Currently binge watching Monsters, The Hitchhiker, Tales from the Crypt, Are You Afraid of the Dark, and the 80s Alfred Hitchcock reboot and it has me missing anthology series. Saw a lot in the 80s/90s. Anyone have a favorite?
If I had to pick just one I guess mine would be the original TZ but I have a soft spot for the 80s version. One Step Beyond is an old but good one. Nightmare Cafe was a good but very short lived series.
X-Files and Stargate SG1.
Neither of those are anthology shows.
it mean.. it has a lot of "monster of the week" or filler episodes that pretty much constitutes as anthology. they have nothing to do with the actual main story at all and usually not mentioned in the main story afterwards XD
Anthologies have completely different characters in each episode. Stargate, Star Trek, X-Files, etc are just episodic television. Pretty much every tv show back then was episodic. The modern idea of a tv show being an 8 hour movie with one plot cut into ten episodes didn't exist back then. Every show was 20-26 episodes with a totally new plot that had nothing to do with the others. They weren't anthologies though. Anthologies don't even have the same characters from one episode to the next.
Also that's not what a "filler" episode is. A filler episode is a term that comes from anime. If an anime is contracted to have 12 episodes, but the manga or light novel it's based on only has enough material for 10 or 11, the anime studio would write their own 11th or 12th episode from scratch to complete the season. The catch is that those episodes aren't allowed to do anything that impacts that actual canon story from the manga or light novel, because if more material is written by the real author, he can't be written into a corner by the anime studio. You can't kill a character or have two characters get together in a non canon filler episode, because the real author has to be free to do that stuff how he wants. That's the origin of a ton of beach or hot springs episodes in anime. Just a fun little adventure that has nothing to do with anything else because it has to be able to be treated like it never happened in the canon story. Filler doesn't just mean "side story that doesn't relate to the main plot". It's a totally disposable episode that isn't allowed to move any character, plot, relationship, or any other aspect of the story forward in any way. Can't have the rival of the hero die in filler episode 12 of season 1 because the actual manga or LN author writes them suddenly being alive again in episode 1 of season 2. That's what filler is.
What people erroneously call filler now is just an episode that doesn't move the overall main plot forward. But those aren't actually filler because in most of those cases, the stuff that happened in that episode is acknowledged as having happened and might be relevant later on. The early episode "Broca Divide" in SG1 for instance has nothing to do with the overall plot of the war with the Goa'uld. But the characters make references to "the one time the men got turned into cavemen" several times throughout the series. Not a filler episode. Just a standalone episode, and they're not the same thing.
This is incorrect and a real bugbear of mine because what you're calling erroneous is the original definition of filler for American TV, before anime was ever heard of here. As you point out it it's confusing because the anime term "filler" is entirely different from the other commonly used term, but the non-anime version came first. It just meant an episode that doesn't move the overall main plot forward.
X-Files was good and I’m currently watching SG1
Also, currently watching it. Lots of progressive themes. Malthusian, environmental, and of course, feminist ones revolving around Carter. How many ersatz Carter characters have we seen this far? That rogue NDI one, that brainiac student. In season 5 en 6 we saw more male scientists other than Carter, that I recall.
The male scientists were usually the nerdy male scientist stereotype. And Carter is obviously a babe. But outside that early episode with the Mongols they didn't make a lot of girl boss episodes. And Carter did fail quite a bit and was a bit socially awkward. I'm going a long way to say I don't think she's a Mary Sue, but it flirts a little with the line
My argument is that they frame her as the foremost expert on Stargate technology, while physics is typically dominated by men. Then we see an evil version also occupying a similar role in the NDI team and later we see a young female student in the Airforce academy who may even be more brilliant than Carter.
Only in the later seasons does she have competition from men, but of course, they're all nerds and incompetent fighters and couldn't hope to outclass Carter.
Episode 21, season 6 -- the female doctor at SG-command wants to call in a female neurosurgeon, claiming she's the best there is. For fun I searched for 'the best neurosurgeons' and came up with this list. Not a single female. It's been years since that show, but still.
Things like that. Also, the chief technician on the Prometheus appeared to be female.
I’m only on season 3 so far.
Basically, they've built a female archetype around Carter's character and there is an evil variant and later a brilliant up-and-coming one. Not really spoilers.
You jumping into Atlantis immediately after SG1?
I was going to hold off but it may be best to do Atlantis and then SGU
I wouldn't even bother with Battle Gate Voyager, but that's just me. You're a long ways from that decision anyway.
Atlantis is my favourite and definitely should not be skipped. SGU they leaned hard into trying to film it like Battle Star, and bullshit character drama and love triangles, and only one somewhat likeable character. Doesn't help they actually cancelled their top rated show in Atlantis hoping it would force people to watch it.
Atlantis premiered after the end of Season 8, and the two didn't have a direct crossover until after SG1 ended. So the first seasons are fair game before you finish SG1.
That would be the correct order. How far into SG1 are you