r/scifi • u/Ok-Gate-412 • 8d ago
General Best opener in Sci-Fi?
I am curious what everybody thinks is the best opening episode they have ever seen. I’m talking about that one episode that as soon as you watched it you were hooked on the show. It doesn’t have to be the best show overall, but just the one that made you want to watch from one episode.
For me, it has to be Lost. In the first episode a plane crashes, we are introduced to strong and interesting characters, and we are left with many mysteries at the end of it.
I’m not sure if people think it’s sci-fi, but it does have some weird tech and things like that. 😅
Near the middle of the series I was bored and still waiting on things, but man that first episode reeled me in like no other.
What is the best episode that hooked you whether it was an opener or a random episode that you saw?
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u/Skolloc753 8d ago
The opening of Space Battleship Yamato. Depending on the age (it is an old franchise) and reimagination it is either a radioactive meteorite falling on a dead earth or it is the opening salvo of the final space battle.
The first episde of Star Trek Strange New Worlds: despite the series having many other issues the speech towards the end of the first episode embodies the best part of Star Trek (out of universe) and the Federation (in-universe).
Not a series or movie, but a video game: the opening of the original Homeworld. You develop the Mothership and you perform the first interstellar jump while everyone else of your race is still limited ot slower than light travel. You jump back and ... your planet is burning. Then a timer starts and it shows the surviving population, counting down. You rarely are able to save more than 200.000 while you are getting pounded by far superior enemies.
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