Sci Fi morphs into Syfy

POSTED BY: deadlockvictim
UPDATED: Monday, March 23, 2009 02:11
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RALLEM

Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:46 PM

Maybe the browncoats should make a basic cable science fiction channel to actually make original creation science fiction shows as a primary form of entertainment and show other science fiction shows in sindication as back up or filler. That way there won't be crap from other genres filling our airwaves.

http://www.swyzzlestyx.com/index.html

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:59 PM

Here is a pretty good opinion piece from your friends over at Zaius Nation.... with some interesting links provided...

http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/
second story this morning - titled "No More Giant Snakes Please"

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This is ridiculous. The Sci Fi Channel is changing it's name to the "SyFy Channel". A stupid name to go with it's stupid giant snake and giant insect programming. What they really need is some executives that actually like science fiction, and understand the depth of the subject matter.

DREAMTROVE

Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:01 PM

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...does this mean no more lame movies and ridiculous wrestling....??

Naw, it means MORE!

Now, we will have psychics wrestling ghosts of dead shows while being stalked by the serial killer from the infomercials...

Siffy. Are You Ready To Suck?

CELLARDOOR

Friday, March 20, 2009 6:02 AM

Sci Fi

SyFy

SyFy Imagine Greater

Imagine SyFy Greater

Imagine SyFy Less

Imagine SyFyless

Imagine Syphilis...?

Hehe, the possibilities...

FREEBROWNCOAT

Friday, March 20, 2009 8:22 AM

They were good when they started. But when they sold out to the networks it began being run by marketeers instead of SciFi buffs. To me that is the source of all their problems.

Now it's giant snakes again and again. Ghost hunters, witholding the giggling with severe effort, Pirates of the Caribbean, anything to put on air time. There is no quality, there is no effort to make good stuff. When Stargate came to a conclusion a few years ago they went to the old standby of having an eeevvilllllll enemy rather than explring change.

Pretty sad.

Put Firefly on. Put all the old Star Treks on. Anything but spooooky houses and giant snakes.

Cathartic. Won't change a thing. More giant snakes. If we're really lucky maybe it'll be Robbie the Robot.

RIPWASH

Friday, March 20, 2009 6:41 PM

The only real reason to watch this channel now is "Eureka". Great little *GASP* science-fiction show about a top secret government town populated by the smartest people in the country who are employed by the government front company Global Dynamics. The sheriff is FBI agent and the not-as-smart-as-the-rest-of-them everyman trying to hold things together. The only cheesy thing was the Degree deoderant tie-in last season. Kind of hokey but still a very good show.

Zoe: "Get it running again."
Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
- Out of Gas

CHRISISALL

Friday, March 20, 2009 6:58 PM

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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
Anything but spooooky houses and giant snakes.

I'd even take that old crappy Logan's Run series over the snakes.

The laughing Chrisisall

PEACEKEEPER

Sunday, March 22, 2009 5:19 PM

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Originally posted by Storymark:
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Originally posted by deadlockvictim:

...does this mean no more lame movies and ridiculous wrestling....??

I'd wager it means a good deal more. They've been trying to get away from Science Fiction for years, this just seems like the next step.

I think it's retarded, myself, but I stopped watching them when they cancelled Farscape, anyway.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

Here here when it comes to Farscape. Im still bitter about that now.

ISROUSRO

Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:53 PM

To me the best thing about this is that the networks people never did a check about what Syfy means.
"Stinking mess, syphilis, zits and scum" are just some of the things that syfy is in Polish.
Kind of what the channel has turned into.
Was wondering if some ex Fox suits went to work there.

passoniatetly indifferent

SHADESIREN

Sunday, March 22, 2009 10:01 PM

it's a silly maneuver. I get the idea - but I think it's possibly more than figurative. I wouldn't be surprised if they couldn't LICENSE the phrase SciFi anymore because it's an actual regular word now - a genre, like she says. if it was "NBC:SciFi" like it's "Starz:Action" I bet they could.

And in (and this is hard to do, as I do NOT like these movies) but in defense of the BAD movies Sci Fi Shows all the time, they're practically fan films already. I read about how they purchased like 20 films from some company and then showed them as "SciFi Originals" when they were just finished films they bought. They were already DONE - so it's not like SciFi actually CHOSE those scripts or those special effects, they just bought up a pile of timeslots to put ads in.

All that said, SciFi is a channel we RARELY ever watch, and we're both sci-fi geeks. We played frikkin star wars music at our wedding and actually own a phaser universal remote. We like Sci-Fi! but not the channel. Farscape, Battlestar, Eureka, these we watched. I'll watch Eureka when and if it makes it back. I won't watch the SG nonsense. (I have strong personal feelings as to the stupidity of linking an original show with an established movie, then crapping all over said movie. I can't change it, it's just how I feel.) I see now they're bring out SG-U. I want to want to like it. Especially cuz some of the people in it look very cool, but the whole SG part just makes me cringe.

It seems to be the age of the superhero again - maybe we need to just enjoy it, and know that we'll be visiting space again soon. Soon as we get the capes out of the way so we can see them.

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