I should have known that Syfy was working for Skynet....
http://technorati.com/technology/article/skynet-goes-active-terminator-judgment-dayapril/
April 21, 2011. Judgment day is here. It kind of snuck up on you, didn’t it?
According to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, April 19, 2011 - At 20:11 Skynet goes online, becomes self aware, and attacks us on Thursday, April 21, 2011.
As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800 destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved to two days after activation on April 21, 2011.
This represents an alternate future from that established by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Skynet is the main antagonist in the Terminator franchise — an artificially intelligent system which became self-aware and revolted against its creators. Skynet is rarely seen onscreen, and its actions are often performed via other robots and computer systems, usually a Terminator.
“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” In this television series, Sarah Connor is on the run with her son John after the events of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The events take place in an alternate timeline from that of “Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines.” Skynet was now implemented on April 19, 2011 and will begin its attack against humanity on April 21. The protagonists travel in time from 1999 to 2007 and take actions to prevent Skynet’s activation.
The episodes “The Turk”, “Queen’s Gambit”, and “Dungeons & Dragons” explain that after the death of Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson and the decline of the Cyberdyne Corporation, Andrew Goode, a young intern of the company and assistant to Dyson, continued their project privately under an advance artificial intelligence chess playing prototype, The Turk, with Goode’s partner, Dimitri Shipkov. Goode was killed by Tech-Com’s Lieutenant Derek Reese, due to documentation from the future suggesting he was one of Skynet’s creators.
In the episode “Samson & Delilah” it is shown that a T-1000 infiltration unit was sent from the future to head the technological corporation ZeiraCorp as its CEO, Catherine Weaver. Weaver acquired The Turk after Goode’s death and used the company’s resources to further develop it under the title Babylon. The episode “The Mousetrap” revealed that it is also targeting its fellow cyborgs, including a T-888 known as Cromartie.
I just started watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix and am astounded by how much they ripped off Stargate Universe before Stargate Universe was even thought of. They should be ashamed of themselves.
7 episodes in and no lesbian relation-fest story yet, though.
Some reruns of “Lexx” or “Farscape” would be nice.
Replacing the cancelled SGU, since that's obviously a ratings hot-spot on Monday nights. Yuck.
Netflix customers: the whole run is available on streaming, so one more nail in the coffin of broadcast media. (Battlestar Galactica is also available for streaming, but not ST: TNG as of right now.)
Why watch it if you already know it was cancelled and left unresolved in any manner.
On July 1, Netflix starts streaming all the Star Trek series except for the animated one.
LLS
Bring back Twilight Zone.
Just learned it was on but then they’re gone. Caught only the tail end of ONE episode. Keep it a secret (ok, just not much publicity) and then stop because no one is watching it? Sheesh.
I would like to see Star Trek: Deep Space 9 reruns...
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.
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.
TNG = the gayest Star Trek.
I totally avoid Syfy like the plague, after watching too many cheesy Canadian low budget disaster movies my thoughts are yuck about their quality.
Now BBc I can watch all day long, which I do especially when I can can record all the Top Gear shows I have missed since it came out, and then we have Dr. Who which is back.
I think Syfy had better realize its mistakes...again, somehow they just keep missing the mark.