The Most Unsatisfying Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Disappointing Tv or Movies

[WiredPlanet]

I would rank How I Met Your Mother, Breaking Bad, True Blood, Glee, Heroes, Gery's Anatomy both ALIAS and LOST

If Heroes was canceled after Season 1 it could have been preserved as one of the best scifi comicbook tv shows of all time

 

[DarKush]

I still laugh when I see reruns of the original Battlestar Galactica. It was purely a poorly conceived, attempted rip off of Star Wars. I remember the hype from the network concerning this television dog. It was so bad it barely lasted 1 season.

I thought the original BSG was good for its time. I know a little about the lawsuit for ripping off Star Wars, but when I watched it as a kid I didn't get those parallels and to be honest I don't get them much today. Both are big space operas, with a focus on dogfights, but I think BSG is different enough, with its own mythology not to be a rip off.

I don't think it was poorly conceived. You couldn't have nuBSG without it. And I think the original series Cylons are better than the nuBSG Cylons-now that nuBSG is over. With the old school Cylons there was no angst, no wanting to mate with humanity, they just wanted to wipe humanity out. They were relentless. It was sort of refreshing. Don't get me wrong I did enjoy a lot of nuBSG and I think it was an improvement in many respects over the original, but ultimately it just didn't measure up. They really didn't have a plan for how to end it and it feels in retrospect almost like a waste of time, despite some good performances, action sequences, and production values.

From what I read original BSG was cancelled not because of ratings but because of the budget. I mean the idea was good enough for them to attempt to revive it with Galatica 1980. I think the original BSG gets criticized unfairly in comparison to the newer version. But the television landscape was much different back then and for the late 70s it was an ambitious program that I think did a good job of dealing with the fallout of the near annihilation of Colonial society and the attempts to escape and rebuild. I mean its easy to see some stuff as cheesy today that might have just been the way they did things back then.

 

[2takesfrakes]

... it's not as if the original [Star Wars] trilogy was that good. One good movie and half a good movie plus a stupid movie do not make a good trilogy.

... Agreed!

 

[WiredPlanet]

From what I read original BSG was cancelled not because of ratings but because of the budget. I mean the idea was good enough for them to attempt to revive it with Galatica 1980. I think the original BSG gets criticized unfairly in comparison to the newer version. But the television landscape was much different back then and for the late 70s it was an ambitious program that I think did a good job of dealing with the fallout of the near annihilation of Colonial society and the attempts to escape and rebuild. I mean its easy to see some stuff as cheesy today that might have just been the way they did things back then.

Agreed from what I read the show had massive sets form its time and was insanely expensive to produce

Did you guys finish Caprica? it looked like an ok series

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I think the story of humans making Cylons might work better than some ancient lizard-humans or the reptilian alien race, its a bit like a silly version of "V" or the silly version of Sleestak from Land of the Lost

 

[DarKush]

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I only watched some of Caprica. I tried at first but couldn't get into it. Once the show got cancelled SyFy did a marathon and I watched some of that. The last several episodes were pretty good. But the show just started so slow and boring. I wish SyFy had did Blood and Chrome as a follow up instead of Caprica.

I liked the reptilian or alien robots from the original series in terms of them being more implacable. The human created Cylons were fine, though I just think that the new show didn't know what to do with them. It felt like the ideas fell under their own weight. While the new show was going on I was caught up into it, but by the end, it was just underwhelming.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I loved Caprica. I really found the actual buildup to the creation of the Cylons and their eventual rebellion to be more interesting than the actual war itself. Really the most interesting part of the war is how it ended and we got that in Razor. There we learned that the Cylons were close to winning and were already trying to develop organic Cylons that appeared to be human.

Caprica explained why they would have a desire to appear human, as well as their belief in a religion. I would have loved to see more, especially how Cylons were a part of Colonial society for a while.

I didn't really care for Blood and Chrome. It seemed like they focused too much on the action, then they went insane with it and introduced the Cylon mega-python that escaped from one of Syfy's saturday night shlockfests.

 

[Richard Baker]

I tried to watch Caprica but I just could not get into it. It seemed to take the drama from the NuBSG and put them into a semi-modern city filled with a lot of politics to keep track of. I did not care for the high level of drama in the rebooted series, but at least you had some action and SFX to focus on.

The only really good thing to come from Galactica 1980 IMO was the episode where you find out what happened to Starbuck.

 

[Vandervecken]

Not on list but no matter how I replay it in my head Childhood's End felt disappointing for me. Much was well done but still there was something missing. They shouldn't have tried to punch up the characters with more storyline (eg, Stormgren's illness), because Clarke was never all that interested in the characters of CE, and the religious fanatic storyline felt like them overplaying the importance of the Overlords' appearance (Satan), which was a mystery in CE and part of the SF (the association of the Overlords with humanity's end echoed backward in time), but was not important enough to merit its own subplot.

They worked hard at it but still I didn't get the chilled, sad and haunted feeling I have at the end of CE (the book) whenever I revisit it.

A good try--not embarrassing, competent--but for sure a disappointment.

 

[tomalak301]

I would rank How I Met Your Mother, Breaking Bad, True Blood, Glee, Heroes, Gery's Anatomy both ALIAS and LOST

If Heroes was canceled after Season 1 it could have been preserved as one of the best scifi comicbook tv shows of all time

I didn't know Glee was a sci fi/fantasy series. Of course considering some of the storylines, it could have been a fantasy series.

 

[davejames]

For me it's hard to top the disappointment of Phantom Menace and Indy 4.

Although my disappointment and frustration with VOY comes awfully close. I remember absolutely loving the show in the first season and thought it had easily the most compelling premise with the most dynamic cast of Trek characters yet... and then it quickly began to squander all that and become as cheesy and generic as possible, with no real consequences or sense of continuity whatsoever. Which might have been fine on a show like TNG, but went completely against the core premise of VOY.