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May 4
2007
09:11 PM ET
What's missing from EW's 'Sci-Fi 25' list?
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Maybe it shouldn’t be high up on the list, but Sliders should have been there some where. If Professor Arturo were here, he’d call you a blithering idiot!
Any mention of TV-related SciFi that does not put Babylon 5 at the zenith cannot possibly be taken seriously. In one fell swoop it reduced the various Star Trek iterations to childrens programmes.
Buffy not being on this list just makes it not valid.
AND … Brazil @ #5 ??? You’re kidding right?
You intentionally left off “Babylon 5″ simply to get the sci-fi geeks up in arms and increase the the number of comments you received, right? It’s the only explanation I can come up with…
Your list is better than many of these things can be. But leaving the best Star Trek (Deep Space 9 – the drama and storyline are the most in-depth of any of the franchise), Babylon 5 (flawed, but with an amazingly new view of humanity), and Farscape (the most compelling of all the TV serials up to Battlestar Galactica) seems wrong somehow.
Am I missing something or is Buffy not considered Sci-Fi?
Here is my list
the miniseries DUNE and Children of Dune!! They were Amazing !!!With a great score form Brian Tyler in the latter.
Farscape the series and Farscape the “Peace keeper wars”.Ben Browder as John Crichton is genius! Hilarious!Plus the rest of the cast is amazing!
Stargate SG1 and Stargate the movie should have made your list. The Mythology of the gate series is intriguing.
David Tenant is great as the latest incarnation of Doctor Who.
Steven Speilberg’s miniseries “Taken”.
Heather Donahue is so creepy in it.
Roswell good blend of teen drama and scifi. Katherine Heigl is great as Ice princess Isabelle Evans. Another tv shows cut to short. Roswell’s fan base could rival Firefly’s
The Fifth Element a good movie from Lucc besson!
1996 Mars Attack! because it’s silly
Spaceballs!! Spaceballs!! Spaceballs
Men In black the first one!
STARGATE SG-1!!!!!! How could this have possibly been left off the list? It’s not like it’s the LONGEST RUNNING SCI-FI SHOW EVER! Not to mention the special effects it uses puts most of the other TV shows on the list to shame (even some of the movies too).
The show has also been popular enough to merit a spin-off in Stargate Atlantis, another great sci-fi show that should have been on the list well above Number 20: STAR WARS: CLONE WARS (2003-2005). I mean seriously, who made this list?
Just because the Star Wars franchise is popular and dominates the Sci-Fi world, doesn’t mean that anything that comes from it is golden and should be on the list. If you were to compile a list of the top Sci-Fi shows of the last 50 years, feel free to include them, but please leave them off this list.
Stargate SG-1 SHOULD have been on this list, if not for it’s many other endearing qualities, then merely for being THE longest running Sci-Fi show ever.
Obviously this wasn’t written by anyone over 25 years old, otherwise the author would have remembered that STAR WARS, RETURN OF THE JEDI was in 1983!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, a lot of other good suggestions below, but come on – this has clearly got to be an oversight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stargate, while perhaps not #1, should occupy a place of honor amoung any list of outstanding Sci-Fi.
Oh, yeah, Darko is a good one.
And Farscape. They’re peaceful ship gets PREGNANT in the first season, gives birth to a confused little warship, which grows into a more confused bigger warship which eventually kills itself. And that is just a subplot about the ships. The regular characters have creative plots too….
A Few Points
1. I can see where Buffy may have been considered “Fantasy” and not “Sci”-Fi, but that’s a tough argument to make. A slippery slope from X-Files to Buffy to Harry Potter to Lord Of The Rings, and then the list would lose it’s focus. So ok…
2. But… to include Heroes and not Batman Begins, Spider-Man (1 or 2) or the movie that showed that super-heroes were still legit, X-Men, makes it seem like you guys fell prey to why lists like this seem silly. Current shows/movies always skew too high. Heroes hasn’t really answered anything yet, and BSG as number 2 on the list looks more like cheerleading for your favorite “current” shows, rather than actually looking at what the best Sci-Fi actually is. BSG higher than TNG? Sorry, but not yet.
2. Other than “smoke monster”, Lost hasn’t established anything else about itself as sci-fi.
3. Eternal Sunshine as Sci-Fi? I guess since Matt Damon used a cell phone, The Departed could have made the list too?
4. No “The Sixth Sense”? Really?
Thanks for the listing of Starship Troopers. Made in the late 90s, no film reveals the coming post-9/11 America more insightfully. The fact that some critics felt it glorified fascism is the exact point; the film shows the seductive, inevitable logic of fascism that can so easily subvert rational thought during a 9/11-style catastrophe.
Ghost in the Shell – Stand Alone Complex….
Props for Firefly/Serenity, but Eternal Sunshine? Seriously? While both are cheeky, Red Dwarf is orders of magnitude more entertaining than Starship Troopers. And I’ll take Aeon Flux (the series, not the movie) over Futurama any day. Too bad Hollywood botched Johnny Mnemonic and Daredevil so badly; I’d have liked to see the genius of William Gibson and Frank Miller better represented on your list.