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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 2222628" data-attributes="member: 21833">BEST in no particular order.Battlestar Galactica:  New series, I've never seen the original.  Amazing, gritty, intelligent and intense sci-fi.  This is war, and the crew of the Galactica are flying by the seat of their pants in some great stories.  I'll never forgive them for having Boomer be a Cylon though, she's too cute to be a cyborg!The X-Files:  The hell with the metaplot, the individual episodes were top-notch, often slyly humorous sci-fi/thriller/horror stories.  And Mulder and Scully made a great duo.Stargate SG-1:  Its not intellectual, or ground-breaking, but dear god its fun!  I love sitting back and enjoying another ripping adventure story about the team.  Would be even better if they knew when to keep someone dead (I'm looking at YOU Apophis!).Robotech/Super Dimensional Fortress Macross:  Wow.  This series shaped my childhood and started my long love affair with anime.  Main characters die, the heroes get thrashed regularly.  All the wastefulness and horror of war captured in a fantastic space opera epic.Neon Genesis Evangelion:  Can it really be called sci-fi?  Sure, all the trappings are there, but at the end of the day its a spiritual and psychological human drama.  The lives of the children and those around them are steadily ripped apart and put together only to be smashed again.  One of the only shows to really emotionally move me on a regular basis.  I'll never forget hurling the TV guide at the screen and shouting "HE'S NOT WORTH IT!" during "Tear".Red Dwarf:  Oh smeg.  No rhyme or reason to it, but any show that features this kind of stupidity and hillarity has to get my vote.  And how can you not love Kryten and The Cat?I'll now confess that I've never seen Babylon 5.  On my list of things to do at the end of the year.WORST, in no particular order.The X Files: I said forget the metaplot, but when it drags a great show into the toilet like this one did, it's hard to do so.  After the movie it just kept getting worse and worse until it bore no resemblance to its origins.Star Trek Voyager:  Way to ruin all the potential that you had with the original concept guys!Mutant X:  Just typing it make me want to wash my hands.  Nothing good about it, bad scripting, no plot, lame characters...Star Trek Deep Space 9:  More like Deep Sleep 9.  I watched the entire first series WAITING for something interesting to happen.  Gave up, I might give it another try some time considering how long ago it was, and how much praise its gotten here.</blockquote>

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