really? noone recommended the shield yet?
pros:
michael chikllis
forest whittaker
cch pounder
cons:
cant stop watching
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If you are 18+ and not easily offended I would recommend American Gods.
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anything made by either Joss Whedon, or JJ Abrams, is amazing.
joss sux at naming his shows, but they are awesome!
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Seriously, nobody recommended "Orphan Black"? (or did I just miss the comment, that recommended it?). That show is brillant - final season starting soon, I just hope hope they don't mess up the ending.
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If someone can recommend Married With Children, I'm going to recommend Sherlock.
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- Fargo
- Narcos
But of cartoon I recommend
- Brickleberry
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I love Rookie Blue <3
I'd recommend
Trauma - it's like a slighty less dramatic Chicago Fire, only lasted one season though :(
Sirens UK / US
Ripper Street
Preacher (I've only seen like 4 episodes so far though)
Warehouse 13
and a lot of what's already been suggested ^^ (Psych, Fargo, Firefly, Supernatural ...)
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Sherlock (the one from BBC)
Suits
The Good Wife
The Expanse
House of Cards
Justified
Downton Abbey
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Just watch Game of Thrones for starters, it's gonna seem like a masterpiece compared to Walking Dead.
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+1
Although I'm a bit sad because I would have liked to see where the Mormon arc was going.
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Damn for a moment i misread arc as in 'story arc' and that somehow jumped to 'the expanse was cancelled?!'.
Im bumped now, what a scare!
I would love to have seen it too altough, if things were different, that would had to be in a different book only about that- and thus a spinoff/sequel series about exodus. But going head on against [spoiler] and then head on into the [spoiler] isn't less awesome at all. If some mormons were at te helm screaming from their hearts in the name of the lord along the way that could easily have been the most awesome and badass space ride from science fiction history.
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Sorry for giving you a scare :D Actually I did mean arc as in story arc. Funny coincidence that arc makes perfect sense as well :D (Not sure if there's more about the mormons coming but I can't recall anything related to them happening since what you mentioned happened so I just assumed that part was done for now.)
Yeah what happened with the Mormon ark was really cool as well.
I think the show is on the safe side for now... I would be really sad if it got cancelled. It's the best (running) Space Opera I know of that's currently on air. And strangely also the only one now that I think about it.
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Damn, for me it isn't the best current runing- its the too freaking best space opera ive seen on tv in all time. How the authors hit the nail in making it both awesome, epic, tense and fun while being closer to hard sci-fi at the same time deserved a award as a first in my book; Not only they don't need khumbalaya Force and pseudo-gibberish teleporting tech to be adventurously awesome avoiding sylicon headed aliens alltogether while at it they're filled with awesome actual stuff from space venturing that most sci-fi ignore alltogether and shouldn't because its so awesome; From gravity differences in all the ways it plays (society, actions and fights) to how their spaceships revive the sea age- powerfull but exposed/dangerous (as they will be for centuries or even millenia at our pace)...
And goddamit. That (you know wich one) was the freaking best space dogfight i ever seen. From the heighned and belieavable true danger to the wicked maneuvers to the whole cat and dog setup... way, way, waaaaaay better then watching impervious ships behind 'energy shields' that fails precisely at plot points sending redshirts away or cockpit closeups amidst standard fare air-to-air dogfights that are only in space on background. Not saying they're bad, classical dogfights are awesome but the space ones fail in one point- its the same thing minus the risking/effects of falling, the awesomeness of ejected parachuting, the characters on ground seeing all above that can become upclose quickly... and the risk of being left in vacuum isn't as awesome/fun on screen as being left god knows how many miles above the ground.
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You got a point there. I can't come up with another Space Opera I would say it's definitely better but I often put my statements in a subjective manner because that way it's impossible by definition to disagree with me :D
The re-imagined 2005 Battlestar Galactica puts the bar pretty high and I'm one of the few people who enjoyed Stargate Universe a lot (and Firefly was obviously a lot of fun as well; although I think that show had the advantage that it didn't have the time to let people down) but I wouldn't say any of them is necessarily better, just different. I think for now I will give it a few more seasons before I make my final judgement. Afterall The Expanse is only in Season 2 right now but it definitely started off extremely promising :)
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Battlestar Galactica still lives in my eternal to-watch-someday. Got too big before i got wind of it and the start didn't impressed much (wich i guess is expectable since it wasn't as fresh as when it came out).
But i watched Caprica (as prequel and isolated was safe) and enjoyed the hell out of it; Still the neckbeard nerd in me gets a bit pulled off by the too needy suspension of belief regarding technology with such clunky robots and IA progression at that late stage of tech and space-travel.
Wouldn't happen if everything falled along but then we have a full post-modern universe with more advanced tech everywhere but the bulky 'evil robot army straight out of a 70's space opera budget film.
I LOVE retrofuturism and retro sci-fi but come on, if you go that way go full! Like star wars, Valerian, Barbarella! Star Trek as well, and in its evolution/re-imaginings showed how a mid-point across retro and hightechy can be done right.
I can't watch Battlestar Gallactica (the normal series besides caprica) without feeling its a over-extended episode of Dr Who that forgot what it was trying to be and being too serious.
Love star wars and Firefly even more but more as great adventure series then sci-fi. Heck, id put star wars in fantasy before sci-fi without second tought.
Sci-fi isn't about being 'belieavable' or close-to-home- its about having tech and progress and major(generally the biggest) plot points in how it will re-shapes us and its many implications. Many great old sci-fis with ridiculous scientific concepts are above the bar of the majority of sci-fi i see; Heck, Jules Vernes is more sci-fi then most sci-fi of late.
From memory The Expanse, Interstellar, Moon and to a point Ascencion are the only sci-fi space opera of recent years. Everything else is about alien danger, alien metaphysical superantural who knows what, hero-surviving in space or drama amongst the stars that completely ignore the whole opportunity of making us think and guess about future implications of where we're going.
At least we still have cyberpunk to save us, in games and [insert Blade Runner hype here]
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The funny thing is when I first came across Battlestar Galactica (2005) I was actually "watching" Stargate (or one of its follow up shows) on TV (or rather having it run in the background while I was playing games) and afterwards it showed Battlestar Galactica and I was like "What is this ? This is terrible!" Only a few years later when I started watching it from the start (and in English) it got to me.
Certainly didn't help that Battlestar Galactica has the worst german translation I've ever seen. Apparently they paid more attention to lip synchronicity than to content.
For example: "I'm only in the military because they have a good dental plan." (when they are trapped on Caprica) becomes "I'm only in the military because I wanted to become a Dental Assistant." :D
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But it can be good in the wrong way. A third and sometimes half the fun i get from old wushia films(wich i love) is the lip-sync.
Its so, so incredebly off it has to be some kind of skill or misunderstood talent. In some movies if i were responsible for dubbing i couldn't be that off even if that was my sole purpose lol
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Yeah, I know what you mean :D But Battlestar was one of those cases where I would have begged for bad lip synch if I could have had accurate translations instead.
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you said action.
Kil La KIll
Toppen Tengen Gurren Lagann
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost In The Shell (any of it, all good)
Full Metal Alchemist (dunno i didnt watch much of it tbh)
Eureka 7 (do not watch AO)
Little Witch Academia (anime harry potter, lotsa magic, fighting, silliness)
RWBY (very slow first season but gets so much better after that, kinda like parks and recs season 1)
if you wanted live action tv shows n that stuff. i don't watch that stuff mostly
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X-Files
That should take you a while. Also lots of nostalgia (for older people)
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BBC's The Musketeers
You think you know the story but trust me you don't.
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Stranger Things
Dark Matter
The 100
Outcast
Black Mirror (this one has its ups and its downs, it depends a lot on the episode)
Those are shows I enjoyed recently. The Walking Dead was quite good, but I got bored with the last season. Fear of the Walking Dead was a good single-season show, but again started dragging things around later.
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What are some TV Shows you can recommend?
I prefer watching action, horror/thriller, maybe supernatural.
I have seen The Walking Dead, Chicago Fire and Rookie Blue.
I will be watching Game of Thrones when I can.
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