Recommended viewing?

[ffutures]

OK... Heroes, BSG, and Veronica Mars are all over. Blood Ties is on hiatus until later in the year. I'm watching Dr. Who as it airs, is there anything else I should be watching?

Someone suggested Painkiller Jane, and I've looked at the episodes they've shown, but haven't been very impressed - looks like a cross between Captain Scarlet and NCIS with vaguely defined "evil mutants" (who mostly seem to be very small scale evil) as the bad guys.

Any other recommendations?

Comments

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

"Oh and another recommendation for Regenesis. The first season in particular is a cheerfully uncompromising show about the cutting edge of biology and what happens when you step beyond that edge. Big ideas presented pragmatically and well."

I'm not sure it was always consistent in that respect.

I mean, you're presented with a baby designed to be a carrier for a deadly disease, living proof that *somebody* has developed radically advanced genetic engineering, and you tell the mother that there's *no* chance of a cure *ever* being developed (while the child, presumably, is reared in a bubble similar to those used for people with inherited immune deficiencies)? Really? Not in ten years, or even twenty? When the baby herself is living proof that the science and medicine involved are progressing rapidly?

Now, if they had said to the mother simply that there was no guarantee, that there was always the possibility that the problem would prove as intractable as cancer or the common cold, and she'd responded in the same way to that, that would have made sense to me.

[alasdair1076.livejournal.com]

That's a fair point actually. It's just about explainable by the main character's tendency to be over dramatic but it is one of the show's weaker points.