I live in Louisville, KY. Not exactly a hot-bed of Science Fiction.
DS9 and B5 were both horrendously scheduled by the stations that were showing them here. They generally ran on Saturday or Sunday afternoons, right after some sporting event, usually football or basketball. Consequently, they were usually either started in the middle or preempted entirely because the games always ran over their time slot. The networks used them simply as filler - like Fox did with Futurama. Trying to keep up with them was impossible. I didn't get to see much of B5 until TNT bought it. (And just for the record, I liked the 5th season) I was also glad I got to see Crusade. One season was better than nothing. A similar thing happened when Enterprise started. It was showing on Wednesday nights, right in the middle of our local college basketball teams favorite game time slot. I got to see the first four or five episodes of the first season and then the last three or fours episodes of the last season. I liked what I saw. Maybe I'll get to see it all now that Sci-Fi is playing it.
The problem I have now is that I don't have any time to watch TV - maybe 2 or 3 hours a week on a good week, despite having Tivo. I have just skipped entire series that I know I would have liked because I know I'll never get to see them all - especially if they are serialized. So I have seen none of Firefly, little of Battlestar Galactica, none of any of the Star Gate series, none of Andromeda, virtually none of Lost, very little of Smallville, very little of Buffy, Angel or Charmed. It's sad because, unlike 10 or 15 years ago, there is a TON of science fiction and fantasy on television and I'm missing almost all of it. :'(
(Just for the record, I stopped watching Voyager after the "Warp 10" episode. I checked it out a few times to see if it still sucked and I always found that it did. If ever there was a wasted opportunity for a Star Trek series - Voyager was it. I remember watching the finale and thinking "God, I'm glad that's over with. I'm glad I didn't watch the whole series" Unlike when I watched the finale of DS9 where I thought "Damn! I wish I'd seen that whole series!")
Not to sound like a fanboy suckup, but escape pod has been a great salvation for me. I have a 20-30 minute commute each way to work and while I can't watch TV while I'm driving, I can listen. I discovered escape pod about 2 months ago and I've been a total addict ever since. After listening to a bunch of stories that I downloaded, I bought the complete archive and started listening to that from the beginning. (And in the spirit of the Creative Commons License, I copied it and gave the originals to a friend as a gift.
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