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Looking over my rankings I'm surprised to see I'm all about the dramas and comedies, with the odd doc, making me probably the biggest fuddy-dud here.
Do I vaguely recall a thread that had members' stats on genre groups?
This thread definitely should have been called favourite, not best, genre.

mwgerb wrote:"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects." - Gene Roddenberry

"There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places. We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality. It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality." - Arthur C Clarke

"Science fiction stories are extraordinary voyages into any of the infinite supply of conceivable futures." - Isaac Asimov

I'll go with #3.

movieboy wrote: I seriously can't remember a single horror movie which has scared me or made me say 'Wow' at the end of the movie.

really?
hmmmmmm........

I don't think there's any way you can claim there's a best genre, but you can certainly have your favorite.

I personally love sci-fi. It has such an ability to build new worlds, and so it's capable of more escapism, but it also has the ability to look at humanity in ways that other genres can't, because it can explore the past and future and how we would react to extraordinary events. Also, I'm sure the fact that I'm so familiar with its tropes helps my enjoyment factor quite a bit.

"For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects." - Gene Roddenberry

"There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places. We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality. It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality." - Arthur C Clarke

"Science fiction stories are extraordinary voyages into any of the infinite supply of conceivable futures." - Isaac Asimov