Which Show to watch?

[Gaith]

NOT THIS! Seriously, it's the only HBO show I've watched that I ultimately WOULDN'T recommend. Not enough stuff gets answered before the show got axed, so it just ends up being a bizarre, vague, and confusing series. I liked the setting, but that's about it.

Really? Unlike Lost, BSG and Twin Peaks, Carnivàle was pretty fully plotted from the get-go. Sure, the story isn't completely wrapped up, but I'd say that 80-90% of the questions posed in the first two seasons are answered by the show's end (check out the super-detailed Wiki pages if you don't already believe). What nagging mysteries eluded you?

 

[Mistral]

Stargate: SG1 is a solid, fun show. It goes on for many years, and gets a satisfying ending.

Plus, it has spin off movies. Always a bonus, IMO.
As does B5.

 

[Kegg]

Really? Unlike Lost, BSG and Twin Peaks, Carnivàle was pretty fully plotted from the get-go. Sure, the story isn't completely wrapped up,

Well, that's an understatement. I would rather say 'ends on massively infuriating cliffhanger.'

 

[JD]

Charlie Jade looks like something to watch...but can't seem to find it on Netflix/amazon.

I have decided that I am going though

DS9 -> B5 -> Farscape -> SG1 => NuBSG

Which should keep me busy for ..a year or so.

Looks good to me.
I wonder what happened to Charlie Jade, I just watched it on Netflix streaming service a few months ago. They have it for free on Hulu though.

 

[Gaith]

Really? Unlike Lost, BSG and Twin Peaks, Carnivàle was pretty fully plotted from the get-go. Sure, the story isn't completely wrapped up,

Well, that's an understatement. I would rather say 'ends on massively infuriating cliffhanger.'

To me, "cliffhanger" means that something big is just about to happen/get started. See: Marty stuck in 1955 again at the end of BttF II, "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I". But Carnivàle was always intended to be a six-season trilogy of three two-season parts, and, given the tone of the finale's last scenes, I expect there would have been a lot more build-up to the next big event in the overall story. So sure, the epic was unfinished, but I wouldn't call the finale a cliffhanger per se.

 

[Satyrquaze]

Finish DS9 and B5. move on to Farscape and SG1.

Or go find Dr Who, obviously.

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[Kegg]

To me, "cliffhanger" means that something big is just about to happen/get started.

I'm pretty sceptical of the idea of defining cliffhanger in such a way you don't have to say an obvious cliffhanger is a cliffhanger, so I checked Wikipedia's brief.

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction. A cliffhanger is hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma.

How Carnivale leaves us definitely qualifies,

Spoiler: Carnivale ending

with a main character going all black eyeballs on us. That's pretty clearly fitting the 'ensure the audience will return' bit, and also 'confronted with a shocking revelation' bit.