Why is it that great sci-fi shows such as
Firefly, Space: Above & Beyond, Farscape and Dark Angel are cancelled while utter fucking turds like Enterprise, Stargate: Atlantis and Andromeda were allowed multiple seasons of total shite to clog up the airwaves?
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:26, 41 replies)

You forgot Voyager

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:33, closed)

Everyone does

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:36, closed)

I consider Enterprise to be the bigger abortion
and I didn't want to be seen to be picking on the Trekkies/ers/whatever the fuck they call themselves.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:43, closed)

Trekbars

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:52, closed)

I gave up on Enterprise
But I have a friend who claims it was just getting really good when it was cancelled, which kinda proves your point
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:41, closed)

Voyager was better than DS9, in my opinion.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 13:29, closed)

You're wrong
That is all
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:20, closed)

Because people are idiots,
and the media caters to its audience.
Not to mention that Farscape and Dark Angel weren't any good. Now Mantis, that was a quality show...
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 12:53, closed)

Has anyone else noticed that Farscape is basically Blake's 7 with a decent FX budget?

A rag-tag bunch of outlaws, whose motives and loyalties are not always clear, united only by their opposition to a monolithic, tyrannical empire. A ship that's considered to be part of the crew. A violent second-in-command who's held in check by the captain. A gentle giant. Hell, we even have a psionic brunette and a gun-toting blonde!

About the only difference is that, in firefly, the big-titted short-haired woman who the captain fancies is part of the crew, rather than runing the empire...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 13:33, closed)

They're remaking Blakes 7 now.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:27, closed)

Hahahaha, no girlfriend.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:02, closed)

Hahahahaha
unattractive wife you found on the internet
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:21, closed)

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:46, closed)

That's not even in his top ten favourite alarms.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:55, closed)

Oh noes you have vaguely insulted me by suggesting a model I took some pictures of once doesn't adhere to your standards of beauty
Perhaps I should scour a "comedy" messageboard for an emotionally scarred, mentally unstable, dog-rough swamp donkey to marry instead
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:05, closed)

You've definitely not taken it to heart though.
Honestly, what would your dad say if he saw you behaving like this?
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:50, closed)

He'd probably think I was being unfair for trading insults with the mentally disabled

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 16:46, closed)

Oh you,
Such the funny.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:23, closed)

The word 'great' and the words 'sci-fi shows' have no business being in the same sentence as each other.
With this exception:

'People who like sci-fi shows are great big sweaty internet virgins with skin disorders, who sit in their pants all day eating Wotsits'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:31, closed)

BABYLON FIVE'S A BIG PILE OF SHIT

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:33, closed)

I like how annoyed people get when I say I didn't watch Spaced.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:55, closed)

Neither have I.

(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 16:21, closed)

OI!
That's a half-truth.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:36, closed)

OK, OK.... Quavers.

Happy now?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:37, closed)

I DO NOT HAVE A SKIN DISORDER

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 20:57, closed)

Sci fi is fucking shit.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:36, closed)

No, only 90% of Sci Fi is fucking shit.
But then, 90% of everything is fucking shit.

(With apologies to Theodore Sturgeon.)
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:57, closed)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e4waJ22hDU
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 14:38, closed)

There are no sci-fi shows.
They're all shit fantasy.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:33, closed)

Star Cops
Was "proper" hard SF. And lived up to the subject of the original question by being cancelled 2/3 of the way through its first series.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:56, closed)

I shall look for that.
Thanks, I get sick of the fantasy crap that passes for sci-fi.
More Harry Harrison, less Gene Rodenberry I say!
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:59, closed)

Give Odyssey 5 a shot whilst you're at it.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 16:05, closed)

"proper" hard SF?
Have a fucking word with yourself
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 23:19, closed)

Subjectivity.
That's a good word. I like that word. Thanks for suggesting I have a word, it was very satisfying.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Tue 4 Jun 2013, 21:56, closed)

caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 23:16, closed)

Gimme Gimme Fried Chicken!

(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 4 Jun 2013, 2:27, closed)

you must be some sort of homo nerd

( The Doveston haunted by the memory of his own amnesia, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:37, closed)

some of us still miss Lexx

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 15:42, closed)

Arse.
That was the show I was trying to remember but ended up going with Dark Angel instead.
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Mon 3 Jun 2013, 16:22, closed)

Ahh, Lexx -
The thinking man's Cleopatra 2525.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 3 Jun 2013, 20:51, closed)

tbh
i only watched it for kai and 790
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 5 Jun 2013, 14:11, closed)