I recently stumbled across this image of The Jetsons and it was like a blast from the past. I remember how much I used to enjoy watching this show on Cartoon Network as a kid. The future looked fantastic! Flying cars and robot maids and what not? I also absolutely loved Transformers when it first came out. It was absolutely mind-blowing to me!
Now that I look back, I realize how much sci-fi media shaped my perception of the future. There wasn't a lot of dystopian media back then, at least not that I remember watching or reading about. As I got older, however, I got into some dystopian sci-fi stuff as well, like The Hunger Games and Snowpiercer.
So what were your favorite pieces of sci-fi media while growing up? List your top 3 at least! How do you feel about them now? I'd love to know!
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Dexter’s Laboratory🔥
I soooo loved this show. One of my absolute favorite shows growing up, period. Old Cartoon Network was a blast.
Dexter’s Laboratory was ahead of it’s time. 👊
It will probably be SG 1 Stargate which Jack" O'Neill was always the funny guy that provides the comic reliefs & being a very relatable leader. Who gets thing done despite he is surrounded by people who is much smarter or better than him.
It's a great show, great writing, great actors too. Love it.
Yup!!! It's sad that it's limbo in now. I hope Netflix picks it up to make it happen.
Great choice!
Ulysse 31, a french-japanese anime. Yep, it exists.
youtube.com/watch?v=_ZFUOmU-nzI
It's basically a re-imagination of the The Odysseus with spaceships. How cool is that? It was great. 30 episodes or so, pretty slow for the common standards, but really great ideas all along. Lead me for a passion to Greek Mythology, for reading, for a lot of stuff. I couldn't stop drawing the spaceships, especially the one with a big eye in the middle.
A great movie, but I'm too old to qualify.
Haha I know! I remember how obsessed you were with that show.
I discovered the Dune series when I was 16. It drastically changed how I view both myself and society as a whole. It's pretty heady, so every time you read it, you see things in a new light. There's apparently a new movie coming out soon, so I started reading it for like the third time.
Star Trek all the way. Purely because the sci-fi has correlation to the real laws of Physics.
Oooh this sounds like worth checking out.
The huge cubicle farm, what's not to love... No wait, that wasn't it.
(all of these in german translation, when it comes to prose, the foreign-language-barrier definitely sits between me and my entertainment value)
And how I feel about them now? Well I have to guess, I sadly lost all my books from that time. I think the Star Wars book may feel weird now, since the movie blends in whether you want or not. Vernor Vinge's book I would read again, it's timeless. And The Black Hole.. uff.. I think it'd show its age in a bad way nowadays.
Haha isn't that the best when you discover another related piece of media exists in the same franchise? I was so happy when I first saw the Percy Jackson movie only to then discover there's a book series, which I promptly started reading!
Ahh I feel your comment about The Black Hole movie. It probably has some problematic elements, I assume?
Dr Stone
Nice one. But isn't Dr Stone pretty recent? 🤔
Manga is very old. Since 2017.
Lol you and I have very different definitions of "very old" then, my friend. 😆
Yes you are way older than me
Ahh man! You captured those emotions while watching Matrix so well. Everyone loves a good underdog fight. The Matrix trilogy is without a doubt one of the most influential scifi media of all time.
Scooby-Doo
Ninja Hatori
Latest - Naruto
;)
Ahaha I loved Scooby Doo so much! This is my favorite Scooby Doo theme song out of all!
I even remember the lyrics to the Hindi version that used to air on CN India!