Stargate Universe

[dfergie]

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SyFy loves scifi, unless it's a show that involves spaceships, aliens, other planets, wormholes, time travel, etc.
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This post from AVS sums it up ...

 

[long_time_DNC]

LOL! Yep, that sums their attitude up quite well, I agree.

 

[jayn_j]

Being too hard on them. Their WWE coverage is pure SyFy as they expect you to believe that the mayhem is both real and deadly

 

[zarg7883]

Then by SyFy's own standards, they should dump the wrestling. The wrestlers think they're stars, and the audience must be totally spaced!

 

[long_time_DNC]

No, it works for Syfy because they (arguably) aren't aliens, they (arguably) don't travel in space and don't engage in time travel... However, I don't watch it, so I'm assuming that these wrestlers don't (or aren't) engage(d) in any of those kind of activities.

 

[dfergie]

by Darren Sumner
AN OPEN LETTER TO SYFY CHANNEL:
Thank you for the many years of outstanding entertainment you have given to me and my friends. While I haven’t agreed with every creative or scheduling decision, every killed-off character or series cancellation, I do recognize that because of Syfy Channel I have laughed, cried, and cheered over the likes of Farscape, Stargate, Sanctuary, Battlestar Galactica, and so many others.
Since you ventured into original, scripted drama more than a decade ago, you’ve been one of the best places on television for the genre that I love so much. And you’ve been one of the safest. The big networks put the pressure on shows and cancel them after a season or less, sometimes not even airing all the episodes they paid to have filmed. Firefly. Defying Gravity. The Event. No Ordinary Family. Moonlight. Earth 2. Surface. Invasion. Threshold. But you give new series time to find their audience. You’ve rescued shows from cancellation oblivion, you’ve aired those unaired episodes, and you’ve funded additional seasons when it looked like shows like Sliders and Stargate SG-1 were done.


Read the rest: gateworld.com

 

[TG2]

by Darren Sumner
AN OPEN LETTER TO SYFY CHANNEL:
Thank you for the many years of outstanding entertainment you have given to me and my friends.

Darren could have just appended right there... "but that since you're no longer going by the acronym 'SciFi' I find my desire to watch you wane from its already low crescent sliver of desire to the fully darkened 'New Moon' bleakness and have no hopes you'll ever come back to serving the niche community to which i'm proud to call myself a member of."

The rest of his article... too long winded (lol yeah, that coming from me) in basically telling Siffy they can go f**k themselves.

Like the other person here.. I've got my timers in for Eureka, Warehouse 13, and the quirky Haven (which I admit I really only watch cause she's kinda hot) where as the rest of haven is too much of an adultified and un-fun version of Erie PA .... And in this last episode of SGU, I took notice that new episodes of all three are slated for july ... I'll make sure my timers are working, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be on the edge of my seat for any of them...

My tollerance of Siffy has run its course.. the name change was pretty much the last straw... SGU was great and this new "Alpha" show has potential .. but everything else on siffy pretty much blows.. and I doubt alphas will be around for long as it will probably be too expensive to make.

To my sister (also a lover of the SciFi days) I pointed out the upcoming or previous episodes of Sanctuary where it seems they take a trip through time (nazi ss & WWI footage?) as the death knell for any show trying to "revitalize" since the show wasn't originally about those times ... though I'm sure it could be a flash back too ... but the bumper was too short and too ill conceived to properly pull fringe elements into the show to want to find out about it..etc...

Anyway.. F**K you siffy .... f**kyou very much..

 

[long_time_DNC]

by Darren Sumner
AN OPEN LETTER TO SYFY CHANNEL:
Thank you for the many years of outstanding entertainment you have given to me and my friends. While I haven’t agreed with every creative or scheduling decision, every killed-off character or series cancellation, I do recognize that because of Syfy Channel I have laughed, cried, and cheered over the likes of Farscape, Stargate, Sanctuary, Battlestar Galactica, and so many others.
Since you ventured into original, scripted drama more than a decade ago, you’ve been one of the best places on television for the genre that I love so much. And you’ve been one of the safest. The big networks put the pressure on shows and cancel them after a season or less, sometimes not even airing all the episodes they paid to have filmed. Firefly. Defying Gravity. The Event. No Ordinary Family. Moonlight. Earth 2. Surface. Invasion. Threshold. But you give new series time to find their audience. You’ve rescued shows from cancellation oblivion, you’ve aired those unaired episodes, and you’ve funded additional seasons when it looked like shows like Sliders and Stargate SG-1 were done.


Read the rest: gateworld.com

Read the rest and I applaud Mr. Sumner. He nailed Syfy right to the wall with his commentary and I agree with him, we deserve a response from Syfy.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Read the rest and I applaud Mr. Sumner. He nailed Syfy right to the wall with his commentary and I agree with him, we deserve a response from Syfy.

But we won't get it.

 

[long_time_DNC]

But we won't get it.

No...probably not.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Saddest d*mn ending to a Stargate series, ever...

 

[sethwell]

Saddest d*mn ending to a Stargate series, ever...

+1
I was at least hoping they would show them after the 3 year sleep.

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[osu1991]

That was a waste of an hour.

 

[dfergie]

Saddest d*mn ending to a Stargate series, ever...

lYup... tempted to kill any timers & avoid Syfy from now on out of spite...

 

[TG2]

That was a waste of an hour.

Absolutely disagree.
I've been there too many times ... too many shows that end abruptly, cliff hanger ... REAL cliff hangers..

Take a look at FarScape ... before the uprising.. the last episode was our hero and his bride to be, out in the middle of a lake, the "formal" marriage proposal being done, a laser bolt freeze them solid, then a second laser blast, and crumbling into millions of pieces.

This time? Our come from behind hero is either taking one for the team.. or will fix the pod and join them for the 3 year sleep. We are confident in his ability, even if he isn't. And we have the hope and imagination to have it go a million different ways .... what if Eli gets the idea to pull out the bots to make other repairs ... or perhaps he takes a closer look at the signatures of the drones and command ship, and figures out how to clone the drone, and throw out signatures that make the drones think they are are "one of them"...

This was a much better way to leave us on a cliff hanger that doesn't garantee death.

I think SciFi is lost, and that there's no further reason for me to tune in. Eureka will probably be ruined with product placement (deoderant anyone? or how about a subaru?) and I can't even begin to think of what they'd do to Warehouse 13 ... Alphas looks set up to fail, and I was never much interested in Sanctuary ... Haven ... well.. quirky at the very least and barely tollerable.. looks like its time to go back to books.

 

[long_time_DNC]

Syfy is now a scifi wasteland...

 

[dfergie]

It was a good season ender, but they should have allowed a real ending to the series...

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I have the last 12 episodes recorded and archived; will I watch them? Only time will tell. I'll watch Eureka,W13, and Haven this summer, yet even those aren't great. AND why call it the second half of a season if it comes out for 10 episodes every year. The reality is that that Sigh Figh s nothing but crap. They have lost their way. And can keep their frigin wrassling.

 

[Paradox-SJ]

it was an ending without an end...open to possibilities....as if they are ever going to show what happens....good gawd man what is wrong with this network?

 

[BobMurdoch]

I'll come back for Warehouse 13 and the new Battlestar Galactica series, but that's it. I'll be off watching BBC America, where all the good SciFi is nowadays....