Comments on: Friday link dump

by: Eric Gimlin

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:43:50 +0000

Any list missing both “Farscape” and “The Prisoner” is fatally flawed. I could make pretty good arguments for either of them taking the top spot; for crying out loud! This sort of list can be fun to argue about if it’s anywhere close to decently done; this one isn’t. (Oh, and as aside; thank you for the blog, Augie. It’s a daily stop for me, and has been for quite a while.)

by: Nathan

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:01:58 +0000

I’d have put Angel and Hercules on that list for sure, could probably have found a spot for Smallville and Charmed. Even ones like Buck Rogers and Greatest American Hero are way too low.

by: Chaz Ervin

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:37:39 +0000

No THE PRISONER? They just lost all their cool points and/or geek credibility.

by: Scott Beeler

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:51:44 +0000

As you say, the lack of “Farscape” in the list *at all* is ridiculous (it’d probably be in the top 15 for me), and “Buffy” is way too low. New BSG, “ST:Voyager”, “Sliders” all much too high.

Also, “Futurama” at #41 is a travesty. Should be at least top 20, definitely. And “The Prisoner” should be on the list somewhere.

Also also, that mini-RC-plane is awesome.

by: Michael Heilemann

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:52:19 +0000

Nonsense, Battlestar Galactica easily earns its place; if it were up to me it would take the number one spot :)

by: Augie De Blieck Jr.

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:37:26 +0000

FARSCAPE wasn’t on that list? And SLIDERS was?

Yeesh

And I didn’t watch the second half of BUFFY, but I’d still put it in the top 20, and I could name a half dozen shows to replace with it from that same range.

by: Craig Welsh

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:30:13 +0000

I knew that list was doomed when I hit #27 and there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now, I know you can argue that it isn’t sci-fi, its more fantasy, which is why I let it slide for a moment. Then I saw a piece of dreck show like The Hitchhiker made it to #20 or something. That’s when I knew it was a joke.

I agree with the rest of your points. I like the BG, but #2 is wildly optimistic. No DS9 (I never felt the urge to get into a debate over which is better, DS9 or B5. I loved both of them. I would own DS9 DVDs if Paramount didn’t insist on ridiculously over-pricing them), no Farscape (didn’t get into the show, but surely god it was better than a lot of the dreck there), etc.

I think it’s a list designed to annoy people and get them to go to that site and yell at him.