Posted on 04/25/2011 8:53:19 AM PDT by Immerito
Same here.
You get that in Razor, but it's not protrayed in a fairy tale fashion, more like scheming, lies, betrayal, vindictiveness and brutality.
I gave up on the show halfway through season 2. It just seemed to go on and on without actually going anywhere.
Since I had avoided the Terminator series when it was first on, I was using the SyFi re-runs to catch it. But after a few shows, I lost interest. I understand it got a little better at the end, but since I stopped watching I won’t miss that it isn’t finished.
I wish SyFy could handle low-rated science fiction shows. There are a lot of fair to decent shows that can’t break into the big time, but which I think deserve an audience. If they can’t make it on the big three, it would be nice if SyFi could pick them up. But that doesn’t seem to be their niche.
I hope Haven can keep going for a while, at least they gave it a 2nd season. Of course, I would have liked to have seen Caprica extended for a while longer; I wish someone could have picked up Flash Forward, as bad as it was, just to see the end.
For a lot of these syfi ideas, I wish american TV was willing to go the BBC route — two seasons of 13 episodes, start to finish, tell your story and move on. Then we wouldn’t be left hanging on all these shows.
Its been years since I watched the series now, so I can’t answer that question.
Oh well, at least we still have Rubicon. Oh ... wait ... :(
Sci Fi started with a great vision and even had Roddenberry and Asimov as advisors in the beginning. It aired Battlestar Galactica, probably the best sci fi produced in years. Sci-Fi was smart enough to pick up Stargate SG-1 and give it a few more good years, and create the successful spinoff Atlantis when SG-1 started losing its edge.
It’s the multiple sell-offs and reacquisitions turning it into just another media asset that eventually killed it.
Ever had kids? Ever a kid?
Don't try to fool us ~ you know!~
You think that it matters to the execs? They're cheap, that's what counts.
I actually enjoyed the first little bit of "Ghost Hunters". I liked the premise, buncha people go into haunted houses looking for ghosts. Sometimes, they didn't find any. Sometimes, they did, and everyone had a "Holy CRAP! Did you just see that?!!!! What the HECK are we doing here!?" reaction. Frankly, I enjoyed that more than the "reveal" at the end.
I watched one show recently (they visited a place that I used frequent when I was a kid). It's de-evolved into a bunch of theater-major dropouts trying to out-emote and over-drama each other, while trying to pretend to be scared silly. Foolishness. But, cheap foolishness to produce, I'm sure.
You think that it matters to the execs? They're cheap, that's what counts.
I actually enjoyed the first little bit of "Ghost Hunters". I liked the premise, buncha people go into haunted houses looking for ghosts. Sometimes, they didn't find any. Sometimes, they did, and everyone had a "Holy CRAP! Did you just see that?!!!! What the HECK are we doing here!?" reaction. Frankly, I enjoyed that more than the "reveal" at the end.
I watched one show recently (they visited a place that I used frequent when I was a kid). It's de-evolved into a bunch of theater-major dropouts trying to out-emote and over-drama each other, while trying to pretend to be scared silly. Foolishness. But, cheap foolishness to produce, I'm sure.
Most SyFy shows have very low ratings. BSG spend most of its run kicking at around 2 million viewers, Eureka hits 3, Warehouse 13 about the same. These are numbers that get canceled on most networks and those are SyFy’s hits, their non-hits pull about 1 million.
One of the big differences between BBC TV and American and that American producers are constantly trying to be renewed, so they leave plot elements hanging to get the audience to bug the network. The BBC really pushes for shows to be self contained, and often make decisions about putting a new season (series) out years later, look at Fawtly Towers where the second series was 4 years later. In America if you’re not renewed during “renewal time” it’s over, BBC has no schedule on that so there’s no push to get the decision made during the “window”.
I get TNG on three channels and they all keep replaying the same ones.
Syfy would kick butt if they ran all the episodes. I would love to see Deep Space Nine and Voyager as well as Babylon5. Firefly (again and again) Throw in farscape and show ALL the original stargate episodes, not just the few they run.
I would watch all the time but I dont care for the current lineup, at all.
It’s a body of wisdom I wish I’d never acquired, but we had UNCONTROLLED TV 24/7.
Well put and they are indeed dead to me.
LLS
but I still reject the comparison to Time Tunnel!
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It was basically what you get when you have soap opera writers doing a sci fi. Started out well, but the desire to simply shock at all costs all the time, turned it into a mess.
BSG seemed to suffer from "Oh, we got another season? Now what?" syndrome. Compare it to Babylon 5 where Straczynski had a multi-year story arc plotted out. Even that had problems because it looked like it would be killed after season 4 so he rushed to complete the story... but then got a fifth season. Now what?
Gotta love the Dragoncon TV crowd. One of my favorites.
Also Babylon 5
The last few episodes of season 2 are much better than many of the middle episodes.
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