> > Robert Seeberger wrote:
> >
> > > SciFi bats at a bit less than .100 IMO. I know a lot of people *like*
> > > SG1, but it seems fairly pedestrian to me, and people like it mainly
> > > because there is nothing substantially better offered.
> >

Julia Thompson wrote:
> > Interesting.  SG1 started out as a Showtime series.  It may have gone
> > downhill a bit since SciFi picked up the production.


Nick Lidster wrote:
> Julia I beleive the timing of the switch over was during season 5.. Showtime
> droped it about half way through the season and SiFi picked it up. IN true
> "SiFi channel" style they have tried to reinvent the seris and make it more
> appealling to the general population, IMO there has been only 2 margionaly
> rewatchable episodes since then in season 6..(I know that season 7 is done
> in the states but up in the great white north  we only just finished season
> 6)... that being said I can still sit down a watch almost all of teh older
> shows with no problem or question to story line... IMO SiFi has destroyed
> what was once a show with so much... potential and given far less... SG:
> atalantis i think will die a horrible death..

I'd agree, the quality has suffered recently, mostly from the
misconception that more powerful enemies automatically makes
for better stories. *sigh*.


> Oh anyone remember a show called "Space Above and Beyond".. had some great
> potential but it got axed...

Space: Above and Beyond had a great first season, then it seemed like
they started to run out of ideas by the end of the 2nd season.

I would like to see an "outer limits" style series of short stories
all set in the same universe, but not necessarily featuring any of
the same characters.  Kind of a "Thieves World" on TV.

-- Matt
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