USA Sci Fi Channel Sucks!

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Thursday, July 10, 2003 16:55
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SUCCATASH

Sunday, July 6, 2003 7:18 PM

Okay, I just wanted to complain for a minute.

I recently got cable and I was excited to get the Sci Fi channel.

After this weekend, I think I'm throwing my TV away. The crappy Sci Fi channel is making me sick. With movies like Crocodile, Crocodile 2, Shark Attack 3, The Beast, The Beast 2, Octopus 2, all I can say is WTF? When did horrible low budget horror movies become popular sci fi? AGHHHHh!

I wish the USA got Canada's Space channel. Our Sci Fi channel sucks.

SERGEANTX

Sunday, July 6, 2003 7:32 PM

Throw the TV away 'Tash. Its your only hope. All it will do is sell you fear and titillation. Don't buy it. Fight the power!

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

LERXST

Sunday, July 6, 2003 9:14 PM

Wait! They've got cool shows too, like Invisible Man, and Farscape. Oh, hang on a sec, they cancelled those. Never mind. And they didn't pick up Firefly either. Hey, SciFi!

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GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, July 6, 2003 10:53 PM

Damn, I kinda liked The Invisible Man...,

Why do networks seem to hate the shows I like ??

Am I suppose to get a lobotomy and start watching reality TV or something ?

BAMADAVE

Monday, July 7, 2003 12:33 AM

With you on Farscape and Invisible Man Lerxst.

And don't forget the Cleopatra 2525 debacle. Brought it back to rerun the series and stopped showing it after three episodes. sci-fi bastards

SARAHETC

Monday, July 7, 2003 12:48 AM

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Originally posted by bamadave:
And don't forget the Cleopatra 2525 debacle. Brought it back to rerun the series and stopped showing it after three episodes. sci-fi bastards

< executive thought process >

Hey! We cancelled all those good shows and turned down that one show about bugs with that one chick. Hey! She was in Cleopatra 2525. Let's show that.

(later)

Dammit! People are watching the show. How'm I ever going to rob this company blind if people watch shows? Get it off! Get it off!!!

< /executive thought process >

JOHNNYREB

Monday, July 7, 2003 1:18 AM

Yeah! And God Dammit, there has to be more to history and civilization than the freaking Egyptians. Everytime I turn it on they're exploring a pyramid. If I hear how the "great" pyramids correspond with Orion's belt again, I'm going to freak OUT. Oh, wait. I'm thinking the Discovery Channel.

Didn't SciFi put on Planet of the Apes recently, though? You can't knock Charlton Heston. He's kinda cool in his own disturbing and hammy way.

Viva Firefly!

TVDIR

Monday, July 7, 2003 3:15 AM

Actually, AMC showed Planet of The Apes over the weekend.

Did you guys heard that Roar was dropped? Apparently, they had two more brand new episodes left, but SciFi decided to not air them at this time.

You can't even get hooked on any shows on SciFi these days...even the limited run series.

JOHNNYREB

Monday, July 7, 2003 4:05 AM

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Originally posted by tvdir:
Actually, AMC showed Planet of The Apes over the weekend.

Well, that makes sense now that you mention it. If SciFi sucks as bad as everyone claims, they probably wouldn't be showing Planet of the Apes.

Viva Firefly

ZERO

Monday, July 7, 2003 10:58 AM

Couldn't agree more, nice thread. ScfiFi Channel has really gone down hill. Let's retrace the steps (not in any particular order) they took to their own demise:

1.) Dropped Farscape after 4th season cliff-hanger.
2.) Dropped the mini-series Roar before it even finished, even though they advertised that they were going to air the unaired episodes.
3.) Dropped The Dead Zone after reviving it from ABC. Fortunately for fans, it was picked up by USA.
4.) Dropped fledgling shows like The Invisible Man & Good Vs. Evil, which both showed potential.
5.) After dropping Farscape, dDedicated all its efforts to the crappiest scifi show on tv, Stargate SG-1. Simply put: Sad and underdeveloped characters laced with uninteresting plotlines. When a channel has a show of that caliber as their flagship, they are destined to fall.
6.) Invests in new shows like Scare Tactics and Tremors The Series, thinking they might actually make it. Scare Tactics is mildly funny, but utlimately just like every other hidden camera show. The Tremers is just sad. Everything beyond the first film just shouldn't have happened. They're just kicking a dead horse with that one.
7.) The only reruns they show are Twilight Zone, Star Trek: TOS, Stargate SG-1, Knight Rider, X-Files, & Farscape. Farscape is showed at midnight so it isnt readily available, while Knight Rider is just old and boring. Star Trek and The Twilight Zone aren't really my cup of tea, but they overplay them. Reruns of Stargate SG-1 should burn in hell, while reruns of the X-Files are one of the channels only redeeming qualities.
8.) Between Stargate SG-1 and reruns of old shows, the channel fills out its schedule with made-for-tv scifi movies and shouldn't-be-replayed-on-tv-because-they-were-bad-the-first-time-around-in-the-theaters scifi movies such as The Beast, Crocodile, Crocodile 2, Critters, Lake Placid, Body Snatchers, Roswell, Species, and Tremors.
9.) One of the channels only good qualities, Scifi Pictures, which brings original mini-series and movies, isn't exploited enough. They show a series or movie twice, one original air date with a rerun usually the next day, and almost never rerun them. Instead they opt toward the crappy horror / scifi movies they drown their schedule in.
10.) Last bust not least, THEY DIDN'T PICK UP FIREFLY. However, after seeing them butcher everything else good and wholesome on their channel, I guess this is a good thing.

Well thats my two cents. Any fans of Stargate SG-1 who are thinking about flaming me, feel free. Just don't think for a second that its gonna do any good. You can squeal all you want, the show still sucks.

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