Top Science Fiction Shows You Should Be Watching

With LOST and Battlestar Galactica now long off the air, it is time to invest in some other high quality science fictional entertainment. Warehouse 13, Eureka and Fringe have proven their mettle and are engaging, complex shows that deserve recognition and a widening fan base.

Warehouse 13 has become Syfy's unsung hero, and for good reason. Personally, I enjoy the antics of the side characters, such as Claudia, rather than the main characters, Secret Service agents turned Warehouse scavengers Myka and Pete. As the series has progressed, more intrigue and complexly motivated bad guys have entered the scene, making things more complicated for our heroes but more enjoyable for the rest of us.

Eureka is still Syfy's best kept secret weapon. Season after season, it has continually improved and increased character development and intricate plot lines, making it ever more rewarding and interesting to be following. Even if some of the solutions seem like they are being pulled out of a hat, that is indeed part of the fun, the unpredictability. Eureka starts off with a premise that seems uncomfortably close to that like science fiction legend X-Files, a law enforcement officer who ends up investigating the quirky and the unexplained, but unlike the X-Files, the solution is generally uncovered without need for extraterrestrial incursion.

Fringe, which seems at once the most high profile of the shows, positioned on FOX and surrounded by some heavy hitters, found its footing with an overall narrative arc. Fringe can be mysterious, but also very up front in what could happen to the characters--the consequences and stakes are very high and have large repercussions. As the next season unfolds, the characters will have to contend with the results of their last battle and having a agent of another power in their midst. Fringe began with rather simple and simply grotesque monster of the week style episodes, but it has broken out into a highly evolved narrative conducive to the type of theorizing that surrounded LOST and Battlestar Galactica.