Friday offtopic. Sci-fi series inquiry

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Hey guys, can you recommend a nice sci-fi TV series that would involve all the usual stuff like interplanetary travel, spacecraft, space battles, possibly aliens... but also with mystery elements like time travel, parallel universes, etc? Series that I've watched of this genre are Fringe, Continuum, 12 Monkeys, The Expanse, Dark Matter, and of course classics like Battlestar Galactica and the StarGate franchise. I'm curious about other similar suggestions. Would be very grateful if you have some ideas. Thanks!

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[garote]

Rick And Morty can get pretty cerebral at times. Aeon Flux - the original animated show - is intriguing. The old three-parter "The Martian Chronicles" is amusing, in a Star Trek way. "Space Dandy" is anime - with all the drawbacks that brings - but it is absurdist and surprisingly original at times, especially in the second season. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did.

My guilty pleasure a while back was the turgid CGI Star Wars series "The Clone Wars", which ran for an absurd number of seasons and could be consumed like popcorn.

The rest is movies and books. You hit all the best TV series with your list. Well, I guess there's Firefly if you like Whedon's saucy faux-drama style...

[halialkers]

Damn, I was going to recommend 40K and the Horus Heresy but you said TV series.

If you haven't seen Babylon V, that's an easy one to recommend.

Actually if you haven't seen it, I'd also recommend the old 90s show Dark Angel, which takes superhero tropes and does different things with them.

There's the show Person of Interest on CBS, which I'm sure can be found and binge-watched online, great series about AI and the limits and real dangers of accurate foretelling of the future.

[luzribeiro.livejournal.com]

Don't know, but you just added a few more to my list.

[dexeron.livejournal.com]

You didn't mention it, but I'm assuming you have already watched all of the various iterations of the Star Trek franchise. ;)

Firefly is a great sci-fi series, but it's very grounded: no parallel universes, time travel, any of that... though there are somewhat "psychic" powers that show up once in a while...

Did you ever see Babylon 5? It's hard to get into... the effects are somewhat dated, but the real issue is the acting/sets. It screams "1990s made-for-cable TV." Despite that, it's actually a very, very good show with storylines that are unfortunately very topical these days. It's well worth the investment in time to watch through it if you can get past the sometimes cheesy acting. It really picks up starting in the second season.

Farscape was pretty good.

Andromeda was... well... it wasn't always terrible.

You could always watch Red Dwarf! :D

[drblasphlemy.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan but some people swear by Dr. Who. The Twilight Zone, Farscape is fun but also a bit cheezy. Stranger Things, Quantum Leap, Falling Skies has was better than expected. Warehouse 13, Caprica didn't last if you liked Battlestar Galactica. Sliders if you like alternate dimensions and Defiance I couldn't get into but I heard that it got better.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

Firefly only lasts for one season, though.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Lost in Space

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

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