In video/computer games: - Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube, and its sequel/predecessor Tales of Phantasia, which was freakin' SNES. Awesome old thing, though. Oh, Phantasia. In general, the Tales series is awesome. - Beyond Good and Evil is kinda awesome. - As is Braid. - From what I hear, so is Dragon Age: Origins, and the online Flash game associated with it was BADASS. - Skies of Arcadia, also for Gamecube. - ...Totally ridiculous: Plants vs. Zombies. No, really.
On the TV show front: - Babylon 5. Less known than it should be, in recent years, but one of if not the greatest Sci-Fi TV shows ever. Really. - Jeeves and Wooster--also great books by Wodehouse, but daaaaamn Fry and Laurie are fantastic and made of win. - The new show Men of a Certain Age. DOOD, who knew Ray Romano could do serious television art? And Scott Bakula is as awesome as he was on Chuck (which is also good). (Also, the only reason he isn't even more awesome is that I'm sorry, Stephen Bartowski is a good mad computer genius and thus too awesome for words.) - Keen Eddie, police drama about a New York cop in London, even shorter lived than Firefly.
In webcomics: - Narbonic. Mad scientists. Gerbils. 'Nuff said. - Kimono's Townhouse: just too adorable for words.
Movies: - A Midwinter's Tale: totally obscure, also called 'In the Bleak Midwinter', a 1995 film by Kenneth Branagh (though he isn't in it). Glorious. - Jodhaa Akbar: Recent-ish Bollywood film about a Muslim Mongol king in Hindustan and his sword-wielding Hindi bride, at least mostly historically accurate (apparently). - Mongol: Movie about Temudgin (Genghis Khan). Badass. - The Lion in Winter. Anthony Hopkins. Katherine Hepburn. Peter O'Toole. - There are two sci-fi/fantasy movies I'm forgetting. Dammit.
Finally, books! - A Song of Ice and Fire, which though I am only half way through book one and have trouble getting into, is still made of incredibly good writing. - Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and also the Mairleon series. - Dragonflight by McCaffrey, although not necessarily there rest of Pern by ANY stretch of the imagination. - To Say Nothing of the Dog - The Atrocity Archives and sequel The Jennifer Morgue. - I could recomment any number of sci-fi/fantasy series which I have yet to read because I am a librarian in a sci-fi/fantasy-only library, but I won't burden you people with that, so I will rest with this: - As previously stated, The Dresden Files. And, as further previously stated and patently obvious: - Codex Alera.
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In video/computer games:
- Tales of Symphonia for Gamecube, and its sequel/predecessor Tales of Phantasia, which was freakin' SNES. Awesome old thing, though. Oh, Phantasia. In general, the Tales series is awesome.
- Beyond Good and Evil is kinda awesome.
- As is Braid.
- From what I hear, so is Dragon Age: Origins, and the online Flash game associated with it was BADASS.
- Skies of Arcadia, also for Gamecube.
- ...Totally ridiculous: Plants vs. Zombies. No, really.
On the TV show front:
- Babylon 5. Less known than it should be, in recent years, but one of if not the greatest Sci-Fi TV shows ever. Really.
- Jeeves and Wooster--also great books by Wodehouse, but daaaaamn Fry and Laurie are fantastic and made of win.
- The new show Men of a Certain Age. DOOD, who knew Ray Romano could do serious television art? And Scott Bakula is as awesome as he was on Chuck (which is also good). (Also, the only reason he isn't even more awesome is that I'm sorry, Stephen Bartowski is a good mad computer genius and thus too awesome for words.)
- Keen Eddie, police drama about a New York cop in London, even shorter lived than Firefly.
In webcomics:
- Narbonic. Mad scientists. Gerbils. 'Nuff said.
- Kimono's Townhouse: just too adorable for words.
Movies:
- A Midwinter's Tale: totally obscure, also called 'In the Bleak Midwinter', a 1995 film by Kenneth Branagh (though he isn't in it). Glorious.
- Jodhaa Akbar: Recent-ish Bollywood film about a Muslim Mongol king in Hindustan and his sword-wielding Hindi bride, at least mostly historically accurate (apparently).
- Mongol: Movie about Temudgin (Genghis Khan). Badass.
- The Lion in Winter. Anthony Hopkins. Katherine Hepburn. Peter O'Toole.
- There are two sci-fi/fantasy movies I'm forgetting. Dammit.
Finally, books!
- A Song of Ice and Fire, which though I am only half way through book one and have trouble getting into, is still made of incredibly good writing.
- Enchanted Forest Chronicles, and also the Mairleon series.
- Dragonflight by McCaffrey, although not necessarily there rest of Pern by ANY stretch of the imagination.
- To Say Nothing of the Dog
- The Atrocity Archives and sequel The Jennifer Morgue.
- I could recomment any number of sci-fi/fantasy series which I have yet to read because I am a librarian in a sci-fi/fantasy-only library, but I won't burden you people with that, so I will rest with this:
- As previously stated, The Dresden Files. And, as further previously stated and patently obvious:
- Codex Alera.