On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:54:36 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:23:24 -0000, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:07:32 -0500, nemesis wrote:
>>
>>> "Phil Cook" <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>>>> And lo on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:42:33 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull>
>>>> did spake, saying:
>>>> > My God - you have the boxed set of Xena?
>>>>
>>>> Yup and all the Buffy's, B5's, and X-Files. Not to mention the
>>>> GiTS:SACs, Blake's Seven (seasons 1-3) and the new Battlestar
>>>> Galactica's. Note however how I don't mention Star Trek.
>>>
>>> I have Seinfeld
> 
> Never got on with that.

Ditto.  I've watched it a few times, and it just seemed unfunny to me.

>>> and X-Files until about season 6, for both.  It seems after season 5/6
>>> all series seem to become a shadow of their former selves.
> 
> For the X-Files it seems to be a reversed normal curve they did start to
> pick up again at the end.

The weird thing is that it's something of an anomaly for Carter's works.  
He managed to build a mythology that worked, even though it had some 
inconsistencies; it wasn't planned out at all, but it worked.  The Lone 
Gunmen could've been good, but he tried not planning that as well, and it 
just kinda flopped.

I never got into Millenium, so I don't know if that series worked or not.

>>> BG had an amazing headstart.  Then came season 2...
>>
>> I thought BSG's second season was pretty good.  I can't wait for the
>> final season, though.
> 
> I agree, I found the third season the most jarring probably because of
> the sudden jump in time.

Yes, that was certainly true.  But the thing that I really like about it 
is that it's not clear-cut on some morality issues.  The good guys don't 
always behave in a way that's consistent with being the good guys.  They 
make bad decisions sometimes.

I like shows like that.  Spooks is another that I *really* liked.  How 
cool is it that they were perfectly fine killing off main characters?

Jim

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