"Thank you!"
Don't get me wrong: I liked SGU. A lot. Not that it was a great show; it was a little rehashed, and kept edging a little too far into BSG-level melodrama, which frightened me. (I know there are a lot of BSG fans out there, and for a couple seasons I was part of that group, but after that - well, not so much.) But SGU is - sorry, was the only space opera-ish scifi show on TV, and the characters were mostly acceptable, even if they and some of the plot elements they were involved in seemed to be recycled from elsewhere. It was watchable, which is a lot more than I can say for most programming on other networks - and pretty much everything else SyFy (MKG voice again) plays.
So why the "thank you?" Easy: that garbage processing plant of a network has finally given me a reason to completely disregard it. I've been struggling for a long time with SyFy's incessant regurgitation of CGI-/acting-/writing-challenged [Adjective] [Beast] movies and TV shows that want badly to be as smart and edgy as Fringe and The X-Files (but repeatedly fail to be either, apparently being penned by writers who aren't very smart or edgy). Throw in the Dick Clark of reality shows (How in the Hell is Ghost Hunters still cranking along?! I swear, that show's jumped the shark more times than I can count.), wrastlin', and now Pawn Stars for geeks, and I can't even fathom why this network still exists. And were we supposed to be fooled by the branding change into believing that SyFy would somehow bring us better programming? I know TV executives think that all their viewers are cattle with wallets, but come on... /sigh
All I know is: now I don't have to worry about it anymore. I don't have to sit through the trailers for movies I wouldn't take money to watch, or for shows that have about as much to do with reality as a week-long LSD trip. I don't have to feel like I'm being patronized by executives who think their new branding is fooling me.
Best of all, I don't have to "Imagine Greater" because I'm being so let down by the programs SyFy (MKG!) spews at me.
Farewell, SGU - you will be missed!
Adieu, SyFy - don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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SyFy has always been Imagine Less! I'll miss SGU for the same reasons you mentioned. Eureka jumped the shark long ago, so that also leaves me with no further reason to watch SyFy.
UGH.....First they ruin Destination Truth by adding the whole guest stars and ghost hunters crap to it, now they are taking away one of the few guilty pleasures I have left, only to leave all the garbage on. So... I will have to agree with you on this one Christopher.. SYFY can go get stuffed. (I even refuse to watch their bad apocalyptic movies out of sheer protest. Which I know will make you happy :p )
@Brett: I always felt that the super-geniuses that supposedly populated Eureka would have a hard time getting into MENSA. The characters just didn't seem that smart to me - and the tech was much more sci-fantasy than scifi - so I couldn't really engage with that show.
@Lili: Oh, I don't think you can begin to understand how happy that makes me. :P
The only show I've come to regard on SyFy is Warehouse 13, but I've long stopped watching the channel with any regularity.
If anything I get my SyFy from Spike, AMC on occassion, TNT/TBS, or the History Channel (Ancient Aliens FTW!).
What.the.F#######!!!!!!!
Dammit, SGU was my BSG replacement. It was nasty, dirty, grimy, gritty and honest! I was starting to buy into the story, into the show and into the characters.
I have nothing good to say about Suc*Fuc*.
Bye Bye SYFY (bad name too)
Damn, I am in the minority here but I love the bad monster movies and cheesy horror flicks. So awful they're fun. :)
Oh, thank you. I've wanted to like SG-U, but after the first season, I was like "Okay... I'm done." I can't stand the whole "Lost" feel in the show, and if I had just one more week of whining in the dark, I would have gone into a catatonic depression.
Unfortunately, I get this horrible feeling that whatever will replace it won't be a light hearted space opera trip, either.
The world needs bad movies. It also needs channels that don't schedule nearly identical C-grade flicks one after another.
It's hardly worth investing yourself in a SF series anymore. I borrowed a friend's Eureka season 1 and it was good. Then I found out that as a season finale/opener they reset everything up to that point making the previous seasons worthless. I'm giving up on network SF series and just waiting for the "complete series" to be released on disc.
Well, this is just the latest (and probably last) step in their "we need an audience we're not ashamed of" project that began with the name change.
And that's fine, why would I like to support people who are ashamed of having me as a fan.
I'll admit they do have one show left I like: Warehouse 13. As a modern occult/weirdness fan who misses Pyramid Online almost solely because of Suppressed Transmission the show worked for me as the humorous lovechild of that column and the old Friday the 13th TV series. But, I've been watching via Netflix anyway so screw giving them eyeballs for Nielsen.
Seconded, every bit.
I thought the branding change was solely because Sci-Fi couldn't be trademarked?
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