TV series with ideas for GURPS

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Originally Posted by Gigermann

Terra Nova. It's a terrible show, really, but it's RPG gold—dinosaurs and ultra-tech. I'm still working on that campaign for my group; I expect to run it next year sometime.

Lots of horrible TV shows have gaming goodness.

Ever seen Parallels, on Netflix? You could tell it was written as a pilot that never got picked up. Neat concepts, although I'd want to position the building out in the boonies, somewhere, and make it a bit less obvious. A sprawling warehouse, maybe, with some underground levels?

You'd also want it to shift a lot less frequently than every 36 hours, or you'd run into the same problem as Sliders -- all your good ideas about alternate realities are used up by halfway through the second season.

Primeval also has time-travel, cross-dimensional goodness, and has SAS spec ops versus dinosaurs (fun) and highly-evolved future creatures (deadly).

I've posted elsewhere about The Last Days, a Spanish-language post-apoc film. I think it's a unique setup for a exploration and rediscovery campaign, in which the characters are the teenage children of those stricken by the agoraphobia virus.

Also, speaking of "bad" TV shows, I know Farscape has a strong following, here, but after watching the first four episodes, or so, I'm struggling pretty hard. Does it get any better? Or, at least, less hackneyed?