{"id":10957,"date":"2007-05-07T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/07\/top-25-sf-boulderized.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T07:23:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:23:29","slug":"top_25_sf_boulderized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/top_25_sf_boulderized.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 SF, Boulderized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2007\/05\/the_25_best_of_twenty_five.html\" target=\"_blank\">BD expanded on the &#8220;25 Best SF Movie\/TV List&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;with various just-go-read-it commentary&nbsp;&#8230; and so I have to weigh in on his choices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <em>Red Dwarf<\/em>&nbsp; \u2013 I fear I must confess &#8212; never done watch more than a single ep.&nbsp; Sorry.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Farscape<\/em> \u2013 Absolutely agree.&nbsp;&nbsp; Worlds better (and more influential) than, say, <em>V<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Lexx<\/em>&nbsp; \u2013 No more exposure to than the ads that ran during Farscape.&nbsp; Never felt compelled to watch.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Babylon 5<\/em> &#8211; Well, yeah, duh.&nbsp; Though, to correct BD, this one was screwed by WB, not Fox.&nbsp; And it wasn&#8217;t just WB Television, but a very, very, very odd combo of internal divisions within WB.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Donnie Darko<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 Never seen.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Twin Peaks<\/em> \u2013 Watched two episodes, gave up on it.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Dark City<\/em> \u2013&nbsp;Yes, creepy goodness.&nbsp; A top classic?&nbsp;Can&#8217;t really agre.<\/li>\n<li> <em>The City of Lost Children<\/em> \u2013 Never seen.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Ghost in the Shell<\/em> \u2013 Watched the movie.&nbsp; Very pretty.&nbsp; No opinion beyond that &#8212; though, if we&#8217;re going to include anime, I gotta go for Neon Genesis Evangelion.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em> \u2013 Okay, and this, too.<\/li>\n<li> <em>The Cube<\/em> \u2013 Never seen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What, if anything, would I add?&nbsp; Hrm.&nbsp; Well, if you exclude anything that&#8217;s Fantasy or Comic Book based &#8230; I can&#8217;t think of much more, TV or movie-wise.&nbsp; Maybe <em>Buckaroo Banzai <\/em>or <em>The Rocketeer<\/em>&nbsp; for movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So BD expanded on the &#8220;25 Best SF Movie\/TV List&#8221;&nbsp;with various just-go-read-it commentary&nbsp;&#8230; and so I have to weigh in on his choices: Red Dwarf&nbsp; \u2013 I fear I must&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[362,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-babylon-5","category-media-movies","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9342,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/the_return_of_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":10957,"position":0},"title":"The Return of &#8230; Babylon 5?!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Jul-06 1:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Woot-astic! 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See here [https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/17\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows-kinda-sorta-more-or-less.html] for caveats and comments on that list. I've decided to do my own force ranking (thanks +Stan Pedzick), working within the same list (to do otherwise\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/TV%2BGuide%2BSF.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129900,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/24\/starships.html","url_meta":{"origin":10957,"position":4},"title":"Starships!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Feb-16 5:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, many, many starships. And types of starships. And people on starships. 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