{"id":8618,"date":"2005-09-27T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T16:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/09\/27\/the-top-sci-fi.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T22:15:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T04:15:36","slug":"the_top_sci_fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/the_top_sci_fi.html","title":{"rendered":"The Top Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another lengthy list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/tv\/gallery\/topscifishows\/\" target=\"_blank\">Top 50 SF Shows of All Time<\/a>.  Not bad, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/bostoncoms_top_50_science_fiction_television_shows_of_all_time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Les<\/a> is irked by <em>ST:TOS <\/em>making #1 on the list.  As a ground-breaker, and as ongoing (if more than a bit cheesy) entertainment, I don&#8217;t cavil at that nod.  However &#8230;\n<li><em>ST:TNG<\/em> as #3?  Give me a break.  Especially with &#8230;<\/p>\n<li><em>B5<\/em> as #5?  <em>B5<\/em> is not without faults, especially early on, but season by season it beat the pants off of <em>TNG <\/em>for story, characterization, and sfx.<\/p>\n<li><em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> (the new one) is certainly worthy, but it&#8217;s way too early on (and we&#8217;re way too close to it) to give it the #2 place. <\/p>\n<li>For the record, <em>Xena <\/em>was fantasy, not sf.  Actually, <em>Twilight Zone<\/em> was fantasy at least as often, but I&#8217;m willing to stretch the point.  For that matter, <em>Quantum Leap<\/em> was pretty much fantasy, too.  As was <em>Buffy <\/em>(which gets beat by &#8230; <em>Andromeda<\/em>?!)<\/p>\n<li><em>Alien Nation<\/em> should have ranked higher (certainly much higher than <em>Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea<\/em>).<\/p>\n<li><em>Firefly<\/em> (#17) gets beat out by <em>ST:Voyager<\/em> (#14) and, for the love of God, <em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em> (#15)?  Jesus wept.<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, so it is kind of bad.  But rantworthy, which is almost as good, and it&#8217;s an fun list to read through (if you ignore the order).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another lengthy list of the Top 50 SF Shows of All Time. Not bad, but &#8230; Les is irked by ST:TOS making #1 on the list. As a ground-breaker,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[362,361,15,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-babylon-5","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128344,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows-kinda-sorta-more-or-less-redux.html","url_meta":{"origin":8618,"position":0},"title":"The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi TV Shows (kinda-sorta more-or-less) (Redux)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Oct-15 11:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"So this is based on an article from a Popular Mechanics (!) article on \"The 50 Greatest Sci-Fi Shows Ever\" [http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/movies\/g156\/the-50-greatest-sci-fi-tv-shows]. 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":1767,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/01\/just_the_thing-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":8618,"position":1},"title":"Just the thing I need, how nice &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-May-02 1:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"TV Guide learned a long time ago that \"List\" issues are big sellers. The Top Ten Comedies. 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