Wonderful - the perfect show for anyone in the terminal throes of Buffy-withdrawal!

Yes. This was complex television of ideas in many ways and the culture of Caprica was beautifully realized. The adult characters were also nuanced and complex - some of the best in any SF show. It's a pity that the teenage characters were a bit dull and blandly sexualized, as this ill-advised poster demonstrates.

Yes, some of the most gut-wrenching space combat ever depicted, wonderful designs and aliens.

Babylon 5. It was such an innovative show in many ways. It introduced the very idea of a long running story arc to TV and all the multiple plot strands and "foreshadowing" that this novelistic format allowed. Unlike Trek, it also had some interestingly "alien" aliens. I'd like to see it re-interpreted with a tougher,…

Isn't the evidence that God is a higher being somewhat thin? OK it's better than the evidence that he actually exists (which is zilch) but the God as represented here is a genocidal douche, so one has to question your premise.

Skye is too annoying to live. Worst geek character ever.

The problem with AOS is its dearth of interesting characters. Sky, as I hasten to repeat, must die!

Yes, BSG is the best acted, best-written and most thought-provoking SF series. It is adult, psychologically nuanced, visually sumptuous and ethically multi-faceted.

Skye must die. Simple.

BSG. Everything about Moore's reboot would have been the same minus the needless west-coast woo. It would have been set in the distant future not the past, providing a materialist explanation of the cultural resonances with the present. Head-6 would have been a programme implemented in Baltar's wetware. The Cylon God…

I entirely agree with Charlie's assessment. Carruth tells us as much as we need to know in the first half hour to make sense of the story. It's not difficult, but it's disturbing, funny, touching and speculative.

1) Kubrick, 2) Tarkovsky, 3) Scott

Eh, spoiler warning

A good list, though I think the obvious omission is Blade Runner: a film in which people are made tractable through corporately owned identities. How much more political can you get?

Speilberg'must be trying to resurrect the bad US TV of his youth. It's the only explanation for the unrelenting crap that he's been pumping through the tube.

R Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing and Aspect Emperor trilogies are the only works of fantasy I know of that which work out the metaphysics of a magical universe bottom up - and it ain't pretty. It reminds us that godless materialism is the most comforting belief system of all.

Technically guild navigators are posthumans.

A brilliant creation. By far the best thing that ever came out of New Who.

The sentient Ocean in Tarkovsky's Solaris was believably "other" though I must

One of the things that distinguished B5 from Trek from the get go is that it included some believably "weird" aliens alongside the wrinkly forehead brigade. The Vorlons were wonderfully enigmatic. The Shadow Vessels were also amazing, prompting the viewer to question the distinction between a civilization and its…