I don't know, I think my vote for perfect terrible series would have to go to Farscape[1].
Red Dwarf would be in the list, too, maybe as an honorable mention.
Red Dwarf would be in the list, too, maybe as an honorable mention.
So good and so laughably amateurish and campy bad. Loved it!
Having watched most of ST (1st, TNG, V, DS9) I had no interest in Babylon5.
There's also Silo on now which seems similar in concept to B5. Sets and acting is ok to good but the pace is too slow.
https://tolerabilityindex.freeforums.net/thread/676/lexx-far...
* Living ships
* Motley crew
* Evil empire
* Big bad evil guy causing all the problems
But all of this is also pretty common in other SciFi series.
I can handle the puppets. It’s bad acting coupled with thin plots and 2-dimensional characters.
Any given character, at least from season 1, can be well encapsulated by 3 adjectives or so.
It’s like a cartoon for adults. Not a bad thing to exist, but also not super-interesting or engrossing.
Anyone who disagrees, prepare for the Thunderdome. The real one that’s coming up this month.
But I think that Londo Molari beats Scorpius as a villain because we see every step of his journey from a minor government official in a position that is regarded as a joke back home, his first grasp at real power, his gradually rising self esteem, his surprise and disgust at the bombing of Narn, his attempts to undo his mistakes without losing his new position and the respect of his peers back home, etc, etc. All of this happens gradually across the five seasons of the show.
With Scorpius we only get a single episode detailing his backstory, and he probably customized that heavily to appeal specifically to John. He does stick to his stated goals and motivation even after he loses his power base, so there was at least some truth to it, but it is still a lot thinner.
It’s goofy at times but the tone is one of serious irreverence, if that makes sense.
Very much driven by the lead character who seems to be in some ways an audience surrogate going “this is bananas, my life is insane. Can’t take it TOO seriously, or I’ll go mad.”