What's one youve had?

I know there used to be niche shows, but then covid happened and we all had nothing to do

The Sopranos. “Gabagool? Over heeeeere.”

I haven’t heard of that one. I’ll have to look into it.

I quite like Q even though he’s not a major character really. But Data is probably my favourite of the main characters. Likewise Spock from TOS

Good call! Funnily enough they’re my 2 favourites too. Although now I’m older I appreciate Picard more…

Corner Gas is so much better than it needs to be. I always think of it as “Seinfeld on a Prairie.”

Better Off Ted and The Joe Schmoe Show:

DS9 was Babylon Five Lite.

AFAIK the visuals were designed for a 3:4, SDTV world. The problem is that when they filmed it they framed it for 4:3 but they included some content to the sides so it could be used in a 16:9 format. The problem is that the CGI was all 4:3, so when they released a 16:9 DVD they had to do something about the CGI stuff, and they made a horrible decision. Instead of having vertical black bars, they cropped and zoomed the 4:3 CGI scenes so they had a 16:9 ratio. That meant they took something that was already in SD, then cropped out 25% of the content, and zoomed in so you couldn’t see the whole frame.

It’s good, but I’d hardly call it “god tier sci-fi”. It is much more an actioney, comedy, adventure show than it is a serious sci-fi show. It’s not the kind of show that really challenges the viewer in any way. The “sci” part of the “sci-fi” is basically fantasy. It has some great characters, lots of fun adventures, a little bit of danger, but you know basically things are going to be wrapped up at the end of the episode.

It’s one of my favourite shows to re-watch, but I put it on when I’m doing other things because I know it’s going to be some fun adventures and fun interactions between great characters without any deep thinking or deep emotions. Meanwhile, there are other shows that I don’t rewatch often because they’re not well suited to being background entertainment.

Is it officially over now?

I want to re-watch that one soon. IMO it’s by far the best hacking TV Show / Movie ever made.

I just re-watched Hackers because it’s the 30th anniversary. There are definitely things I like about it. Matthew Lillard gives an amazing performance. The soundtrack of that movie is amazing. The costumers and set designers had so much fun with it. But good gawd, the hacking was so terrible. Basically every time anybody touches a computer in that show it’s awful. And for a movie about hackers… that’s a lot. What’s amazing is that clearly they had some very knowledgeable person/people involved, because parts of the script definitely reference real things that “non-hackers” wouldn’t know about. But, I guess they just ignored these experts when it came to anything involving someone touching a computer.

And “The Pacific” for the trilogy. Band of Brothers is by far the best, but they’re all worth watching.

I agree ha!