the hell out of all of the Marvel movies, and expect that to continue.
For series - MASH is the obvious frontrunner. Doctor Who. We watched House MD to the end, although the last couple of seasons started getting a little silly. Likewise Boston Legal (we came into that one later though... I think about season 4 or so).
Babylon 5 probably qualifies as well, although we stopped watching when video rentals stopped being a thing and have never got around to going back and finishing it...
Haven't had a chance to pick up season 5 of Killjoys (but will be getting it when I can) and waiting on the final season of The 100.
Hmmm. First thought was SG-1, although the Ori seasons were a bit weaker, it didn’t have an overwhelming downturn.
DS9 probably, as that just seemed to get steadily better over the years and ended in a reasonable, planned, way, instead of petering out or stopping dead.
A mild wobble in the middle but then delivered the greatest ending in tellybox history (still torn between being really ticked about how Keith's story ended and loving it for being on theme with random horrid gak happens)
Peep Show
May well be THE British sitcom of the era
Sharpe
T'Bean has boys own adventures sticking it to Frenchies, posho's and any other bugger that crosses him (this assumes it ends at Sharpe's Waterloo),
Definitely Stargate. Atlantis was fun too.
I'm a big fan of B5, but they should have stopped after season 4, since the overarching arc was done. Not that season 5 was bad, it just lacked the gravitas.
DS9 was a strong show all the way through too.
insaniak wrote: I also feel the need to point out that the fact that Firefly didn't run for at least 5 seasons is a crime against humanity.
I am certain there’s a parallel universe where Firefly fans wish the show had ended after the first season, before the flaws became too overwhelming to ignore.
MASH is the only sitcom that comes to mind. Some 'eh' episodes, but overall the series stayed solid throughout. Pretty good for 11 seasons!
Can't forget The Muppet Show. Entertainment for all ages!
IF we're counting animated stuff, Batman: The Animated Series and the Superman spinoff were both really good all the way through. The Justice League stuff got pretty uneven, though.
B5, of course. Season 5 didn't hit quite the same high mark as 2-4, but was still quite good.
ST: DS9; solid all the way through with only a few iffy episodes.
I'll toss ST:TNG in at the very bottom of the category. A lot of good, a few bad but scattered throughout instead of being concentrated at the end like so many other series.
I'm sure there's at least a couple more wandering around the back alleys of my mind, but I can't bring them up to the front just now...
Most of the good shows that I enjoyed have already been mentioned (MASH, the various Star Treks, Stargate SG1 and Atlantis, The Muppet Show). MASH is an interesting case because it goes from being a comedy with a little bit of drama to being a drama with a little bit of comedy. But it just works.
One I don't see mentioned is Star Wars: The Clone Wars. First season or two were kind of rough, but it got really good in the later seasons. I would mention Rebels as being very much the same, but it only lasted 4 seasons.
As far as movie series go, I'd definitely have to mention the MCU. Very solid series of movies right there, and haven't gotten stale yet. Star Wars, unfortunately, has been let down by the sequel trilogy in a big way. Star Trek has overall had a pretty solid set of movies (yes, even the JJ Abrams ones are okay).
The one that came to mind immediately for me was The Wire. The season with the docks was kinda eh, and it just barely stuck the landing, but despite that weakness I think it's potentially the best show I've ever seen.
Speaking of, Breaking Bad is the other contender.
Parks & Rec had a pretty iffy first season but switched gears in the second season and was pretty consistently good until the end.
I have seen every single movie in the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Aliens, Terminator, Jaws*, and Final Destination franchises - including all modern remakes and reboots. Some were not super great but none lost me. Childs's Play, I could not do, it just started getting too poor after the 3rd one. And arguably the second one. Same with Saw - I probably saw 5 of them, but most of them sucked I think.
Ok Hmm thats a rough one, I have shows i have watched continuously with alot of regrets, like HIMYM or Falling Skies. I honestly cant remember a show i enjoyed, that wrapped up, that i watched till the end.
Star Trek Voyager maybe, but that was already complete by the time i finished it.
Avatar: Korra: I always liked it.
There are a few Anime, but those are like 12 episodes long so i dont think they count.
Im honestly not sure
Ouze wrote: The one that came to mind immediately for me was The Wire. The season with the docks was kinda eh, and it just barely stuck the landing, but despite that weakness I think it's potentially the best show I've ever seen.
Speaking of, Breaking Bad is the other contender.
Parks & Rec had a pretty iffy first season but switched gears in the second season and was pretty consistently good until the end.
I have seen every single movie in the Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Aliens, Terminator, Jaws*, and Final Destination franchises - including all modern remakes and reboots. Some were not super great but none lost me. Childs's Play, I could not do, it just started getting too poor after the 3rd one. And arguably the second one. Same with Saw - I probably saw 5 of them, but most of them sucked I think.
*I have a little bit of regrets about Jaws 3D.
Ohhhhh, I forgot about Final Destination. I watched and enjoyed all of those. Also need to add the Resident Evil movies in. I regret nothing about watching all of them on flights to and from europe!
Got through most of the Star Trek series (although I skipped about 4 years of Enterprise), B5, SG1 and Atlantis, Cheers, Golden Girls, Senfeld (kind of a hate-watch), and BigBang Theory (mostly because my wife was still into it. It never got Rachel-dating-Joey bad, but it wasn’t much funny), Robotech, and...uh.... hmmm. A lot of shows really fall apart before they end.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: This is the flip side for that other thread. Please list only long-running shows or movies series (5 seasons/5 movies or more) that ended well and never lost you. Which series left the shark thoroughly unjumped?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Especially noteworthy are sitcoms. It's very difficult for a sitcom to last 7 or more years and still be watchable.
I cant think of any Sitcom that didnt end badly or atleast go downhill partially.
How I met your mother for example.
Yes im still salty about that, and i always will.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: This is the flip side for that other thread. Please list only long-running shows or movies series (5 seasons/5 movies or more) that ended well and never lost you. Which series left the shark thoroughly unjumped?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Especially noteworthy are sitcoms. It's very difficult for a sitcom to last 7 or more years and still be watchable.
I cant think of any Sitcom that didnt end badly or atleast go downhill partially.
How I met your mother for example.
Yes im still salty about that, and i always will.
American Dad has only gotten better with age. Unlike Family Guy it doesn’t use flashbacks and pop culture references as a crutch.
Y'know there was a time when the 3 big Seth McFarlane episodes did a big hurricane cross over kinda thing and I watched all 3.
I remember the Family Guy one being emotional for Meg and all that gak and hating it.
Then Stan Harpooned his wife in the next episode and I laughed my ass off.
IDK how, when it's all by the same guy, one can be Soo good, the other bad.
I Zombie - started well - progressed the story and chracters throughout and ended well
Sons of Anarchy - as above
Sparticus - as above
Nikita (most recent one) - as above
Coupling - loved this show, often called the American Friends but was quite different.
Father Ted
Film series
Marvel Phase One - immensley enjoyed the films - Endgame was a masterclss in how to include all your characters with a strong, well presented story
How to Train your Dragon
None made it to five seasons. Most classic UK shows don't, which is a shame because it excludes a lo t of fantastic stuff that very deliberately stopped at a peak.
DS9. Peep Show (whose final season may actually be its best - it certainly has my favourite episode in the dinner party).
The Sopranos and The Wire both dip at the end but not massively so and are still excellent tv. They'd just set obscenely high bars. SG1 also dips a bit but it's still fun. B5 dips quite a bit further but I'm still largely glad I watched the last season. I'm glad I saw out Buffy and The Shield too but they definitely have their weaker runs.
Review with Myles Barlow: He reviewed some messed up stuff at times but it was all fun.
Chase's war on everything: Because things should not always be taken seriously.
IT crowd
Black books
Automatically Appended Next Post: Holy gak, forgot about Sharpe
Oh and Walking with dinosaurs and Walking with beasts. That was awesome.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Clone wars as well might as well add.
insaniak wrote: I also feel the need to point out that the fact that Firefly didn't run for at least 5 seasons is a crime against humanity.
I am certain there’s a parallel universe where Firefly fans wish the show had ended after the first season, before the flaws became too overwhelming to ignore.
2000AD had a strip that ran for a while (survival geeks) that touched on the alternate universe take on things.
The poster that mentions Firefly having more than one season - but note also, that most if not all of the other genre properties seen are gender-swapped, so while Firefly may have been renewed, it wasn't under (male) "Captain Tightpants".
Everything else I can think of I would skip episodes, films, or just stop at a certain point. For example I enjoy the first four seasons of The West Wing but once Sorkin left it gets far less interesting and really seems to be stretching for drama. For Star Trek (films) the only one I really like enough to watch occasionally is Wrath of Khan, and with the TV show the only one I really watch occasionally is TOS but I rarely watch all of the episodes. I did recently watch only the Q episodes of TNG.
There are a few anime films I enjoy or parts of series but to much of it goes on and on and on and on and on for my taste. Cowboy Bebop would be one I could watch all of that didn't wear out its welcome.
Honorable mentions to The IT Crowd and That Mitchell and Webb Look. They didn't get to be up there as neither had five series/seasons but both are imminently rewatchable.
For long running book series, I’m still interested in The Dresden Files. I find it to be the most enjoyable urban fantasy series I’ve read. I also finished Butcher’s Codex Alera series, which became readable in the second book and stayed strong up until the rushed-feeling last book. I may have to reread the series while assembling my Goritsi Gotha Knights for the delightful armored wolfen faction.
I also finished the Kitty Norville series, which is a lower-powered setting about werewolves and the like with a decidedly Blue State take on things (the opposite sensibility to the Mercy Thompson werewolf series). Kitty Norville started weakly but got stronger as it went on. The last book felt a little rushed, but ultimately satisfying.
Matzlan Book of the Fallen - Stepehn Erikson
"Chung Ko" Series - David Wingrove
"Falco" (and his daughter) Detective novels - Lyndsey Davies
"I Claudia" novels - Maryln Todd
"Tyrant" Series - Christian Cameron
I had forgotten about West Wing... That's another that the wife and I watched to the end, but came in halfway through. Only complaint with that one was that it needed more Alan Alda.
Jadenim wrote: Hmmm. First thought was SG-1, although the Ori seasons were a bit weaker, it didn’t have an overwhelming downturn.
DS9 probably, as that just seemed to get steadily better over the years and ended in a reasonable, planned, way, instead of petering out or stopping dead.
Definitely DS9 here. I did make it to the end of SG-1, but it was a close-run thing.
Farscape, if that qualifies - though oddly I'd didn't particularly like Browder and Black in SG-1, both felt more like a pity hire by Sci-Fi (or 'Syfy' for whatever stupid reason)
Venture Brothers...still waiting on that next season (again)
Pretty sure I got to the end of Voyager and Next Generation, but I can't say how much I actually watched in an active sense. Same with SG: Atlantis- just sort of checked out towards the last two seasons.
Watched all four seasons of Babylon 5. Didn't bother with TNTylon 5's first season. [For those outside the US, Turner Network Television picked it up after the story wrapped and made... demands)
Jadenim wrote: Hmmm. First thought was SG-1, although the Ori seasons were a bit weaker, it didn’t have an overwhelming downturn.
DS9 probably, as that just seemed to get steadily better over the years and ended in a reasonable, planned, way, instead of petering out or stopping dead.
Definitely DS9 here. I did make it to the end of SG-1, but it was a close-run thing.
Farscape, if that qualifies - though oddly I'd didn't particularly like Browder and Black in SG-1, both felt more like a pity hire by Sci-Fi (or 'Syfy' for whatever stupid reason)
Venture Brothers...still waiting on that next season (again)
Pretty sure I got to the end of Voyager and Next Generation, but I can't say how much I actually watched in an active sense. Same with SG: Atlantis- just sort of checked out towards the last two seasons.
Watched all four seasons of Babylon 5. Didn't bother with TNTylon 5's first season. [For those outside the US, Turner Network Television picked it up after the story wrapped and made... demands)
I didn’t put either B5 or Farscape, because they both got rushed / mucked about at the end because of network demands.
Voyager’s an interesting one, because I feel like it ended strong and didn’t run itself too long, but the first season is soo ropey, and 2 isn’t great.
B5 had issues with the final season, but even on its own, that last season was still more narratively cohesive and well done that it's still better than most shows, and doesn't take a turd on the rest of the show at the very end the way BSG/GoT/Dexter/etc did, and without that last season, you miss a lot of the development and finishing out of the more interesting character's arcs (e.g. Mollari, G'kar, Alexander, Garabaldi, etc) and some solid Bester moments.
I'd have thrown Farscape in there, but I think it only got to 4 seasons.
Vaktathi wrote: B5 had issues with the final season, but even on its own, that last season was still more narratively cohesive and well done that it's still better than most shows, and doesn't take a turd on the rest of the show at the very end the way BSG/GoT/Dexter/etc did, and without that last season, you miss a lot of the development and finishing out of the more interesting character's arcs (e.g. Mollari, G'kar, Alexander, Garabaldi, etc) and some solid Bester moments.
I'd have thrown Farscape in there, but I think it only got to 4 seasons.
Farscape did have the mini series as well....
B5 is one of my favourites but it did become quite uneven.
Notably B5 and nBSG had similar final season issues.
Babylon 5 was written to be a five season arc. Around season 3, they were told ‘one more season’. So 4 and 5 were condensed into one. Only to be told ‘k, you can have the fifth season’.
NBSG? Writer’s strike in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
No, they did not have same final season issues. Stop that.
B5 still maintained continuity and character integrity. The character arcs may have been stretched, but they were coherent and meaningful. The last episode was fantastic and wrapped up a lot of the themes of the series while giving the characters one last warm moment together.
NBSG...nope.
Just because no one likes Byron or the Harlan Ellison episode doesn’t mean the whole season is a turd or that it betrays the audience’s trust for a flashy, poorly-thought-out reveal.
Sharpe
La Femme Nikita
Lethal Weapon
Star Trek SNG
Marvel (all of it)
Rambo
Twilight
Friends
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Grey's Anatomy
Sons of Anarchy
Walking Dead
China Beach
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Batman
Deep Space 9 all the way. First season is uneven, but second season on is a masterpiece.
Babylon 5. Even the weak final season was worth watching.
Classic Dr Who. Some episodes are bad (Snakedance). Some episodes are *really* bad (Twin Delemna). But more than a few episodes are Caves of Androzani. So there.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I don't count the comic book "season" at all, and the last season on TV was uneven at best, but I don't regret watching the whole way through. Managed to get my mother into the show,and I've no idea how that happened.
Now, in the category of "I don't care about your rules, man. You're not my real Dad" I have:
BLAKE'S 7 (only four seasons long, but it did things in 1980 that American TV was scared to due until the late 90s)
Robotech (daily cartoon, technically only 1 season; yes it is a Frankenstein monster carved from three unrelated anime shows and it's a travesty and horrible and shut up. It's the only reason we have an anime following in the US at all. You enjoy Cowboy Beebop or My Hero Acadamia or Death Note? Thank Carl Macek)
Space Precinct (two seasons, Gerry Anderson, puppets and rubber alien heads, low budget sci-fi, and slathering of cheese over it all. And I loved every single stupid episode of it)
Amusingly, most of my selections are going to be from the 90s! Buffy, DS9, TNG, Friends, and Breaking Bad I thought were all excellent from start to finish. I could watch those shows over and over again no issue. The Office almost made it into the list, but after Steve Carrel leaves the show definitely loses quite a bit of its magic.
The only series I can say I would watch all episodes again is Star Trek: The Next Generation.
It holds a lovely place in my heart and really captivated a 10 year old Dr. Mills I can tell you! Looking back, it's very difficult to pick out a particular episode, but the ones with Q in were always fun.
As many have pointed out, TNG suffered not from a ropey last season, but a ropey season 1 and 2. Its only after Riker grew a beard that TNG really went into its own. Also, Wesely Crusher episodes were particular grating, but it's absolutely not the actors fault = the character written was pretty deux ex machina out the wazoo. I remember either reading or hearing that Gerry Anderson projected what he wanted from his son onto the character, which was revealed by his own son!
Close second is DS9, the only reason it doesn't beat out TNG is that I felt some of the story arcs were a little drawn out, which meant if you missed an episode it really could mess up the story for you. Props to the writers for making siskos son believable and not another Wesely. Voyager I stuck with, but damn was that series a cold starter with some questionable character choices. It eventually got a lot better, but Holy hell that show was running a fine line.
I cannot comment on the original series, as I have not seen enough of them.
If we're talking about book series as well, I'll chime in and mention Destroyermen. I know I mention it every time there's a book thread, but that is an amazingly fun story and it's still going strong. 14 or so books and counting. Another series I can recommend is Star Carrier. To me, it's sci-fi with more realistic physics and aliens (the aliens are NOT humanoid at all and have sweeping psychological differences compared to humans). I think there's still one more book of Star Carrier yet to be released.
K.M. McKinley's Gates of the World series is really good too. I think of it as Steampunk Fantasy, as in there's magic and magical creatures but set in more of a Victorian-era setting with steam-powered machines and stuff. Three books so far and I know more are coming considering the story arcs were not even close to resolved at the end of 3.
I dont know what it was about it, but the TV series Hannibal was one that I finally sat down and binged the whole way through. . . While the final bit wasn't how I expected things to go, it wasn't necessarily a bad ending, and was glad I did give it a second go.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Does Space Precinct hold up? I have the DVD’s, but haven’t watched them or shown them to my sons yet because I was afraid it wouldn’t hold up.
I haven't seen it since it first aired, but I remember it being enjoyable if you don't take it too seriously. I don't know how it would hold up today, though. I think if you go into it with the right frame of mind (ie; "this is a 90s show by Gerry Anderson, expect a bit of unintentional goofiness and the odd ropey effect, not bloody Babylon 5") it should be very watchable.
Seriously, that's all I can think of when seeing this thread. What an epic buildup and even more epic letdown
I think I made it about halfway through season 2. Dropped back in a few time later on to see if anything had actually happened yet, and moved on. The TV previews down here didn't help... Season 1 was a constant succession of 'Next week: You finally see the smoke monster!' followed by next week, of course, not actually seeing the smoke monster. It got old, fast.
Really enjoying The Expanse and Colony, although the former is ongoing and the latter is canceled :/
I couldn't get into Colony, but the Expanse is fantastic. The sheer attention to detail in the world-building is great, and it's always nice to see proper physics in space-based scifi.
I know it only ran for four seasons but I absolutely adored 'The Good Place'. It did a pretty good job of reinventing itself each season and the ending, whilst telegraphed somewhat, still hit hard.
A consistent narrative right through, pretty much.
Necroagogo wrote: I know it only ran for four seasons but I absolutely adored 'The Good Place'. It did a pretty good job of reinventing itself each season and the ending, whilst telegraphed somewhat, still hit hard.
A consistent narrative right through, pretty much.
I loved that show.
oh aye, still think Season 3 flailed a bit, I think due to that 'its really popular lets rush some more', and of course Ted is the man (or squid)
With its cheap'n'cheesey reputation I didn't even look at it until I found out that Colin Baker was in an episode and decided to watch it out curiosity. Not only was Colin his usual charming self, so was the rest of the cast and the ending was priceless. Made the decision to watch the whole thing and it blew other sci-fi shows out of the water. Instead of the BBC beating Doctor Who to death with so many unnecessary spin offs, they should consider a return to Blakes 7 once in a while to break things up. Audiences seem to like "ruthless" these days with Game of Thrones and Westworld...well, Blakes 7 didn't give a **** even if they killed off the titular character!
Kill Joys.
Picked up the first season solely because the bird on the box was gorgeous. But now, I love Lucy. Sorry Dutch! Bit of Blakes 7, a dash of Sol Bianca maybe? Anyway, I only got through the first two seasons but so far I love it. Not much for hip-post Matrix sci-fi shows like Andromeda, Firefly and Dark Matter, but Killjoys certainly tickles my fancy. Once the lockdown is over I shall treat myself to the remaining seasons.
Halt & Catch Fire.
Only the first season is avaliable in the UK but enjoyed it nonetheless It felt like a strange cross between Masters of Doom and Ashes To Ashes, which I didn't think was possible. As one who enjoys computing this was brilliant!
Life on Mars & Ashes to Ashes.
Great. Smashing. Super. Was devastated it came to an end but it was a good ending all the same. Got me through a depression at the time...can't give any greater praise than that.
Star Wars: Rebels.
Was not best happy when the Disney era opened to the scrapping of the brilliant Clone Wars series, and this offering that was blatantly made to appeal to "original fans only"...which turned out pretty good. Actually, it was awesome. The ending was so well done that the films pail in comparison - seriously, Lothal actually felt that important in the grand scheme of things.
X-men TAS, Primeval, Batman TAS, White Collar, Elementary. There are a few shows I wish ran longer, gonna echo the sentiment that Firefly only got one season and a movie and it’s criminal.
One thing that surprised me is that Stranger Things WONT make my list. Season 1: amazing, best thing on Netflix. 2: still enjoyable. 3: snooooore....
It’s hokey, it’s daft, it can be a bit of a slog at times, but I loves it. And Crowley is the best villain ever.
I'm bloody CROWLEY!
Got a photo opp with Mark Shepard a couple of years ago (our one and only family photo just happens to include the King of Hell!) - he's a highly amusing chap, as you might imagine.
We haven't managed to get to the final two seasons, but one day we'll get them done. With one notable exception, I've loved every single season. A couple were sub-par and one I try to forget, but that's pretty amazing considering how long it ran for.
Was not best happy when the Disney era opened to the scrapping of the brilliant Clone Wars series, and this offering that was blatantly made to appeal to "original fans only"...which turned out pretty good. Actually, it was awesome. The ending was so well done that the films pail in comparison - seriously, Lothal actually felt that important in the grand scheme of things.
It feels like Season 2 of Rebels was good enough to redeem the prequels of all things. Certainly not on its own, but among people I know it got so many people went back and tried Clone Wars after that they're now actually kind of fond of the era.
Was not best happy when the Disney era opened to the scrapping of the brilliant Clone Wars series, and this offering that was blatantly made to appeal to "original fans only"...which turned out pretty good. Actually, it was awesome. The ending was so well done that the films pail in comparison - seriously, Lothal actually felt that important in the grand scheme of things.
It feels like Season 2 of Rebels was good enough to redeem the prequels of all things. Certainly not on its own, but among people I know it got so many people went back and tried Clone Wars after that they're now actually kind of fond of the era.
I think we were all skeptical when the Clone Wars pilot was first shown, but the actual series turned out to be the real harvest of the prequel trilogy. I'd now say that Dave Filoni is as important to the success of Star Wars as George himself.
Ohh. . . another show that I own all seasons of and regularly dust off:
The IT Crowd. . . miles and miles better than "the office" (of either variety), and extremely on point to my previous profession so its like watching for seasons of inside joke.
It's a manga about making manga with an entire chapter spent featuring one of the characters sitting on a couch while another sweeps the floor as they discuss how the key to good manga is making the mundane look interesting and it was a fething amazing series.
B5 still maintained continuity and character integrity. The character arcs may have been stretched, but they were coherent and meaningful. The last episode was fantastic and wrapped up a lot of the themes of the series while giving the characters one last warm moment together.
NBSG...nope.
Just because no one likes Byron or the Harlan Ellison episode doesn’t mean the whole season is a turd or that it betrays the audience’s trust for a flashy, poorly-thought-out reveal.
Haven't seen nBSG, but I agree that B5's final season is only "bad" in comparison to the rest of the show, which, while the effects are pretty ropey by today's standards, still holds up narratively extremely well.
I watched the remake of battlestar galactica without regrets up to the end.
But boy did I have regrets after the last episode!!! What a stupid way to end it. Sure, 95% of the survivors would gbe dead in a year or two due to hunger, disease, exposure, etc. But hey, we get all "spiritual'!
Danger 5
Five allied spies and their commander the bald eagle headed Colonel Chestbridge, a new mission every episiode with and one permanent mission parameter: to kill Hitler.
Dr. Mills wrote: ... it's very difficult to pick out a particular episode, but the ones with Q in were always fun.
See on paper I think the Q episodes are a stupid concept which shouldn't work, but I can't help agreeing with you. They always end up being quite interesting.
I could point out obvious stuff, but the unusual one that comes to mind is OBAN Star-Racers.
It only ran for two series but that turned out to be just right, they had plenty of time for character development and exploring the universe without anything overstaying its welcome or feeling rushed.
Dr. Mills wrote: ... it's very difficult to pick out a particular episode, but the ones with Q in were always fun.
See on paper I think the Q episodes are a stupid concept which shouldn't work, but I can't help agreeing with you. They always end up being quite interesting.
I think they work because they're not afraid to have Q be flawed or intentionally unsympathetic. Too many sci-fi authors create godlike super-intellect AI's or cosmic beings and just have them be boringly right about everything, or a vector for the creator to lecture the audience.
