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How do the books compare to the tv show? When I first heard about this show, I thought it would be my type of show judging by the advanced previews. Though when it was finally on a basic scifi cable channel, I found this show to be very difficult to watch and dropped it soon thereafter. I...

For the longest time, I usually lumped fantasy and superhero stuff into the same "ghetto" that scifi was always been in. Even after Lord of The Rings and Marvel/DC stuff became huge mainstream hits over the past 15+ years.

(On a tangent). I wish they did this something like this for the Borgias. (They portrayed the Pope's family as a "crime" operation resembling the Sopranos). There was no cliffhanger nor anything incredibly unresolved when the show was cancelled. Though I would imagine the Borgias should have...

One dvd (or bluray) set I've been looking at, is a Supernatural complete series set. Though production has been halted, purportedly before filming the series finale episode(s). https://ew.com/tv/supernatural-halts-production-final-season/...

This goes back even further, to stuff like earlier seasons of NCIS, Criminal Minds, or even the first Independence Day movie.

For stuff older than 1980s, I can give the writers/producers a pass on this. Tape drives were still used well into the 1990s and early 2000s for system wide backups at a facility such as a large corporation, university, government research lab, etc ...

This is a followup of a previous post on another thread here. https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/threads/for-those-who-still-think-physical-media-has-no-place-in-the-21st-century.364466/page-14#post-4825413 One thing I find puzzling (no pun intended) with scifi and other shows/films...

This is the type of scifi show I would have liked a lot when I was younger. I picked up all the Alliance released dvd season sets of Andromeda back in 2012, which were in fullscreen 4:3 ratio. (Probably from old syndication transfers). It was an ok watch on dvd. I watched it again in...

Initially I thought it was a V ripoff. After the first season, it came into its own. The final season was somewhat odd without taelons,

Of the older comic book movies, the only one which has any rewatch value for me is Superman 1 and the Richard Donner cut of Superman 2. I don't really watch Superman 3 and 4 much at all, other than when it occasionally pops up on a basic cable or network tv channel. The original theatrical...

Nowadays I would also place comic book movies into their own genre. They're not my first choice of movies, though I'll watch them when they pop up on basic cable or network tv channels. Other than the first X-Men movie and 1990s X-Men cartoons, I never really got into Marvel shows/movies...

Another scifi film I watched again this past weekend, was Thirteenth Floor (from 1999). Surprisingly it does hold up. I plan on watching Dark City again later this week, to see how well it holds up.

In many ways, this is what makes streaming a lot more appealing to me for current scifi tv shows. If a show turns to shit, there's no regrets just dropping the show. (This may sound very strange). Back when I was still buying tv on bluray sets of then-current scifi shows, I found that I was...

(This is an account I wrote of my experiences with tv on bluray scifi / genre releases since 2013, and my eventual exit from the tv on bluray market). At the time circa 2013, I thought the first-run episodes of season 2 of Continuum and season 1 of Defiance were decent enough that I...

Here's an aspect which greatly differs between tv shows and movies for me, in the context of something turning to shit. In the case of movies, subsequent sequels or reboots being really mediocre or outright awful were easy to ignore. For example, such as Total Recall and the Terminator films...

After Stargate Universe ended its run, I was looking for another scifi show to watch for which Falling Skies just happened to pop up at the time. The first season was decent enough, that I looked forward to a second season. Unfortunately the second season was largely boring, and things seemed...

I haven't seen the Haynes ones. The other one I saw iirc was probably the tng version, with a brown cover.

So beside just the brand name, I'm guessing the longer term appeal of Star Wars and Star Trek might have to do with the particular characters and they how clicked with viewers. I have noticed this in some generic tv shows I've watched over the years. For example in the case of procedurals, in...

I get the impression that if you "filed off the serial numbers" from a Star Trek or Star Wars movie, novel, short story, episode, etc ... it looks/reads like a lot like a generic "space opera" or military adventure.

I remember that book and a "blueprints" set. Somewhat amusing to read back in the day. More generally, I imagine if there's an extremely hardcore audience for a niche, there will be somebody who will cater to that crowd. For example, such as Star Wars and Star Trek novels regardless of how...

In recent times, I only ever tried doing this for the first season of Mr Robot, albeit briefly. I was looking for whether there was any deeper meaning in the episodes. (They did get the technical stuff down correctly, and not just some dumb technobabble stuff). Unfortunately I found the...

I made a very similar mistake when I use to attend punk rock concerts back in the day. Though it took me a very long time to realize that most of these "friends" were very different than me. They fell by the wayside when I moved to another town for college, and this new town didn't really have...

(On a tangent). Sounds like you figured this out relatively young. It took me a long time to come to the realization that choosing friends based solely on niche interests, was a terrible way to make friends. It wasn't until I was about age 29 or 30, that I stopped hanging around folks based...

In some niches, this was a very common thing even before the internet became popular. Back in the day, I found this was common with folks who were heavily into punk rock music. It was basically like a "punk rock" equivalent of a fashion contest and "purity points".

As I got older, I largely stopped talking about stuff like Star Trek, Star Wars, etc ... with other local friends / acquaintances, for reasons of this sort. It seems like every time the topic of Star Trek or Star Wars came up, it would suddenly become a long session of "verbal diarrhea".

In contrast hypothetically, if I had first watched the original Battlestar Galacta as an adult (and not as a kid/preteen), I probably would have thought it was cheesy scifi show which was rather unmemorable.

I was a big fan of the original. Though with that being said, I was probably too young to have really understood what the show was really about. So the revived Battlestar Galactica changes were not an issue to me. The original Battlestar Galactica is one of the first non-cartoon shows I...

When I first heard about "The Expanse", initially I thought it would be my type of show. It ticks off many things on a checklist of stuff I want to see in a scifi show. Though when I tried watching through the first season, I found this show somewhat difficult to watch. I really wanted to like...

I actually watched the first-run broadcasts of Caprica before the revived Battlestar Galactica. (IIRC, the latter part of Caprica was aired in a "burning off" marathon). I didn't watch the revived BSG in its original first-run broadcasts. Only on dvd many years later. There wasn't much in...

After repeated disappointments over many years, I find that I end up reading tvtrops.org more than watching any actual movies. As well as googling for synopses, I start off looking for spoiler-free ones. If something sounds really lousy, I'll then start looking for spoilers. Almost...