The online classroom of UH 300-001, Andy Duncan's fall 2013 science fiction seminar in the Honors College of the University of Alabama.
Friday, October 21, 2011
I need a new TV show to start on netflix as I have burned through every episode of Arrested Development multiple times. I kind of want to go science fiction...so Dr. Who or Firefly...or both?
Start with Firefly. It'll go by too quickly. Then you can move onto Dr. Who if you want. Or you can move onto other things Joss has done. Buffy, Angle, and Dollhouse are all good. Watch in that order if you want to go that route. You really can't go wrong no matter what you do.
They're both great, but I'd say watch Firefly first. It's shorter and it will probably keep your attention better because it's more consistently good. Doctor Who also has a lot of good writing (some of my favorite from any show ever), but it's spread out over a number of seasons and sometimes interspersed with some that's not so good. Doctor Who is definitely worth it, but to really get the full experience you have to watch a lot, and make it through the less-than-stellar episodes to get to the really fantastic ones. Firefly is more of something that you can just sit down and enjoy any time, and get through it all in a week or two.
Start with Firefly. It'll go by too quickly. Then you can move onto Dr. Who if you want. Or you can move onto other things Joss has done. Buffy, Angle, and Dollhouse are all good. Watch in that order if you want to go that route. You really can't go wrong no matter what you do.
ReplyDeleteThey're both great, but I'd say watch Firefly first. It's shorter and it will probably keep your attention better because it's more consistently good. Doctor Who also has a lot of good writing (some of my favorite from any show ever), but it's spread out over a number of seasons and sometimes interspersed with some that's not so good. Doctor Who is definitely worth it, but to really get the full experience you have to watch a lot, and make it through the less-than-stellar episodes to get to the really fantastic ones. Firefly is more of something that you can just sit down and enjoy any time, and get through it all in a week or two.
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