The Shrine

Wow. Where to start talking? Hell if I know! All I can say is it's one of the best TV series, of any kind, ever. No exaggeration. It's got everything and perhaps more amazingly, it does everything well. Romance, betrayal, war, politics....even religion. All fit in into the show congruently and they never step on each other's toes. It continues the evolution of sci-fi begun by (believe it or not), Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

Can't wait until Netflix makes Season 2 available...I may have to buy it before then though. I don't think I can wait after a season ending cliffhanger like that!

ST:DS9 was copying off of Babylon 5's success. DS9 didn't start to be continuous until they starting noticing that people really liked B5. B5 was planned to be like that from the beginning.

Just saying, you know, to give credit where it's due.

Ish, I'd go pick up the first half of Season 2 on DVD at Best Buy. $40 was the price, it's not packed full of extras or anything but Season 2 picked up right where season one left off.

New Episodes start friday January 6th.

Hmmm, the series sounds like I might find it interesting as well. Although I have to admit that even though I really liked a lot of the characters in Deep Space 9, I found it was a series I could not get into. The thing is, I really liked the idea of it, I just thought it could have been executed a lot better. Perhaps Battlestar Galactica is that answer?

Well, in my opinion, most sci-fi series after Star Trek have been better than Star Trek. Not to say that ST wasn't good, but it always suffered from being too damned clean cut. Series like Farscape and Firefly show the reality of what life after space would be like.

SineSwiper wrote:ST:DS9 was copying off of Babylon 5's success. DS9 didn't start to be continuous until they starting noticing that people really liked B5. B5 was planned to be like that from the beginning.

Just saying, you know, to give credit where it's due.

You're probably right about that, though I've never seen B5 myself.

Also on an informative, but slightly unrelated note, Ron Moore (main guy on BSG) wrote many TNG and DS9 episodes and was a big fan of Firefly.

Ishamael wrote:Also on an informative, but slightly unrelated note, Ron Moore (main guy on BSG) wrote many TNG and DS9 episodes and was a big fan of Firefly.

I think I've posted the writing credits and their previous projects before.

Barret wrote:Ish, I'd go pick up the first half of Season 2 on DVD at Best Buy. $40 was the price, it's not packed full of extras or anything but Season 2 picked up right where season one left off.

New Episodes start friday January 6th.

Oh yeah...almost forgot. Thanks.

I've heard great things, but I'm pretty tied up in Lost right now, and 24 starts soon. I'd definitely pick up the DVDs if I saw them for cheap.

$60 cheap enough?

You get the 3 hr mini plus 13 eps.

This show is Television Jesus.

Tortolia wrote:This show is Television Jesus.

Indeed, sir. Indeed.

Jesus? Hell no, it's the motherfucking bastard child that God had before Jesus. In other words, when this series ends, the world will too.