Yes. X-Files is a weird one. It sort of hit mainstream than dropped into cult again. I think it has a lot to do with those last seasons which lost a lot of people.
Twin Peaks is another example of a show that although it obtained *mainstream* interest - really is a cult series. It lost half the mainstream audience in the second season - hence its departure. Like X-Files, it's a series that while it hit mainstream, sunk back into cult, unlike Star Trek which is firmly part of mainstream now - or at least STNG is. The original, Voyager, and DS9 not so much - you had to hunt for those.
When I think of cult sci-fi, I think of: Farscape, Space Above and Beyond, Doctor Who, Space 1999, Battlestar Galatica, and Babylon 5 those series that were under the radar. You can tell a true cult sci-fi fan by saying: BSG? And they respond - "cool! YEs!!!" or saying Tardis - and they know what you are talking about.
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Date: 2007-07-03 12:47 am (UTC)Twin Peaks is another example of a show that although it obtained *mainstream* interest - really is a cult series. It lost half the mainstream audience in the second season - hence its departure. Like X-Files, it's a series that while it hit mainstream, sunk back into cult, unlike Star Trek which is firmly part of mainstream now - or at least STNG is. The original, Voyager, and DS9 not so much - you had to hunt for those.
When I think of cult sci-fi, I think of: Farscape, Space Above and Beyond, Doctor Who, Space 1999, Battlestar Galatica, and Babylon 5 those series that were under the radar. You can tell a true cult sci-fi fan by saying: BSG?
And they respond - "cool! YEs!!!" or saying Tardis - and they know what you are talking about.