I have never considered BSG as being a science fiction show.It has always felt to me as a emo drama show. Great music soundtrack though. Even if you pump out a crap show, people will still tune to watch.
Remember, syfy even experiment with having a cooking syfy show although, the show didn't last very long loool. It's called Marcel's Quantum Kitchen. It tanked.
Yep, I remember that. It was sillier than Shartopus! Like you, I knew from day one it was not going to be science fiction, because the original was not science fiction. But the original was sci-action/adventure in the vein of Star Wars which it was emulating. NuBSG was a sci-drama when it started out, with some action and backstory. Then about halfway through season 2, it went full soap. Then near the end of season 3 it went fantasy soap.
Syfy are calling their shit science fiction because, they have to keep a few dumbass gullible Geeks happy and like I mentioned above, people are so desperate for science fiction, they'll grow an attachment to anything you throw at them.
I could believe that if there werent other shows which manage to give us watchable scifi, like The Last Ship and Under The Dome. I can even watch a full episode of Falling Skies (which sucks now), but I cant get through an entire episode of Defiance without taking a LONG break at some random moment because I am annoyed by it so much. Just suddenly stop it and minimize it to shop on Amazon or to read the news. Sometimes, I watch a random episode of SG-1 or Star Trek just to take my mind off of it before I go back and watch the rest.
No idea why they keep falling back to the reality tv/mtv style shit. There is also longer hiatus for shows incase someone hasn't noticed. Could that mean that syfy is struggling to secure its finances?
Could be...but Syfy is owned by NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast. They have very deep pockets, so I doubt money is the problem. The problem is management at Syfy. Take a look at this:
http://www.nbcuni.com/corporate/management/executives/
Those people are responsible for giving us the crap we are watching. Especially this bitch:
http://www.nbcuni.com/corporate/management/senior-corporate-executives/nbc-universal/bonnie-hammer/ That group of people do not represent the viewing audience. There are no scifi fans among them. And Bonnie Hammer is a marketing person. She is CLUELESS. She sees shows as products (which they are). But she is clueless as to what products will be popular with Scifi fans. This sould not be a problem if the channel was not formerly the Scifi Channel, changing to Syfy. If they had changed from Scifi Channel to say...The Fantastico Channel, the tie with it's scifi past would have been more understandable. This channel is like going to a restaurant and seeing something called Stake on the menu of a Steak House, and then being served a turkey sandwich named Stake.
These days, the majority of the audiences want instant action. Only Geeks and Nerds such as ourselves care about the backstory. Most people just want to see something explode. Once in a while it's okay to have, and I rather have that than some stupid twilight movie, but I like a balance between storyline/action and character development.
You sure about the first bolded?
From what I can see, these shows want instant DRAMA. Right from the very first episode, we see who is banging who, we see the angst, or yearning, or conflict or whatever in the first episode of the pilot. And they stay in that mode throughout.
Slightly offtopic, but could the woes surrounding MGM's poor management of finances have been a factor for them jumping off the stargate bandwagon? This is syfy that is...
That might be a good guess. I have no idea, but the timeline of their financial woes matches the cancellations. Caprica was not even given a full season. They cut the underperforming shows quickly, and SGU was part of that. Remember, the show tanked below 1m viewers no less than 7 times in season 2, falling as low as 0.814.
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Did the ratings come out for the last episode we polled?
