Comments on: Sci-Fi TV Saturday: Day One, Primeval, The Prisoner, Sarah Jane Adventures, Stargate Universe + more

By: ammogod

ammogod — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:40:31 +0000

I do not understand why so many people did not like BSG. In quality, writing, and everything else, it was excellent. It did nothing to try and treat the audience as stupid individuals who could not hold on to a thought process longer than 20 seconds. It didn’t pander to the lowest common denominator…. and it did tend to make you think if you could. I feel it represented a zenith of sci-fi television and we would be damned lucky to have anything like its caliber come again in the next 20 years. In many ways, I thought that BSG had many elements that trek was missing. Abrams got a lot of this… I just hope he doesn’t try to dumb down trek, either.

SGU was not as good as I expected, but then again, its a pilot and there is hope that as the story goes forward we can get away from the flashbacks…..

and above all else… please keep the atmosphere on the shows as REAL…. not easy rosy pictures… but just like real life with real issues.

By: Benjamin Adams

Benjamin Adams — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:18:47 +0000

I’m highly amused by people slamming SGU’s pilot, when it was miles better than ST: TNG’s own pilot. Trek fans (and I’m including myself) have no business whatsoever complaining about a lack of quality in the first season of a SF show, ‘cos pot, kettle, black. At least SGU was competent . . . and it flows much better without SyFy’s interminable commercials.

By: Lore

Lore — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:02:32 +0000

CW NETWORK: Move Smallville back to its Thursday night time slot.

FOX NETWORK: Bring back The Sarah Connor Chronicles!

By: =A=

=A= — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:42:07 +0000

stargate universe nothing wrong with it. i think i like it because i rather outerspace than on ocean! stargate alantis very boring!

By: Cafe 5

Cafe 5 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:01:45 +0000

I talked to one of my co-workers today about SGU and he felt that none of the characters had any relevance what so ever. As with a book, or film, or TV series
if you can’t relate to, or feel for a character then there is no connection and no interest. The powers that be haven’t a clue. This is what happens when you miss staff meetings. Waited all summer for this, what a disappointment.

By: Captain Dunsel

Captain Dunsel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:37:00 +0000

re: #74 Daoud

OK. Who let the Network Executive in here? Hmmm?

By: Daoud

Daoud — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:28:48 +0000

In this version, though Mr. Ed would be an alien from The Planet Of The Horses. The Mules and Asses would be the Gorilla equivalent, the Quarterhorses the Chimpanzees, and Unicorns the Lawgiving Orangutans. I’m sure Pegasi would turn up.

Me, I’m holding out for the remake of My Mother The Car Marries KITT, Leave it to Betelgeuse, The Яok4d FiLezorz (where Jim Rockford is re-imagined as a hacker turned detective), Automannix, Yeeroes (the story of Greek superheroes who transform into wraps), and Star Trek: The Random Generation. I mean, why come up with New Ideas, when the old ones haven’t been tapped out.

By: beerwriter

beerwriter — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:38:55 +0000

71 & 72 — Oooh, ZOMBIE Mr. Ed! I’m calling Brannon Braga right NOW!!!

By: Captain Dunsel

Captain Dunsel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:30:22 +0000

71 – dmduncan – “…they have to keep televising a dead horse getting beat for yet another season?”

Don’t SAY things like that!

Some network exec will get handed a copy of your blog post andthe next thing you know we’ll be watching “Mr. Ed” “reimagined” as one more teen-angst vampire show!!!

By: dmduncan

dmduncan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:17:02 +0000

Unlike any of the Stargate series, Heroes actually has really good characters. The problem isn’t the characters, it’s the stories. Story wise, the show has lost its center. It doesn’t seem to know where it’s going or what it’s doing anymore. It’s just sort of wandering in circles.

Is there that much difficulty or willingness in Hollywood coming up with new series ideas that they have to keep televising a dead horse getting beat for yet another season?

And how many more pathetic Stargate series are we going to get before some genius over at SyFy busts through a blockage straining on the toilet and gets the vision of a new freakin idea?