The Sopranos and Oz in the late 90s and they definitely seemed a cut above what went before.

Cheery picking look at all the dross we have endured

Again name a good comedy show

All they do is buy good shows that have been on tv already and let us watch repeats. As the shows have been on tv I am not sure what you mean by more quickly.

That’s a bit of an out of date view of things TBH and getting more so every day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Amazon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_original_programs_distributed_by_Netflix

Cheery picking look at all the dross we have endured

I can only imagine you watched different TV to me in the 90s if you thought it was significantly less dross filled.

Again name a good comedy show

I can’t see where you asked the first time so these may not fit but decent recent comedies that jump to my mind include:
The detectorists
Brooklyn nine nine
Bluestone 42
Girls
Charlie Brooker’s various vehicles
Parks and Recreation

Junkyard – lazarus
Cougar to the forum

Hiya!

Courtesy of JY, I’m currently wading my way through the DVD box sets having never watched it before beyond odd snippets.

The Amiga FX, ground-breaking at the time, does look dated compared to modern shows of course, but actually holds up surprisingly well. The first season is quite painful in places, fight choreography in particular make James T Kirk’s fisticuffs look like The Matrix. However, I’ve just got to the end of the first disc in S3 and can confirm that it does get better.

But all this is by the by. A twenty year old show looks twenty years old? You don’t say. The question is, is it any good? And I have to say that I am really enjoying it. The characters are interesting and the overall story arc is compelling (I can only assume it’s where Volition’s Freespace got it from, cos it’s basically the same premise). The monster-of-the-week episodes are hit and miss, which is a given for pretty much every show of that era. It’s interesting that it’s getting compared to DS9; you can see it’s DNA in the recent BSG too.

I started watching largely out of curiosity, and I’m glad I did.

Wasn’t he in it?

I think that’s Farscape you’re thinking of.

The films are a bit odd, but they fill in a lot of the space when things jump a bit, this will be of use.

I worked all this out before I started, because (surprisingly) there’s a lot of nerd discussion about it. I’ll post a running order in the next post.

Season 1
1×00: The Gathering
1×01: Midnight on the Firing Line
1×02: Soul Hunter
1×03: Born to the Purple
1×04: Infection
1×05: The Parliament of Dreams
1×06: Mind War
1×07: The War Prayer
1×08: And the Sky Full of Stars
1×09: Deathwalker
1×10: Believers
1×11: Survivors
1×12: By Any Means Necessary
1×13: Signs and Portents
1×15: Grail
1×16: Eyes
1×18: A Voice in the Wilderness (1)
1×19: A Voice in the Wilderness (2)
1×20: Babylon Squared
1×21: The Quality of Mercy
1×14: TKO
1×17: Legacies
1×22: Chrysalis

Season 2
2×01: Points of Departure
2×02: Revelations
2×03: The Geometry of Shadows
2×04: A Distant Star
2×05: The Long Dark
2×06: Spider in the Web
2×08: A Race Through Dark Places
2×07: Soul Mates
2×09: The Coming of Shadows
2×10: GROPOS
2×11: All Alone in the Night
2×12: Acts of Sacrifice
2×13: Hunter, Prey
2×14: There All the Honor Lies
2×15: And Now for a Word
2×17: Knives
2×16: In the Shadow of Z’ha’dum
2×18: Confessions and Lamentations
2×19: Divided Loyalties
2×20: The Long Twilight Struggle
2×21: Comes the Inquisitor
2×22: The Fall of Night

Season 3
3×01: Matters of Honor
3×02: Convictions
3×03: A Day in the Strife
3×04: Passing Through Gethsemane
3×05: Voices of Authority
3×06: Dust to Dust
3×07: Exogenesis
3×08: Messages from Earth (1)
3×09: Point of No Return (2)
3×10: Severed Dreams (3)
3×11: Ceremonies of Light and Dark
3×13: A Late Delivery from Avalon
3×12: Sic Transit Vir
3×14: Ship of Tears
3×15: Interludes and Examinations
3×18: Walkabout
3×16: War Without End (1)
3×17: War Without End (2)
3×19: Grey 17 Is Missing
3×20: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
3×21: Shadow Dancing
3×22: Z’ha’dum

Season 4
4×01: The Hour of the Wolf
4×02: What Ever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
4×03: The Summoning
4×04: Falling Towards Apotheosis
4×05: The Long Night
4×06: Into the Fire
4×07: Epiphanies
4×08: The Illusion of Truth
Movie: Thirdspace
4×09: Atonement
Movie: In the Beginning (** chronologically here, but watch after the end of S4 **)
4×10: Racing Mars
4×11: Lines of Communication
4×12: Conflicts of Interest
4×13: Rumors, Bargains and Lies
4×14: Moments of Transition
4×15: No Surrender, No Retreat
4×16: Exercise of Vital Powers
4×17: The Face of the Enemy
4×18: Intersections in Real Time
4×19: Between the Darkness and the Light
4×20: Endgame
4×21: Rising Star
4×22: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Season 5
5×01: No Compromises
5×02: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
5×03: The Paragon of Animals
5×04: A View from the Gallery
5×05: Learning Curve
5×06: Strange Relations
5×07: Secrets of the Soul
5×09: In the Kingdom of the Blind
5×10: A Tragedy of Telepaths
5×11: Phoenix Rising
5×12: The Ragged Edge
5×08: Day of the Dead
5×13: The Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father
5×14: Meditations on the Abyss
5×15: Darkness Ascending
5×16: And All My Dreams Torn Asunder
5×17: Movements of Fire and Shadow (1)
5×18: The Fall of Centauri Prime (2)
5×19: The Wheel of Fire
5×20: Objects in Motion
5×21: Objects at Rest

Movie: River of Souls
Movie: The Legend of the Rangers

Movie: A Call to Arms

Crusade
Crusade 1×09: Racing the Night
Crusade 1×11: The Needs of Earth
Crusade 1×10: The Memory of War
Crusade 1×02: The Long Road
Crusade 1×12: Visitors from Down the Street
Crusade 1×03: The Well of Forever
Crusade 1×13: Each Night I Dream of Home
Crusade 1×05: Patterns of the Soul
Crusade 1×04: The Path of Sorrows
Crusade 1×06: Ruling from the Tomb
Crusade 1×07: The Rules of the Game
Crusade 1×01: War Zone
Crusade 1×08: Appearances and Other Deceits

6×01: The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark

5×22: Sleeping in Light

(I’ve italicised the bits where it goes out of order.)

I can only imagine you watched different TV to me in the 90s if you thought it was significantly less dross filled.

Thats a fair point. Ok the good stuff is better but the bad stuff is worse as well. I guess thi sis due to the need to fill more hours than before?

That’s a bit of an out of date view of things TBH and getting more so every day:

Ok I am out of date but reading that the best you can say is they have started to do it . However what percentage of its output is that ? Its less than 1 % and probably less than 0.1 % and possibly less than 0.01 %

I have netflix FWIW but dont use it all that much

Are you serious about that running order for Crusade, Cougar?

😆 it smells of geek in here 😆

Its not nice to point and laugh at minorities

Are you serious about that running order for Crusade, Cougar?

It’s what I put together at the time, there was probably a reason for it. I’d have to go back over it to be “sure” though.

As the shows have been on tv I am not sure what you mean by more quickly

I mean that you can watch four episodes a night and view an entire back catalogue of a show in a matter of weeks. Then you can do the same with another show. So you get through it faster. And you can choose the good stuff. The bad stuff is less likely to be watched just because it’s on when you have nothing else to do.

It’s what I put together at the time, there was probably a reason for it. I’d have to go back over it to be “sure” though.

I saw it when it was first broadcast, presumably in numerical order (but maybe not!). I didn’t think it was great but it wasn’t as all over the place as it would have been if yours was the correct sequence.

It wouldn’t be unheard of, Firefly was broadcast in a strange order too.

The poster boy for that is American Gothic. The DVD’s all over the bloody place. At least Firefly’s order was corrected for the disc.

Babylon 5 always reminds me of video toaster and Amigas 🙁