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SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 29, 2013, 02:57:54 pm ---
--- Quote ---To be fair, SyFy channel does have a couple of good current shows.
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I should have been more specific. I meant their original movies.
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Oh, in that case. No, they got crap.
When it was still SciFi, they would have a handful of diamonds in the rough. But now that they're SyFy, it seems like the SyFy writers sit around in a caffeine and nicotine induced haze and make bets with each other on how bad of a script they can come up with and still get the green light. You can even see it in how some of the actors act in some of their films. A kind of, "this is probably going to end my career but I need the money" or "I realize now that I'm never going to be the next Cruise or Jolie," kind of thing. I had better acting skill in theater and I was just a light jockey.
ark_ader:
Syfy is for kids.
Howard_Casto:
Syfy's still pretty good. The quality of shows has went downhill a lot lately, but to be fair all the good shows they had back in the day were actually syndicated shows that they leased.... they've just recently got into original productions. Warehouse 13 is good if you understand it's stupid as hell and you watch it with the same level of seriousness as you would an old Flash Gordon movie. Continuum is really good. Alphas is good as well, although it's starting to get a bit "gimmick of the week". The US version of Being Human is way more watchable than the BBC version.
Defiance is really good as well. I mean the acting isn't fantastic or anything, but compared to pretty much every science fiction show out there today the acting is far superior. The writing is fairly good as well. The long-term arc has threw me a couple of curve balls thus far and coming from a guy who is NEVER surprised by a story arc that's quite the achievement.
Ginsu Victim:
I only ever watched three things on Sci-fi Channel (just to give you an idea of how long it's been).
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Sci-fi Buzz (for Harlan Ellison's Watching)
Twilight Zone marathon
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 29, 2013, 05:29:30 pm ---I only ever watched three things on Sci-fi Channel (just to give you an idea of how long it's been).
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Sci-fi Buzz (for Harlan Ellison's Watching)
Twilight Zone marathon
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The Battlestar series was good. You weren't interested?
The Highlander movie that they made was awful. Awful. Just awful.
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