Watched more Lost in Space this morning. Always enjoyed the Irwin Allen sci fi series.

From what I've checked out, it wouldn't be Arthurian since it doesn't take place in the world of King Arthur. From what I remember, I don't think it's dark since it wasn't really horror. I thought it was more of the action type(from what I remember decades ago when it came out).

I picked it as Dark Fantasy due to this random internet list http://www.quietearth.us/articles/20...wait-for-CONAN

Krull would be High Fantasy.

Funny this is asked. I just watched Krull this morning. I agree with Mister Peepers on the "Arthurian" although there *are* some Arthurian sensibilities. I would add "Sword & Sorcery" and "Alien Invasion" to the checklist items for which it would qualify. Personally, I'd say it's a bit borderline but IMDB identifies it as "Dark Fantasy" when doing a advanced search with "Dark Fantasy" as "keyword", so I'd think it would qualify for the checklist based on past responses.

I don't think I've seen Krull since its original release. It was a better film than I remembered.

I very much prefer the S1 malevolent Dr. Smith over the chicken-hearted S2/S3 version. But then I prefer S1 of the show over S2/S3 as well, for many of the same reasons. While S2/S3 are nice campy fun kiddie SF, S1 is a *serious* affair and somewhat dark in nature. I'd have liked to have seen what would have transpired had they not gone with the camp style in an effort to counter Batman. From what I've read that "dumbing down" campy style is what eventually led to cancellation as they were losing the adult audience.

I like Lost in Space in general, but I agree with you that season 1 is the best season of the 3. I own seasons 1 and 3. On another note don't people hate when you are in the mood to watch something and can't locate the disc? I felt like watching some time tunnel, and the disc I was looking for was not in it's case.

I finished the checklist, although my number of watched films lags this year.

On schedule to barely make the checklist by tomorrow.

i fell off big time at the end of the challenge but fit in capt america today. seen alot more then i normally would at the theaters and seen alot of first time views. gonna watch some anime in a couple mins to boost numbers for this and animation challenge

I fell way off too after a decent start. Real life is a &*$#@ sometimes.

I'd say it's been a pretty productive month for me (in terms of film watching that is!), as I've been able to watch almost all of my sci-fi/fantasy Blu-rays, as well as a bunch of other stuff. I'm definitely ready to watch non-genre films again though.

Well, I finished the checklist and am within two of my goal of beating last years total, which was 55. I should be able to easily do that today and also get in some double counts with the Animation Challenge. Like others, I've been saving some anime just for this purpose.

Well, I think I did pretty good for a first timer! I'm currently at 66 but hope to push to 70 by the end of today by combining the animation challenge and this one. I finished the checklist so I'm pretty proud of that. I did slow way down towards the end. Between family stuff and the Olympics, watching DVDs didn't happen as often, though I did my best to watch at least one a day.

I tried to do as many first time watchings with a few favorites thrown in. I really lowered my not watched pile by quite a bit, but that does include movies I had seen before, just not my copy of it. I hope to do the same with the animation challenge.

I started that Mill Creek "Sci-Fi Invasion" set last night. With only a couple of exceptions it's about the *last* of the unopened Sci-Fi I have that doesn't also qualify in other challenges. I saved a couple of animated titles for today but don't know if I'll watch them or not as that set is calling *hard*. The remaining few qualifying titles I had lined up also have "horror" genre tags so they are going to wait until rOctober and the Horror challenge. I'm currently 2 behind last year (142 vs. 144). If all goes well I *should* exceed that count by at least 1 but we'll see.

I should bust 75 tonight. If I could have kept up the pace I might have made 100, but I kinda slacked off the last week or so. First time I managed to finish a checklist.

For the first time, I managed to watch 100 entries in a month. Since I got so enthralled with both Star Trek: TNG and Babylon 5, I didn't finish the checklist. I had a lot of fun watching so many genre films and television episodes. However, it may be time for a break to watch some dramas or some of the new criterions and BBC miniseries that I recently acquired.

Congrats to everyone who met their goals!!!

I finished the checklist without any duplications which was my goal. I also broke 78 (I hit 78.25) but was just short of 130 hours (I hit 129:11:15). It was a great challenge, but I'm ready for a break before October gets here. I will do some for the Animation Challenge but not nearly as consistently. I'm hoping to break 90 for the Horror Challenge.

I abandoned my first film today - as soon as they started blabbering about the whales in Star Trek IV, I had to turn it off.

^You should have stuck with it in spite of the whale storyline. While it's more a "mass consumer" type film it *does* have some quite humourous sections and is a pretty good Trek film. It's no Wrath of Khan but it *is* superior to The Final Frontier.

I kind of fell off the challene and had trouble getting my momentum back when I was on vacation and soon after, but I enjoyed the challenge. I wish I had been able to get in more of my Irwin Allen sets, but there is always the tv challenge, the MYOC, and next year's sci fi challenge.

What isn't superior to that mess? I've been busy today, but I'll probably throw something in the machine.

Well, just watched the final movie, The Secret World of Arrietty. That makes 70. Not too shabby! Hoping to do beat that for the next challenge. Found out I'm going into surgery again this month, so should get more time to be in front of the TV, so it should be doable.

Didn't make it to 100 entries but I did finish ST:Voyager and grind through the first season of Enterprise. Not too bad.

Just look at everybody else's lists and you'll see what a rich and diverse genre this is. It was hard to squeeze in even a fraction of what I wanted to see this month. I managed to reach 59 entries, which was 11 more than I did last year. I watched 25 movies, 59 TV episodes, and 74 serial chapters. I watched five complete serials and started another one yesterday. And I still had about ten more I could have used for this challenge.

I saw movies/shows/serials with each of the following iconic figures:

Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Samson, Sinbad, Captain Nemo and one real-life figure, animal tamer Clyde Beatty.

From Japan: Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Gamera, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Kikaida, Nausicaa, and the Power Rangers. Not to mention Derek Wildstar, Amuro Rey, and Lynn Minmei!

I avoided the checklist because I had so much stuff I needed to watch without it.
I could have just focused on serials for the month.
Or Japanese sentai (Power Rangers) series (Go Ranger, Zyuranger, Dairanger, Gekiranger, Shinkenja, Goseija, Gokaiger, etc.).
Or Japanese tokusatsu (Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Kikaida, Space Sheriff Gavan, Super Robot Red Baron, Iron King, etc.)
Or kaiju movies (Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, etc.).
Or anime series (too many to mention).
As it is, I’ll be concentrating on non-sci-fi anime series in August, although I have to finish watching “Toward the Terra,” which I started for this challenge.

Or I could have concentrated on American animated sci-fi series like Transformers and Defenders of the Earth or the live-action American Power Rangers franchise. (My daughter's upset that I didn't choose to watch the "Firefly" box set she lent me a couple of years ago.)

Or random sci-fi classics in my collection from various countries. I had SOLARIS (1972), The Films of Georges Melies, METROPOLIS (1927), THE LOST WORLD (1925), MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1929), Danny Boyle’s SUNSHINE and 28 DAYS LATER and a bunch of others accessible and ready to go. As it is, I did get to finally watch David Lynch’s DUNE.

Or I could have just gone and re-watched tons of old classics, including the Harryhausens and a bunch of 1950s sci-fi/monster films. I watched the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND serial and was hoping to watch the other versions of that Jules Verne novel.

You get the idea. This challenge and the historical and animation challenges are the toughest for me because there’s never enough time and there’s way too much to watch.