Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I disagree strongly. SF lit>>>>screen SF, though.

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Um, Children Of Men, dude.

sci-fi tv dramas suck is probably the more correct statement.

you can include vampires in there too if it's not a given

I never saw Children Of Men. I did try reading Gravity's Rainbow once but fuck that shit.

Is there any kind of link between the two?

Not really an ideal entry into sci-fi title tbh xp

I have no idea. Someone bought up CoM and you bought up scifilit, of which i couldn't be fucked with. /inane statement.

sci-fi is great apart from all the "human interest" shite. there.

i think i put BSG 15th or so - avoided it for ages but then when i finally gave it a go i was immediately hooked and didn't let go until 4th season (3rd was patchy tho yes). even now i kinda want to watch THE PLAN based on the trailer i saw.

Really? I thought it was supposed to be like the freaking Shakespeare of it all?

dragons >>>>>>> robots

CoM is one of my all time favs.

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robot dragon wins obv

CoM love seconded.

CoM added to lovefilm list and to be watched presuming I ever watch and send back Knowing and... whatever my other film is.

That Sinking Feeling. Bloody Scots with their posh overdubbing. Really should send that back.

CoM is brilliant, in a poll for best sci fi movies ever on ILX it would no doubt easily make the top 100, with the original buffy movie landing the top spot behind seinfeld: the movie: sci-fi, am i riiiight?

Next entry is the first to get 20 votes. And it kicks Battlestar Gaylactica's arse.

i never even really considered it sci-fi. not sure what i'd call it instead tho.

24. Futurama (20 votes, 2380 points.)
http://jerkdoublebitch.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/futurama_20080722.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Ke3cHeob0&feature=related

more fucking sci-fi :)

this thread is turning me all morbish

Leee will be pleased.

wish i had voted, but i am a non-voting felon

I did try reading Gravity's Rainbow once but fuck that shit.

:-(

Futurama, hooray!

I think Erica sadface is enough to make me get it off my shelf again. (That and I've spent the past week not knowing what book to read next so any excuse to finally pick something.)

:D

(using only emoticons is proving quite effective but effortless. i like it)

Favourite episodes probably the obvious choices ie The Sting and the aforementioned ones with Fry's dog and Fry's brother. Bender's Big Score was an excellent comeback I thought.

Clearly, I am watching all of the wrong shows.

wow, expected to see that higher but i guess people don't like the later seasons?

Is that true? I guess I assumed it was because a lot of people haven't seen it, even though its fans are super-devoted.

Going totally off-topic to say: I never finished Gravity's Rainbow, either. But as evidenced by my reaction to a number of shows in this poll and my life as a whole, I'm not terribly good at finishing things as a general rule.

Love the Star Trek episode of Futurama too.

is that the last for today?

Futurama most probably provided the most quotables between me and my friends of all the shows on the list. Doesn't help that none of the fuckers have seen anything decent though- after i watched this weeks mad men i had a facebook update about Kennedy getting shot and i got like 10 replies about whether i was spoilering neighbours.

3 more d-mizzle.

I only just found this thread. How many are you doing a day?

have taken your suggestion and started spacing them out more. :P

Again, haven't watched enough Futurama to make any worthwhile comment about it, but I was amused by a random episode I saw wherein they fought some war against a planet of ball creatures or something? And when they won, the newspaper headline said "Balls Thoroughly Licked"? I larfed.

51 - 40 Monday
39 - 31 Tuesday
30 - 21 Wednesday
20 - 11 Thursday
Top 10 Friday

I just looked through a list of Futurama epsodes to pick some favourites, and couldn't; so much gold.

Leee will be pleased.

Isn't Trayce a huge Futurama stan, too? I watched the first few episodes of Futurama back in '97 or whenever and enjoyed them but felt like I didn't really need another Simpsons in my life, even if it was The Simpsons: In Space! (I get the feeling it may have set itself apart after a while, though?)

spacing planet earth so far from no 1 was a bit misguided imo, but otherwise another vote of thanks for the good work

Futurama at its best is as good as the best Simpsons imo.

i always wanted futurama to be better...then i thought it was. i've actually enjoyed family guy time-travel more and i'm not even a big family guy guy.

after i watched this weeks mad men i had a facebook update about Kennedy getting shot and i got like 10 replies about whether i was spoilering neighbours.

Hahaha

wow, expected to see that higher but i guess people don't like the later seasons?

Is that true? I guess I assumed it was because a lot of people haven't seen it, even though its fans are super-devoted.

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well, there's SO many shows already on this list or still to come that are on cable and/or seem to have relatively small but devoted fanbases, i don't think that really says anything. plus it would only take 20 or 30 devoted fans on ILX for it to place higher, which i kind of assumed it had.

Ok, we all done with the sci-fi hour? On to #23...

i watched a few episodes of Futurama early on and then dismissed it for years, but then marrying a big fan of the show and it being in reruns all the time has won me over, it's definitely very much its own show (waaaay more than, say, American Dad/Family Guy, although that kinda goes without saying)