television!

[jazzfish]

I have a vague desire to drown myself in television. Which of these, o lazyweb, would you recommend? (ETA: I've seen none of these except the BSG pilot)

• Babylon 5
  
• Farscape
  
• Battlestar Galactica
  
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
  
• Something else entirely

(No poll because I'm more interested in the Whys.)

Not that this will be happening anytime soon: the next four months or so are kinda busy. But once we get settled I may do something like 'i made my wordcount for the week so i get another episode of X.'

Comments

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

Honestly, Avatar has better plot coherency than B5. For better or worse, S5 is part and parcel of the show and it just didn't work: not only was the story compressed into S4 and then unpacked weirdly back out into S5, but the pride in its scientific accuracy just went totally downhill when the FX company changed in S5.

Avatar was beginning to end the story conceived and expressed by its two creators. It doesn't break production ground like B5 did behind the scenes, but what gets told onscreen beginning to end is exactly what they intended to tell.