Guess the series

[vilakins]

OK, I’ll play. This looks like fun. :-)

Summarise 10 of your fandoms in one sentence, then see if your friends list can guess each one.

[Edited to give answers for those guessed.]

1. The city will last forever. Rome
   
   
2. There was a baby on board. Farscape
   
   
3. How to survive on another planet in another time.
   
   
4. They are the last of their kinds. Red Dwarf
   
   
5. They are the first of their kinds. Heroes
   
   
6. Chaos and order are each used to promote the other. Babylon 5
   
   
7. He can’t do to himself what he does to others. House
   
   
8. The first ship should never have got off the ground, the second wasn’t one, and the third was a sign of worse to come. Blake's 7
   
   
9. It’s all about the interconnectedness of strangers. Lost
   
   
10. One of them never says yes or no.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Erm, #9 is probably Lost... I could guess at some of the others, but it deinitely would be guessing.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

1 Rome
5 Tomorrow People
7Putting right what has gone wrong and I can't think of the title. Yes I can Quantum Leap.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

1. Babylon 5
2. Battlestar Galactica
7. House
8. Torchwood
9. Heroes

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Wow, and I thought my clues were hard. Wild guesses, then:

1- Rome
2- Farscape
4- Red Dwarf
5- Tomorrow People (though I've never heard you mention that)
8- Blakes 7
9- Lost

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Funny, I was gonna guess that 7 was Torchwood, given the way they tend to cause more people to wind up dead than if they hadn't been involved.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Lost is correct!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Rome is correct; the others are wrong.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Only number 7 is correct; it is indeed 'House'. Three of the others are in the wrong positions, if that's any help. :-)
Actually, number 1 has been guessed; it was 'Rome'.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well done! You've nailed every one except 5; I've never seen that.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

She's right, it's 'House'. I was thinking of "physician, heal thyself". :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And I thought you'd get #10. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I have no clue about #10, unless it's Babylon 5 and refers to the infamous Vorlon inability to give a straight answer. But that seems like something of a stretch. :)

[kerravonsen]

Okay, some guesses...

3. Doctor Who?
5. Heros
6. Babylon 5
10. Torchwood?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's much simpler than that. The clue is quite literal.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You have 5 and 6!

Re 6, I always thought it odd that the Vorlons were themselves so unpredictable yet wanted order, and the Shadows wanted chaos but had complete control over their minions.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

And the person I'm referring to is a favourite of yours. :-)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

That was me being literal! :)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I'll put her out of her agony. :) It's surely a reference to Mr Spock.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was not. :-)

And my reply is itself a clue.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

#10 Farscape?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It is not.

Besides, I already used Farscape further up. :-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Is 10 Holmes or Data ie Star Trek TNG?
3 MMmmmm sounds a bit like Dinosaur planet but could be quite a few of Anne McCaffrey's including Pern.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are none of those. ;-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Oh well! worth a try.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

#10 is actually a well-known and long series. I'm surprised no one's got it, though most US people wouldn't get #3.

I think I'll post those two again.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

#10 wouldn't be Dr WHo by any chance then?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It would not be. (Sorry, I'm answering like the character would).

And I may not have been clear; any TV SF fan should get #10; the comment about US viewers referred to #3.