Weird Tales of Fictional Science! (mostly about Star Trek for my part)

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Originally Posted by Nique

Someone give a little more info about Fringe. Yes I know I can google it but I like to read what you guys have to say about stuff and also I'm lazy.

I'm not fully up to date with Fringe yet, having only seen about 4 episodes of season 3, but I like it. Kinda X-Filesy but not quite as dark. A lot of the "science" is pretty fringe though and not really science, but I guess that's the nature of the show so you can't really complain about that. The characters are good, but it does take a while to really build up the overarching storyline, like every episode in season 1 is pretty much a standalone with only vague references to what else is going on.

Season 2 is better and by the start of season 3 it starts to pay off with, well, I won't spoil it, but it's pretty unique. Let's just say by season 3 you essentially have 2 different shows going on in the same universe.

Another question: I'm watching Red Dwarf at the moment and between that and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I'm seriously beginning to wonder if most British sci fi tv is low budget comedy.

What, you mean 2 shows that both started their initial run 2 decades ago? Of course they're low budget. And british tv generally has a lower budget anyway.

We do make good comedy though.