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? ;)

  • @wjrii
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    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_pidgin
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      72 months ago

      Sanctuary too.

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

    • TroyOP
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      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 ;)

      • @lordnikon
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        52 months ago

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

          • @lordnikon
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            32 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

          • @InverseParallax
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            22 months ago

            Future xena, because why mess with a formula.

      • clb92
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        32 months ago

        SG1

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