It was *such* a change from SGU and Atlantis though… it was weird to go from those light adventure shows where the cast liked each other to a BSG style group of angry people shot through a heavy filter.

What we can all agree on is that it was a lot more syphilitic after 1493. Europe wasn't at 'dump mercury on your penis' levels till then at least.

Or, if we want gritty middle ages stuff, why not adapt some non-fiction, like A Distant Mirror. Follow the life story of one guy as he fights the English in the hundred years war, survives the Black Death, and then goes to fight the Turks on Crusade.

Man, Junior has really gone down a different path from the generic nerd that I expected. Moon landing conspiracy stuff now? I would not have predicted that Zoe would end up as the child closest to my own viewpoints.

I think I saw a bit of it on TV, and changed the channel immediately.

None. If you subscribe to it coming out of 'contact' with America, Europe was syphilis free till 1493.

Maybe get Paul Giamatti to reprise his roll of Prince/King John? I think he's the only person I've seen give a political freak out on the level of the one that you got from Downfall's Hitler.

If no one saw it, it doesn't count.

Especially annoying since the whole origin is "Oh no, I'm not a member of the privileged caste anymore!"

Oh yeah, it wasn't presented as 100% a good thing, it's more that it really lacked the whole Star Trek nonintervention fetish. The Culture books make it pretty explicit that doing so means ignoring genocides and extinctions, sometimes on a massive scale.

I'm sure it's that too… but the Prime Directive has been part of Star Trek since the beginning too. Not to mention all the various films and books and such that come with it.

Sure? How is that… the first episode did not thrill me, but I've heard it gets much better.

Deadwood? The show where a woman goes topless to shoot a dude, so no one will look at her face? Deadwood? The show where a second whore house moves into town, and everyone's like "huh, I guess we could use another one."

The Culture feels a lot like a response to Star Trek. The Culture tries hard to intervene as delicately as it can, rather than leaving everyone else alone to work on a jazz solo.

Heh, honestly, nothing the Mouse does is worse than what Lucas did to poor Darth "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, not the Sand!" Vader.

They also had some Paul Fieg sci-fi comedy show I forgot to watch. I guess that's just gone now.

It is! it's just that if you sell it to Netflix, I'm not going to buy CBS Streaming to get it.

If Netflix is thinking long term, they should find some other sci-fi property to make into a good show, and start their own in house special effects company, that could then help with their other shows too. The folks rendering star ships could also be the ones rendering any other number of things they want.

I'm thinking more of their big genre shows… though I do love FOTC, I wish that some of their more exciting offerings weren't filled with so much exploitation the girlfriend would refuse to watch them with me.

I think in this day an age, a bright, optimistic Sci-fi show done right would do TWD numbers, at the very least. Trying to launch your streaming service with a new fan loved show, on the other hand? I'm not sure that will work. Community Season 6 didn't exactly fire up Yahoo Screens.