Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:30:08 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
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Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: Terra Nova
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On 10/11/2011 6:02 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> "Mike B."<yahoo at omniphile.com>  10/11/2011 5:58 PM

>>> So many things to kvetch about the Syfy channel ... too many
>> actually.
>>
>> At least they've lowered the entry requirements for being a
>> screen
>> writer enough that most anyone could manage it.
>
> Up Next of Syfy: Giant Piranhas Battle NYC Sewer Alligators

Didn't they do that one last year?  Or was that Dinocroc versus Supergator?

Their standard script generator seems to prefer to have groups of
graduate students, usually biology or archeology, battling mythological
creatures.  Sometimes it's military units, or tourists. So far I think
they've done manticores, gargoyles, griffins, dragons, basilisks,
harpies, minotaurs, krakens, ogres, wyverns, Cerberus, zombies, ghouls,
Chupacabra, wraiths, the headless horseman, vampires, werewolves,
Cyclops, yetis, the god Baal, the Loch Ness Monster, a Jabberwock, a
"rock monster", and Sasquatch.  That doesn't include all the extinct
animals (pterodactyls, mammoths, tyranosaurus, sabertooths, and
raptors), or mutant or out of control normal animals (bees, snakehead
fish, sharks, etc.) they've done, or invented problems, like living
solar flares come to earth, or lava in NY City.

If you don't believe me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sci_Fi_Pictures_original_films

-- Mike B.