So long, nerds! Syfy doesn’t need you

MSNBC ^ | April 27, 2010 | Ree Hines

[EveningStar]

...Ultimately “SmackDown” marks the devolving of the network for a sweet, sweet slice of that 18-to-34 male demographic that sponsors love so much. That means money...

After all, the problem isn’t simply Syfy’s addition of wrestling to its lineup. The network inexplicably welcomed wrestling years ago with “Extreme Championship Wrestling” and more recently with “WWE NXT,” but bringing the bigger budget “Friday Night SmackDown” to the schedule marks a shift in priorities...

[BookmanTheJanitor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhSogGnu4I&feature=player_embedded

Here’s the latest - Mega Piranha. WARNING- viewer discretion advised. Scenes of some blood, horrible effects, bad acting, and the end of people’s careers at link.

[Jmouse007]

So long, Syfy! Change into phony, juicer, garbage, wrestling, "hick" TV and you will find that WE no longer need you!

First you changed your name (Can you say DUMB?), now this. Sci Fi WAS the station we have faithfully turned to on Friday nights for years because you HAD decent, engaging and interesting shows, I guess those days are over.

Whoever is deciding on your programming choices needs to be fired.

[Charles Martel]

Take a ship from 2010. Put it against a ship from 1910. Simple defensive weapons would crush it.

Hmm - that show would be worth watching. Episode I: WWI-era Dreadnaught-class battleship (all available armament) vs. Sheffield-class destroyer (defensive weapons only). Better hope the battlewagon's gunners don't get a bead on that destroyer.

Next week's show: Iowa-class BB vs. DDX, same ROE. Last one afloat wins.

[Jmouse007]

You are right. For all of the money that "SciFi" has wasted on this garbage they could have produced some very fine SciFi movies and series. Need proof? Twilight Zone was produced on a shoe string budget BUT the writing and acting were GREAT. That is why these 45 year old episodes are just as popular today as they were when originally aired.

Instead they threw it all away on Mega Shark, Mega Parahana, Uber Goldfish, etc, and they wonder why they are losing their audience.

[a fool in paradise]

Most of their movies are already an insult to the intelligence of SciFi fans. Mega Shark, Meka Parahana, Uber Goldfish.. all pure camp.

Sci-Fi jumped the Megashark

[GonzoGOP]

Take a ship from 2010. Put it against a ship from 1910. Simple defensive weapons would crush it.

Bad Example. 2000's Oil drilling ship -vs- 1912 Battleship.

-VS-

The 14" Rifles might not be state of the art, but they can reach out 15 miles and the couple of .50 cals or sonic disruption devices used for self defenses on the drill ship couldn't do much more than scratch the paint.

[MortMan]

By “Haven”, I assume you mean “Sanctuary”?

[discostu]

Nope, new show:
http://scifiwire.com/2010/03/syfy-summer-schedule-have.php
Haven—Premieres Friday, July 9, at 10PM (ET/PT)—New drama series Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from renowned author Stephen King, follows FBI agent Audrey Parker (Emily Rose), who arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve the murder of a local ex-con.
(more at the link)

Never heard of it before I hit found that link this morning. ENver heard of the novella either.

[GonzoGOP]

In Stargate Universe you have these characters Rush and Eli that don’t hold a candle to Jackson, Carter, or Rodney. One plays around with floating balls everyday or pines for the hot chick he’ll never get and the other is just shady as hell and does things without explaining it to the audience.

Actually this is one of the things I like about SGU. The tag from the original episode, "These are the Wrong People". We have lots of stories about the elite forces acting like elite forces. These are the rejects, the cooks, nerds, head cases, misfits, second rate bureaucrats and pampered politicians daughters. They are commanded by a has been who was just riding out the clock to retirement. Their ship is a wreck and they don't even know how to work the controls. Even on BSG where the ship was a wreck, they had a top notch captain and some elite fighter pilots and hanger crews. SGU is at least an attempt at something different. It total it doesn't follow the standard sci-fi formula.

There is nobody on SGU who starts off with the obvious "HI I'M THE HERO" name badge. Colonel Young may be competent, but he is not heroic in the classical way. The politicians are slimy Obama types when they need a George Washington.

Doctor Rush is the only one that isn't original. The mad scientist has been a staple of sci-fi since Frankenstein. And almost the exact character has been done before with Gias Baltar. They even have their dead Ex wives / girlfriends haunting them both.

Even Eli who is close to the standard fantasy/sci-fi farm boy called by destiny to become a hero isn't quite there. He isn't dashing, hansom or brave. He can't fly a fighter like Luke Skywalker. And while he is smart, he is not the "I can fix everything by the end of the episode" Montgomery Scott or Samantha Carter.

[JSDude1]

That channel has gone to crap ever since they changed their name, and SGA & BSG ended anyway, all they are now is corn/bad acting athiesticly theamed dooms-day (and fake..really fake corny) monster movies anymore anyway.

[Hot Tabasco]

I should have read your post before repeating it in post 52.

No not really, you were keen to note that I left out the giant snakes.......good catch! LOL!

[RabidBartender]

Hey! Mansquito, SS Doomtrooper, and Troglodyte are high quality films.

Sincerely,

President of the Corin Nemec Fan Club

[RabidBartender]

I’m enjoying the second half of the season a lot more now that they aren’t shoving the lesbian in everyone’s face every episode. But I’ve read there’s a few “All My Children” episodes upcoming where the majority of the episode’s focus is someone’s shattered childhood.

[Raymann]

“And while he is smart, he is not the “I can fix everything by the end of the episode” Montgomery Scott or Samantha Carter.”

That’s just it...I LIKE THOSE CHARACTERS!!!

I’m not saying the shows like SGU aren’t true to their premise, they are but it’s the premise that flawed. One of the great draws of the SG franchise are it’s dipictions of the best of the best in difficult situiations.

TV is supposed to be escapism, space opera’s even more so. I want to see heros prevailing under difficult circumstances, I want to see the soldier enacting a great escape, the scientist creating a last minute invention to save the day, the leader who makes the unpopular 3rd choice that no one else realizes is there.

Not we can’t stop the ship from moving, and def not ‘lets just sit here and not fight back until the ship jumps’.

Hope I made my point here.

[GonzoGOP]

That’s just it...I LIKE THOSE CHARACTERS!!!

I understand, and at times i wish Young wasn't such a total dweeb. But my point was that at least SGU is trying to be something different. Unlike the movies that have been ripped so well in earlier posts where the mutant creature changes from show to show but he plot, dialog and special effects are always pulled right from MST3K.

The great potential of SGU is that Hero's may emerge. And watching the super slacker Eli become the Montgomery Scott, or hot shot pilot Lieutenant Scott becoming the next Captain Kirk might be an interesting character study if the writers to it properly. Seeing how hero's are made, not simply being provided with them from central casting might be worth the wait.

As for Rush and Young. Well Rush is the mad scientist. There isn't much you can do with one of those, but they are a great plot device. If done right it will be a space Hannibal Lecter, you need him and are terrified by him all at the same time. Young is too passive to be a Kirk, but he could be the wise mentor to an aggressive sub commander, like Jean-Luc Picard to William Riker or Obi Wan Kenobi to Luke Skywalker.

[Suz in AZ]

I like the fun shows like that. You know who the good guys are, you know who the bad guys are, and there is a healthy dose of humor. I also like when the characters are well-defined.

I liked SG1 and SGA, but HATE SGU. I won’t even watch the newer episodes. It’s dark like Galactica. I hated that. I hated the divisiveness and nothing really got solved. I hate the jumpy camera tricks. Blech.

I really liked what Peter Deluise brought to it. You could see his humor in SG. Moles were outside characters, and if not, it was resolved by the end.

SGU: I hate the Rush character. The rest of them were vanilla at best, nothing to define them - except that most of them were out for themselves. Hate the lesbo crap - I have better things to do then throw up watching girls make out. Eli and the girl were the only two with promise.

No way I’ll watch the new ones. Blech!!!

[KevinDavis]

A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[KevinDavis]

In simple terms I can break it down why I like the three Stargate Shows:

1. SG1: I think this was the first SciFi show that pro US Military also I liked it that it was real.. Well have someone from the Military to help out on the show.. Also having Sam Carter was a very big bonus.

2. SGA: It was a good show, but my problems is that they kept changing the cast. I didn't like Ford, but I'm glad they got rid of him. However, what killed the show for me was the global warming episode.. That to me killed the show.

3. SGU: I do like the premise. It is different. I do like it the fact that it is showing Christianity in a positive light..

[misterrob]

not exactly....

The genocide against the humans created a civil war inside the cylons that helped in part cause their own demise

[mowowie]

You nailed it.
And that’s why i keep watching.

On a different subject the woman medic looked incredible on the planet last week.