the XFiles Did it, but it was't mid season.

Star Trek did it ages ago.

Not without Hill Street Blues it wouldn't have been.

Before this, everything was pretty much Superfriends...

I gotta throw one more in there.

For your consideration...

Love them or hate them, the Simpsons definitely changed how people perceived cartoons.

Not right away but it did bring science fiction to a new level of recognition.

The DNA of Twin Peaks is in everything good you are watching on TV right now. It was the first show to confidently declare that the small screen can be truly cinematic. That it can house true art. That television wasn't just a wasteland.

Whether you love it or hate it, Twin Peaks changed television forever. It didn't do it just by being weird, though. it achieved it's impact by making full use of the serial narrative form. The show told one story over an entire season. As such, TV shows like Buffy, The X-Files, and even The Sopranos and The Wire,…

Pretty much kicked off the serialized golden age of television we are still enjoying.

Ah. I understand now. Like this guy:

Interestingly enough, Pern is technically Sci-fi, isn't it?

We can hope. A Joker double cross where he walks away in the end with the McGuffin laughing would be awesome.

And The Internet never learns. Perhaps I'm really showing my age, but I remember when a lot of Whovians (who now wish they had a Tardis to erase the evidence) were confidently predicting that Queer as Folk guy would totally fuck up Doctor Who, and it would be a career-killing flop for everyone involved. Remember…

Rebels has an episode where conscripted teens are being trained to be stormtroopers, so no, they are no longer clones.

Always amazed by people who are eager and willing to accept entire other species as our comrades, friends, lovers, even, yet when a member of our race who has a different melanin quantity pops up, or they have epicanthic folds over their eyes, they lose their shit.

I know it's not a very well known book so it's not that easy to have met people that have read it but I push this book on literally everyone I know. I haven't ended any friendships yet because everyone I know who has read it has liked it but some refuse to read it and I'm a bit leery of them.

The reason I'd be cool with REBELS only going for 3 or 4 seasons and then moving into a new era to tell new stories is this: