Firefly was mind-blowing, back in the day. So was Stargate SG-1. CSI, for all its faults, was fascinating at the time. Blue Planet was gorgeous. Fullmetal Alchemist. Pushing Daisies. Dead Like Me. The Middleman. Wonderfalls. Numb3rs. The Last Detective. Have Gun Will Travel.

I have a soft spot for Dr. Who, and the old Star Trek stuff. Loved House. For all it's flaws, Sherlock was excellent. Dexter was fantastic for a little while. The X Files - so much wrong with it and honestly hard to care because of the acting. One Punch Man. The Expanse. Poirot. MASH. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Wire in the Blood. Babylon 5. Titus.

I liked Hogans Heroes. Highlander: the Series. Airwolf, when I was young and uncritical . Forever Knight.

There were some middling shows with exceptional episodes - Supernatural, "jump the shark", others that were good.

I haven't watched much tv lately. It's hard to like fiction as much as I used to.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i started rewatching some SGU episodes(disjointed) onyoutube, old videos that havnt been copyright striked(yes whole episodes of sga and sgu, but not all seasons). they shouldve continued with that instead of "a new series reimiangined". sgu would be nice if they continued that series rather than a rehash of the og ones. We know the actors got pretty old, maybe that can explain it away by bringing a new team on board the destiny.

the most recent doctor, ncuti was a pretty weak series, even jodie was better.

supernatural 1-5 was kripke that why it was called golden age, and silver was season 6,8(not 7, it seemed pretty bland and too fanmade sexualizing the leads), and only 11 where "a sister god" was the archenemy of the season.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The ncuti episode with the social media wonks needing to be talked to safety struck me as absolutely and completely perfect. I am in awe of it. It's so uneven, though, other episodes are awful.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

i watched the clips, but the only watachable ones are the villians(rani, toymaker, etc), not the doctor, or his campanion, she seems more of a background character. i think the dude overacts too much.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I certainly would not call kripke the best but he sure knows how to keep a series going without it going completely to shit. I found supernatural entertaining right to the end even with its best days behind it. Hard to believeI started watching it with smallville. Its not the same thing but kinda reminds me of john doe. It wa entertaining enough to watch but once firefly was canceled not decent enough to be sitting down and catching the episodes. I think streaming saved supernatural and that it was a bit better than john doe. Still if I could not catch it whenever I wanted I think I would have missed a few episodes and then that would have been that.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't John Doe get cancelled? I liked that show while it lasted.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 23 hours ago

yeah. its kinda funny because I think they saw firefly and john doe getting the same high ratings (it was friday nights I think so the ratings they got I think were pretty high relative to the slot) but firefly was really expensive and john doe was cheap. So they were like. Okay we are dropping firefly we can just do more shows like john doe. Whelp once firefly was canceled then john does ratings tanked because it got a lot of folks who made time for firefly and hung around for doe because it was not half bad. It was not good enough though to get people to make it a point of scheduling around it. so then it got canceled a bit after.