Comments | jennickels: now I understand

jennickels

now I understand

May 25, 2012 12:25

Because I'm still sick and trying to avoid housework (did get the dishes going, the stove and some counters cleaned) I was reading more about the SyFail name change.

I found this interview with the network president in which he states:

As the SCI FI Channel, we've always defined the sci-fi genre very broadly. Some of you may disagree, but we believe ( Read more... )

rant, tv time

Comments 9

wearestarrdust May 25 2012, 19:30:41 UTC

I did not see the word "wrestling" in there at all. They are obviously retarded. Nothing they air anymore is even remotely sci-fi half the time, and the other half it's re-runs when it should be airing good shows like SANCTUARY, EUREKA AND STARGATE UNIVERSE! *cries* Sy-fy ruined my life /dramtic.

jennickels May 25 2012, 19:43:42 UTC

If it were reruns of older shows (like the Star Trek ones, Battlstar Galactica and Stargate) that would be one thing. But they just constantly rerun their just aired shows over and over and over again until you get sick of looking at them ( ... )

wearestarrdust May 25 2012, 19:51:24 UTC

Universe is expensive! I've got...season one I think, and I know it was between 50-70 dollars for the season.

Ew, sounds like they have completely lost the plot.

sg_wonderland May 25 2012, 20:15:12 UTC

I watch NOTHING on this channel anymore. The only time they now air SG-1 is at 2 AM because, you know, that's when everyone is watching TV....

Someone at my local WalMart must be a SG fan because their box sets are always on an endcap and not stuck in the middle of the display.

jennickels May 25 2012, 20:42:08 UTC

I'm lucky to even find Stargate at Wal-mart.

They re-released SG-1 and SGA in those new white cases which is how I got seasons 4 and 5. They were in the middle of the main aisle outside the electronics department. But otherwise you can maybe find a couple seasons of SGA in the racks. If you're lucky.

sg_wonderland May 25 2012, 22:06:44 UTC

I was at WM this past weekend and Season One was in amongst the 'new releases'.

xfirefly9x May 25 2012, 20:17:32 UTC

ALL OF THIS.

thothmes May 25 2012, 20:44:56 UTC

I went to a women's college (Bryn Mawr College) and a mile down the road was Haverford College, which has since gone coed, but at the time I went, was all male. If anything, sci-fi and fantasy was more popular on our campus than theirs, although perhaps not by much, but for different reasons. The men watched more for the action, the women watched more for the emotions and the personal relationships, and they both debated science, plausibility, and continuity. I really don't think that sci-fi is a gender issue. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were equally popular on both campuses, so fantasy, even with extended battle scenes, is not gender linked either ( ... )

jennickels May 25 2012, 21:14:31 UTC

I went to an all-girl high school and it was my friends there that got me hooked on sci-fi.

Of course that was a tiny little group of people in a school of 2000 girls.

One day, though, I was getting ready for some class and had one of my Star Trek novels on my desk. A girl that I had never talked to be before (who was definitely way up on the social ladder from me) asked me if the book was any good because she was considering getting it. I didn't really have time to converse with her about it because the teacher walked in but it made me wonder how many more closet sci-fi fans there were in the school.

Even in our academic centered high school, being a sci-fi nerd was still bottom of the barrel. I'm pretty sure there were a lot of girls that like it but would never tell anyone for fear of being outcast.