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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 1186284" data-attributes="member: 3320">I am afraid you would probably be right in both of these conclusions.  They probably do not care about science fiction in any way, and sadly I have to think they really don't know how to run a TV station.  SciFi's does not really advertise externally first of all.  I rarely see any as in any case.  Primarilly the rely on SciFi magazine, the website and the hard core sci-fi fans that will watch the channel no matter what crap is on.  In their defense though, prepare for blasphemy here, most sci-fi is crap.  Sorry, but its true.  Yes, any one of us can list off 20 classics of the genre, beautifully inventive imaginings of the future and past.  On teh other hand, we have the multitudes of movies and TV that actually make Roger Corman look like the genius he is.  So Sci-Fi simply fills their lineup with those crap programming.  Including Antonio Sabato Jr movies, and anything that has Bobbi Phillips.  Science fiction movies, even the succesful ones, very often have low budget, direct to video movies.  And some of these direct to videos are quite good, just not good enough or marketable enough for the theatres.  Take Bobbi Phillips for instance.  She made a series of movies called Chameleon, which I think Dark Angel ripped of something serious.  It had such great potential, an interesting character, a good setting, some fairly realistic motives and a great looking lead actress.  Unfortunatly it was doen cheap, with little special effects, and was marketed as a skinemax flick, which it really was not.  This is pretty common.  Go to Blockbuster sometime and look through the sci-fi and horror sections.  There is a serious glut of crap in the field, but someone is watching it, otherwise it woudl not be made.    There are some great things on the channel though.  I thought Taken was brilliant.  I liked both Dune series, and though the Riverworld movie was very nice.  I am seriously looking forward to Battlestar Galactica (BTW, did anyone notice how that was slipped in on the CNN article) and Stargate is the one show I watch religiously.  So, yeah there are some things I'd like to see changed.  I'd like some anime in the lineup, something pretty good like Evangelion (not going to happen).  I'd like to see a wednesday night movie, that was generally an older, but good sci-fi movie, and I'd like to see normal season blocks of shows, not random programming changes.  This is especially true for the daytime programming which changes so often I have no clue what is ever on.  Those random changes are what really worry me, in regards to whether the execs know what they are doing.  See, if they reallu had no clue what they were doing they woudl not change it much.  They'd stick to standard program styles, and maybe even slip a talk show in there.  Instead they use this completly nontraditional style of programming, switching from daily rooutines to blocks of single shows, to rotating lineups constantly.  This is so unusual one has to hope there is a reason for it.  Even shows liek the History channel have a basic lineup, sci-fi really does not.</blockquote>

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