Impossibly Delicious!

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Timescape, the sixth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, is so insanely impossible on like 100 different levels, but it's just so fun to watch. It's maddening.

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[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, TV sci-fi hasn't been fun since ST:TNG. The roommates keep buying Battlestar Galactica and Stargate on DVD, and those shows are guaranteed to drive me from the room. Where is the twisted science and where are the ethical puzzles? It's all soap opera now. Soap opera with bad CGI.

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

You really ought to give BSG a try. There are large ethical/philosophical questions: what does it mean to be human? Is it in your biology or your actions? What gives humanity the right to exist at all?

Admittedly, there is a strong operatic (not soap) quality to BSG (not as bad as the original), but the writing is good. And I enjoy the fact that Ron Moore, the creator, hates CGI scenes and tries to avoid them.

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

I've heard many good things about BSG, but I hated what I saw of the original, and I couldn't get into the mini-series. Between my sister's viewing habits and Travis' viewing habits, sci-fi TV scares me. Too much Andromeda and Stargate.