Now with SG1 and BSG gone, what will carry Sci-Fi? More Corin Nemec original movies? Painkiller Jane? Yeesh.
Personally, I think KevinDavis jinxed the show with post # 6 on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1784387/posts
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Knew that was coming the moment they canceled SG1 and had to move BSG to Sunday because of plummeting ratings. It’s really too bad, I’m a big fan of the science fiction genre, and watching that station destroy itself has been pretty painful.
SciFi seems to cancel EVERY show after four years— I think that’s their watershed, where they can make more money showing reruns vs. paying for new episodes. They did it with ‘Farscape,’ I believe they’ve done it with most of their series, regardless of how good the ratings might be.
SciFi are, IMHO, scum. I stopped watching their network after they cancelled MST3K.
BSG is VERY expensive to make, and they have already extended the 2 year story arc to 3+...
If you’ll notice the trends EVERYWHERE in Television, the trend is to make shows CHEAPER, ie-Reality shows, No cgi shows like Painkiller, etc....
I’m disappointed, but kinda glad. Had they left it up in the air, we might have had some wildly disjointed episodes that were simply filler material to the overall storylines. Forcing the writers/staff into a definite ending means the next season should be a lot tighter, which is good. I don’t watch Lost, but a lot of people complained that because it was open-ended to an extent, it was losing its way. I’m glad BSG won’t end up going down that road.
They never should have ended Farscape either...
More pro wrestling.
More straight-to-video movies, with cheesy "CGI" that looks like it was done on a Commodore 64.
Just give me fresh eps of Doctor Who. And The 4400 is coming back soon.
The headline doesn’t match the story. Sci-Fi just upped the order from 13 to 22 they aren’t grounding BSG, Moore and Eick are grounding BSG. They had a story they wanted to tell and they’re wrapping it up. As for what will carry sci-fi, remember they still have Dresden, and Eureka and they’re starting a new Flash Gordon series based on the original comics. They actually have more new content owned by them than ever before.
Except for the DRESDEN FILES, SciFi is now unwatchable. And they’ll probably cancel that, too. Gives them more money for their special effects budget on their Sat. night “SciFi Original” movies. And now they can send “Ghost Hunters” to other countries. The network’s a bad joke.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
So does this mean that Galatica and the rest of the fleet show up here in 2008? Or maybe we should ask them to setup on Mars and we’ll refresh their supplies as long as they take a few of us over....
I wonder if its too late for me to learn to fly a Raptor????
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I was watching the HD version and finally got sick of it. Too much character development and not enough plot. It’s time for this show to die.
I remember following BSG way back in it’s first season, and even then they seemed to be having great difficulties moving along.
Yeah, I was hoping Painkiller Jane wouldn't suck, but my prayers were unanswered, because that show SUCKS!
Why? Because it keeps it from jumping the proverbial shark. We'll get resolution of the plot without it completely becoming "Galactica 90210".
It's already lasted longer than the original BSG, without the cinematic abortion that was "Galactica 1980". (shudder)