On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 13:46 -0700, William Chops Westfield wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2006, at 7:13 AM, Herbert Graf wrote:
> 
> > It was just too predictable.
> 
> OTOH, I have become disgusted with a recent offering of nominally
> SF TV series where I am convinced that the only way they achieve
> un-predictability is by making things up as they go along, with
> no destination in mind "What can we do this week that will be
> really weird?"  (ie "Lost")  That works OK in sitcoms and (older)
> series where there wasn't necessarily supposed to be continuity,
> but I'm finding the soap-opera style very annoying in series that
> claim"continuity" of their major plot line...

Agreed, which was the "problem" with the later Trek incarnations.

My main issue though is what people consider "sci-fi" these days. I
wouldn't be surprised of some people out there consider Survivor
sci-fi...

OTOH there is some good "new" sci-fi out there. BSG (the new one) is a
wonderfully fresh spin on a classic idea, done exceptionally well IMHO.



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