Sci-Fi Love

preciousjeni · #1 07-23-2004, 04:23 AM

Posting in another thread got me thinking about my love for sci-fi. TV Tome has the storylines for many tv shows, so I went there looking for something else and found The Twilight Zone.

In this thread, I would love for everyone to seek out their favorite episodes of sci-fi shows (old and new!) and post them!!! Also, tell why you liked them.

preciousjeni · #2 07-23-2004, 04:27 AM

From The Twilight Zone (old), if anyone has the pleasure of viewing, watch for these two episodes:

Episode 84 - The Hunt

Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. Only the raccoon emerges. He and Rip awaken the next morning next to the lake. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him, not even his wife - they all think he's dead. He finds a fence beside the graveyard and follows it to a gate. The man at the gate tells him it is the gate to Heaven, but dogs aren't allowed. Hyder takes Rip and leaves. Further down the road he meets an angel. The angel explains that the gate was actually the gate to Hell, and Rip wasn't allowed in because he could have smelled the brimstone.

*I adore this episode because when Hyder is at the first gate, the Devil was telling about all the wonderful things in "heaven" but that dogs weren't allowed. Hyder says something like, "Anywhere my dog can't go, ain't the place for me." Then when he comes to the second gate, you realize that his dog saved him from going to hell. (Anyone else seeing the Dog/God connection??)

Episode 97 - The Gift

A human-looking alien crash lands outside a village, and accidentally kills a police officer, and is wounded by another one. He staggers to a local bar and collapses. A local doctor removes the bullets from him, and he befriends a young boy sweeping up the floor. He gives the boy, Pedro, a gift. He says he will explain it later. The alien is cornered trying to escape and he tells Pedro to show them the gift, but they grab it from him and burn it. The soldiers shoot and kill the alien. The doctor reads whats left of the gift. It says, "Greetings to the people of Earth. We come... in peace. We bring you this gift. The following chemical formula is... a vaccine against all forms of cancer..."

*I like this episode because it represents what ignorance and fear ultimately accomplish.

Lady Pi Phi · #3 07-23-2004, 02:04 PM

I never got into the Twilight Zone.

I love Star Trek though.

yeah, you heard me...I love Star Trek!!!

I love all of the series...from TOS to Enterprise.

I don't really have a favourite epsidode, but some of my favourite ones are the time travel episode.

I also used to be a huge X-Files fan.

ISUKappa · #4 07-23-2004, 02:31 PM

Farscape.

Any of them.

Damn you, husband, for getting me hooked to this show right before it got cancelled.

TigerLilly · #5 07-25-2004, 05:23 AM

I'm with ya, Lady Pi Phi -- I love Star Trek!!! Favorite is the Next Generation because I grew up watching that since I was 3.

Those sound like really good Twilight Zone episodes, preciousjeni. I didn't realize that they had messages and stuff, but those two have good ones!

phisigduchesscv · #6 07-31-2004, 02:31 PM

Way too many favorites.

All the Star Treks but my two personal favorites are the Next Generation and Voyager series

The original Battlestar Galactica series

Stargate SG1 - although I'm not too thrilled that O'Neil is now a general and can't go on the missions. Plus I miss General hammond

V the movie - not so much the series

Space 1999

Lady Pi Phi · #7 07-31-2004, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by phisigduchesscv
...V the movie - not so much the series...

Co-sign. V is great! I just bought the DVD's recently.

I never saw the series.

sigtau305 · #8 07-31-2004, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi

I love Star Trek though.

yeah, you heard me...I love Star Trek!!!

I love all of the series...from TOS to Enterprise.

Trekkie right here. I'm a huge Star Trek Fan.

Also Space 1999, X-Files, Stargate-SG1 (SP)

GRhinoUK · #9 07-31-2004, 11:51 PM

X-Files: episode where there are these really old bugs inside some trees that get people when the lights go out. It was really old, way before the show started sucking.

Star Trek TNG: Skin of Evil and Best of Both Worlds. People may not have realized it, but older TNG's were really cheesy on the effects and sets. It's awesome.

Star Trek Voyager: Scorpions.

Dominon Tank Police: one of my favorite sci-fi animes.

Yeah, I'm hardcore about being a dork.

Lady Pi Phi · #10 08-01-2004, 12:01 AM

Has anybody seen the new series Stargate: Atlantis?

I didn't realize they were showing it here, but there showing it on our movie network and I think it might actually be a Canadian productin or at least filmed here. It starts some Canadian actors including Rainbow Sun Francks a former MuchMusic V.J (yay!)