The big problem is they rarely have good directing, or acting, or writing. I like Eureka and WH13 sometimes, but some episodes are just horrible. The SyFy movies are the worst though, worse than old B movies you see on Mystery Science Theater.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, John Buttimer <[email protected]> wrote: > I would disagree on that as eureka had been on for several years by then and > it was good while Atlantis and sg1 were running. Syfy has just lost > direction for some reason. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 18, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Todd Newton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had a discussion about SGU with some friends and we attributed it's > downfall to the success of shows like Eureka and Warehouse > 13, (family orienated comedy's with a mix of sci-fi). They dilluted sci-fi > enough to make them primetime favourites and truer sci-fi shows > floundered. V - Reimagined and SGU as examples. > > Pity really. > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Midkemia on tv > Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:30:26 +1000 > > Unfortunately for SGU, it started off slow. With the huge success of it's > predecessors, SGU was expected to be the same as the previously successful > franchises. > IMHO I was looking for something similar, but different with SGU, and it > came through in the second Season. As you said, PJ, after episode 5/6, > things starteed to kick off the way it was supposed to. > THe damage had been done, however, and the executives discontinued the show, > forcing a premature completion to the series, similar to what happened with > the Buffy spin-off, "Angel" > > > Dan > >> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:47:27 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Midkemia on tv >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:18 AM, John Buttimer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Funny, that was the most boring for me. They rarely Left he ship and it >> > was all interpersonal drama. I liked them having he bad guys to fight and >> > not each other. >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > On Apr 18, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> Exactly. As we have discussed before, I liked Stargate Universe far, >> >> far better than any of the others, even though they were decent shows. >> >> >> >> >> IMO, SGU suffered from its first season, as you said, fighting each >> other all the time. But starting from about the 5th or 6th episode of >> the second season, this serie blew me away. I was sad to see it go. >> >> PJ >> >> -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
