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Rank these Serialized Space TV Shows:

Posted on 8/29/24 at 9:40 pm
Posted by ZZTIGERS
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Posted on 8/29/24 at 9:40 pm
Farscape
The Expanse
Battlestar Galactica
Babylon 5
Stargate
Posted by CU_Tigers4life
Georgia
Member since Aug 2013
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Posted on 8/29/24 at 9:42 pm to
Deep Space Nine
Posted by ZZTIGERS
Member since Dec 2007
17370 posts
Posted on 8/29/24 at 9:45 pm to
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Deep Space Nine

I thought about including them in a chronological Star Trek rewatch that I’m doing. Yeah, DS9 is legit.
Posted by YeauxGurt
Daigoba
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 8/29/24 at 10:04 pm to
Farscape
Battlestar Galactica
Babylon 5
Stargate
The Expanse
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 8/29/24 at 10:15 pm to

The Expanse
Battlestar Galactica (the shitty ending and Lost style unanswered questions trope keeps it out of the top spot)
Farscape
Babylon 5
Stargate
Posted by drizztiger
Deal With it!
Member since Mar 2007
44984 posts
Posted on 8/29/24 at 11:16 pm to
BSG
The Expanse
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Those are 2 of my favorites so I’m biased.
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
25845 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 9:10 am to
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Battlestar Galactica (the shitty ending and Lost style unanswered questions trope keeps it out of the top spot)


The writer’s strike and their decision to bring Starbuck back without much of a plan really did hurt them down the stretch.


Also, if you go back and look at some of the original criticism of the show, you run into the same shite that’s going on today: complaints about the gender swap of Starbuck and Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Maybe the show was right all along. “All of this has happened before.”
This post was edited on 8/30/24 at 9:21 am
Posted by Green Chili Tiger
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Member since Jul 2009
50490 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 9:21 am to
The Expanse
Battlestar Galactica
Stargate
Farscape
Babylon 5
Posted by Bench McElroy
Member since Nov 2009
34684 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 9:29 am to
I tried watching all of them and Farscape was the only one I liked.
Posted by RougeDawg
Member since Jul 2016
7313 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 9:32 am to
Battlestar Galactica
Farscape
Stargate
The Expanse
Babylon 5

Expanse started strong, but those last seasons were a chore.
Posted by Freauxzen
Washington
Member since Feb 2006
38428 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:06 am to
Battlestar Galactica
The Expanse
Babylon 5
Stargate
Farscape
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 8/30/24 at 4:07 pm to
The Expanse

The rest.
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
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Posted on 8/30/24 at 5:28 pm to
no orville?
Posted by ZZTIGERS
Member since Dec 2007
17370 posts
Posted on 8/30/24 at 10:05 pm to
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no orville?

I’ve never seen it. Is it serialized? I know it’s a good show, just haven’t got around yet to watching it.
Posted by rmc
Truth or Consequences
Member since Sep 2004
27250 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 12:34 am to
B5
BSG
Stargate (SG1 only)
Expanse
Farscape

SG Atlantis was ok. That SG with the rape stones and Lou Diamond Phillips was terrible.
Posted by CovingtonTigre
In your head Werder
Member since Mar 2021
1459 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 1:53 am to
Orville
Posted by Broken Coyote
Seated. Facing forward
Member since Dec 2010
3191 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 3:51 pm to
SG-1
BSG
The Expanse

Star Trek-OG
Next Generation
Posted by Roaad
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Member since Aug 2006
81961 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 4:04 pm to
I really like all 5, but here goes:



The Expanse




BSG

Farscape
Babylon 5


Stargate
Posted by Bham4Tide
In a Van down by the River
Member since Feb 2011
24156 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 9:52 pm to
Farscape, BSG, & The Expanse are all just so good and yet all so very different. Hard to rank them.

So,

1. 3 way tie
4. Babylon 5
5. Stargate
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
22891 posts
Posted on 8/31/24 at 11:07 pm to
All very good shows, with different approaches. I would say:

Babylon 5
Stargate
Farscape
The Expanse
Battlestar Galactica


B5 I put at the top, because it was a well-conceived storyline from start to finish, and was able to address some pretty deep issues:
Aliens as angels (Vorlon manipulation). Politics, not casting Earth as the heroes. Media with their ISN episodes and cut-ins. Pretty fricking impressive for mid-90's.

Stargate next, because for a decent while they did a good job with the "what if it's really happening and covered up" stuff.

Farscape was a really trippy and well made show.

The Expanse isn't glamorous because it's in that phase where we're still stuck in our own solar system, and no outside contact has been made; but it's probably closest to what it will really be like.

I rank BSG 5th, only because it's not original, it's a remake. Still a good show.
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