Subj : Re: OT-What's with Farscape And SG Atlantis?
To   : alt.tv.andromeda
From : x
Date : Sun Oct 02 2005 20:20:53

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.andromeda

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 09:09:09 -0500, Squibnick@webtv.net (Amos
Murgatroyd DuKane) wrote:

>:snip:
>I never thought I would say that, but the current state
>of the scifi channel is so pathetic, with its hackneyed "original
>movies" and limited reruns of REAl scifi, that its loss would be no big
>deal.
>
I totally agree.  There are times when I have a real NEED for what I
consider "hard SF" - space travel set in the future, space stations,
off-Earth colonies, etc. (Firefly, the Treks, Space: Above and
Beyond,... even Gil Gerard's Buck Rogers, for crying out loud.)
What's being called "science fiction" on other channels is all set in
our time, as are the Stargates (although they do have space travel),
so they're no good when I need a fix.  And having a channel calling
itself SciFi, while being mostly monster movies, mutant-animal movies,
plague, horror, swords-and-sorcery, etc., is like finding out that
your favorite steakhouse has gone vegetarian.  The few
future-space-travel movies they do show, tend to be the kind where
some malevolent force comes aboard and kills someone, and the ship's
crew are eventually pitted against each other.

If they can't/won't show actual, real, hard SF, then they should
change the channel's name, and let someone else be SciFi.

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