If only I could do a poll...

[shadowkat]

1. Okay, I can't do a poll, because no paid account, but I'm curious...how many people who watch Doctor Who see it as a kid's show? And do your kids, assuming you have any, watch it? I'm particularly interested in the non-Brits. Because it's apparently marketed as a kid's show in Great Britain. But it isn't here. (It's shown at 9 pm here on Saturday nights. Not exactly what I think of as the prime kid-viewing hour.)

2. What is everyone watching? Anything interesting?

3.Sense8 got cancelled. Is it worth watching now that it is cancelled? Or will it irritate me because it ended on a cliff-hanger? What else on Netflix, Amazon Prime is worth checking out?

So far Bosch, Sense8, and Iron Fist have been mentioned. Anyone seen the Woody Allen/Elaine Page series?

4. Has American Gods finished yet? I'm waiting to binge watch as a 7 day trial on Starz.

Comments

[jesuswasbatman]

I suspect that Red Dwarf got made because BBC executives thought of it as a parody of how stupid and pathetic SF works and fans were, as opposed to Grant Naylor. This was the generation of BBC leadership that cancelled Doctor Who and hardly made any more SF or fantasy (apart from the odd technothriller or work of magic realism where the fantasy elements could easily be written off as imagination, coincidence, or delusion) until the 21st century, largely because they despised the genre.

[cjlasky7]

But the series' respect for classic SF (in the service of comedy, of course) is exactly why Red Dwarf worked, and why it's still going. (BBC America isn't showing the new eps over here. Are they any good?)

Finding the right mix of fantastical and funny while staying true to the characters is extremely difficult. Americans have tried to do sci-fi comedies for generations; Futurama and Galaxy Quest are probably the only watchable output.

[jesuswasbatman]

I watched the first few seasons of Red Dwarf but haven't seen the most recent ones.

[shadowkat]

Apparently, we're trying again, with Orvill by Seth McFarland, which is also a satire, homage to Star Trek.

We have managed it with novels, John Scalzi comes to mind.

[cjlasky7]

Don't know Scalzi. Gonna have to check him out.

Can't believe I forgot Rick and Morty! Very funny, but plunges deeper into existential terror than almost anything else in the subgenre.

Trailers for The Orville look promising, but Seth is notoriously hit or miss. We'll see.

[shadowkat]

I liked Scalzi's RedShirts and Vonnegurt's Slaughter-House Five better than Addams.

Read one right after the other this year.