EW obviously doesn't want me copying their list, they go page by page, so click and enjoy. Their top 25 Sci Fi shows/movies of the last 25 years. The Sci-Fi 25
To be a bit more precise: "Children of Men"? WTF? Are you kidding me? I'm not trying to hate her as I thought it was a fairly enjoyable flick but fuck me there's no place for that on a top 25 list. Galaxy Quest? Sure, it's funny as hell but I'm sure the scifi genre has come up with better stuff than that over the last 25 years. Heroes? Meh, don't especially like it myself - in addition I think it's a little too early. Lost? One good season, apparently. Never watched it myself. Most importantly: No fucking Stargate? Ten seasons, a movie and a spin-off about to start its fourth season? No matter what you may think about it that deserves a spot on this list. I could go on here but whatever. nuBSG at 2 is overrated as well (even though I like it), Matrix definitely isn't the best thing from the last 25 years. Also, Firefly should be in the top ten.
I like Galaxy Quest and Doc Who more than the number they assigned. I'd have put Farscape near the top of the list (it didn't make the list at all), and found room for Stargate, always good even if rarely exceptional. DS9 and Babylon 5 are also glaring omissions. BSG would have been nearer the bottom than the top, if I had input (maybe around 15 or 20, even if I stopped watching mid-Season 3). And Bladerunner would have dropped maybe 5 slots. And some, like Heroes and Starship Troopers, wouldn't have even made the cut (Heroes too new, Troopers just not special enough, although I enjoyed it). Movies like Gattaca should have easily pushed it out, imo. How "Sarek" made the short list of top TNG episodes eludes me completely. Brazil I agree with.
That list is pretty warped. They should have made it a top ten then they wouldn't have had to go scraping around the edges of the genre. And where the fuck was SAAB?
It's hard to take a Sci-Fi Top 25 list seriously that omits '2001' and has Star Trek: The Next Generation at #8. And the Matrix was cool, but...#1?
Well, aside from 2001...even so! I'd certainly add Minority Report, GATTACA, and Solaris to the list. And I haven't really thought about it yet...
My favorite sci-fi shows/movies from the last 25 years would include- Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica Buffy The Vampire Slayer/ Angel (eh, more fantasy but thematically similar) Farscape Firefly/ Serenity Macross/ Robotech Neon Genesis Evangelion Quantum Leap Stargate SG-1 Star Trek: TNG/ DS9 The X-Files 12 Monkeys A.I. Artificial Intelligence Aliens Back To The Future Trilogy Blade Runner Contact Dark City E.T. Gattaca Robocop Terminator/ Terminator 2 The Abyss The Matrix The Minority Report