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 On 06/24/2015 at 11:37 PM by asrealasitgets See More From This User » |
Besides Horror, Sci-Fi is my next fav theme in media etc, and then followed by maybe Fantasy. As far as media goes, I'm pretty happy to be watching Penny Dreadful, Wayward Pines, and Walking Dead whenever it returns. As for Fantasy, well I'm pretty satisfied with new Game of Thrones episodes each week and now I have the glorious Witcher 3 to play through as well as Devil May Cry 4 Special Edt.
I bring Sci Fi up because it seems to be the subject that is missing from gaming, TV, film. Recently the SyFy cable channel, once host to really great Science Fiction shows until it turned to shit, except for maybe Alphas and Warehouse 13, has very quietly returned to Friday Night Science Fiction show line-up, with the third season of Defiance, which I think is actually pretty good and there is a new alien race introduced that look like something out of StarCraft II.
There are also two brand new shows revolving around space that I found to be pretty entertaining. They are more of the "dumb" action oriented sci-fi than the talkie deep thinking sci-fi, but I'll take what I can get. I don't know if it's the lack of decent Science Fiction programming available that makes me accept these shows or if they might be good enough to keep me watching.
(DARK MATTER)
One show is called "Dark Matter", which is a crew of space travellers with wiped out memories. The background is more like EVE Online, where there are different corporations in space fighting over planet resources and our crew has to figure out why they're in space, and do military missions along the way. A bit like Firefly and Mass Effect. It's Okay. I'll keep watching to see if the story gets more interesting. Has kind of a low budget, but reminds me of Stargate Universe.
(KILLJOYS)
The other new show is "Killjoys", which is a group of three bounty hunters that travel through space tracking down criminals. It is also more action oriented than Dark Matter but they seem to travel around more, and has a more colorful cyberpunk type setting. A bit of a soap opera with lots of gun battles. I quite liked it, but it's like a C+ or B+ show.
(Sense8)
I honestly think that Sense8, the new Netflix series by Watchowskis has heavier science fiction matters to think about, but more of a soap opera.
So, what is your state of Science Fiction and where are you getting it from these days?
That Mass Effect 4 trailer at E3 got me thinking...
Holy moly. They made a TV show out of the Dark Matter comic I read a little while ago. I really liked the comic except the ending wasn't too great.
The only current scifi I follow is the Halo novels. I need to do some more research though. I think there's some good stuff out there. Just got to find it.
Yeah. It is based on the comic, but I've never read it so the story is new to me, although I can't say how close the show is to the comic either?
The only sci-fi show I ever really got into was Mystery Science Theater 3000. In college I watched a little bit of X-Files and Farscape, but mostly MST3K.
I watched the premier of Defiance and I was a bit irritated by the Game of Thrones like killing off of characters throughout the show. I liked the idea of the new aliens but it all seemed kind of depressing.
I watched an episode of Dark Matter but don't remember much. We have two more episodes recorded but if it doesn't get a lot more interested I won't be watching.
Wayward Pines has been quite interesting but those plot holes. Still watching though.
Walking Dead I think I'm done with. I'm just not interested anymore. My wife likes it though.
Well Defiance got even darker in Season 3 premiere. Game of Thrones is a good comparison. There does seem to be more of a clash between Aliens than there were in the beginning which seemed to be kind of a Utopia. Still gonna watch though.
Dark Matter is a slow start. The relationships haven't been formed yet and the world is new to the crew and audience, but one of the complaints I've read about this show and Killjoys is the lack of Aliens, which is what I was waiting to see.
Wayward Pines kind of reminds me of Silent Hill.
Yeah the season 3 premier is the one I'm talking about. No aliens is not fun. :)
I have Sense8 on my watchlist on Netflix but haven't checked it out yet. I didn't know SyFy had some new shows going. I stopped watching their shows when Warehouse 13 ended on only visit that channel for WWE's Smackdown. As for where I'm getting my Sci-Fi goodness, most of it is coming from Netflix. All the Star Trek TNG along with the other variations I usually check out once in a while.
I checked out of SyFy channel after Warehouse13 ended, and I've been watching some old Star Trek shows on Hulu. Some Anime too, like Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop.
There is plenty of sci-fi, but hardly any science fiction. Space ships, lasers, creatures, and wormholes aren't science, they are the horse or six-shooter in a western. Hardly anyone is doing any serious, credible speculation or commentary (that isn't rehashed Blade Runner, Star tRek/Wars, or Asmivoian robot tropes). The actual scientific entertainment is in literature and video games these days (Kerbal Space Program, Plague Inc., etc.)
Speaking of Ghost in the Shell: I think Patlabor 2 is one of the best pieces of science fiction committed to film (same director as the GiTS movie). It's actually a political thriller in a Japan that is both present and future. It's not about the mecha or aircraft, but about the country, its government, its worldview.
I would say that Defiance has more political and race-relations subject matters that are still relevant today despite it's Western themed/Military backdrop. Dark Matter and Killjoys is more drama/action, but even Dark Matter has that war for oil theme going on. It's not deep but it is there.
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