• invictvs@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 days ago

    And for me right now that show is Farscape. I don’t know if you can call it niche, but it certainly is not very well known where I live. And this show is frelling good. I love it! I love the story, I love the actors, I love all the costumes and puppets, the sets, the effects. It is better than most of the dren studios nowadays produce

    • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I loved farscape when I first watched it on an antenna, later when i watched the last season in a day and a half because netflix claimed they were removing it. I’d like to watch it again soon.

    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      For anyone not familiar with the Firefly show, your comment makes very little sense. So I’d just chop in to help.

      As a little bonus, did you notice that the AA guns in the very first battle scene were Wayland Yutani branded?

      • khepri@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!

      • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I chose it as my online username/gamertag like 20years ago. Alan was taken at that time on whatever game I was playing when I picked it.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      I tried correcting you by spelling it correctly, but working out the syntax with the asterisks and slashes was huring my brain.

      But yes - great show.

      Also the only one where I think every cast change was an improvement.

      Trapper was just a clone of Hawk, whereas Honeycut was his own character. Henry was fun, but Potter brought real gravitas and represented a good man who was career Army - which was necessary. Burns had no redeeming characteristics at all, whereas Charles served as an antagonist while still hating the war and being a strong character and excellent surgeon.

      And the way they transformed Kilnger from a cheap side gag into a fully-fleshed out character was remarkable.

      And the decision not to cast a new regular when Radar left was inspired. We felt that hole the remainder of the series.

  • qualia@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    The quintessential example of this category: the pointless, yet hilarious improv comedy podcast recapping all 431 episodes of the 1960s series Bonanza: Bonanas for Bonanza ← YouTube explanation on Conan O’Brien Feeds a Friend (sic).

    I was hesitant to jump in despite loving Daly and Gourley, since I couldn’t give two sh¡ts about the show. But the show is not at all the point. It’s merely the premise that keeps the train on its tracks. So maybe it’s just the most ironic example of this category.

    • TeddE@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 days ago

      Lost Room was right in sci-fi’s mini-series phase, which I thought was a great format. Basically 6 hours to tell the story, in 3 2-hour chunks. A made-for-TV movie trilogy ☺️

      • Grabthar@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        It was very neat and definitely felt more like a pilot with how much it left unresolved. So much potential.

  • jayemar@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’ll bet he’s talking about Bojack Horseman and how they had to double up on season 6 because it got cancelled too soon