What science fiction shows do you disliked or weren't interested in, but were popular? Here is my lowdown:
Much of Season Two, Three & Seven of Star Trek: Voyager, with Jeri Taylor actually being notably blander than Brannon Braga in terms of story ideas, even though she had more decipline in running the series (many individual great episodes can be found in those seasons, mind you).
The X-Files from Season Six onwards; it had a similar pattern of decline like Stargate SG-1 did by running four years too long, but to a much greater extent (at least SG-1's movie spin-offs are harmless fun).
Stargate: Atlantis, from what little I've seen of it and from much of what I've read about it.
Season Seven of DS9 was vanishing up its own backside, but there were still things that I liked about it, while Seasons Three to Six set the bar so high, so the last season was bound to struggle and strain.
Torchwood is actually a wildly successful and popular spin-off, with a reasonable three or four million viewers every week, but its first season was generally more risible than the worst of RTD and embarassingly The Sarah Jane Adventures is much more credible.
The first two seasons of The Next Generation are more risible and awful than the first two seasons of either Voyager and Enterprise, which makes me wonder why those two later shows were supposedly very bad in the first place.
Buffy the Fucking Vampire Slayer, but one good thing came of it, it cemented Anthony Head as a household name.
Much of Season Two, Three & Seven of Star Trek: Voyager, with Jeri Taylor actually being notably blander than Brannon Braga in terms of story ideas, even though she had more decipline in running the series (many individual great episodes can be found in those seasons, mind you).
The X-Files from Season Six onwards; it had a similar pattern of decline like Stargate SG-1 did by running four years too long, but to a much greater extent (at least SG-1's movie spin-offs are harmless fun).
Stargate: Atlantis, from what little I've seen of it and from much of what I've read about it.
Season Seven of DS9 was vanishing up its own backside, but there were still things that I liked about it, while Seasons Three to Six set the bar so high, so the last season was bound to struggle and strain.
Torchwood is actually a wildly successful and popular spin-off, with a reasonable three or four million viewers every week, but its first season was generally more risible than the worst of RTD and embarassingly The Sarah Jane Adventures is much more credible.
The first two seasons of The Next Generation are more risible and awful than the first two seasons of either Voyager and Enterprise, which makes me wonder why those two later shows were supposedly very bad in the first place.
Buffy the Fucking Vampire Slayer, but one good thing came of it, it cemented Anthony Head as a household name.
