Worst Sci-Fi Ever.
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UPDATED: Friday, January 31, 2025 09:07
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With so much garbage online for free are we also in the worst scifi era?
Bad
Old shows like The Starlost, Galactica 1980, British had their old Fireball XL5 Thunderbirds TV Series, My Favorite Martian, Gilligans Island, Mr Ed...tv was slapstick when it did not know what to do, they mixed the magic with supernatural and theatrical and science all the time and some Dr Who was just 'BAD' Supertrain, Gemini Man, The Shazam/Isis Hour, Me and the Space Chimp? sitcom
Good?
Old Flash Gordon, a lot of stuff still had art or charm, The Jetsons, Outer Limits, TwilightZone, from Japan you get get a foreign VHS of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, from the Canadians The Starlost Counterstrike is a strange one, Star Trek The Animated Series is a respected spin off, Planet of the Apes is still watchable tv, Buck Rogers could it work as a remake? Knight Rider they tried to remake but failed, Blake's 7, Adam West Batman, Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk kind of still work as classics, there was arrival of Japan toons Battle of the Planets, the French Japanese Ulysse 31, Star Blazers...maybe some what aimed at adults also like Scooby Doo.
There is an improvement on acting with stuff like Hill St Blues and Twin Peaks, shows become long arcs and less episodic the Dr Who shows get better.
Respected Actors with Awards they Arrive on Tv sets.
You could call this mid 80s to mid late 2000s period, where a show would still sell on VHS or DVD markets.
Bad
modernist the DC worlds of Swamp Thing, Robocop tv, the Prisoner remake, Neo Yokio a Japan American style anime is just bad, Painkiller Jane, Mutant X a soap that could not use the Xmen brand, Total Recall 2070, Jupiter Moon...a lot of cheesy Japan tv and Japanese tv never recovers from this time.
Mercy Point it just doesn't work
Mutant X was bad but almost all tv was bad before HBO and other started improving tv, Alias TV series bad, Lost TV series Jeffrey Lieber and J. J. Abrams goes on forever and is just stupid.
the Star Treks and Stargates always had a level of 'scifi' quality, they were seen as peak scifi tv but get worse over time, the Scifi soap opera dies.
Pass?
Tek-War maybe, Kingdom Hospital, Space Precinct,
Andromeda...its ok-ish got worse and then stuff like Firefly and Farscape and other shows came along
then everyone watched 'Lost' which was dumb.
Tv had changed you moved from big tv channels I Love Lucy, The Lone Ranger, to people collecting VHS and DVD to the death of VHS and DVD into downloads and 'streaming'
90s to 2000s
then it improves, there is a period where cgi and fx on set gets cheaper and people invest more cash production. Sales also arrive into DVD box sets and shows have other markets...you could call this the Game of Throne or Rome HBO era, in the post improved tv era Boardwalk Empire, Rome, Westworld Hulu's Fargo, Pachinko, South Korea tv, Dark Matter 2015 spaceship and Dark Matter 2024 black cube alt dimensions, Star Wars shows, Disney shows, DC WB shows, For All Mankind, overseas tv etc
while quality improves the market also gets saturated
Streaming also slowly kills tv
The Walking Dead TV series for example is not a terrible show it just never died, would not go away and outlived its welcome
the DVD is dead or dying, the VHS sales are long dead...everything is online
a show like Marvels Agents of Shield just keeps going, not that its the greatest show nor is it the worst of all time it is ok but Disney/Marvel wanted their long lasting tv series.
Some like superhero tv some like dark shows like The Tourist others like Resident Alien 2021–present, The Expanse was the last TV Series that tried it but the scifi Spaceship Epic Opera era of tv is over.
Stuff is aimed at kids 'The Owl House' for example, shows come and go.
A cool and funny tv show can come out like 'Final Space an American adult animated space opera comedy drama television series but nobody will watch.
Tv is over because everyone has everything online, Dark Matter 2024 should be praised but show
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THE ACOLYTE Was Canceled Despite Being Disney+'s Second Biggest TV Show In 2024 - Here's Why That Happened
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THE ACOLYTE Was Canceled Despite Being Disney+'s Second Biggest TV Show In 2024 - Here's Why That Happened
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Did you see the actual numbers and comparisons to other shows that came out this year and previous years on Disney+?
They use this stupid "minutes watched" counter that gives stupid large numbers that sound awesome, so nobody really questions if the show was successful or not when somebody comes out and reports that it was successful by stating a show got "X Billion Minutes Watched".
But if you take the amount of billions of minutes of Acolyte watched and divide it by the amount of minutes in-total among all the episodes of the show, it only comes out to just over 8 million views... worldwide. On a show that cost something in the area of $250 Million to make.
Now I know that those figures aren't exact, but they're in the ballpark. If you divide those, you get $31.25 that Disney spent per person who viewed The Acolyte from beginning to end. That's $0.73 less than 2 months worth of membership dues pre-tax, which Disney would require from 8 million people just to pay for the production budget of this show, not even figuring in any marketing they did.
What nobody is telling you when you see that Acolyte was being cancelled despite being Disney+'s 2nd most popular show of 2025 is that Disney+'s numbers are horrible across the board and the fact that Acolyte was near the top of their 2024 watch list with the pathetic viewcount it got just speaks to how shit Disney+ is.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Drinker explains it pretty well in 6 minutes...
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