Does anyone think the SyFy channel has gone downhil?

[tomalak301]

It's been going downhill since they cancelled Farscape. Yeah there are some quality shows like BSG and Eureka/Warehouse 13 (Haven't seen them, but they are popular) but other than that, it's not a channel I got to often.

 

[Roland19]

I agree, for the most part, that the channel has gone downhill. Wrestling, reality tv, canceling great shows like Stargate Universe & Caprica. *sigh*

But I do still watch Eureka & Warehouse 13 on the channel. I like both shows. Especially Eureka, but Warehouse 13 can be fun (though the first episode back wasn't great).

And Alphas has potential, imo, but so did Painkiller Jane (imo) and it went downhill FAST. Whether Alphas will get better or be a short lived fun show like Dresden or turn out like Painkiller Jane or worse Flash Gordon...well who knows. Time will tell.

Still, I agree with what someone else said, the channel no longer has any "prestige" shows (I like Eureka a lot, but its not as great as say, BSG, Universe, or Farscape). The hardcore sci-fi shows are now gone. Universe was the last of the space shows. They are supposed to be doing a Battlestar prequel (set in space), but whether they will do it or not and if it'll just be a movie of the week...I don't know. There's been no recent word on the movie or series. Is it filming at all? Does anyone know?

I think when the channel was Sci-Fi it wasn't great, but they had some great shows in the mix. Now thats is Syfy, well, they just throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks like every other network.

 

[Greg Cox]

shows that seem like watered-down, sci-fi-lite fare that is targeted at casual audiences instead of true sci-fi fans. .

Like, say, The Invisible Man and The Chronicle? I think people are romanticizing the past a bit. It's not like Sci Fi was ever running "true" sf shows like Farscape or BSG every night of the week. If anything, they have more original shows now than back in the old days, when it was mostly a graveyard for canceled genre shows.

And I still wish they hadn't cancelled The Chronicle. That was a fun show . . .

 

[Ninjacore]

My dad says it has.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

They are supposed to be doing a Battlestar prequel (set in space), but whether they will do it or not and if it'll just be a movie of the week...I don't know. There's been no recent word on the movie or series. Is it filming at all? Does anyone know?

Last I heard, they were filming a movie that might serve as a backend pilot if the ratings justify it. I'm not very sanguine about the chances of it being good or perhaps even seeing the light of day. Here's the most recent news I could dig up on it:

With Battlestar Galactica dormant until that prequel movie Blood & Chrome arrives sometime next year...

 

[Greg Cox]

As far as I'm concerned it's been a shining example of wasted potential ever since its inception. There's rarely ever anything good on it, much less anything that I'd call sci-fi. And who watches those "Giant this vs Mega-that" movies? Who likes those? I saw a scene from one of them in which a shark leaped out of the water and wrapped its jaws around a plane. So fucking stupid.

So? They're not supposed to be "serious" sf. Granted, they vary drastically in quality, but, if you're in the right frame of mind, they're good, goofy fun--like an old-fashioned drive-in monster movie.

(By coincidence, I was rewatching IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE just this morning. That's my idea of comfort food!)

 

[NextGen123]

As far as I'm concerned it's been a shining example of wasted potential ever since its inception. There's rarely ever anything good on it, much less anything that I'd call sci-fi. And who watches those "Giant this vs Mega-that" movies? Who likes those? I saw a scene from one of them in which a shark leaped out of the water and wrapped its jaws around a plane. So fucking stupid.

So? They're not supposed to be "serious" sf. Granted, they vary drastically in quality, but, if you're in the right frame of mind, they're good, goofy fun--like an old-fashioned drive-in monster movie.

(By coincidence, I was rewatching IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE just this morning. That's my idea of comfort food!)

Did you ever see "The Green Slime"? with those little octopus-like aliens that shot acid. That was a good shlocky film also. I don't know how the actors could keep a serious expression with those aliens.

 

[FormerLurker]

That sounds like a Nickolodeon tie-in.

 

[NextGen123]

Did you ever see "Man with the X-Ray Eyes" or the Leonard Nimoy's first appearance as an alien in "Zombies of the Stratosphere"?

 

[Greg Cox]

As far as I'm concerned it's been a shining example of wasted potential ever since its inception. There's rarely ever anything good on it, much less anything that I'd call sci-fi. And who watches those "Giant this vs Mega-that" movies? Who likes those? I saw a scene from one of them in which a shark leaped out of the water and wrapped its jaws around a plane. So fucking stupid.

So? They're not supposed to be "serious" sf. Granted, they vary drastically in quality, but, if you're in the right frame of mind, they're good, goofy fun--like an old-fashioned drive-in monster movie.

(By coincidence, I was rewatching IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE just this morning. That's my idea of comfort food!)

Did you ever see "The Green Slime"? with those little octopus-like aliens that shot acid. That was a good shlocky film also. I don't know how the actors could keep a serious expression with those aliens.

Dare I admit that I stayed up to watch THE GREEN SLIME only a few months ago? And I have dim memories of watching it on tv when I was a kid . . . .

 

[Chaos Descending]

I LOVE THE GREEN SLIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!