The Sci – Fi Days On Television Seems To Have Come To An End
In a recent article on airlockalpha, Tiffany Vogt dealt on one of the most-often-thought but very-rarely-written subject about the future of Sci-Fi on TV. The writer takes cue from the recent cancellation of the series of Dollhouse and Defying Gravity to point out to the fact that people do not have the patience to bear with the slow rate at which the Sci-Fi stories unfold. She also deals on various other aspects like the Sci-Fi stories buckling under the pressure and the real flavor being lost with every passing day. We all feel the same here Tiffany but still have faith that it is not yet the end of the road for Sci-Fi series on television!
Source: Airlockalpha
December 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
We have the advent of Soap Opera “Character Dramas” posing as SciFi for that.
A certain self-proclaimed Genius’ declared that he was going to re-invent the genre, despite the fact he had never in his career ever invented anything original on his own, to blame for what is happening to SciFi TV now.
Face it, until some smart Producers, Writers, and Directors step up to the plate and ditch the Lifetime Network formula, we’re stuck with plodding Soap Operas with space ships, and angsty “naturalistic” cinema verite drivel.
Want it to change SciFi fans, stop watching drek like Battlestargate Universe, and let TPTB know that Beverly Hills 90210 in space isn’t SciFi.
December 18th, 2009 at 6:13 am
I couldn’t agree more. Let’s have more scifi adventure and less space soap opera. What ever happened to the directors who bravely went where other feared to tred. Take a chance people, you have mega millions of scifi starved viewers world wide! There are hundreds of excellent scifi books out there, not to mention the ones waiting in the wings to be published. Check out IFWG publishing next year when they publish an epic scifi story called “Onet’s Tale”. I should know, I wrote it….
December 18th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I thought Bsg was great, shows like flash forward are TOO dramatic tho. I would say BSG was a more of a space opera not quite a soap.
December 21st, 2009 at 7:01 pm
That Calla-ham REALLY likes the sound of his own voice whenever there’s a chance to bash Battlestar huh?
Tiring.
December 24th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Don’t get me started on Battlestar. That series was an abomination. It’s not that the rewrote the original series, it’s that they pissed on everything it stood for. How did we get from a story of Tragic Heros who lost everything because they stood up for their neighbors, to a Terminator rippoff where I was rooting for the robots??
Anyway, I don’t think it’s fair to say that scifi is over on TV because Dollhouse and Defying Gravity were cancelled. First off, Dollhouse should never have gotten a green light. It was doomed before it even aired, I was just shocked it got a second season. Now, Defying Gravity was EXCELLENT and I’m really ticked that it was cancelled… but not surprised. It positioned itself poorly, right in the middle between scifi fans and ‘normal’ viewers, alienating both sides while pleasing neither.
It was probably the best written drama of the year, but people who like dramas didn’t tune in to watch the spacy show while people who live, eat, and breath scifi didn’t want the bloody melodrama. I loved it, but I didn’t give it much of a chance from the first ep I watched.
If you’re looking for a crossover to pull in more than just the scifi crowd, you don’t go to Dramas. Go action. On a smaller network, or the premiuim channels, you can try comedy maybe, but your budget better be small. Strong Action with Strong story, however, is your butter zone.
But for the love of God, whatever you do… don’t go FOX.