10 Upcoming New Sci-Fi TV Shows To Be Excited About

SPG said:
Hmm i only heard about PoG if they are doing the first book then fantastic !!
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Definitely consider phlebus is due to be a series, supposedly released this year on Amazon. Not heard anything on player of games, but I think Amazon have the rights to more of banks books.
 
I watched Tales from the Loop yesterday, did all 8 episodes in one day, for a couple of reasons. 1, they are an easy watch and 2 because not a lot happens in each episode even though they're an hour long.

I did enjoy them but became mostly annoyed by the end. The episode are interesting but the unanswered questions thoughout leave so much open to interpretation that it spoilt it for me. An artistic vagueness is the only way I can describe it.

I also started Futureman S1 yesterday, that's pretty cheesy, so I hope it gets better.
 
aardvark said:
the expanse has been the only good sci fi in the last several years - doesn't look like anything is changing.
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there was plenty of good scifi in the last several years.

just not so much recently

counterpart
continuum (another good one that probably went under most peoples radar and probably the best time travel series ever)
almost human
humans
person of interest (if you never watched this go check the ratings, 103episodes over 5 seasons and still scores in the high 90s almost everywhere both with critics and viewers)
dark
stranger things
the expanse
black mirror
the 100
orville (better than the startrek it parodies)
dark matter
12 monkeys
futureman
and probably a bunch of things I forgot or personally didn't like so much
I watched Tales from the Loop yesterday, did all 8 episodes in one day, for a couple of reasons. 1, they are an easy watch and 2 because not a lot happens in each episode even though they're an hour long.

I did enjoy them but became mostly annoyed by the end. The episode are interesting but the unanswered questions thoughout leave so much open to interpretation that it spoilt it for me. An artistic vagueness is the only way I can describe it.

I also started Futureman S1 yesterday, that's pretty cheesy, so I hope it gets better.
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Tales from the loop I found mostly boring, a couple of the episodes were interesting and captured my attention but for the most part it's just something to have on in the background whilst your doing something else.

futuremans great but yea a bit cheesy
 
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here few more then haven't been mention.

Emergence
The Crossing
Colony
Travelers
The Whispers
Revolution
Falling Skies
Defiance
Fringe
Space: Above and Beyond
Roswell New Mexico
Krypton
Electric Dreams
Under the Dome
 
I remember it was announced a couple of years ago that Amazon had picked up the rights to develop Iain M Banks Culture universe into a series, starting with the first book Consider Phlebas... alas still all quiet on that front, although part of me wonders if they'll be able to do it justice.
 
Somnambulist said:
I remember it was announced a couple of years ago that Amazon had picked up the rights to develop Iain M Banks Culture universe into a series, starting with the first book Consider Phlebas... alas still all quiet on that front, although part of me wonders if they'll be able to do it justice.
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It's a shame they started with the worst of his Culture books, by a long way. For me Consider Phlebas is a bit of fan fiction you'd read later on if you really wanted to know some backstory to the main books.

The short story about the Culture observing contemporary Earth would have been an interesting pilot.
 
ChroniC said:
I watched Tales from the Loop yesterday, did all 8 episodes in one day, for a couple of reasons. 1, they are an easy watch and 2 because not a lot happens in each episode even though they're an hour long.

I did enjoy them but became mostly annoyed by the end. The episode are interesting but the unanswered questions thoughout leave so much open to interpretation that it spoilt it for me. An artistic vagueness is the only way I can describe it.

I also started Futureman S1 yesterday, that's pretty cheesy, so I hope it gets better.
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Hopefully answered in season 2 :)

futureman gets better its short anyhow ended with season 3 I think.
 
cheesyboy said:
Yeah, superhero stuff is firmly in the fantasy category, rather than sci-fi.

The 100 had some good sci-fi wrapped in some shonky teen/young adult nonsense (and I loved it), so am up for a spin off of that
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It's not fantasy at all, it's grown so large its a genre on its own, and long may it stay there. If anything Marvel/DC et al are closer to sci-fi than fantasy.
 
Darujhistan said:
It's not fantasy at all, it's grown so large its a genre on its own, and long may it stay there. If anything Marvel/DC et al are closer to sci-fi than fantasy.
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I label superhero stuff much more towards fantasy than sci-fi. Sure there's a touch of sci-fi in there but it's all so fantastical that there's just zero science in there.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I label superhero stuff much more towards fantasy than sci-fi. Sure there's a touch of sci-fi in there but it's all so fantastical that there's just zero science in there.
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I think much more the other way, based on setting, Marvel/DC and that's really what we're talking about here is about as far removed from Tolkien et al as its possible to be. Superhero is plastic genre, so shallow and superficial, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. There's no weight to it at all, a few flimsy repetitive cobbled toegther back stories, which change at a whim to accomodate more of the same, whereas I think "classic" fantasy has historical heft even though it's entirely fictional.

So from a setting, lore, world-building and "historical" flavour viewpoint, I wouldn't place this rubbish anywhere near fantasy, it's not worthy of being the same conversation as the best of fantasy or science-fiction. An entirely inferior genre.
 
Science fiction tries to rationalise and explain its world in science, whereas in fantasy things just are. Hence superheroes are stories of fantasy, no matter the setting.

Star wars is probably more fantasy than Sci-fi too, really. They at least added some science to explain The Force in the prequels, though.
 
cheesyboy said:
Science fiction tries to rationalise and explain its world in science, whereas in fantasy things just are. Hence superheroes are stories of fantasy, no matter the setting.

Star wars is probably more fantasy than Sci-fi too, really. They at least added some science to explain The Force in the prequels, though.
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It tries to rantrionale sceience often through fntastical means, there's also much more "science" in Marvel/DC than fantasy as fantasy makes no pretence at science, so i'd say Fantasy has its own setting where superhero and sci-fi share a recent/future setting, and here's a lot more cross-pollination between superhero and sci-fi, in which superhero leans on science rather than History (even if that science is fantastical).

So superhero/sci-fi share settings and a reliance on science whatever the quality of the science. Classic fantasy is more self-contained. Plus the fact that things are accepted as "they just are" in fantasy as its set in make-believe Worlds, which only adhere to its own specific set of rules often based in magic.

As for Star Wars and "the force" they retro-fitted that to suit the epic disaster that was the last trilogy of films, the force was whatever they needed it to be to move things along.
 
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Marvel / DC are super hero films are not sci-fi, lets be careful on this as this is how wars start :)
 
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Darujhistan said:
It tries to rantrionale sceience often through fntastical means, there's also much more "science" in Marvel/DC than fantasy as fantasy makes no pretence at science, so i'd say Fantasy has its own setting where superhero and sci-fi share a recent/future setting, and here's a lot more cross-pollination between superhero and sci-fi, in which superhero leans on science rather than History (even if that science is fantastical).

So superhero/sci-fi share settings and a reliance on science whatever the quality of the science. Classic fantasy is more self-contained. Plus the fact that things are accepted as "they just are" in fantasy as its set in make-believe Worlds, which only adhere to its own specific set of rules often based in magic.

As for Star Wars and "the force" they retro-fitted that to suit the epic disaster that was the last trilogy of films, the force was whatever they needed it to be to move things along.
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High fantasy has its own setting (LOTR for example). But Low fantasy tends to be set in the real world, with tweaks. They're both still fantasy, and superhero stuff is very much Low Fantasy in that regard.
 
Darujhistan said:
I think much more the other way, based on setting, Marvel/DC and that's really what we're talking about here is about as far removed from Tolkien et al as its possible to be. Superhero is plastic genre, so shallow and superficial, full of sound and fury signifying nothing. There's no weight to it at all, a few flimsy repetitive cobbled toegther back stories, which change at a whim to accomodate more of the same, whereas I think "classic" fantasy has historical heft even though it's entirely fictional.

So from a setting, lore, world-building and "historical" flavour viewpoint, I wouldn't place this rubbish anywhere near fantasy, it's not worthy of being the same conversation as the best of fantasy or science-fiction. An entirely inferior genre.
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Actually, this is a pretty good explanation which I find myself agreeing with. Superhero has pretty much become its own genre. Some of it is better than others but overall I find it flimsy and throwaway with a lack of any real depth. Give me a good sci-fi or fantasy film every time.
 
pecnarf said:
here few more then haven't been mention.

Emergence
The Crossing
Colony
Travelers
The Whispers
Revolution
Falling Skies
Defiance
Fringe
Space: Above and Beyond
Roswell New Mexico
Krypton
Electric Dreams
Under the Dome
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Big one missing off that list and is probably the best show of the lot "Westworld" (I have been very careful not to give spoilers away)
 
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