Preferences

[Tyrell Corporation]

Series VIII is quite good, and I also like Series VII.

I’m not a huge fan of Series IV though.

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[peas_and_corn]

I think the important question is if you use roman numerals for the first two series.

[Tyrell Corporation]

Nope.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

My preferences:

1. Series 5
2. Series 4
3. Series 3
4. Series 2
5. Series 1
6. Series 6

M A S S I V E G A P

7. Series 8

8. Series 7

[Zombie Jim Undead]

> I think the important question is if you use roman numerals for the first two series.

I usually refer to them as “series alpha” and “series beta”.

[Tyrell Corporation]

Barack Obama is playing Lister in Series IX.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

I think that’s more likely than him becoming president.

(sadly).

[Tyrell Corporation]

His convention speech was excellent.

But alas, another old white Republican in the White House soon enough.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

Yup, yup.

Talking about excellent speeches:

[Phil]

>I think that?s more likely than him becoming president.

Oh come on…give us a chance to vote for the guy before you write him off. He’s got an enormous youth following and that majority of female and ethnic voters…really, all McCain seems to have is the well-to-do white-male demographic, which is traditionally republican no matter who’s running.

Nobody’s got less faith in the American people than I have–that’s 27 years of frustration talking–but we’ve got a chance to turn ourselves around, and I for one see no reason to damn us just yet.

(Of course, ask me again in late November if I feel the same way.)

[Ian Symes]

I really, really hope that the intelligent people in America outweigh the racists and the Republicans. Obama is second only to Jed Bartlett in terms of ideal Presidents.

[Andrew]

> Obama is second only to Jed Bartlett in terms of ideal Presidents.

This.

For those unconvinced, I recommend his book. By nice to see an American president who could write such a coherent, balanced piece of work…rather than one who’d struggle to read it.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

Christ, I’d love Obama to be president…that speech gave me genuine chills, but I can’t see the majority of the bible belt / middle America voting for him.

There’s certainly a great deal of sensible Americans who’d avoid McCain like the plague, but my faith in the US voting majority was destroyed the day Bush got in for a second term.

I fear that a mere 4 years on, those folks opinions won’t be swayed enough to vote in the first black president.

[Jonathan Capps]

Yeah, I stayed up last night catching the highlights of the convention, including Obama’s speech. It was lovely. Obviously, Al Gore was also off-the-scale awesome.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

I would vote for anyone who’s appeared in Futurama.

(apart from Nixon).

[Jonathan Capps]

> I?m not a huge fan of Series IV though.

This opinion never fails to baffle the shit out of me.

[Danny Stephenson]

I would vote for anyone who?s appeared in Futurama.

AROOO!!

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

So, apropos of the political discussion going on in this thread, John McCain has chosen one Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not altogether sure what to make of it–altho’ frankly, it feels rather like a stunt to me. However, short of some disturbing revelation that Barack Obama used taxpayer money to snort blow off the asses of underaged sex slaves with Osama bin Laden at al-Qaeda’s latest fundraiser or something, I’m still probably voting Democrat.

[Phil]

>John McCain has chosen one Sarah Palin as his running mate. […] it feels rather like a stunt to me.

Yep.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

Yeah, I may have been too nice there. It feels a hell of a lot like a stunt, and kind of condescending: “See, ladies? I’m even running with a female now! Isn’t that progressive of me? Okay, yes, we want to take away the right to sovereignty over your own bodies, but if you elect me there’ll be a woman as Vice-President! And she’ll even be allowed to do some man jobs! Isn’t that what all you pro-Hillary bra-burners keep getting hysterical about anyway?”

[Phil]

Let’s hope the Hillary supporters aren’t dumb enough to fall for it. (“You wanted a woman in power? Vote for me and you’ll GET ONE.”)

Gah. Obama really should be no less than 10 percentage points ahead, but thanks to the moral high road he’s taking with his ads (seriously, he should have hammered McCain SO HARD for the “How many houses do you own?” / “I have no idea, I’ll have to get back to you…” thing) he’s dropped so far that it’s a dead heat.

I mean, yeah, moral high-ground is admirable, but we already know the republicans are fighting it dirty. The option is either fight dirty and win or fight clean and lose. Bear in mind your entire fucking country is on the line. I think it’s time Obama brought out the guns.

[Arlene Rimmer BSc SSc]

>Bear in mind your entire fucking country is on the line. I think it?s time Obama brought out the guns.

I’ve heard it hypothesized in a few places that that might just be what Biden’s on the ticket for–to act as an attack dog who’s been long enough in Washington D.C. to know where the proverbial bodies are buried and who isn’t afraid to dig them up, while Obama keeps speaking to people’s ideals, so his halo receives a minimum of tarnish.

[ChrisM]

Back to the important stuff -(I’m joking, i’m joking!)

Truth be told, this isn’t that easy as all series have brilliant episodes. And I might change my mind about these. Also lowest on list doesn’t = bad. Just preference.

1. Series 6 – These top 4 (inclusive) aren’t far apart in estimation.
2. Series 5 – 4 and 5 are actually equal in estimation. Not sure I can join places tough.
3. Series 4
4. series 3 – This is very close to 4 and 5, only lower really due to Kryten’s accent shifting as newcomer Robert Llewelyn gets acquainted with the role. Polymorph and The Last Day are favorite episodes of mine though.
5. series 7 – Not sure of ordering here. Great writing in 2 but I like the sci-fi stuff and look of 7.
6. series 2 – Although I thought episodes Better than Life and Stasis Leak were way up there.
7. Series 1 – Again, Future Echoes was great. And very funny writing in this series
8. Series 8 – Loved Cassandra though. Great old style episode. Also new characters were great.

[hummingbird]

I’d have a hard time choosing betwen III and V for first place.
V is more consistently good, but I think the best bits of III are far superior.

OK, so it would have to be
1. III, V
3. II
4. IV
5. I, VI
7. VIII
8. VII

in fact, I prefer to pretend that VII doesn’t exist

[Dave]

1) Series VI
2) Series III
3) Series II
4) Series I
5) Series V
6) Series IV
7) Series VIII
8) Sarah Palin
9) Series VII
10) John McCain

or something

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