SciFi Channel Rants

I'd say 'What the frak', but that phrase was old back in the '70's...

SciFi had this big thing that this was going to be Galactica's final season, and I was rather looking forward to the show being over. The snails pace at which the plot moved was agonizing, but that's probably mainly because I cared so little for the human drama that unfolded each week, and even more for most of the characters in the show. Sure, I wanted humanity to survive, but frankly most of the humans on the show were pretty pathetic, you secretly ended up rooting for the Cylons.

Anyway, big press about 2008 being the final season, nothing exciting about the commercials for coming episodes, nothing at all about a countdown to the final epidodes, then suddenly, they've found earth, they have an alliance with the Cylons, and everyone's pissed because the planet they found is a wasteland. Laughed my ass off.

As finale's go, this one was, I'm sure, a huge letdown for fans. Maybe they'll go do a DVD or something now, who knows. At least now they've got a prime spot for some new show, or maybe just run old Farscape episodes. But that would be too much to hope for...

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Hmmm, the TV Guide listing classifies this flick as Drama/Action/Other. Yup, no SciFi to be found there.

I found the original version of this flick to be quite entertaining, and laughed my ass off through most of the last half of the movie, but this 'sequel' just plain sucks.

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My sister in law enjoys this show, which doesn't surprise me, as she believes that her house is actually haunted. Anyway, SciFi Channel continues to have this idea that shows dealing with the paranormal are in some way related to Science Fiction.

This still just drives me totally nuts... I really wish their parent company would stop pushing all this other crap onto SciFi, and just start up another network to deal with this fluff.

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ECW, Extreme Championship Wrestling, is one of the more ill suited bits of programming on SciFi lately. It ranks right up there with John Edwards' lame show where he tried to convince folks that he could speak with the dead, and is probably only slightly worse than Ghosthunters.

I've always considered science fiction to be generally targeted at a more intelligent audience than other fare, though this tends to be more the case in printed works rather than what makes it into theaters or onto television. Wrestling, to me, has always seemed to be targeted at the opposite extreme, and how it has managed to find a home on the SciFi network continues to elude me.

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Yawn. More lame programming, mutant animals, and dry story lines. The 'SciFi Original' label is turning into more of a warning label, it seems...

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Apparently the term 'SciFi' doesn't have the same meaning to the network folks as those of us elsewhere, or we wouldn't be treated, and by treated I of course mean quite the opposite, to Horror and Fantasy programming, two entirely separate genres which do not necessarily have an overlapping demographic of fans.

At least they aren't showing ECW as much lately...

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SciFi's Battlestar Galactica sucks. This fact may come as a surprise to some, considering the rave reviews that the show seems to be receiving. Of course, these rave reviews are coming from the same lowbrow reviewers that enjoy American Idol and are amazed at the plot twists on the latest Survivor episode.

I could write a lengthy diatribe for each epidode, but that would be giving the show more attention that it deserves. Instead, I'll pick several of my top nits, in no particular order.

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Great. After 10 years of being on the air, the brain trust at the SciFi Channel has cancelled Stargate SG1. For the last few years, they've used this show to leverage so much other crap to get viewers, I can't help but feel that they may have shot themselves in the foot one last time...

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