Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles

[Poo Bear]

Ah, a new scifi series. Well, it's been out a while, but it's new to me. Missed it the first time around.





I'm hoping it's a slow burner like Battlestar Galactica was, I'm three episodes in and it's certainly growing on me.

[Chrisj]

I was certainly pretty impressed with the first season, on the whole. I've not seen the second, yet, but I certainly intend to. Anyway, following the usual rule of US network Scifi, it must be good - they cancelled it after only two seasons

[Poo Bear]

I've heard the explanations for that - the big networks are the only ones who can afford to take chances commissioning risky scifi shows, but the reason they are big is because they only keep shows going that generate multi-millions of income and none of these scifi shows can do that. Kind of chicken and egg thing which is a real shame.

Is Battle Star Galactica the highest earning and therefore longest running scifi? Put another way, is BSG the only scifi show ever to make it all the way to a proper conclusion?

I suppose star trek / next gen / voyager / deepSpace9 must be the biggest earning most popular scifi. But those shows were all over the place in terms of quality and story lines. I suppose there was Babylon5 too, that had a fairly consistent plot and ran for a long time.

[Holly]

Sarah Connor Chronicles does seem to be developing nicely.

Stargate seemed to be pretty successful (financially) and spawned many spin-offs but I could never get into it... maybe I was missing something

[Konedima]

[Holly]

I guess I'll have to revisit Stargate then I wouldn't want to miss out on any scrap of decent scifi that the tv powers-that-be deign to throw our way

[Chrisj]

I've now (finally) finished the second season, which continues to be awesome right to the end. Now I'm even more annoyed that they cancelled it. I want to know what was going to happen next season!

[Poo Bear]

I hear that, it was a great show that had nicely gotten into its stride.