scifi101

You are already enjoying the Sci-Fi world if you are a TiVo TV fan or remember your favorite TV shows from the big three networks of childhood.  This fall is riddled with returning shows and new shows that fall into Sci-Fi patterns - but more on that later. 

Everyone talks about their new favorites with families and friends or reminisces about old favorites.  Lost is a top-rated show and not because it falls into any particular genre but because it has a storyline that keeps people coming back and wanting to know how it ends.  People keep coming back even if they are disappointed by a particular point in the story.  It is like continuing to read a book even if it gets slow in the middle but you believe the ending is worth it. 

My generation has seen Twin Peaks and the X-Files embedded in our culture.  We inherited the many iterations of Star Trek.  The music of Fantasy Island scared me as a child.  Mork and Mindy made me laugh.  Quantum Leap practically defined family night in some households.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer joined us in our post-adolescence.  I never watched the original Battlestar Galactica or Buck Rogers.  I am a little to young for that but didn’t want to ignore the obvious ones.  Once I stopped arguing with Eric (my husband) about how Sci-Fi is all cheesy graphics and no substance, I realized I was had been enjoying it for years!

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