Is the Sci-fi Channel Crazy?
by Shannon on Tuesday, 13 of February, 2007 at 7:25 am
I have a regular Sunday night routine (used to be a Friday night one, but they moved Battle Star Galactica on me). I gather a beer, chips and salsa, and camp out in front of the T.V for a couple of hours of unadulterated geek out time all thanks to the Sci-fi channel.
The Sci-fi channel and I have had a few tiffs in the past. They’ve butchered some damn fine books making them into a miniseries. Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea comes to mind, but I digress. The thing is, I was really getting to the point where I believed everything original on the Sci-fi channel was–to be blunt–shit. But, thanks to a few cylons who look like humans, a couple of messed up fighter pilots, and a narcissistic genius I was hoping the Sci-fi channel was on it’s way to redemption.
And for the most part they are, not only is their Battlestar Galactica but the miniseries The Lost Room was good, and the new Dresiden Files is warming up a bit. I even kind of like their new series Eureka .
Okay, so all that said I still have to ask. Are the people in charge of programming fracking crazy? I’ve noticed in the last few weeks a strange thing during commercial breaks. Wrestling commercials. And not commercials for their sister network USA, honest to god wrestling on the Sci-fi Channel.
I’m going to be honest, wrestling is stupid, asinine and juvenile just to name a few adjectives. But that’s just my opinion, I know there’s millions of people out there who love wrestling, I have no problem with that necessarily. My problem lies with wrestling being aired on a channel dedicated to science fiction and fantasy.
Not that I have to stretch too far to see that wrestling and bad Sci-fi have certain things in common.
- spandex
- large breasted women
- nonsensical plot lines
- bad guys who are bad purely for the sake of being bad
- generally appeals to a mostly teenage boy audience
All that said, I personally think the people in charge of programming at the Sci-fi Channel need a serious kick in the head, possibly even a good stoning. It’s my belief people would do less stupid things if public stoning were allowed, but that’s beside the point. The point is, if anyone agrees with me we need to start letting these morons know it. Wrestling can be found on a ton of other channels, it DOES NOT need to be on the Sci-fi Channel under any circumstances. So anyone out there listening, let’s start some mass mailing, or serious grumbling to those people in charge over there. With any luck we can be spared the commercials during Sunday night’s geek fest within months. And that would go a long way toward healing the rift in my relationship with the Sci-fi Channel.
Category: Geek Rants, Television
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