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Post by Blade Runner on Jan 28, 2005 14:58:46 GMT -5
I think it was UFO or Thunderbirds/stingray/supercar, basically Gerry Anderson when I was about 4 - 7 and not forgetting Star Trek
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Post by mattw65 on Jan 28, 2005 15:39:40 GMT -5
What got me in to Sci-Fi. Pretty much all of the above and of course Dr.Who.
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Post by MHall on Jan 28, 2005 18:03:41 GMT -5
What got me into sci-fi... watching Star Trek while hiding my eyes during the kissing scenes, watching the Apollo-Soyuz blast off in person, reading Ben Bova, having a scientist for a father who had to answer every possible "why is the sky blue?" type question during dinner, and reading a college physics textbook "Black Holes Quasars and the Universe" (and it was profoundly disturbing for a sixth grader to realize that time is not at all what it seems.) There was also Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Space 1999, and Quark, but I think those came after I was already into sci-fi.
Remember Quark (1978)? What about bringing in Betty I and Betty II (the actresses, I mean, the Barnstable twins) for BSG TNS? They could even be old Sixes, if Ellen is not an old Six herself. They might still look hot. You know, there have to be SOME twins in the fleet, and so the writers should include at least one pair of twins to show how much suspicion they draw.
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Post by Callipygian on Jan 29, 2005 7:21:53 GMT -5
It was my father who got me into it. He's a huge scifi fan, and when Star Trek was first airing (I was in single digits), we watched it religiously. If by chance we were having a late dinner that night, my Dad would bring a portable TV into the dining room so that we didn't miss any of it.
And then, around the age of 10, I started reading my father's Asimov and Heinlein books. I was hooked at that point.
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Post by prism700 on Jan 29, 2005 8:40:05 GMT -5
Seeing Star Wars on video for the first time (i was too young when it came out at the cinema) at the tender age of five. My friends and i loved it and i remember Star Wars toys being top of my santa's xmas list ;D
I tend to prefer scifi films (Blade Runner, 2001, Alien, Solaris etc) to tv series - although i think i have seen ST TNG all the way through. BSG is the first scifi series that i have really got excited about in a long long time.
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Post by caseOrange on Jan 29, 2005 10:10:32 GMT -5
ST: TOS. Because i was young, i didn't even realize that what i was watching was sci-fi. Even after begging my mom to take me to see Star Wars for the 4th time, i didn't realize that i was getting hooked or that i enjoyed shows about future technology and alternative thinking more than sitcoms or dramas. BTW, does The Six Million Dollar Man count as sci-fi, 'cause i used to enjoy watching that, too.  |
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Post by ViperTech on Jan 29, 2005 18:20:08 GMT -5
Definately the fact my dad is a Trekkie, though I've gotten into the much more hardcore scifi, following reading the Bantam series of Expanded Universe Star Wars novels. I started reading Dune, Do Androids Dream, Starship Troopers, and a ton of Orson Scott Card... So I've always been a fan of scifi, fantasy, and alternative fiction....  (Cylons are cool.) |
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Post by RedSalmon on Jan 29, 2005 20:38:35 GMT -5
Must be Gerry Anderson, probably Thunderbirds or Space1999. May even have been some of those Japanese dubbed Godzilla movies. Can't really remember what came first.
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Post by darthyrox on Jan 31, 2005 7:34:06 GMT -5
The first sci-fi show I really watched was "The Outer Limits" when I was 8 in 1963. They had some awesome creatures & aliens in that series. After that I began watching "The Twilight Zone" & "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea". Also there was the sci-fi movie of the week, every Wednesday night on tv at 7:30 pm back in 1963. They would show movies like "The Angry Red Planet", "Godzilla", "The Giant Behemoth", "It, The Terror From Beyond Space" & the next day at school those movies were the lunchtime talk!
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Post by lollywit on Jan 31, 2005 7:34:36 GMT -5
Good grief Calli... SNAP... almost word for word!!!  Then Star Wars sealed my fate when I was 8/9 Although there is a family rumour that revolves around my Dad taking my Mum to see 2001 when she was 8 months pregnant with me... my Mum swears blind I was wedged up against her belly button listening to the movie... |
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Post by ladyrheena on Feb 1, 2005 4:48:52 GMT -5
I was brainwashed with Star Trek from the age of six by my mother. I went through a period of resenting this when I moved into secondary school but now of course am in terminal addict stage and will watch anything sci-fi if I can get my dad away from the football for long enough to actually use the TV...
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Post by Beckymonster on Feb 2, 2005 10:03:08 GMT -5
This is going to sound so.... cliche but I think it was the original BSG that got me into SF! It's that or 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' (Gil Gerard as Buck... Twinkie RULED!) and of course, the old favourite 'Doctor Who' (The Cybermen scared the hell outta me! ). Not forgetting, of course, Star Wars. I have fond memories of watching that on a video we recorded off the telly (this was about 1980 or so) and watching the Trench Run again and again and again...  So it was a combination of Dirk Benedict, Twinkie, Star Wars and Star Trek TOS that have made me the nutcase I am today! ;D I was also heavily into astronomy as a small child too, so I always saw SF as being a natural progression of that. |
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Post by Blade Runner on Feb 2, 2005 10:48:50 GMT -5
This is going to sound so.... cliche but I think it was the original BSG that got me into SF! It's that or 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' (Gil Gerard as Buck... Twinkie RULED!) and of course, the old favourite 'Doctor Who' (The Cybermen scared the hell outta me! ). Not forgetting, of course, Star Warst. What about the showroom dummies |
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Post by lollywit on Feb 2, 2005 11:05:40 GMT -5
*whimpers*
not the dummies....
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Post by CylonGod on Feb 2, 2005 19:19:37 GMT -5
Trek tos (one of the first sci fi I can rember) Land of the giants (I thinks that what its called) It's about people trapped on a world of giants. Cheesy but when you're around seven it was cool. (probably the first I can remeber to watch) Buck rogers (a little later than the others) 6 million doller man BSG TOS Star Blaser's (cartoon but good) |
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