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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 942710" data-attributes="member: 8704">I think that Sci Fi movies are really comming into their own right now. There were a lot of movies that just couldn't be made before due to a lack of technology. Now TV well that's a different story, welcome to the wonderful world of reality TV. These shows have changed TV a lot, including changing the importance of ratings, a reality show can survive on much lower ratings than other shows can because they cost so very little to make by comparison. I'm sure the John Edwards show cost next to nothing to make, it's just him on a stock stage talking to a crowd week after week. Sci Fi may be much cheaper to make now but it's hard to get any cheaper than that. Sci Fi TV will come back around when people get tired of Who Wants to Marry a Goofball and people go back to wanting to get away from reality rather than watching it.Some of the things mentioned in the thread.Star Wars: expectations were just too high a good movie isn't good enough. The first movies were so cutting edge and original, these are suffering because the originals have been copied so many times now, we've been there and seen that already. It also was a hard thing for me when I realized that the movies never grew up but I did, my kids love the new movies and now I'm to old to be the target audience for much of the story.Star Trek: Has serious problems with getting stale. Every time I watch a episode it seems to be a retelling of a older episode (voyager was really bad about that). They change the aliens, change the script but it all seems to be the same type of stories rehashed over and over. Nemisis wasn't bad, it just wasn't special in any way, it never reached out and grabbed me or made me say wow. Don't care for Enterprise all that much either.Sci Fi channel: Man the change in focus there is huge, it's turning intot he paranormal channel. I will give them that Stargate is getting better, I'm not a fan in any way but I have seen some episodes that were decent lately. I think nothing speaks more for what's going on there than they replaced Farscape with Tremors the series.</blockquote>

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