Do you like Scifi?
By Palmerhusky
@Palmerhusky (843)
United States
June 7, 2008 9:16am CST
Now i love Science fiction...ive loved it for many years. im sure that i was exposed to it sometime when i was a child and just simply don't remember it. my earliest memory of watching science fiction is watching Star Trek: The Motion Picture. My uncle had let me borrow it one time and then i ended up borrowing and eventually buying the entire movie series up to the point that it was out at the time...it was only up to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Now i have the complete movie collection lest the new one coming out next year of course. i also have almost the complete series of Star Trek: The Next Generation and bits and pieces of the other series with exception of the classic series. I now also have the complete Stargate SG1 series and the new movie that had come out and the first season of Stargate Atlantis and and a bunch of oddball series that i found i liked. and as soon as i get the money too im going to start buying again, finishing the current collections and start new ones.
so do you like Science Fiction? if you do, why do you like it and what got you interested in it in the first place? also what is your favorite scifi series or movie that you just cant get enough of? if you don't what turns you off from watching it?
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@Timothy31 (649)
• United States
8 Jun 08
I do like sci fi. I'm not a huge fan of it like some people are but there is some sci fi stuff i like. I think what probably got me into it is the terminator series. I absolutely love all of those movies in the series and the tv show and i can't wait until the 4th movie is out next year.
@lissavalerian (247)
• United States
10 Jun 08
Yeah, the terminator series was great! You can look at the terminator series, the Matrix trilogy, and a few others as exploring the whole "man vs. machine" phenomenon. Oh, yeah, add Battlestar Galactica to that. Will man create machines that then take over? It seems that the premise of all of these shows is exactly that. And what happens to mankind? Again, the premise of these shows is that the machines deem mankind defective and then start eradication. There is a really good bit of monologue in the Matrix where Agent Smith talks about the human race being a virus. Kinda interesting to hear a rant from the "machine" point of view.
The pop culture movies though, tend to be a bit (quite a bit) behind the literature. Isaac Asimov wrote about robotics and the Three Laws of Robotics (not sure how that would REALLY work in reality, but hey, it's fiction). Then of course you have the pop culture movie: I, ROBOT which, while attributed to Isaac Asimov, was really a conglomeration of other similar works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot_%28movie%29
Anyways, yeah, I'm looking forward to yet another T movie. The storyline is quite interesting! :)
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@Timothy31 (649)
• United States
8 Jun 08
I could never really get into start trek or any that you mentioned. I don't know why they just never seemed to appeal to me much. I didn't even get into star wars all that much either. I saw a few of the movies but i'm not totally nuts about star wars and star trek like some people are. I don't think i have ever even seen the one that you said got you into sci fi so i can't laugh at you for it. Another sci fi movie series i really like is tremors. I just love those movies i know they're corny and all but i think they're really cool. I wish a 5th installment of the series wasn't on hold and probably never gonna be made.
@Melloje (11)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Growing up, I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation a lot. And I'll co-sign on the Quantum Leap too. The Stargate movie ranks as one of my favorites. The shows were decent too, but compared to the movie? Miles away....
I don't think anyone has mentioned the Outer Limits though, especially the first several seasons.
You're probably going to laugh at me, but my first exposure to sci-fi (at least as a concept) was the Fluppy Dogs. Since then, my fascination with portals and dimensions has spiraled. Disney...who knew?
@paidreader (5143)
• United States
8 Jun 08
I love scifi and have for quite a number of years. Like you, it probably started with Star Trek since my Mom liked the show so much. My interest continued with shows like Twilight Zone, Amazing Stories, Lost in Space, Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man etc.
I don't really buy the boxed sets of the shows I watch on TV, but we do subscribe to the scifi channel so I can watch and record as much as I want. I really liked recording SG1 and was so disappointed to see it finally end, but I'm glad Sam got transfered to Stargate Atlantis.
Another one I liked is KyleXY. I hope it'll be back next season.
@lissavalerian (247)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Oh, I totally forgot to mention the six million dollar man and the bionic woman! I loved those shows! I think I had such a crush on the character Jaime Sommers
Have you seen the newest version of Bionic Woman, with Michelle Ryan as "Jaime", and Katie (Katee?) Sackhoff as Sara Corvus?
Awesome!
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@paidreader (5143)
• United States
8 Jun 08
Not yet. I wanted to watch from the beginning but I missed setting it up to record when it conflicted with something else I was recording.
Buck Rodgers was one I couldn't put a name to when I posted earlier but I really liked that one too. 
@Zergonipal (807)
• Poland
8 Jun 08
I really like sci-fi but only if it's quite smart. I don't specially like Star-Trek. I prefer old episodes of Star Wars.
@funkykid (441)
• India
6 Nov 10
When it comes to sci-fi films, i can't stand the likes of Armageddon. It's more of a schmaltzy, vomit-inducing chick-flick with a cringeworthy turn from Ben Affleck (Thank god he redeemed himself with The Town), along with Michael Clarke Duncan and Steve Buscemi embarrassing themselves to the point where it becomes intolerably unbearable. But then again, that's Michael Bay for you.
