message board awards

You’ve gotta bare in mind that I am one of the underprivelidged masses with extreemly limited access to Sky (falling upon the mercy of my friends to see Angel and Buffy (when finally aired)), so what I consider new won’t ring true to a lot of you (jeez, I’ve only just seen the first 2 Lexx Movies)

So here goes…

1 Best New Sci-fi series – Gotta be Farscape. Damn wierd at the mo, but definately the best on UK terrestrial at present.

2 Worst New Sci-fi series – (Not wishing to like like I just cut and pasted Bekka’s votes) Andromeda. I think Gene slipped when he invented this Donkey. What, was he watching ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th century’ and decided that blatent rip off are the sincerest form of flattery? (Apologies to the die hard Rommy fans)

3 Best Sci-fi book – Just re-read Phule’s Company by Robert Asprin. Damn good book. Always makes me laugh. Possibly not the ‘best’, but the only other Sci-fi book I’ve been reading this year is Ian Banks ‘Whatchamcallit of Weapons’ and haven’t got to the end of chapter 2 yet.

4 Best Sci-fi movie – May not be the best, but I was bowled over by the Final Fantasy movie. Visually stunning. And refreshingly different to the ‘formula’ sci-fi

5 Best non Sci-fi newcomer/thing – (I’m taking blatant liberties with this one, cos you could argue it is Sci-fi) The best ‘new thing’ I discovered this year is this site (which I found when looking for buffy forums, so I say it counts). Well layed out and moderated, well thought out and structured posts on topics that interest me, and none of the immaturity that is rife on so many sites. For this you all have me thanks. Yeah, I know this makes me a smarmy suck up, but I’ve been called worse

6 Nicest Sadgeezer – Um… all of you? Again with the smarmy ****e… But everyone here is, at their best, open and friendly and at worst, tolerant (everybody has their off days). Only one person has successfully T’d me off, and that was on a day I was in a bad mood, and it was only the once. I’d call that pretty damn good.

7 Most Annoying geezer – Mmm… Let me see. Who has been a major topic recently and upset a lot of people? Nope, the name escapes me. Next question.

8 Best Moderator – My contact with Mods has been limited, and I dunno what they do behind the scenes… But FX (for his delicate phrasing when shifting one of my posts), Marybeth (for always having a kind word when required) and Camelyn (for all the work in keeping us up to date in the Farscape crisis) warrant special mention. Respect goes to all involved though, including Saddy, who was IMHO unfairly excluded from this award (never mind mate, we still love ya).

9 Best Forum – How can you judge between them. A forum is only as good as the posts in it, and we all post in many. If you want to count it by which one I go into most often… it’d be the pub. Once again, web surfing reflecting life [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]. Saying that, I am dead chuffed about the Science Faction forum.

10 Best Post – Again… I cannot choose. There are so many good posts on such diverse subjects. And picking just one post would make all the others feel sad. I won’t do that to them this close to Christmas. They’re all great!!

Have a great Christmas people. And I look forward to building on the new freindships (I hope I’m not being presumptuous) I’ve found, in the New Year (p.s. if I don’t get a birthday greeting I’ll be miffed. No more heavy hints, promise)