Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:53:11 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
    "WSFA Official List" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA]  Re: Terra Nova
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com> 10/11/2011 2:20 PM
>>>>
>On 10/11/2011 12:54 PM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:
>> Fox...
>> Yet another reason I'm glad I gave up tv back in 1993.
>> It's funny how much I don't miss it.
>
>Most of it is still crap, but there are occasional gleams of good
>stuff
>here and there.

While not SF, but with characters I suspect we have all met: Big Bang =
Theory.

>Some of the SF is actually decent SF, unlike the
>junk
>(Lost in Space for example) that we watched when I was a kid
>for the
>same reason that Eskimos eat blubber...it's all there was.
>
>The jury is still out on Terra Nova for me.

Same here.  It's interesting, but could easily go down the tubes.  I hope =
the brains behind the show have *some* idea where they're going with it.  =
After the bone headed endings of Battlestar and Lost I'm just not the =
enthused about serial drama these days.

>Having the series start with a $20 million episode, and then two
>weeks
>later you shove it into the weeds for a stupid baseball game
>seems
>incredibly stupid to me, from a product management standpoint.
>Of
>course, I still can't figure out why the "skiffy" channel includes
>wrestling in its lineup.  The audiences for the wrestling and SF
>(even
>bad SF) do not overlap, so all you are doing is encouraging
>channel
>switching...again, seems stupid.

So many things to kvetch about the Syfy channel ... too many actually.

mjw