So I found this one season (26 episode) extremely campy sci fi TV show – a low budget 2007 Canadian production – called Grand Star. Watched a few episodes last night. OMG it’s so terrible it is awesome.

It’s like a B-grade GameCube era JRPG got crossed with Snowpiercer. I can’t stop watching it somehow.

Anyone else seen this amazing piece of … something? ;)

  • @wjriiEnglish
    15•2 months ago

    “Toronto warehouse sci-fi” was almost its own genre for a while, with The Expanse sort of being the apotheosis of the form.

    • TroyOP
      10•2 months ago

      I really loved things like Eros station docks in The Expanse. So yeah it fits this vibe haha. :)

      • @wjriiEnglish
        10•2 months ago

        See also Killjoys, Dark Matter, Vagrant Queen, Helix, Ascension (some scenes), and I think Orphan Black would fit alongside The Expanse. Soooo many darkly lit industrial-themed loft apartments, barely disguised warehouses, and underground tunnels that (in the real world) let people avoid the weather while downtown. :-)

        Doesn’t prevent a show from being good, far from it, but it’s an identifiable look.

        Funnily enough, YOUR show seems to have been filmed in France, LOL. Canadian warehouses are a state of mind, I guess.

        • Clay_pidginEnglish
          7•2 months ago

          Sanctuary too.

          Stargate Sg1 had a bigger budget, does that still count?

        • TroyOP
          4•2 months ago

          I’ve watched about half of that list. Well, when I run out of Grand Star episodes, I guess I have more warehouses to explore then haha.

          To contrast this, see Vancouver sci fi, like the X Files, SG1, Smallville, The 100, Dark Angel, BSG, etc…

          Or Halifax with… Lexx ;)

          • @lordnikonEnglish
            5•2 months ago

            Andromeda and i think Cleopatra 2525 is an honorary CWS show even though it was filmed in New Zealand

              • @lordnikonEnglish
                3•2 months ago

                can’t go wrong with Gina Torres and Sam Rami it’s crazy that she sang the opening theme. It’s so bad in the best of ways

              • @InverseParallaxEnglish
                2•2 months ago

                Future xena, because why mess with a formula.

          • clb92English
            3•2 months ago

            SG1

            Stargate SG-1 is equal parts “Vancouver warehouse sci-fi” and “Vancouver rock quarry sci-fi”

    • Clay_pidginEnglish
      10•2 months ago

      Surely Warehouse 13 was the exemplar of Toronto warehouse shows!

    • pooEnglish
      6•2 months ago

      Rivalling only “Vancouver Warehouse Sci-fi”