I was bored and looking at some of my bookmarked links and stumbled upon this eloquent post from Wil Wheaton.
Okay, we'll call it what it is: a rant.
Yep, that's about how I feel. Every episode of Eureka I watch now has this shadow of sadness hanging over it because I know it is one episode closer to the end.
Wil continues with his rant:
You know Wil, the fans feel it's personal, too.
I don't know why the channel rebranded itself as "Syfy" if they wanted to move away from showing science fiction. They should have just called themselves something else. I remember when I first started getting back into sci-fi (in, oh, about 2007). Every afternoon I'd tune into Sci-fi to watch Enterprise and that led to me eventually watching SGA and SG-1. Back then you could watch them every afternoon and usually late at night. In between they had other sci-fi movies and shows.
And then one day I noticed they were interrupting their regular scheduled Trek/Gate block with other stuff. October was an annoying non-stop horror-a-thon. I don't watch horror movies and almost none of them had a sci-fi bent. Things just got worse from then on.
I don't even recognize the channel any more. There's almost NO science fiction on it. It's all horror and supernatural stuff. And wrestling. I knew things were really bad when I saw Smackdown move to Syfy. I was like WTF? Of course it HAS to air on Fridays because Vince McMahon says so which means Syfy lost all their prime airing times, show got shuffled to other timeslots where they were left to die.
I just find it really sad that when I'm in the mood for something science fiction I have to put in a DVD because the Syfy channel won't have any of it on. And if it does I nearly have a heart attack. Sad, it used to be a channel I looked forward to watching every single day. Now I watch it for like 1 hour a week.
Okay, we'll call it what it is: a rant.
Whenever I watch Eureka this season, and I see an advert on the network formerly known as Sci-Fi for one of their stupid goddamn are-you-serious-with-this-bullshit reality shows, I get angry and then sad. Eureka was and is such a great show, and it deserved better than it got from the network. I guess if we knew then what we know now, we would have put in more ghosts and wrestling.
Yep, that's about how I feel. Every episode of Eureka I watch now has this shadow of sadness hanging over it because I know it is one episode closer to the end.
Wil continues with his rant:
When I talk about how much I miss Eureka, and how much I want to kick certain NBC/Universal executives in the nuts for cancelling it, I readily admit that I'm not coming from a rational place. I am coming from an emotional place, because something that meant a lot to me was taken away.I get it, it's business, and I'm not going to pretend that it's anything different... but I'm also not going to pretend that, for me, it isn't personal on some irrational level.
You know Wil, the fans feel it's personal, too.
I don't know why the channel rebranded itself as "Syfy" if they wanted to move away from showing science fiction. They should have just called themselves something else. I remember when I first started getting back into sci-fi (in, oh, about 2007). Every afternoon I'd tune into Sci-fi to watch Enterprise and that led to me eventually watching SGA and SG-1. Back then you could watch them every afternoon and usually late at night. In between they had other sci-fi movies and shows.
And then one day I noticed they were interrupting their regular scheduled Trek/Gate block with other stuff. October was an annoying non-stop horror-a-thon. I don't watch horror movies and almost none of them had a sci-fi bent. Things just got worse from then on.
I don't even recognize the channel any more. There's almost NO science fiction on it. It's all horror and supernatural stuff. And wrestling. I knew things were really bad when I saw Smackdown move to Syfy. I was like WTF? Of course it HAS to air on Fridays because Vince McMahon says so which means Syfy lost all their prime airing times, show got shuffled to other timeslots where they were left to die.
I just find it really sad that when I'm in the mood for something science fiction I have to put in a DVD because the Syfy channel won't have any of it on. And if it does I nearly have a heart attack. Sad, it used to be a channel I looked forward to watching every single day. Now I watch it for like 1 hour a week.