I've already got:
Supernatural
Heroes
Stargate Universe
FlashForward
V
The Prisoner
Caprica
Anything else?
Supernatural
Heroes
Stargate Universe
FlashForward
V
The Prisoner
Caprica
Anything else?
What sci fi shows should I follow in the new season?
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You could check out Dollhouse.
I'll be watching Lost and Dollhouse. I may continue with Heroes, though I'm debating whether I should drop it. I will probably sample Caprica and V, though I'm not holding my breath for either one. Day One sounded really interesting until I saw that teaser. Now I think I'll pass.
Fringe and SG:U for sure... I may sample others.
I'll tentatively say Smallville...at least for the event episodes. Such as the Justice Society and reveal of Metallo when it comes probably mid season. Zod is the main big bad for season nine.
Of those mentioned:
Fringe - Saw the first couple of episodes but it reminded me too much of the X Files so I gave up.
Dollhouse - The concept doesn't grab me - is it worth watching? I heard more mixed reviews from that show than any other last season.
Smallville - Never took an interest in it.
Lost - Hate it.
The Suvivors - Never heard of it. Will have to google it.
Merlin - Is that the British version? The main guy is too ugly and boring to follow it!
Fringe - Saw the first couple of episodes but it reminded me too much of the X Files so I gave up.
Dollhouse - The concept doesn't grab me - is it worth watching? I heard more mixed reviews from that show than any other last season.
Smallville - Never took an interest in it.
Lost - Hate it.
The Suvivors - Never heard of it. Will have to google it.
Merlin - Is that the British version? The main guy is too ugly and boring to follow it!
My predictions, with the ones that I think will survive the year in boldface.
Heroes - Will recover somewhat and become at least tolerable, largely due to Robert Knepper's character; NBC's new crop of shows will be another failure so in desperation, they give Heroes an S5.
Stargate Universe - Stargate attempts to imitate BSG. Just as big a train wreck as that implies. But the Stargate audience won't let em down...
FlashForward - Somewhat intriguing but gimmicky and patience-straining.
Day One - Craptacular, cliche-ridden soap opera, quick cancellation.
V - This is the one I've got my eye on; I think it will be somewhat smart, very fun, and a success.
The Prisoner - Will be a decent enough re-imagining. No possibility of going to series, regardless of ratings, because the premise doesn't permit it.
Caprica - Smart, intriguing, quickly cancelled due to a tragic lack of space battles.
Lost - Great final season but obviously won't survive beyond that.
Chuck - I love this show but have my doubts that the "new direction" will work storywise...
Dollhouse - Ratings are marginal and there's nowhere to go but down.
Fringe - Bores me, but it's grabbed an audience and I think it's in for the long haul.
If he could act worth a damn and the writing didn't suck, I could forgive his looks.
OTOH, the whole thing is so bad, they'd have to hire a 25-year-old Joe Flanigan to compensate. 
Heroes - Will recover somewhat and become at least tolerable, largely due to Robert Knepper's character; NBC's new crop of shows will be another failure so in desperation, they give Heroes an S5.
Stargate Universe - Stargate attempts to imitate BSG. Just as big a train wreck as that implies. But the Stargate audience won't let em down...
FlashForward - Somewhat intriguing but gimmicky and patience-straining.
Day One - Craptacular, cliche-ridden soap opera, quick cancellation.
V - This is the one I've got my eye on; I think it will be somewhat smart, very fun, and a success.
The Prisoner - Will be a decent enough re-imagining. No possibility of going to series, regardless of ratings, because the premise doesn't permit it.
Caprica - Smart, intriguing, quickly cancelled due to a tragic lack of space battles.
Lost - Great final season but obviously won't survive beyond that.
Chuck - I love this show but have my doubts that the "new direction" will work storywise...
Dollhouse - Ratings are marginal and there's nowhere to go but down.
Fringe - Bores me, but it's grabbed an audience and I think it's in for the long haul.
If he could act worth a damn and the writing didn't suck, I could forgive his looks.
OTOH, the whole thing is so bad, they'd have to hire a 25-year-old Joe Flanigan to compensate. Dollhouse is apparently getting a soft reboot, where Whedon gets closer to what he originally wanted. I gather the RoboHo Hour was more what Fox wanted. Whether it will be any good is doubtful. There's more to writing than dialogue.
Best chance for something good is FlashForward, because it has the most interesting possibilities for stories. It will probably fail because of an insistence on serializing the plot, though. If the series becomes about how the FlashForward occurred and what it means for The Big Picture, dragging it out over a season will make it contrived and flabby and therefore boring in the end.
Stargate Universe will almost certainly fail, because it's still set in the Von Daeniken universe, which is crazy stupid. You can't take that seriously without making a fool of yourself.
Fringe has an excellent character in Walter Bishop, and a potential relationship for him with Peter. But the show insists on being about Anna Torv. She must be a pretty good actress because despite being an abominably written fantasy woman I don't hurl when she's on screen. I merely twitch with impatience.
V smells really bad. Space war has been beat to death. It's basically stupid. The only series to make it work are Stargate, which was an adventure/comedy, and Babylon 5, which revealed space war was basically a crazy game, and the rest was bombing raids. And even B5 had problems with it, even though it threw in revolution too. There's no sign V knows any of this.
Lost will fail to satisfactorily resolve. It's best chance is to bravely reset the time line, then have this season be the real story. The previous seasons are too much of a mess to salvage.
Heroes will never get back to ordinary people with an extraordinary gift, and therefore will never have that first season quality again.
Sanctuary will be as gaudy and over the top as before and if you like the characters and have a sense of humor will be great fun.
Chuck will still have the star, which is all it ever had. Like him, like the show.
Day One sounds like total garbage.
Caprica is already on for an entire season. It has already trodden down the Muslim bashing route and will therefore it will be politically correct (using the phrase in a rational sense, for once,) to critically praise it. But the mass audience, such as SyFy wishes, won't buy into the garbage. The series has an excellent chance of being renewed now because of the politics, no matter what the ratings are. The pilot proves the chances of it actually being good are pretty much zero.
The Prisoner is a stunt for critical praise. Might work.
The fantasies I mostly don't care about, they're not my taste. The one I liked, Pushing Daisies, is gone.
Best chance for something good is FlashForward, because it has the most interesting possibilities for stories. It will probably fail because of an insistence on serializing the plot, though. If the series becomes about how the FlashForward occurred and what it means for The Big Picture, dragging it out over a season will make it contrived and flabby and therefore boring in the end.
Stargate Universe will almost certainly fail, because it's still set in the Von Daeniken universe, which is crazy stupid. You can't take that seriously without making a fool of yourself.
Fringe has an excellent character in Walter Bishop, and a potential relationship for him with Peter. But the show insists on being about Anna Torv. She must be a pretty good actress because despite being an abominably written fantasy woman I don't hurl when she's on screen. I merely twitch with impatience.
V smells really bad. Space war has been beat to death. It's basically stupid. The only series to make it work are Stargate, which was an adventure/comedy, and Babylon 5, which revealed space war was basically a crazy game, and the rest was bombing raids. And even B5 had problems with it, even though it threw in revolution too. There's no sign V knows any of this.
Lost will fail to satisfactorily resolve. It's best chance is to bravely reset the time line, then have this season be the real story. The previous seasons are too much of a mess to salvage.
Heroes will never get back to ordinary people with an extraordinary gift, and therefore will never have that first season quality again.
Sanctuary will be as gaudy and over the top as before and if you like the characters and have a sense of humor will be great fun.
Chuck will still have the star, which is all it ever had. Like him, like the show.
Day One sounds like total garbage.
Caprica is already on for an entire season. It has already trodden down the Muslim bashing route and will therefore it will be politically correct (using the phrase in a rational sense, for once,) to critically praise it. But the mass audience, such as SyFy wishes, won't buy into the garbage. The series has an excellent chance of being renewed now because of the politics, no matter what the ratings are. The pilot proves the chances of it actually being good are pretty much zero.
The Prisoner is a stunt for critical praise. Might work.
The fantasies I mostly don't care about, they're not my taste. The one I liked, Pushing Daisies, is gone.
That describes Stargate from the first! A creative failure, maybe, but crazy stupid has been selling just fine for the past dozen years.
You forgot DS9's successful space war plotline, but V will succeed for a different reason and won't be much like DS9 anyway - a good ole fashioned alien invasion story is easy for folks to relate to (and seems to be some kind of emerging TV trend). It won't be a space war because it won't take place in space. Maybe there will be some space scenes in future seasons but for the foreseeable future, they'll develop the story on Earth, and therefore avoid the problem of relatability to the general audience that space opera series always face, regardless of quality.
Nah, Lost will continue to be the Emmy-worthy success it's always been, despite the misgivings of people who can't follow the plotline, and will close out very satisfactorily.
How can something that's "Muslim bashing" be "politically correct"? The mass audience doesn't even watch skiffy, so they won't have a chance to buy it or not. Skiffy's audience is cult, and Caprica will probably appeal to only a cult of a cult, because it's not going to be crowd-pleasing or simple-minded enough for the whole skiffy audience - notice how their most successful shows are easy-watching, like Eureka, Warehouse 13, or the unkillable Stargate franchise. And then there's the dopey ghost-hunting reality shows.
Ratings will trump "politics" when it comes to renewal time, as per usual in Hollywood. Caprica will be cancelled by the end of S1 at the latest and it will be a sad loss since it represents a rare attempt to do anything truly intelligent or even truly sci fi on TV.
Ummmm......how is Caprica Muslim bashing? I must have missed that part when they were bashing Muslims, which don't exist in their universe. 
The Cylons are Muslims, I think. But the overall logic escapes me - did Caprica bash Cylons? And if so, how could this be PC?
Oh here's something that sounds like stupid fun: 2012, the miniseries.
Oh here's something that sounds like stupid fun: 2012, the miniseries.
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