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Thursday, October 06, 2005 The Best Sci-Fi Show of All Time Last week, Bryan (the one from Chicago) sent me a link to Boston.com's (associated with the Boston Globe) recent list of its Top 50 Sci-Fi Shows of All Time. One minor quibble: the word "sci-fi" connotes B-movies and pulp, primarily from the Cold War era; the preferred term for current usage is "SF" because it's more refined and there is a good amount of intelligent writing that wears the label "sci-fi" poorly. Anyway, the editors rated Babylon 5--the best science fiction series ever--as a mere #5 on the list, after the new Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (both the Original Series and The Next Generation), and the X-Files. I hadn't seen the new Battlestar, though I wanted to--I used to watch tapes of the old one as a kid--but Babylon 5, though not as groundbreaking as ST:TOS, was much better put together than the rest, with better writing. But I won't go into that debate here. Yesterday, I got a package in the mail from Bryan, who is well aware of my obsession with SF. Guess what was inside? The entire first season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD, out of the blue. Which makes him the coolest friend ever. ^ Top | 5:18 PM | | | 
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