• invictvs@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 days ago

    And for me right now that show is Farscape. I don’t know if you can call it niche, but it certainly is not very well known where I live. And this show is frelling good. I love it! I love the story, I love the actors, I love all the costumes and puppets, the sets, the effects. It is better than most of the dren studios nowadays produce

    • alternategait@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      I loved farscape when I first watched it on an antenna, later when i watched the last season in a day and a half because netflix claimed they were removing it. I’d like to watch it again soon.

    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      For anyone not familiar with the Firefly show, your comment makes very little sense. So I’d just chop in to help.

      As a little bonus, did you notice that the AA guns in the very first battle scene were Wayland Yutani branded?

      • khepri@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!

      • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I chose it as my online username/gamertag like 20years ago. Alan was taken at that time on whatever game I was playing when I picked it.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I tried correcting you by spelling it correctly, but working out the syntax with the asterisks and slashes was huring my brain.

      But yes - great show.

      Also the only one where I think every cast change was an improvement.

      Trapper was just a clone of Hawk, whereas Honeycut was his own character. Henry was fun, but Potter brought real gravitas and represented a good man who was career Army - which was necessary. Burns had no redeeming characteristics at all, whereas Charles served as an antagonist while still hating the war and being a strong character and excellent surgeon.

      And the way they transformed Kilnger from a cheap side gag into a fully-fleshed out character was remarkable.

      And the decision not to cast a new regular when Radar left was inspired. We felt that hole the remainder of the series.

      • unphazed@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 days ago

        I liked Atlantis. Universe seemed to be barely connected in terms of story. I confess I watched like 2 episodes.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          Well they’re literally in another galaxy, and at first they’re stranded there.

          It does connect with Earth and SG1 characters guest star revert now and then.

          Ofc it’s still not as Earthcentric as SG1 but

        • SSTF@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 days ago

          I really disliked the first few episodes of Universe. The Battlestar Galactica reboot’s grimdark edge was bleeding in very strongly. The show does mellow out on that as it goes. The basic character friction is still there, but toned way down and characters are usually finding common ground.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    Rewatching M.A.S.H. right now.

    Edit: Wasn’t exactly niche back in the day, but I wonder how many people have watched it recently.