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Just wondering whether there are any others into scifi movies and tv shows on here and if so, what are your faves and what are you currently watching?
For me, I used to love Dr Who but the current version is a shadow of its former self. Really enjoying the Mandalorian and Star Trek Discovery atm.
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Not so much now, liked the old Star trek and Bkakes 7 Watched Dr Who on & off saw the Christmas one first time in ages not sure i like a women as Dr
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I’m not a fan of the changing gender/race of established characters and I don’t think a female Dr has worked, but that’s more down to the writing than the acting. Blake’s 7 has aged remarkably well and is surely due for a remake (it’s also available on Britbox).
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Wow I remember Blake 7. Strange really that it made such an impact as like Faulty Towers the series wasnt very long. The sets were terrible and Blake seemed to disappear. But the rest of the characters were wonderful. Suvillan? And her embryos? Lol Good memories.
I love Sci fi but nothing at the moment interests me much. Seems all rehash although I still like a trip non Enterprise.
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I have been Star Trek fan since I first watched the original. I have a massive collection of movies on Bluray and dvd, of lots of different genres, but my favourites are Sci-fi.
I have every episode of all the Star Trek series and films, so, tng, ds9, voyager, etc. Love the new movies with Chris Pine as Kirk.Also I adore the Marvel Universe and to a lesser degree, DC. They’ll get it right one day.
Sorry for prattling on folks.
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Hi hope you had a good xmas and new year loved the old dr who loved the x files,star wars
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X Files…Hmmm…..never really got that, but Tales of Mystery and Imagination was more my bag (If that’s allowed in this genre) 🙂
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I love sci fi or something based on fantasy , I think we need films like this to give us light relief from todays issues. Having said that , there was a Tv series which I watched all the way through called Legion,very way out stuff but you never knew what was coming next and the imagination of the writers was beyond anything
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Do you know who the writers are? And what channel was it on? Thanks.😀
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Hello….Have you watched Fringe? It’s available on Prime…..My husband and I are just watching the first series for the second time! It’s really good!
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Hi Dawn .It was a Sky programme. I just googled this and found this answer: “Legion is available on YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, iTunes, NOW TV and Sky On Demand.” There’s a pretty good choice! It is a bit weird for some but i love all that sort of stuff , it stars dan Stevens who is always worth watching
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I still enjoy Dr Who yet a woman Doctor doesn’t work for me, I liked the New Year episode.
Discovery is fantastic, haven’t watched Mandalorian yet. Just started Raised by Wolves and I was hooked by the first episode.
I also read a lot of Sci-Fi and dystopian novels.-
The thing with Dr Who is that many don’t realise that the most important character is actually the companion (usually female) as it is through this character that we enter the magical world of the Dr. Also, the Dr can be dangerous and unhinged and it is the companion who keeps them focused and centred. The woke nonsense in the latest version also got tedious very quickly.
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I agree. I stopped watching Dr Who so much after David Tennant left as it did not work so well for me.But I did watch the Xmas special but still find the female Dr Who a bit annoying
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I also stopped watching Dr. Who when David Tennant left, Didn’t like Matt Smith.
I don’t have a problem with a female Doctor, it’s just that she looks so gormless most of the time!-
Worth giving Matt a try.He warmed up and became one of the best IMHO
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Have you watched Raised by Wolves? On sky, excellent series from Ridley Scott
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Does anyone watch Stargate SG1 series on tv? I started only because my late husband watched it , initially thought what is this rubbuisha nd then got hooked! I am still rewatching the reruns on Sky now, it’s a clever series
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I thought it started off well for the first few series. They ruined the whole thing with poor spin offs though like Stargate Universe and Atlantis!
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I really like sci-fi and fantasy films like Matrix, Star Wars, Star Trek. Also enjoy Dr Who – some doctors more than others but don’t have a problem with a female – after all I am one! The only fantasy series I’m currently watching is Vikings as I don’t have access to Disney. There’s never many options available so tend to read more than watch this genre.
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I grew up on Doctor Who, so tend to stick with that through thick and thin. Not a huge fan of Jodie, but that has more to do with the showrunner, who is a very mediocre writer compared to his two predecessors. Plus, I loved Peter Capaldi and was crushed when he left. I’ve watched so much sf over the years, although not so much Star Trek, and not a massive fan of superhero stuff (although The Boys was / is brilliant). Too many to list, from classic British shows of the 70s to modern shows like Raised by Wolves, and thought the modern version of Battlestar Galactica was a stupendous achievement.
These days I tend more to the supernatural, and tend to devour anything ‘folk horror’ related. Currently enjoying ‘Equinox’ in that vein on Netflix.
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I am still a Trekkie fan, star wars. I loved the Battlestar Galactica remake and I’ve been watching Equinox. All these shows are so creative.
Have you watched the Dark, German dystopian, sci fi series, really good.?-
I keep planning on going back to it, it looks so good, but for some reason I stall on the first couple of episodes. Now you’ve reminded me, I must try it again. I really like the sensibility of a lot of European shows, and this looks suitably grim and confusing!
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It certainly isn’t a very popular notion! The idea being that people – young people specifically – have such short attention spans that long novels or involved stories are no longer popular. Did you see the backlash that Netflix got in 2019 when they announced they were trialing a feature that allowed people to watch shows at 1.5x the speed because that was the modern way? A lot of directors were furious but in the end it was rolled out last year, although they sweetened it by also allowing people to slow down the playback.
I will let you know what I think! I’ve got to finish Equinox first (I tend to only really watch one series at a time) and then I will start on Dark.
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Just enjoyed reading all the Dr Who comments on here, which I pretty much agree with. I enjoyed watching the Chris Eccleston season with my young daughter discovering it for the first time, but it’s never returned to the peaks of “Parting of the Ways” and “Father’s Day” in my view. (Maybe Doomsday came close…)
Aside from that, I’ve recently enjoyed rewatching “Timeslip” on Britbox. Remember that? It made a massive impression on me at the time and I still found it gripping, allowing for the early 70’s style. I think that started my lifetime obsession with time travel, which started with Rod Taylor’s “The Time Machine” and went right through to “The Time Travellers Wife”
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Love Doctor Who, and much early 70s sf and fantasy tv. Timeslip is terrific, I got the dvd set for Christmas. Did you know the audio drama company Big Finish have recently revived it with the original two stars, Spencer Banks and Cheryl Burfield, but set forty years after the events of the original series? Nice to see (or, in fact, hear) what the two protagonists get up to now they’re our age!
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I don’t know how to insert hyperlinks here, but the first one is called ‘The Age of the Death Lottery’ so if you google that and Big Finish the first hit should take you to it. They’re most well known for their Doctor Who audios, but they also do a great range of classic series from the 60s and 70s, usually with the surviving stars if they’re still with us.
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My favourite film is Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston and Edward G Robinson
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The main thing I remember about Soylent Green is the euthanasia scene where he’s surrounded by all the things he loved in life. That really captured my imagination, even as a teenager. It just seemed like a great way to go. Of course the bit that happened after…..maybe not so great. 🙂
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Recent stuff Snowpiercer on Netflix – wasn’t a fan of the movie but love the tv series – also Westworld on Sky; intelligent sci-fi.
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Sci-fi & fantasy films are my genres ☺️👍 Get quite excited when the Dr who series comes on. Also like the old star trek. In the 90’s there was a sci-fi series called ‘lex’ which was really fascinating – travels to other (strange) planets. X files was also a very interesting watch. The matrix too.
Films – has to be the time machine – such a classic! Prometheus – but not the alien films – found them quite traumatising!
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