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I Futurama!

Are they starting a new season?
Ah, even if they did, it would be ages before they'd show it here on tv...

I don't think they are. However, The Simpsons have been on almost as long as I have been alive. I really liked Futurama. I think they should bring it back too.

Darned close Tim. I think it was 1987. The 20th season starts this fall. Amazing!

Then they are older than me

And yes, they should! Personally I find Futurama much better than the Simpsons, but that's my taste of course

The Simpsons is, in my opinion, nowhere near as funny or cutting-edge as it used to be. Part of me hopes this, their 20th season, will be their last, despite a contract for, IIRC, another four years after that. It's such a pity when something great lingers on past the time when it was great.

Yeah the simpsons have been on tv forever. I stopped watching them years ago. There are so many tv shows that i don't even watch anymore. Like CSI i am so far behind id have to go and buy the seasons. Ugly Betty i used to watch every thursday then for me it just got weird and i stopped watching it. Now the only time i really watch tv is if im bored of my computer or if i see that a good movie is gonna be on.

Will all due respect to Futurama and the Simpsons, the pictures I used were mostly because they were available. Spoo, the other blue meat, comes from Babylon 5.

I enjoy sci-fi and dabble at trying to write in that genre because it's supposed to make you consider the possibilities. Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game) calls sci fi speculative fiction. It is the genre of What if.

There are all sorts of different philosophies expressed in sci fi.

Utopian sci fi sees all of man's problems being solved by the understanding of science and the application of technology. [Star Trek]

Dark Sci fi sees man as universally flawed and his own biggest problem. [Aliens]

Luddite sci fi sees science & technology creating more complex and dangerous problems as man presses forward. [various sci fi network B movies]

Classical sci fi shows that man, despite the setting, is still the same animal. [Star Wars]

These are just a few that I could think of off the cuff. Can you think of others?

There is no small irony in the fact that some of the absolute worst science fiction is being created by the Sci Fi Network which seems to have extreme difficulty differentiating between Sci Fi and Horror [yes, there is a difference].

While I liked B5 a lot, the never-ending technical inconsistencies bugged the hell out of me.

In the case of Sci-Fi channel there really is no difference. They simply produce horrific sci-fi.