The Boston Globe's
website, boston.com has a list of the Top 50 Sci-Fi TV shows. Now, they use the term Sci-Fi extraordinarily loosely, as you can see here: [link] .
Anyhow, why is this relevant to this thread? I'll tell you why this is relevant to this thread...
Lois and Clark,
comes in at #44,
Firefly
comes in at #17, and
The X-Files
is #4. Go Tim.
BtVS came in at number 27 (with
Dark Angel
at number 19???--who judges these things!?!). Sadly,
Angel
didn't make the cut. It's really the best little show that never got its due, isn't it?
I guess I see their point. When did Buffy ever have hot girls in leather?
Wait.
Um, when did Buffy ever have girls in heat due to their cat genes? That's a classic science fiction story!
Faith was always in heat.
But not because of cat genes!
Buffy was in heat for an entire season, and probably because she is the progeny of a spiritual foremother who was chained up back before there would have been metal, and then raped by a smoky sort of demon.
Have they no standards?
well technically DA was more science-y than Buffy, with the whole genetic mutation thing. Maybe that's why it was ranked higher?
well, only after a good slaying.