And then there's Firefly, but to be fair it didn't look that great.
Tell me you didn't just say that. TELL ME you didn't just say that. >.>
Firefly is my all-time favorite series. Seriously, watch the movie, Serenity. It's a continuation of the plot. The whole movie is packed with killer awesome lines, awesome scenes, and a plot that sends all those other sci-fi shows you mentioned to the bottom shelf.
Eureka was a little too goofy for me, and Warehouse 13 I actually kind of liked... besides the fact that absolutely everything in it was a glorified asspull. Fringe I actually absolutely hated - their intended target audience apparently had an IQ of 2, and they leave SO MUCH unexplained.
For instance, in one episode, a woman has a baby. Not just any baby, but a baby that grows at roughly 1600 times what would be its normal rate. They didn't explain how the baby grew large enough to literally cause its mother to explode, nor did they explain where it got all that nourishment from, nor did they explain why the baby somehow kept growing EVEN THOUGH its mother was dead, and it wasn't consuming matter. They didn't explain how it apparently knew how to walk from the moment it was "born", or how it jumped from baby-size to child-sized in a split second. They also didn't explain how it spontaneously learned English, OR how it somehow didn't seem to need to eat at all, from what I remember - and they didn't explain why the child suddenly stopped growing and leveled out when it hit what would've been 20-30 or so age-wise.
They did decide to explain how it all started. They called it "genetics", if I remember right, and anybody who has even the SLIGHTEST understanding of genetics knows this isn't remotely possible. I think they basically said the dude's internal body clock was sped up or something... which doesn't make sense at all. Or directly imply anything that happened.
EVERY EPISODE WAS LIKE THIS.
/endrant
Seriously, though, watch Firefly if you can. There's only 14 episodes, sadly, so it's not like it'll be a huge time sink. Watch Serenity first if you need to get hooked, otherwise, start on the two-hour "pilot episode" they apparently didn't air. And don't dis it until you see it.
Then you can dis it all you want, if you still hate it.
Also, Lolfail - very awesome. lol My brother is learning Japanese, actually - and pointed out that Mr Frog called Talvi "kowai" in the first part, which apparently means "scary", and I misunderstood. lol
My youngest brother also pointed out that our portals make no sense... and that they would make sense only if all planetary bodies remained entirely motionless. We'd have to constantly calculate new coords just to get from Parasol to Everoc and back.