Instead of rewatching them again and again, can someone please recommend something of the same quality?
Farscape is my favourite show ever. Literally ever. Depth of story, wide scope and growth of characters, well rounded bad guys, tropes turned upside down, storylines that flow and weave throughout the series. Scorpius. Gawd, what’s not to love!? Seriously, if you haven’t watched it, watch it! You won’t regret it! Ahem…sorry about that. Got carried away.
I’ve watched all of the Star Treks more times than I’m willing to admit to so they are also out.
I’ve also watched all of the Stargate series. Many times.
Book series recommendations along the same line are also welcome. I’ve recently reread the Game of Thrones series, and I’ve read a lot of the sci-fi/fantasy classics. I really enjoy urban fantasy, but I’m pretty sure I’ve covered the good stuff.
I don’t enjoy movies. Don’t like superhero shit either.
Right now I’m rereading Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, but I’m 5 books in and bored again.
I’d prefer something to watch that my husband and I can enjoy together(book recommendations are only for me). We are going to rewatch Battlestar Galactica starting tomorrow and that’s cool, but I’d like to have something to follow that.
I’ve not watched the Orville, i’ll check it out. Thanks!
Nor Eureka. Didn’t they make reference to that show in Warehouse 13? Last year for Halloween I made some killer steampunk costumes for me and the husband. I wanted to dress up as H.G. Wells from Warehouse 13, but I’m just not that hot.
Haven’t seen the Alphas either.
The only anime I’ve seen is Spirited Away, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I’ve heard of Cowboy Bebop. I prefer watching series, but i’ll check it out anyway.
Wow, you are my kind of person. Those are probably three of my absolute favorite shows, too. We need to sit and geek out some time. [Back when Farscape was on(16 years ago!), I called myself the Farscape expert.
The Expanse. Some moments as powerful as I’ve seen on TV. Great scifi. I watched the pilot twice because I wanted to make sure I understood everything. Great, great show.
Dollhouse. From Joss Whedon like Firefly. Great, great show. Get past the first few episodes and it picks up tremendously.
Caprica - The followup to BSG was great. I mourn that it was not renewed past S1.
Babylon 5 - Season 1 is not great(I can recommend the essential episodes), but seasons 2-4 and much of 5 are almost equal the shows you listed. Great stuff.
The Expanse show is quite good. The novels are fantastic; I highly recommend them, especially the first three.
If you’d like some excellent space opera novels, check out the award-winning Ancillary Justice and its sequels. There’s some weird shit going on in them, but it’s pretty mindbending. Minor spoilers that you learn pretty early on:
The protagonist is a spaceship in human form–because a ship’s AI can duplicate itself into host brains in order to accomplish “away mission” stuff, and the ship did so right before getting blown up. The emperor has dozens, or hundreds, of bodies with the same consciousness duplicated among them. It’s great.
Killjoys. It’s really good. You might also like Lost Girl, from the same producer. That’s more fantasy than SF though. Both shows just packed to the gills with very pretty people. That’s a bonus.
Some good recs so far but apparently I get to be the one to recommend Rick and Morty. I have a portal gun, and I’m not afraid to use it!
EATA: Also, the show has come a LOOOOOONG way from it’s inception. The first season was rough but amazing, the second they kinda figured out where they wanted to go and the 3rd they switched that up because reasons. But the show’s shiny has gotten shinier with every season, which is fantastic. Plus you have plenty of time to catch up before Season 4 shows up!
Another vote for Rick and Morty - a hilarious, raunchy, sometimes dark sf spoof starring everyone’s favorite alcoholic nihilistic dimension-hopping mad scientist and his timid grandson.
The Orville had an uneven first season but is worth a look, I think.
The original The X-Files might be to your liking, although no (well, very few) spaceships.
