Hello /c/sciencefiction lemmies. I’ve put together an image of some of the most discussed shows from July 2023.
Are there any science fiction TV series you are currently in the middle of watching or plan on watching in August?
Here is last months post. What are you Watching? (July 2023)
I’m watching Blake 7. It’s giving be a Tom Baker Dr. Who vibe.
Funny, I just mentioned Blake’s 7 in another comment. Regarding Tom Baker, there was a, thankfully, abandoned plan to have him as The Doctor in a literal walk-on in a Blake episode, where Blake and The Doctor say hello to each other in passing. However, there was intended to be a much bigger Who tie-in. The Big Bad at the end of the first season was originally going to be the Daleks.
They Cloned Tyrone is a surprise for me. Great modern scifi/blaxploitation film, though I have about 30 minutes left to finish.
Finally finding the time to finishAndor and what the fuck?! How is it so good???
Andor is SOOOOO GOOD. Andy Serkis straight up made me cry. (I have the last couple of episodes still to go so no spoilers pls lol)
But the characters, the writing, the acting, the storylines and the theeeeeemmes omg. It’s like a dramatic embodiment of Seeing Like a State.
I’m probably exactly where you are so no spoilers from me either. I just can’t believe how good this show is, for all the reasons you stated. Ugh it actually brings me back into the fold. Hoping for me great SW content
One Way Out. ONE WAY OUT.
I’m sorry, you’re only allowed to say “what the fight? How is it so good???”
But otherwise, yeah - it’s a show that really benefits from tight plotting, dedicated performances, an excellent score and some Tony Gilroy & Friends bangers for speeches. I kind of have to stop myself re-watching it (for the millionth time)
I’m sorry, I don’t understand the first half of your comment. Are there strong language rules on this community?
Not that I’m aware of. Sorry - it was a reference to Andor: there’s a scene where a character says ‘Fight’ where it was initially filmed as ‘Fuck’ but Disney wouldn’t let them use it (maybe for the best, I don’t know).
Haha that’s actually hilarious. I can’t wait to dig into reviews, essays, and bts stuff when I’m finished.
Silo is great! Cant wait for the new season. Considering reading the books before it comes out
I’ve been working my through TNG. Watching every episode in order for the first time. I’ve always loved the show, but I only used to catch random episodes when they’d come on TV as a kid. Been slowly working my way through all of Trek for about two years. I started with ToS and it’s movies, then watched The Animated Series.
Strange New Worlds, I’ve been watching as new episodes release, but when I heard the praise for the Lower Decks crossover, I decided to start and finish Lower Decks before I catch up on SNW. I’m about halfway through the second season of Lower Decks right now.
Discovery almost killed my interest in New Trek, but man the Orville and SNW really revived my love of Star Trek.
Once I finish Lower Decks, I’ll get back up to date with SNW and keep working through TNG. Once I finish TNG, I think I’m gonna start Picard.
Oh, and I’ve also been keeping up with Futurama and recently watched Hello Tomorrow! And The Big Door Prize on Apple TV. They were both okay.
I’m going through TOS (nearing the end of season 2) and have been wondering whether I should watch the animated series, leaning on skipping it entirely, is it worth watching? I’m all for animation, but tbh a lot of american animation has left me disappointed.
A few important character moments are in TAS. The animation is awful, but some of the stories are very good. It’s short anyway, I recommend watching it.
Star Trek: Enterprise.
Archer is kind of a shit captain tbh, he literally can’t cope with leadership outside of “that’s an order”, but it’s nice to see how the federation came to be.
Worst theme music of any Star Trek. So painful.
It grew on me tbh, but yeah not great. Voyager is still the golden standard, I keep that one on my instrumental playlist.
Fully agree. It is simply not Star Trek music at all because obviously, US-American christian rock is not Star Trek music.
Eh, it has a certain Stokholm quality after a while…
Deep Space 9, first watchtrough, last season, 5 eps to go.
Can’t wait to see how they wrap this up!
I really enjot fan made Star Trek New Voyages: https://youtube.com/@startrekphase2DE
Red dwarf
Mid-way through the second series of Dark. It is consuming me. It’s so well done, there’s not even time to consider plot holes.
Oh I’m so happy for you! Dark was a fun watch for me.
Electric Dreams
It was recommended to me as “what [Black Mirror] should have been.”
I binged the first five episodes a week after the newest season of Black Mirror was released and the remaining five just this week.
Veep. Some guys recommended it to me from the !moviesandtv@lemmy.film sub. Thanks guys
Fringe, and rewatching agents of shield
Currently watching Dollhouse which I’m not sure if qualifies as scifi. Planning on watching Altered Carbon after this though.
I have always loved Stergate. I grew up watching this and I rewatch the whole thing every few years and I have been itching to rewatch it soon. Also just recently finished The Expanse. It was hands down the best scifi show in recent history, my favourite will always be Firefly though.
Nothing. YouTube, i guess. Hopefully Oppenheimer some time this month. Tv has been so disappointing lately. It all feels so samey, so much like Disney, which feels like everything.
I want to watch foundation and silo, but want to try reading them first. Unfortunately, I don’t think I have any good sci-fi to watch at the moment other than those two.
Frankly, you’ll enjoy Foundaton more if you don’t read the books first. Otherwise, you’ll be sitting there shaking you head wondering why they continuously mangle the core concept of the books so badly, despite characters occasionally directly stating how it works (only for the same episode otherwise showing utter disregard for said statement)
Lol, sounds like maybe I just shouldn’t watch the show then.
The Empire focused half of the show that was mostly made up specifically for the show is EXCELLENT tho, and really worth watching.
They should have just stuck with that and called the show Empire IMHO. Would have been an instant classic.
Yeah, the rest of it is hot garbage - rambling uninspired dialogue, bad actors, story line all over the place. Stick with the books IMO.
You can always watch season 1 of silo, then read the books. It’s going to be awhile until we get season 2, and season 1 only covers book 1.
