WTF SYFY!
I am so fed up with this station. A couple years ago I fell upon it and started watching episodes of Enterprise that I missed when it first aired. Then I got hooked on SGA and SG-1 since they came on right after. That is when Sci-fi (as it was back then) actually aired them as per the schedule. I stuck around because they introduced Eureka and
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I definitely am worried about my other SciFi shows, especially Haven. The fans will have to stay vigilant this year like we were last year, when we flooded the network with emails, postcards and a petition demanding a second season.
They're getting as bad as Fox with canceling good shows, though I will say that at least SciFi gives them more of a chance than Fox does; Fox shows don't usually even get a full season...
But back to SciFi - the concept of a science fiction reality show? Um, just NO. I'm biased by my general loathing of reality TV, but sci-fi is, by definition, not reality, so it just makes no sense. I get that the network has been trying to move beyond sci-fi since its stupid rebranding, but that's what we, the viewers, are there for! If they're going to abandon the genre, then could someone make a new channel that actually cares about sci-fi and its fans? This channel really doesn't seem to anymore. *more sighs*
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Discovery Science channel shows episodes of Firefly.
There's more science fiction on every other channel other than Syfy, lol. That has to say a lot.
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One of the comments I read somewhere (might have been on the EW article) mentioned that Warehouse 13 and the other shows are still cheaper to produce because their stars don't cost as much yet since they are only a couple seasons (or episodes) into their run. Once they get too expensive as the actors want to get paid more they'll get canceled, too.
And still the idiot network will spend more money it moronic movies that no one watches. I can't see how 90% of the movies Syfy has produced have been cheaper or better than Eureka. Well maybe cheaper since the acting was horrible and the special effects were the cheesiest I've seen since movies from the early days of TV. And there's no excuse for that with the technology we have today.
I don't see the point in them except that Syfy's budget is so low (which I assume has more to do with the people that own them) they can't afford to actually buy the rights to decent sci fi shows and movies so they make their own cheap garbage to fill the space as they have to quit airing the stuff they used to own the rights to and can't afford any more.
And it's not just Syfy. All the networks are like that and it sucks. The advent of reality TV really was the downfall of good American television. Reality shows are cheaper to produce and the mindless masses salivate over watching other humans humiliate each other (for some reason I can't fathom). My relatives are glued to the set for every single one of them but give them a decent show that has great characters and involved plots and they hate it because they don't get it (unless it involves the murder of children and then they can't look away... like Law & Order SVU... or Nancy Grace).
So the good stuff gets canceled for the idiotic stuff that is cheaper to make and pretty soon people forget what "good" TV really is.
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