Hello Nick.Mackechnie!

** On Wednesday 03.04.24 - 05:07, Nick.Mackechnie wrote to All:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Severence.

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Hello Ogg!

11 Jan 26 12:03, you wrote to Nick.Mackechnie:

Hello Nick.Mackechnie!

** On Wednesday 03.04.24 - 05:07, Nick.Mackechnie wrote to All:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

TheCivvie


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Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

+1 from me too. Must watch season two soon.

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

Gruj

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Hello Gruj!

11 Jan 26 20:14, you wrote to me:

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

+1 from me too. Must watch season two soon.

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

Could never get into Babylon 5

TheCivvie


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Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

+1 for Babylon 5. A like the Star trek, "Buck Rogers in 25th Century" and "Cosmos 1999" TV series.


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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to TheCivvie on Sun Jan 11 2026 20:14:39

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gods69 to Gruj on Mon Jan 12 2026 08:50:22

"Cosmos 1999" TV series.

Space: 1999.
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Ogg to Nick.Mackechnie on Sun Jan 11 2026 12:03:00

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

A couple recents I liked are Fallout and The Silo.
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Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

Gruj

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A couple recents I liked are Fallout and The Silo.

+1 on Fallout. Must watch season 2 soon. The Silo is actually on my list of series to watch next. :)

Gruj

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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to Mortar M. on Mon Jan 12 2026 08:13 pm

Battlestar Galactica and Babylon 5 are also great sci-fi series.

As long as it's the original BG.

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow.. I wonder if people generally felt that way when it came out, because there's only one season. But we're also curious to watch the reboot series from 2003/2004 - I've heard that was fairly popular.

Nightfox
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gruj to Mortar M. on Mon Jan 12 2026 20:13:33

I must confess that I haven't seen the original series. Maybe one day I will.

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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Nightfox to Gruj on Mon Jan 12 2026 13:46:15

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow..

Really? What confused you?

I wonder if people generally felt that way when it came out, because there's only one season.

The main reasons were due to:
1) The show was constantly being pre-empted for one special or another, so
gaining an audience was difficult.
2) Cost (probably the main reason). Each episode cost about a million
bucks. It was the most expensive TV series to date (1978).

Granted, it wasn't perfect, but considering it was the '70s, producing a weekly space adventure show, without the use of CGI, is pretty impressive.
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Jan 13 2026 12:12 am

My wife & I started watching the original BG recently. We're just a few
episodes in, but we both feel like it's a bit hard to follow..

Really? What confused you?

As I said, it just seems a bit hard to follow. One thing is that it seems to suddenly switch from one scene to another without a setup for context, so it has been a bit difficult to follow what all is going on. Also maybe the pacing is another thing..

Nightfox
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Nightfox to Mortar M. on Tue Jan 13 2026 09:16:01

As I said, it just seems a bit hard to follow. One thing is that it seems to suddenly switch from one scene to another without a setup for context, so it has been a bit difficult to follow what all is going on. Also maybe the pacing is another thing..

I'm a long-time fan of the series and while it has some production issues, I've never had a problem flowwing the episodes. Couple Qs: Are you sure your watching the 1978 Battlestar Galactica and not Galactica: 1980, 'cause that show definitely had issues in those areas. If "Yes", are they unedited episodes (from DVD/streaming); episodes from TV tended to get chopped up to allow for more commercials.
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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Mortar M. to Nightfox on Tue Jan 13 2026 01:37 pm

I'm a long-time fan of the series and while it has some production issues, I've never had a problem flowwing the episodes. Couple Qs: Are you sure your watching the 1978 Battlestar Galactica and not Galactica: 1980,

Yes, I'm sure I'm watching the 1978 version. There's the one season with 24 episodes, right?

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"Cosmos 1999" TV series.

Space: 1999.

I saw that and wondered if maybe it wasn't called something else in other
parts of the world.
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Space: 1999.

I saw that and wondered if maybe it wasn't called something else in other parts of the world.

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999". First season is good but the second is an disaster...

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Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-

If "Yes", are they unedited episodes (from DVD/streaming); episodes
from TV tended to get chopped up to allow for more commercials.

I started watching Star Trek: The original series in reruns in the 70s
and 80s. Didn't realize how much was cut to make room for more
commercials until I saw the unedited episodes online!

There were a couple of examples where watching the original editions
made a lot more sense.

For example, in "What are little girls made of?", before Kirk is
duplicated, he mutters to himself the Vulcan slur that the
duplicate Kirk says to Spock, which tips Spock off that he's a
duplicate.

Hopefully that's not spoiler material to anyone - it's been 60 years!




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Gods69 wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999". First season is good but
the second is an disaster...

There's a facebook group that denies the second season ever existed. It
wasn't the same without Victor Bergman pondering their situation,
saying things like...

"The intrinsic unknowability of the Human Experience..."

"We have learned many things, but most of all that we still have much to learn."

Story was, they were given money for the second season by partnering
with an Italian studio, which is why so many extras and secondary
characters have accents. They leaned way too hard on Maya as well.

There was some speculation about Space:1999 happening in the same
universe as the Anderson's previous show, UFO. I would have liked to see
more tie-ins.

Wow, I guess I'm a little too into it.



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Hello Ogg!

11 Jan 26 18:04, TheCivvie wrote to you:

Can someone recommend a good new scifi series to watch?

Fringe.

Severence.

+1 on that. Amazing series.

s2r


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Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: Nightfox to Mortar M. on Tue Jan 13 2026 14:59:51

Yes, I'm sure I'm watching the 1978 version. There's the one season with 24 episodes, right?

That's the one.
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: Gods69 to MIKE POWELL on Wed Jan 14 2026 08:20:36

Yes, here in France is called "Cosmos 1999".

Huh, didn't know that.

First season is good but the second is an disaster...

Yea, pretty much. I never saw the point of the Maya character.

What I liked best about the show were the sets and ships. The interiors of MA were gorgeous (I wish my house looked that way) and the Eagles actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?
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Re: Re: Battlestar Galactics (TOS)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Wed Jan 14 2026 06:56:54

For example, in "What are little girls made of?", before Kirk is duplicated, he mutters to himself the Vulcan slur that the duplicate Kirk says to Spock, which tips Spock off that he's aduplicate.

Good episode. Until then, I'd only seen Ted Cassidy playing Lurch on The Adams Family.

Hopefully that's not spoiler material to anyone - it's been 60 years!

Awww Maaaan! :(


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Severence is wonderful
Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible
Pluribus is fun
Dark, German with subs is another incredible piece of work

Regards,

Dundarach

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Hello Dundarach!

14 Jan 26 19:57, you wrote to me:

Severence is wonderful
Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible

Haven't seen it.

Pluribus is fun

I started watching it a few days ago. Yes very interesting, I always like they chose Albuquerque. :)

Dark, German with subs is another incredible piece of work

I liked it, many plot twists.


s2r


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... and the Eagles
actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?

I never noticed that too.
At least the are some air smoke when the ship take off... ;-)

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Mortar M. wrote to Gods69 <=-

What I liked best about the show were the sets and ships. The
interiors of MA were gorgeous (I wish my house looked that way) and the Eagles actually looked functional...mostly; ever notice that the rear engines never fired?

The Eagle was a great design. Loved how they modified it into the Hawk,
the swift and others. The guys who designed ships for that show were on
a breakneck schedule, this was long before multi-month hiatuses.

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass. I want a computer that can
run my entire house and only provide output in an echoey woman's voice,
a projection screen or thermal receipt printers.

The show UFO, the precursor and possible prequel to Space:1999 had a
multi-national moonbase with 70s furniture, female workers in
miniskirts with purple wigs, launch chute slides for pilots to get
into interceptor spaceships, and a kitchen with slot ovens marked

AMERICAN MEALS
ITALIAN MEALS
BRITISH MEALS
FRENCH MEALS
RUSSIAN MEALS

Very 70s, very cool. I think it was supposed to take place in 1990?



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Dundarach wrote to s2r <=-

Dispatches From Elsewhere, incredible

There's a great documentary called "The Institute", about the real game
that unfolded in San Francisco in the 2010s. Being San Francisco, a
haven for all sort of people, seeing flyers on the streets about mind
control and dolphin telepathy wouldn't exactly stand out back then...

It was on Vimeo, think it might be on YouTube as well.

Found it - it's on Pluto TV for free.




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Re: Scifi
By: s2r to Dundarach on Wed Jan 14 2026 18:49:16

Pluribus is fun

I started watching it a few days ago. Yes very interesting, I always like they chose Albuquerque. :)

If it's good enough for Wierd Al...
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Re: Re: Scifi
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15:44

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass.

Here's someone who actually did it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97852768@N07/page9
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Mortar M. wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Re: Re: Scifi
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar M. on Thu Jan 15 2026 08:15:44

A moonbase alpha house would be kick-ass.

Here's someone who actually did it: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97852768@N07/page9

I'd want to be able to open doors with a comlock. :)




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Here 'ya go:
https://movies4kto.to/movie/watch-battlestar-galactica-free-6740

Is it just me, or is the ending to this one different than the pilot movie from the show?


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Re: Re: Scifi
By: phigan to Mortar M. on Sun Jan 25 2026 17:32:25

Is it just me, or is the ending to this one different than the pilot movie from the show?

You must've watched the theatrical version, which was a stand-alone movie. It also included scenes missing from the TV version. Conversely, the TV pilot has scenes the theatrical version doesn't. The pilot for Buck Rogers was treated the same way.
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You must've watched the theatrical
version, which was a stand-alone
movie. It also included scenes
missing from the TV version.

Aha! So I'm not crazy and Baltar doesn't become leader of the Cylons. I like that version of the story much better. Still like the show, though. I've just rewatched all but two eps which I will probably get to today.

Not sure if I posted this here yet.. in episode 6, some Cylons are walking around on their ship.. a couple of them go to pull some levers.. others are doing work.. then for a second it cuts to one Cylon standing around watching demos :D. I have a screenshot of it that makes me laugh but I'm on an Atari atm and don't have the pic url.



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phigan wrote to Mortar M. <=-

Not sure if I posted this here yet.. in episode 6, some Cylons are
walking around on their ship.. a couple of them go to pull some
levers.. others are doing work.. then for a second it cuts to one Cylon standing around watching demos :D. I have a screenshot of it that makes
me laugh but I'm on an Atari atm and don't have the pic url.

Ever see the crewman on the original Star Trek series turning an
imaginary wheel in the hallways of the enterprise as Kirk and Spock walk
by?





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Re: Re: BG Ending
By: phigan to Mortar M. on Sun Feb 01 2026 11:30:03

Aha! So I'm not crazy and Baltar doesn't become leader of the Cylons.

Well, he never become Imperious Leader. He's merely granted a Basestar to hunt down the Galactica.

in episode 6, some Cylons are walking around on their ship.. a couple of them go to pull some levers.. others are doing work.. then for a second it cuts to one Cylon standing around watching demos :D.

Demos? Do you know the episode title or briefly what it's about?
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Re: Re: BG Ending
By: poindexter FORTRAN to phigan on Sun Feb 01 2026 09:32:28

Ever see the crewman on the original Star Trek series turning an imaginary wheel in the hallways of the enterprise as Kirk and Spock walk by?

Do you recall which episode this was or what the story was about?
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