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BlackNMild2k1:
If you like the Supernatural, like crime drama and love to look at hot women, and looking for a new TV show to watch, I will suggest The Gates
Exclusive Gated Community for a wealthy group of individuals that all respect their privacy and seek to stay protected form the rest of the world now have a new Sheriff after their old one has retired. The thing is, this Sheriff has no idea what he is getting himself into as lots of the Community are not as they seem. There are Vampires, Werewolves, Witches and more in this town, and they are all doing their best to just coincide peacefully without outting who they really are to the regular people.
If I had to compare this show to other existing shows that you might have already seen;
Eureka + True Blood + Desperate Housewives = an awesome Supernatural Crime Drama that hopefully gets some life breathed back into it.
It only lasted 1 season and is 13 episodes long. Aired last summer on ABC and sadly suffered from poor ratings, but I still enjoyed it and would still recommend it. Too bad I had never heard of it until a few days ago when Netflix recommended it to me at random.
BlackNMild2k1:
I'm done with The Gates.
Just finished Dresden Files.
Surprising kinda into Gossip Girl (don't judge me), but only watching it with my girl.
finished Ugly Americans
tonite is a slow night for TV (Sons of Anarchy & Raising Hope)
so I need a new show. I'd prefer something SciFi or Supernatural with drama.
I'm not interested in BSG or Dr. Who (although I used to watch Dr. Who alot when I was young).
Is Vampire Diaries any good? It's in my queue for some reason.
How about The Tudors? that is also in my queue.
Any suggestions? Anything good really.
NWR_insanolord:
Why aren't you interested in Battlestar Galactica? It's easily the best sci-fi show of the last decade. The ending kind of sucked, but it's still definitely worth watching.
Another sci-fi show worth looking at is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is available in its entirety on Netflix Instant. It's quite different from other Trek shows, and has aged incredibly well. It was really ahead of its time, and has a lot in common with modern cable dramas, with a large cast of really well-written characters and a lot of long-term serialized storytelling. It starts out a little slow, but it gets really great. I'd pick it as my favorite sci-fi show ever.
Morari:
--- Quote from: NWR_insanolord on November 09, 2011, 05:30:15 PM ---Another sci-fi show worth looking at is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is available in its entirety on Netflix Instant.
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Eh, I always thought that it was easily the worst part of the entire franchise. It was sadly little more than a repurposed Babylon 5. While there are certainly a few standout episodes, it felt generally slow and plodding. Star Trek with no, y'know, trekking? I even went back and rewatched it all last year, over the span of a few weeks. I can't help but describe the majority of the characters as plain and boring though. Most of them get especially ridiculous toward the end of the show, following a dismal sequence of war stories. At least Enterprise picked itself back up after stumbling over its similarly conceived Xindi plot line.
Watch it only after you've already exhausted all other Star Trek material. If you're still hungry for more at that point, DS9 just might be enough to scratch a bit of that itch. Better yet, watch the entire franchise chronologically. That way you would get a mix of TNG, VOY, and DS9 without getting burnt out on the melodrama that takes place on Terok Nor. :P
NWR_insanolord:
Don't watch all of TNG. That show by and large does not hold up. I have no idea how you can say that it's better than DS9. Voyager's underrated, and I'd argue better than most of TNG, but nowhere near as good as DS9.
The whole Dominion War arc is one of the best things Star Trek has ever produced. The writing on DS9 is on a level that, out of the 23 non-DS9 seasons of Star Trek, only the fourth season of Enterprise even comes close to. I would put season 3 or 4 onward of Deep Space 9 in the same league as any great show currently on television that's not Breaking Bad.