I guess it depends on individual taste. I did not hate Battlestar, but it deffinetly did not reach "Epic" status to me, but I did watch it as it was fun to watch. I still don't have a favorite SciFi series, I just watch as many as I can. 

If you guys are looking for a new(well not REALLY new, show to watch check out this list.)

Babylon 5

Firefly

Star Trek (Deep Space 9, The Next Generation, Voyager, Enterprise)

Andromeda

Dr. Who

Stargate (SG1, Atlantis, Universe)

Farscape (Haven't seen it yet, but heard good things)

Warhouse 13 (Maybe not actually sci fi, more fantasy)

Smallville (Oh comeon! It's Superman!)

Jake 2.0 (Fun, but short)

Heroes (No explanation needed)

Lost (Another I haven't seen, but no explanation should be needed)

Jericho

Eureka

Kyle XY

Being Human

True Blood (If you like that kind of thing)

4400

Supernatural

Okay, I'm going to stop before my list exceeds 100 shows.

Just look here:

http://io9.com/5347048/the-top-100-science-fictionfantasy-shows-of-all-time

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/toplists/the_top_10_scifi_shows_of_alltime/the_top_10_scifi_shows_of_alltime.html

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/gallery/topscifishows/

Oh I know! I wasn't to sure about Sarah Connor Chronicles until the second season premiere, that was an awesome episode and I made it a point to see everyone after that. Sadly it still got canned.

Oh and I basically looke at a few lists and just took any show I saw on there that I had either seen or had heard good things about. I'm not sure why they included Supernatural, Being Human, or True Blood as SciFi but whatever.

Agreed.  Terribly disappointing that the show got canned.  That was another great recent sci-fi show, imo.  Caprica should be coming out before too long.  The movie was interesting (to me, anyway) and I've got hopes for the series. 

Dito - this is a fun series.  Season 1 is available on netflix.

Pish and tosh. All the modern Trek shows have plenty of 'girl talk' moments, including ones for the guys (Enterprise's Commander Tucker got freakin' pregnant!). SCC and Dollhouse are almost worth calling 'chick sci-fi' because the tough women at the heart of the show are written like women, not charicatures, and love (not traditional romance, I admit) is a very important theme for both those shows.

Re product placement, yea, that might be a funding problem for a show like Andromeda or Caprica, but plenty of sci-fi shows are in normal enough settings to have well-lit snack bags and prominently-placed computer gear.

You are better praying for a reboot of the Firefly "franchise". Praying for a good one too. Considering the ending in Serenity, I somehow would prefer the reboot.

I feel doubtful about watching new series because of the "cancelling if not uber ratings" effect. I loved Jericho but I won't dare to watch the second season after being cancelled (again). Kudos to the team of The Peacekeepers Wars for wrapping the story pending in Farscape. It made me wonder if it'd not be better if series should have all less episodes (and therefore less filler, at least for some because for other series there are no fillers like in the X-Files) and focus more in the main storyline. Farscape is a good show but the last season dragged a bit in some parts. The new Galactica was great and the first season was mostly filler free but the later seasons with lots more episodes had some (unnecesary) fillers too.

Watching Andromeda now (finishing third season) and although it's a different style (and less level) than Galactica or Firefly, it's at the same level of fun as Stargate series (of which my favourite is Universe while still waiting for the complete edition of Atlantis so it can join the one for SG-1).

BY the way, I bought during Christmas the Star Trek TOS and I wonder how much of space explorers they could be if they were most of the time time traveling to Earth or visiting planets that were earth like. Loved it though (the series and the ingenuity of those times).

STOP IT!... lolz.  I'm going to have to tune out this thread now.  Raining on my parade

Don't worry, season 4 makes the agony of the previous 30 episodes worthy.

so true... because sci-fi doesnt usually give the schadenfreude feeling when some bimbo gets preggers or some guy gets dumped, or because they cant chict-chat like gossip girl or watch people fail like in a million reality tv gameshows out now, we lose like 98% of the population to the sheep that do nothing but make up numbers and consume resources...

i mean, Kyle XY was great, it was probably the closest thing to a sci-fi for teens there is so far, and yet it got canned after 3 seasons?

sometimes being humans shits me off no end

Not only did I love BSG but I was able to get my family to watch it. Seasons 1 and 2 the whole family was hooked. Season 3 we lost ones interest. By season 4 we were down to just me. RDM just became obsessed with everything dark, dark and dark as possible. You can only take so much of that. That and dragging out the 4th season over a 2 and a half year period. By season 4.5 I was the only one watching and I think it would have been better to end the series with the bombed Earth and leave us to wonder what happened after that.

A search for "joss whedon" and "writers strike" yields about 24,000 hits just now. He's more or less admitted that big names like his own didn't suffer that dramatically from the kerfuffle, but specific shows and the folks who seriously wanted to see them keep going did get screwed. I was a barely-teenaged boy when the first Bionic Woman aired. Thanks to the TV execs forcing a strike on the writers and us folks in the audience, I'll never know whether the new, nano-tech version of Jamie Sommers could have lived up to Buffy's standards...

I bsg, but i it in two different ways. For me, the show is two parts. A more traditional space opera type, if you will, following in the footsteps of the miniseries. This part lasts to New Craprica. After New Craprica, it becomes more of a drama, which, while still very good, also had a different feel and tone from the first part. I guess it's sort of the transition whiplash that caught some people unawares.

And so that I'm not totally offtopic, yes, i would for sure watch new firefly. It'll never come back, though Captain Tightpants did say that Firefly was the best experience he ever had....

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