Review: Chretien de Troyes

Arthurian Romances
Chretien de Troyes

Writing between 1160 and 117, probably the best medieval european romance (but i like The Green knight lots too). These versions were even used by welsh and english writers even though it was written in French. This book (mine is an everyman edition from 1914 and reprinted 83) features four romances (a bunch of stuff happening as oposed to psychological drama of novels). Although many of these stories feature pages of characters internal self torture and suffering over love.

Erec et Enide - probably the best story of the four - with erec saving the poor but beutiful enide from harm to their marraige and comfort which is only disturbed by rumours of erec no onger doing knightly deeds. Then he leads his wife on a grim suicidal trck through bandit and backwood baronies facing all manner of harm and even some giants for good measure to prove he still has it. Lots of juicy battles and honbour bound craziness you expect fdrom courtly knights.

Cliges - a byzantines kinight seeks king arthur for glory and helps arthur defeat usurpers. He marries has a son liges who by right is heir to byzantium. His unkle agrees to never marry and minds the throne but then slips and decides to marry a german girl who cliges falls in love with. the girl loves him to so her nurse makes a potion which makes the emperor think he is sleeping with his new wife but really it is an illusion thus preserving her virginity and virtue for when after many great trials cliges finally gets her. There is a loveley sequence where the german girl in agonies of love feigns sickness. The doctors realize she is fake and promise them emperor to fix her or kill them. But their best arguements and pleadings for her to stop the bullshit fail. So they do what any good doctors would do in fear of their heads and torture her horribly for days even pouring molten lead through her palms of her hands. Maids hearing this make a swarm of furious women who burst in and hurl the doctors to their deaths from windows. Of course our hero and his tru love get together and all is well.

Yvain - looking for heroic deeds, Yvain goes to face a local custom others have failed against. After defeating the custom of the knight and chasing him home, Yvain is helped by a maid with a magic ring and even gets to marry the dead knights wife and promises to defend the custom and the land. He is madly in love but eventualy he goes off on a quest where madness strikes him. When it is a over he realizes he is long over due and has broken a promise to return to his wife. While heading back he gets caught up in new adventures by a string of helpless maidens beset by sons of demons, women burning mobs and other troubles. On the way he makes friends with a lion he saves from a dragon. They have a charming friendship. When others insist Yvain keep his Lion away when they fight - he tells them he cant control it. When his enamies do fight him his lion always intercedes, (even when locked up and told to stay back) and horribly mauls Yvanes enamies. Finaly he get back home and is united with his wife who is pretty pissed at him and he has to impress her all  over again. One of the better sections in this book with lots of fights and monsters and bizzare customs which knights deal with on a daily basis. Customs were a kind of curse which took the form of social and moral obstacles the knight would have to defeat or die trying.

Lancelot - probably not my favorite and ive always been troubled by the superlative knight having a love afair with his best mate and lords wife. It actualy does not identify him as lancelot till some way into the story. It does add some new dimensions to him when he turns into a suicidal wimp because guenivere slighted him a bit in public and he lets a mob string him up without a fight, and she stops eating when she hears he was killed by the mob. not my favorite bit and the least finished of the four but still interesting.

With all the shit versions in film and tv i implore people to read some real medieval writings on these romances. Im going to try and read some more soon. I am still impressed by the psychological depths of dispair characters threw themselves into - yet they are not considered novels. This stuff troubled church and state yet was popular entertainment. You could love a woman more than good or your lord was dangerous stuff. It is also the only mode of intense personall thought and dispair a literary character could have- which smacks or 20th century modernisms obsession with internal dispair, illness and mental health.

Where is my great Australian Western Hero? Paul Hogan? Mad Max? Wolverine?

Sorry i wrote an essay in response to lots on related net battles online - was gonna come out somewhere sometime i will post somewhere else. I don't necessarily agree with this any more.

Where is my great Australian Western Hero?
Paul Hogan? Mad Max? Wolverine?

My mum wanted to be an Indian and always rooted for them and liked Mary Marvel and Sheena comix.

I saw in Russia in 80s a western with big hats huge star and they bowed very politely to each other in saloon before shooting vodka

Westerns are one of great genres which world enjoyed
America is a wonderland of strange foodstuffs and action drama has fed our imaginations.

But westerns one fine genre we enjoy. You’d think Australians being kinda rough and colonial and stuff would be a good source for historical action drama. There was a pulp scene between wars and some local comics but UK and USA stuff. We watched western stuff from USA, UK, Italy. Mad max is kinda our closest call too the spirit of a western but we have made lots of not very good historic Drama (some for christian cable made to convey fuzzy retro values of frontier life for white folk families).

America gave us The Fonzie, ALF and so many wonderful characters you getting Paul Hogan seems only fair. He was a classic Aussie Larrikin.

“Larrikin is an Australian English term which, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, meant "a lout, a hoodlum”[1] or “a young urban rough, a hooligan”,[2] meanings which were obsolescent[1] in the later 20th century, when connotations were mostly of “a mischievous young person, an uncultivated, rowdy but good hearted person”, or “a person who acts with apparent disregard for social or political conventions”.[2]“

Thats kinda a flattering characterture of what I like about Australia of old that Hogues embodied. Some of that is censored and changes into the 80s changing comic taste on some issues. Less people thinking hitting a Paki or stalking the lovely delvine delany or police arresting and hitting homosexuals is funny now as the 70s (well some 70s comedy cringing record of times). But in the 80s we beat racism forever in TV comedy.

Ozzy history lots more boring or sad and invasion never called that or a war till recently. I do find most pop references to aboriginals really offensive - they are very private people regarding their religion so appropriating from their art to me means are robbing them.and you are going to get sickness

http://www.abc.net.au/indigenous/map/images/indigi_map.png
Australian linguistic map
http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/
(plz wait for few 30s ads as the public multicultural channel)

This is pretty amazing and denied or unknown by most Australians
not a very romantic history pretty sad really

South Australia story of egalitarian colonization with religious freedom with a bias to equal age and wealth couples - settled by a corporation. Started by letter writing campaign by a child kidnapper and bad teacher from prison who wrote letters to papers saying how great Australia was and how we should all get there now. With no convicts allowed and whole city planned before building. Not a great drama story it seems as apparently "natives all just died of plague” and disappeared (?). Are most urban people in world with lots of wasteland by European standards where few go unless miners or farmers or loggers or tourists or military exercises. My state had ten or so atom bombs dropped on it.

Hogan was a Icon of the 70s and 80s Australia. last gasp of working Larrikin. Now we are uber coffee snob foodies increasingly swinging to right and destroying arts, education, welfare, health care. Same time committed to buying 2.5 billion (lots for us) of new jet fighters. We have not actually been able to operate a campaign worthy squadron in at least 20 years just as we have no troops abroad finally and trying to cover up our off shore immigration camps, helping big tobacco and some local despot mates.

We are growing apart from neighbors New Zealand and increasingly disadvantage them more than they do to us. NZ a utopian colony of Sydney where locals fought back and won. That would make a great movie - remember all storm troopers are NZ-ers. We are like old war mates and have distanced a bit as one has become a bit of a dickhead. Recently was a campaign to make NZ flag less Australian over embarrassment.

But Aussies everywhere nowadays. Who’s post Hogues cinematic cliche dream is still becoming true?

Mad Max Mel Gibson and Hugh Wolverine Jackman are rough edged cyberpunk era western heroes. And obviously are Japanese ronin as well. Many films and kids films have Australian mercenaries who I believe from watching children’s films roam the world and just blend into suburbia when at home in Oz. A alternative to evil south African mercenary in any script with no changes needed.

I hear more and more Australians are hiding it from last 18 years xenophobic foreign policy, people pretend to be Canadian or NZ. Lots of best people leave. My Niece Left over trying to bring her top bloke Swedish Nurse hubbie over difficulty. Several friends paid $50 000 in painful fees and form filling fun time for 4 years to keep partners here. My NZ buddies dont get dole but do pay tax and have lived here for decades. We treat em same even though we signed a treaty they stick to.

I still think by so many measures we are still one of best places in the world to live and I dont think leaving it would help anything and I still love it. Must go make unwanted propaganda again.

Ex-pat Mr Hogan got detained by our Tax dept over error which took them to court over. He made free ads that made Australia a world tourism hotspot that built a billion dollar industry. He was a media genius. Shame bonnie King Hogan can’t come across the waves and chase mr Abott our PM way. For despite the comedy flaws of 70s comedey in a time B&W minsteral restaurants were in every city in Australian Hogan represented the trouble making fair go spirit that made Australia a workers paradise with some of strongest unions ever. Party system now consists of two big parties uniting against human rights violations ans independants with unions every day practice for a hundred years being made illegal step by step.

Review: The Night Land

The Night Land
by William Hope Hodgson

This influentual classic was written in 1911. The writer was a strong influence on HP lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. It has a knightly romance style like the fantasy of before tolkiens generation - comparable to the fantasy writings of william morris (a big influence on cs lewis). Norman Spinrad’s Iron dream owes something to it. Most editions are covered in reviews by clark ashton smith, lovecraft and robert e howard (auther of conan). I guess my image of the writer is as a world weary seafarer who managed to write his meloncholic and disturbing fantasies into several major works in the genre before dying in ww1. You could call him the father of cosmic horror (whatever that is? horror for aetheists?).

The Night Land is the world so far in the future the sun has been snuffed out - the world is scarred blasted and deformed. the wilds are crawling with mutants and monsters. even the landscape is alive with volcanoes and gigantic living mountains with gibbering faces muttering silently to who knows what. As to how the world came to be, well that was so long ago. The last “humans” live inside a giant silver pyramid whose systems are grinding down over thousands of years and whose dwellers have regressed to a medieval like-culture. The protagonist is on a quest for his beloved who he believes dwells in a smaller hithero unknown pyramid on the verge of ruin. The narrative deals with this fear filled journey across the nightland.

One of the most bleakest vissions of the future and interesting books i have ever read. The House on the Borderland is another work by the author worth reading also. Many fantasy worlds in fiction are dreamscapes loaded with psychological symbolism. the night land is one of discomfort, fear of contamination, decay and devolution. More than a few post victorian horror writers let their xenophobia and fear of deformity run wild, which is why im guessing Norman Spinrad used ideas in his book the Iron Dream - a Faux SF novel by Adolf Hitler from a world where he imigrated to america and joined the SF writers fraternity (which ill review some other time). Like reading too much Brian lumley stories of corpse devouring worms i was left feeling genuinley discomforted.

There are txt file versions online, fan websites, maps and art out there and copies of the book feature some amazing artwork. Many of the artworks feature blackend flaming horisons like Brugel surrealist paintings. Very appropriate. A film of this could be awesome but id be scared they would put keaunu in it. Copyright has expired on it too if your enclined to be inspired by it.

My old coloring book - Urchin books might have some and I have a few

Have art done for a new dungeon theme one i just need a scanner If only I hadnt done this before colouring book craze... Most of the art in here was requests from my tiny masters while i was supposed to be looking after them It is slightly subversive

Puffy Colour

Review: Australian Graffiti vol3 by Rennie Ellis 1985

the all new australian graffiti vol3 by rennie ellis 1985

I found a book: the all new australian graffiti vol3 by rennie ellis from 1985 (vol1 1975). I thought he would be good to interview but he died a few years ago. Mostly racist, political and crude sexual - not much street art here but a bit - in 25 years from now how much more awesome will it get? I did see some earlier volumes as a kid and it does make me wonder what early stencilers thought. There was a lot of interest in this kind of graff as indicated by international best sellers by nigel rees efforts reviwed earlier here. Two points this book does make i think are interesting. Rennie’s intro comments how refreshing it is to have unplanned campagns with no commercial motive - the act of graffiti is a social safetey valve - an act of catharsis. This isnt as true as it was but still interesting. My fave piece from a toilet a response to a question “doesnt anyone just use this as a toilet anymore?” - the response being “as well as emptying bladders and bowels people must also empty those resepticles in the mind where unwanted or exessive matter collects”.

His web page here managed after his death features many images of retro australian bogans, parades, gangs, queers, and more - let your bogan flag fly. Ive included a cover from an earlier volume.

(www.rennieellis.com.au)

Super Hero films

Super Hero films

saw avengers finally - loved it - laughed so hard it hurt
upcoming spiderman has shitty version of lizard and fucked up gwen/parents story
batman seems to be more about terrorism than superheroes
buth prometheus looks set to be best film in 30 years

back to avengers
Several flaws in nick fury dialogue at least could be explained as bullshit - dead agent should have popped up and fury just lied he was dead - turns out phil will return - he is the glue of the ushared film continuity - one costant thing in the bold new shared superhero world

The cinematic universe version of marvel universe is pretty big but i guess universal pictures monsters are a kind of shared film world, as is godzilla. Superheroes are a bit more human than those - (marvel pioneered super continuity in comics with first team up ever in ww2 era sub mariner vs human torch) - every comic universe owes this one comic story.

I like how tony gets a boner for bruce offers him room in house and drives off with him at end for kebab. Hulk was so funny i hurt laughing.

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Sly Stallone complains of action heroes genre being killed by superheroes. 
sly whine here
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=60620

Good.

Action tv in australia died in 80s and still going in usa - i would have thought crime tv was was worse - martial arts in moves were big deal once - in 70s it was like magic to most ppl - now everyone has done some martial arts- now girs doing flying kicks is a shit cliche (any pretty girl with no muscle tone can do anything). I now understand what my friend meant by hating wire based martial arts films. Anyone with effects can doanything now - make dr who a superhuman acrobat and make spy kids beat anyone. No more steve reeve where as herculese he looked like he really could move a boulder or kill a lion.

Superheroes are the last viable genre of sf left
transhumanismm - the sf of the body [moon fits this too]
seriously id prefer to see superherous than sleazy tough jocks bashing stereotype fears of the momentr. with hoplessly unreal violence -at least you know superheroes are kida unrealistic but like the sybolism is more obvious

if comic based movies help keep comics or at least the characters alive good

Anyway Great Superhero films Below - 
I’ll do animted heroes some other time and sf horror the new sf vs cthulhu craze.
Blade and Robocop and judge dredd will be elsewhere too - pure spandex heroes only.

Avengers

The Shadow
beautiful

Rocketeer
beautiful

The Increeadible Hulk
1st one ok but second was really good and linked to previous 70s tv show and movie - starting to make more flexible continuities for heroes and audience can acept multiple versions and alternate realities

Superman and the mole men 
(im a hollow earth sucker)

Batman
(80s one though i hated end - joker leg ulds a 1-7t block of stone, villain falling + -1star
Whole series just turned into celebs as themselves posing in s&m outfits 
Current cycle of bat films are fun but too fixed in now and terrorism - i wanna see Gotham city not Boston. Gotham is the real star of older batman films. You watch 60s Batman like an austin powers movie or like a small child and read it totally straight. I used to cry when my dad and brother came to watch batman and would laugh (monkey too) didnt they know he was serious and dark? I think there is room for funny batman like brave and bold cartoon 50s 60s comics were increadibly weird and comix were inherintly a bit silly. the 80s and frank millar made batman black and dark.

Superman 2
Best villains 3 ppl as good as him - other than this and the set up in one the est are pretty silly. I fell asleep first watch of new one - was anoyed by continuity shit too - hope next verion works. Otherwise go back to 40s animations.

Supergirl
i really always liked supergirls comics and pets - her horse is awesome. Fun film.

Fantastic Four
Great chracterisation of four - dr doom had capable actor but screwing up his origin, not having a battlesuit like ironman, or his steampunk brutaliust inventions. No latveria no magic. Most of the films heroic feats were cleaning up their own mess and 4 ppl beating up one. not very fantastic. Second one should have done galactus and have him apear to aliens with their form before eating them - they pussied out and movie crawled backwards in thrill power - the film Kronos with the FF would have rocked. Actors and fx great in both shame franchise didnt get another shot. I cant wait for rights to return to marvel.

X-Men 
Cartoon better but the fourth film was beautiful and surprisingly good - like dr no and madmen kind of retro look i really enjoyed enough to not care about their non-cannon text. First 3 films were a bit matrixy. First was promising but got more shitty - i enjoyed them but kept being upset at why fix wot aint broke. Just make a new film dont call it xmen. Wolverine was so bad. One of worst films ever - make all those flopped black superheroes movies nobody in australia got to see look good. Im no deadpool fan but after raping him in wolverine they want to give him a spinoff!!!I cant wait for rights to return to marvel so beast, wolverine and storm can be in avengers VIII.

Unbreakable
Brilliant!

League of extarordinary Gentlemen
Oddly did better in australia. If i didnt know comic i would have liked more but i some how could accept it was just inspired by alan moore and not meant to make fames masturbate on the commic while watching. I didnt mind it and think it on par withy 70s steampunk movies.

Spiderman
The 70s version among my friends was as cool as starwars. we all had spiderman toys. Now they look like the shittry tv movie/pilots they were. TobyMcGuire version i enjoyed. Kistens dimples make me feel funny. Good but mre fighting please. Second one ok, 3rd one should be called too many monsters - screwd relations up for no reason. New one has screwd lizard one of my faves - the idea of a lab coat wearing scientist lizard man is brilliant he could be brilliant one moment and crocadillian stupidity next. I look fwd to more but home marvel studios will get back because the cinematic shared universe project is good for all superheroes. I cant wait for rights to return to marvel

Daredevil
When he beats Bullseye turn it off quick. Electra spinoff dreadful - making typhoid a nothing villain - what a waste. Kingpin was aweful.

Hellboy 
Brilliant - second one a bit too slick even though i can see wires in first.

Hancock
Not really a superhero film. Maybe first half counts.

KickAss
Not really a superhero movie but go read the comic because it is dark and not a teen summer fun film liker at all. Maybe thell make it like the comic in a remake in 10years.

Thor
Awesome cept why cant jane be a nurse? Nurses rock - or even a paramedic. Shame no donald blake - thors not used much secret id - being a medical doctor a man of peace was a good flipside.

Captain America
old version with italian skull? shit
Current one like rockateer is wonderful.

Iron Man
Probably my fave solo hero film now. Second one needed a bigger villain and took me a rewatch to like. Converted several friends to superhero films with iron man. Not really acting is it?.

Green Lantern
Villain parallax fail on many levels.

Punisher 
Lets make 3 terrible films with a character who was at his best as a spiderman villain. I would kill him if i could (and had powers). How can 3 films be so bad?

Watchmen
book is great - this film ok but gutless for not using the comic ending (even refering to comics ending) - music feels more forest gump than alan moore

Green Hornet
Enjoyable but posasibly funnier than it ought to be for some

Mystery Men
I loved it but some friends dont like funny heroes. Shame didnt include flaming carrot from comic - mr furious didnt come off as a nick fury parody just a dark bitter bit of a dick.

wikirpedia list needs update badly
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sadly i ran a superhero role playing game for 20 years. i could do my own wiki on it.

My Favorite SF films

My Favorite SF films

With prometheus coming up im ispired to write my top 10 up becuse prometheus is sure to bump something out. Pretty much based on art direction.

No particular order….

Metropolis - continues to inspire me again
Alien - The best ever alien other than the thing
5th Element - heavy metal magazine come to life
2001 - one of my fave ever cinematic works
Star Wars - Although Empire is the best of series
Forbiden Planet - proto star trek meets shakespere, best robot ever
Terminator 2 - Actualy takes a good film up some notches
Starship Troopers - read book and forever war by joe halderman - skip second film, 3rd ok
Logans Run - Dystopian post apocalypse - great actors
Blade Runner - Syd mead design

Some Noteworthy Runners Up….

Flash Gordon - Silly, fun, pretty - some of original pre war series - sorry if you liked original comic
Space BattlshipYomato - could have been awesomeseries but went for shitty end
Aliens - fun but more lowbrow than original
Quatermass and the Pit - many versions of quatermass - pre dr who super boffin from uk
Dr Who Dalek movies - i like peter cushing - better thant the pant origfinal episodes 
Day Earth Stood Still - Actually like update in many ways but original is fun
Moon - old fashioned thinking 70s sf - actualy less boring than what it imitates
Star Wars Series - original 80s versions, some of the computer games are better than films
Brain Storm - new media - conciousness tech changes the world - proto cyberpunk
Wrath of Khan - villain one of best ever actors in franchise
Pandorum - Actually should be in top 10 - best in recent years
Green Slime - 60s action fun - gogo girls and tentacles
This Island Earth - Flawed but some of the best 50s aliens ever
Matrix part - one nice - rest mostly just killed it exept a few good outfits
Silent Running - Mandatory viewing in school when i rule world
Outlander - fail at box office but is one of best this decade

ark near Future - tech noir and urban dystopia
Judge Dredd - Pretty awesome world - i have 2 books of making art - shit acting
Demolition man - Sly proving above film his worst ever acting can ruin a film
Running Man - fun
Robo Cop - no2 was frank miller shit so you can skip it
12 Monkeys - actually a very good film - i should see original
1984 - one viewing enuff - shame eyrthmics soundtrack versiuon not released
Brave New World (tv movie) - but read tye book and island by same author 
Soylant Green - big fun proves cannibalism sells - coming to diner near yoyu
Westworld - micheal chriton first themepark of future gon wrong 
RollerbalI - arty end credits middle of film tricked me for years
I Robot - well resolved future 
Minority Report - well resolved future 
Real Steel - rockemsockem robots made me cry
Johnny Mnemonic - souless keanu plays blank slate automaton - shit villain death ruins

best apocalypse…

Mad Max2 - cars and gang violence world - why cant australia make a good film since
Death Race 2000 - silly future sport - newer movies ok
Book of Eli - best christian movie ever
Boy and His Dog - great film - end is awesome pre screen test era gold
Omega Man - 70s version prefered - ill wait for pre screen test version end for moder one
Planet Of The Apes Series - gotta love apes - this was starwars of its day - tv series good
The Postman - good even though mid west rock music - waterworld ok in bits
Salute of the jugger - post apocalypse sport - vampire aristocrats living in underground cities
Hell comes to frogtown - 60s pulp at finest
No Blade of Grass - could happen any time
Escape From New York - increasingly silly films but first is great

SF Greatest Monster & Aliens attack 
really disaster (easily replacable with volcano) or war or spy dramas

Invasion of the body snatchers - both versions - ripe for remake
Earth Vs Flying Saucers - Better than independance day by a mile -
I Married a monster from out of space - at least he wasnt a non-white gay commie terrorist
War of the Worlds - Both fims good
Kronos - Collosal alien machine comes to harvest planet - like marvels galactus
Preditor Series - I like all - no 2 was cut in cinema within a week wow
Aliens Series - overworked series but aliens is must see more war movie than horror
The Blob - teens in hotrods batte rthying from space
Them - mutant ants gone wild - remakewould be gold
Godzilla, Gamera and king Kong - any big monsters smashing buildings ok with me
The Thing - best alien ever
Skyline/Battle For LosAngelese/Independance Day/battleship - aliens attack

Best steam punk - overlaps with “lost world” alot

WIld Wild West - TV show fun - movie a few years aheasd of its time
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City - writers of dr who created
First Men In the Moon - great movie - nice but pointless remake in last few years more miserable
Journey to The Centre of The Earth - i love this
20 000 Leagues - needs a remake 
Mysterious Island - the sequel - good cartoon i remember too - an ok recent remake
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - not as good as comic but ok
The Lost World - Jurrasic park of the pre war age - killed now by racism
Cowboys vs Aliens - despite awful business and marketing antics an enjoyable film
Secret adventures of jules verne - ok canadian tv series

Troy Mclure Films

The Land That Time Forgot - big fun - biplanes vs dinos
The People that Time Forgot - uboats vs dinos
At the earth Core - loved molemachines and hollow earth as a kid
Warlords of Atlantis - ripping fun - dinosaurs, atlantis, aliewns, octopi

Kids SF

Flight of the navigator
Explorers
ET

Comedy

Galaxy Quest - better than most star trek films in a love filled homage
Mars Attacks - See the original norman saunders and other topps trading cards
Men In Black - both melt into each other as first has a shitty climax|
My Science Project - teen science goes wrong
Dark Star - great stuff

Best TV

Dr Who
Original Battlestar Galactica
Blakes 7 - Best SF serial ever - Anti star trek drama
Buck Rogers - Didnt really know what it wanted to be actors writers producers all battling
Flash Gordon original serials and filmation cartoon ignore recent one
Land of the Lost - Episodes by Norman spinrad and Larry Niven
Lost In Space
Max Headroom - Best Cyberpunk world ever on screen
Red Dwarf - better sf ideas than most shows - even copied by trek
Quark - cute comedy space gargage men
Sanctuary
babylon 5
Saul of the Molemen
Seaquest - didnt know what it wanted to be but i prefered to next generation
The Middlemen
The Outer Limits
The Starlost - tried to be silent running
The Tommorrow People

Gerry Anderson Shows - from maker of thunderbirds

UFO - GoGo girls in space best music and alien fighting ever
Space 1999 - Tried to be 70 serious then went italian crazy - best spaceships and sets ever
Fireball XL5 - Great cheezy kids fun
Captain Scarlet - Scariest kids show ever - new 90s version is fab
StingRay - Underwater submarines battle fish men nations
Joe 90 - Boy computer programed by dad to go on deadly spy missions
Space Precinct - Family cop drama in space with puppet aliens cops and humans

ill do best superhero - SFof the body next time - now its own genre hooray at last