io9's top 100 greatest science fiction/fantasy shows

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Post by Yaya » Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:40 am

Tick and Max Headroom in the top 20?

The Twilight Zone out of the top 10?

No Batman (70's with Adam West)?

And the biggest clue this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, no Outer Limits?

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At least he has Lost in the top 10.
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Post by Aaron Hong » Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:15 am

Yaya wrote:Tick and Max Headroom in the top 20?

The Twilight Zone out of the top 10?

No Batman (70's with Adam West)?

And the biggest clue this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, no Outer Limits?

:roll:

At least he has Lost in the top 10.
The old Outer Limits is in there someplace.

Apparently they're obliged to keep everything animated out of the top 10.

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Post by Yaya » Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:21 pm

Aaron Hong wrote:The old Outer Limits is in there someplace.
Oops. My bad.
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Post by Brendocon » Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:50 pm

io9's rubbish for anything other than news or spoilers. All their opinion pieces are garbage.

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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:47 pm

I was in favor of most of the top20, even if not in that order.
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Post by Shanti418 » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:13 am

Brendocon wrote:io9's rubbish for anything other than news or spoilers. All their opinion pieces are garbage.
One I saw that B5 was above BSG, I knew that the site would never be agreeable with Brend. :P

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Post by Brendocon » Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:39 pm

I've not even looked at the list.

Though I've no problem with people putting Babylon 5 at/near the top of any such list.

As much as I like it, I can't see Lost ever making my top ten. Is Blake's 7 on there? Ultraviolet? Futurama?

Actually [composite word including 'f*ck'] it. Don't care. Don't need the wankers at that site telling me what I should/shouldn't think is good.

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Post by Best First » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:11 pm

No, that's what you need the wankers at this site for.
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Post by Guest » Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:29 pm

Brendocon wrote:Actually **** it. Don't care. Don't need the wankers at that site telling me what I should/shouldn't think is good.
I've only looked at about 4 of their articles, but none of them struck me as being of the "this is what you should think of this" rather than "this is what I think of this"


Although, the clips from Doctor Who pledging article have made me wonder if the pledging scene from RoboCop 2 is as overexagerated as I'd thought it had been.

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Post by Metal Vendetta » Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:53 am

Well, they got the right shows in sort-of the right order. I'd have bumped DS9 and BSG a bit higher, but the top two spots were never really in doubt. No idea about Max Headroom, though, I don't think I ever saw it.
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Post by Best First » Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:48 pm

Star Trek isn't that good though is it?

Paved a way for a lot of things, yes. Better than all that came after it though? Not a garfield in hecks chance.
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:05 pm

BSG 4 lyfe! /gangsign
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Post by inflatable dalek » Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:48 am

I got as far as reading the claim Torchwood nicked the five day mini series format from Dead Set, rather than the Five Days thing the previous year... [Not to mention Dead Set's ten minuet episode format wasn't remotely like what Torchwood used. Fools.

EDIT: Alright, I gave it a try and have now got as far as them using a picute from the Alien Nation film-with-a-different-cast to represent the TV show. Fools.
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Post by Brendocon » Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:01 am

Right. Finally skimmed it. They found room for Transformers, MotU and Thundercats, but unless I'm missing something they skipped out on Wonderfalls.

[composite word including 'f*ck'] them.

Thought the notion that the G1 cartoon is worse than Smallville is something I can get behind.

No Beast Wars either, actually.

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Post by Predabot » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:33 pm

Brendocon wrote:Is Ultraviolet on there?
I never can tell, when you're taking the utter, utter piss with me... :o

(Sigh...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_%28film%29

Oh! Yoooou'rrre talking about this one...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviole ... _serial%29

Carry on.

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