Sci-Fi poll: A quick update and a new poll coming

[lordandrei]

So far, I am up to 300 shows. Special thanks to meerkat299 who's single contribution of over 250 programs has been hard to top. I've been pleased to see people come up with shows he left out

Comments

[patsmor]

I figure if Bookstores put them on the same shelves, we can consider them similar enough to lump them together on TV. ;-)

[septascarabae]

No lumping, damnit. Make a sci-fi specific poll. Just because something is fiction or fantasy, that does not make it science fiction.

This is a really good question

[lordandrei]

Now, this is my own opinion and gladly open to debate:

In W^3 they were often creating future (modern by our standards) technology out of current contrivances. In other words, they were creating technologies that people of the time period didn't have.

In GI they were not innovating new inventions, just simply ways to use primitive tech to make the things they already knew.

Now, whereas W^3 has been referred to as "Steampunk" I guess it could be argued that a show with real island primitives with a special group directed by the chief to solve mysteries with creative means could be considered, uh... "Islandpunk"?

[kinkyjesus]

Keep them separate

[matertiamat]

There is so much cross pollination between sci-fi and fantasy, that I think it impoverishes both when you become too strict in your definitions. Certainly there are many works of fantasy that aren't sci-fi. But for those that have elements of both, include them.

I love sci-fi and robots bore me to death. There's a lot of variety out there.