The Top Ten Sci Fi/Fantasy Shows

Here you go: my top 10 scifi and fantasy shows. I have videos for all of these up in the video section. Enjoy enjoy.



10. Star Trek (origninal series)

On for: 3 seasons (1966-69)

Movies: 7 (and counting)



Star Trek began with what Gene Roddenburry pitched to a room full of NBC executives as merely "a wagon ride to the stars." It became so much more. This was the spaceship show that launched all other spaceship shows, also offering a bright future in the less-than-hopefull 1960s (DAMN YOU LYNDON B. JOHNSON!!!!) The iconic Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy are one of the ultimate trios. The show ended in 1969 due to ratings issues, but not after some great run-ins with Kahn, the Klingons, and the Romulans. The seven movies all pretty darn awesome as well, the best ones being The Wrath of Kahn and the 2009 prequel. Only reason this isn't higher up is because to 21st century kid like myself, the show honestly seems sorta cheesy. Also, i can decide: I like Kirk more than Picard.

9. Torchwood

On for: 4 seasons so far (2007-Present)

Movies: None (Yet)



Some of my fellow yanks may be fammiliar with the show from the recent Starz miniseries Torchwood: Miracle Day. Torchwood wasn't always this big, though. It began humbly as a mere spinoff of the mighty Doctor Who on BBC3 (for those of you who don't know, putting a show on BBC3 is the British equivalent of putting it in the Friday Night Death Slot; it's where you send it when you think it will fail miserably.) Created by Russel T. Davies, the show saw John Barrowman reprised his role as popular Doctor Who charcter Captain Jack Harkness in this show, which followed the enigmatic Harkness and his team who work for the Torchwood Institute in Cardiff, Wales, which apparently is built on a rift in time and space. The Torchwood team hunted down and captured aliens and other paranormal entities that had worked their way into Cardiff. After a weak 1st season, Torchwood found it's groove in season two by upping the action, character developement, and, frankly, writing quality. Season 3 is what really lauched the show with the amazing miniseries Torchwood: Children of Earth. And while i was disapointed by season 4, hopefully there will be more like season 3 in the future.

8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

On for: 7 seasons (1997-2003)

Movies: 1 (sort of...)

The brilliance that is Joss Whedon came into public view with one of the most iconic cult-classic series of all time. Base on the God-awful early 90s movie of the same name, Buffy followed the adventures of Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, or usually just the Slayer. Residing in Sunnydale, CA, a town built on a Hellmouth (giant evil majic vampire-pit) Buffy dealt with and slayed vampires, demons, and other assorted monsters with the help of her friends Willow and Xander, as well as her mentor Giles (aka the Watcher) The show still has a cult following that rivals even Star Trek, spawned the spin-off series Angel, perfectly combined drama with comedy relief, had well cast actors with great chemistry playing characters you actually cared about, and was just flat-out awesome. Do not watch the movie. It sucks (pun intended)

7. The X Files

On for: 9 seasons (1993-2002)

Movies: 2 (with possible 3rd on the way)



This show was indescribably amazing. Seriously. It's amazing. It's a work of art. The X Files came from the mind of Chris Carter, possibly the only true success of his career. It followed the iconic adventures of FBI Agents Fox Mulder (the beleiver) and Dana Scully (the skeptic) as they worked on the FBI's unsolved cases, dubbed the X Files. Naturally, most of these cases resurfaced and involved the paranormal, which Mulder is fascinated by and beleives in as his sister was abducted by aliens when he was like 10. The duo eventually came to trust only eachother, as, naturally, secret federal agencies within the US government wished to conceal the truth from them, the truth being that alien conspiracy theories, yeah their true man. The show was too awesome to put into words (for the first seven seasons, at least) But that can only mean some amazing stuff is on the way. The truth is out there. Do you want to beleive?

6. Star Trek: The Next Generation

On for: 7 seasons (1987-1994)

Movies: 4



Once again, i like Kirk over Picard, but i've simply seen more of the next generation. The Trek continued in this spin-off to the original, set 100 years later on the USS Enterprise D. Captain Picard and company trekked there way through the galaxy in a show that, unlike the original, was actually given a chance to succeed. At it's best, which it often was, the show was dealing with action packed story lines, which were good at balancing space battles with the relationships between characters. The show also produced the iconic villains The Borg, as well as dealt with favorites from the original show like Klingons and Romulans. It was just good, man. We are the trekkies, and we will assimilate you into fandom of our show.

5. Warehouse 13

On for: 3 seasons so far, as a fourth is on the way (2009-present)

Movies: None (yet)



Okay, this is probably the part where some of you flip out and say "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR NERDY LITTLE MIND?! YOU LIKE WH13 BETTER THAN THE X FILES!!!!!!?" Let me explain; i was introduced to WH13 before i'd started watching the x files via online reruns (i'm 15, gimmee a break!) and frankly, i like the characters and mythology more. Happy?! Well if your not than you can go sulk in a corner with all the falling skies fans (NOT ON THE LIST!) Anyway, the show follows secret service agents Pete Lattimer and Myka Bearing, who, after saving the president's life, are reasigned to Warehouse 13, a top secret federal facility in South Dakota that houses historical objects called artifacts that possess paranormal properties. They travel the world to hunt down and retreive artifacts before they ruin the world's day. The show has more twists than you can imagine. If you've never seen it, i reccomend it highly. Fans of the show do not yet have name for themselves, but i'm trying to get "eyebrows" to catch on (there's a character with eyebrows and... you know what, watch it and you'll see what i mean)

4. The Twilight Zone

On for: 5 seasons (1959-1964)

Movies: 1



Rod Serling did the unthinkable: he voiced his political views durring regime of Furher Joseph McCarthy (don't even get me started on that guy.) The oldest show on this list, Twilight Zone was a scifi anthologhy series that, each week, told a bizzare, frightening scifi story that ended with an unforseen twist. To this day, I, a 21st century teenager, find this show addictive, and even scary (don't ever watch it at night) while not the 1st of it's kind, Twilight Zone basically proved scifi tv shows could work (and it was better than anything before it) It was awesome in this weird kind of way: it's old, well-written, iconic and frightening.

3. Firefly

On for: 1 season (2002)

Movies: 1



Comming off his success with Buffy and Angel, Joss Whedon (only guy on the planet with the nerve to make a spaceship show without aliens) decided to try his hand at scifi in this short-lived masterpiece. Firefly followed the adventures of the renegade crew of the Serenity, a firely class transport ship headed by Captain Malcolm Reynolds. The crew aimed to misbehave in a galaxy ruled by a totalitarian goverment called The Alliance. The Serenity did it's less-than-legal work in the outer planets, where the alliance had little grip and even your basic white-trash thug is fluent in mandarin chinese (everyone in this show speaks english and chinese) Like Buffy, the show was action packed, balanced drama with humor, was well-cast, and the characters actually felt like real people who you couldn't help but feel a little sorry for even though they were criminals. Fox cancelled the show due to "ratings issues" but really they didn't want it to succeed in the 1st place (they put it in the friday night death slot, barely advertised it, and aired the pilot last.) Browncoats forever.

2. Star Trek: Enterprise

On for: 4 seasons (2001-2005)

Movies: none



I'm gonna get soooooooooo much crap for this. The least known of all the star trek series and one of the most underratted shows ever, enterprise prequeled the original series by 150 years and followed the crew of the 1st enterprise ship, earth's first warp 5 vessel, in the 2150s as humans are just getting out into space. It takes place even before the federation, and the humans are out there to meet and befriend as many species as possible. For reasons i can't fathom, the show wasn't too big with fans, even with the amazing stories involving alternate universes, the ancestors of Kahn, a cold war across time and space, and a season spanning story involving a possible war the Xindi. Go figure. I liked it.

1. Doctor Who

On for: 32 seasons so far (1963-1989, 2005-present)

Movies: 2...sort of, they didn't have anything to do with the show, it's complicated and they both sucked anyway....you know what...just forget about it.



The longest running scifi show ever, doctor who follows an alien called The Doctor, who travels through time and space in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimmension In Space) which is a blue police box that's bigger on the inside. How it's survived so long? The Doctor's species, the Time Lords, have a way to cheat death called regeneration. When they're near death, they can heal themselves instantly, but they look and act different afterwards. This has happened 10 times so far, and the doctor has been played by 11 different actors in total. The show can literally do anything and go anywhere, seeing how the setting is all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will. It's produced countless icons such as it's theme music, monsters like Daleks and the Weeping Angels, and is awesome. It originally premiered in 1963 on the same day JFK was assassinated, lasted 26 years, got cancelled, had a tv movie in 1996, and than in 2005, writers Russel T. Davies, Mark Gattis, Toby Whitehouse, and Steven Moffat revived it and it's beyond incredible. Watch it and love it. I know i do.

Okay, now you've read the list. This would be time for honorable mentions, but first here's a few shows you might be upset aren't here and i couldn't factor them in purely because i've never seen them, but i've heard they're really good:



Fringe

Supernatural

Smallville

The Walking Dead

Dollhouse

Battlestar Galactica

V

Lost

Babylon 5

Farscape

True Blood



Now it's time for honorable mentions; the shows i like but not enough to make the list:



Angel

Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Star Trek Voayger

Eureka

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Merlin

Twilight Zone's 1985 and 2002

The Cape

No Ordinary Family



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