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"Golden Age" of televison scifi/supernatural?

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A few years ago I remember there only being one or two network shows that were in the scifi/supernatural category. The SciFi channel had a few (especially the awesome SciFriday).
Now there are tons of these types of shows.

Partial listing:
Lost
V
Dollhouse
SGU
Sanctuary
Heroes
Eastwick
Smallville
Flash Forward
and a bunch more.

While some are real stinkers, there is more scifi/supernatural type shows then I can ever remember.

Is this a new "Golden Age" of televison scifi/supernatural?
 
techs said:
A few years ago I remember there only being one or two network shows that were in the scifi/supernatural category. The SciFi channel had a few (especially the awesome SciFriday).
Now there are tons of these types of shows.

Partial listing:
Lost
V
Dollhouse
SGU
Sanctuary
Heroes
Eastwick
Smallville
Flash Forward
and a bunch more.

While some are real stinkers, there is more scifi/supernatural type shows then I can ever remember.

Is this a new "Golden Age" of televison scifi/supernatural?
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Not a single one of those are good.

The golden age was 90-2009... right up until BSG was canceled.
 
techs said:
A few years ago I remember there only being one or two network shows that were in the scifi/supernatural category. The SciFi channel had a few (especially the awesome SciFriday).
Now there are tons of these types of shows.

Partial listing:
Lost
V
Dollhouse
SGU
Sanctuary
Heroes
Eastwick
Smallville
Flash Forward
and a bunch more.

While some are real stinkers, there is more scifi/supernatural type shows then I can ever remember.

Is this a new "Golden Age" of televison scifi/supernatural?
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Most of those shows are pretty much Sci-Fi Lite.
 
I would say a period from about the mid-90's to mid-2000's. It was during this time that special effects became reasonably priced, enabling many concepts previously only imagined to be demonstrated.
 
I'm very happy with Fringe, Dollhouse and Warehouse 13 right now. I'll give V a try but Heroes sucks, and I have little interest in the rest.
 
Via said:
Serenity and Eureka were the two I liked.
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Yeah, I should have put those on list, as well as Supernatural.
I wasn't going for a complete list, just a small sample to show how many there are.

A couple a three years ago I remember being excited that Threshold and Invasion were going to be on. With Lost that made 3 of these type shows which was highly unusual. Of course Threshold and Invasion lasted only a season.
 
zebano said:
I'm very happy with Fringe, Dollhouse and Warehouse 13 right now. I'll give V a try but Heroes sucks, and I have little interest in the rest.
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This plus Supernatural is all I watch (though Supernatural is less sci-fi more religious fantasy/mythical lore).

I stopped bothering with Heroes right around the episode they made Syler thing he was Nathan.
 
Raduque said:
This plus Supernatural is all I watch (though Supernatural is less sci-fi more religious fantasy/mythical lore).

I stopped bothering with Heroes right around the episode they made Syler thing he was Nathan.
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Apparently the writers realized how sucky the show is and decided to do flashbacks to when it was good.
Totally bankrupt now.
 
I'd say that SciFi's peak was in the 90's, back when ST:TNG and Babylon 5 were on. After that, they started to rely too heavily on special effects and less on a solid storyline.
 
I'd say the 90s. These new shows suck. The "sci-fi" shows barely deserve the name "sci-fi".

I like Supernatural though.
 
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