So, to celebrate this upcoming movie, I offer for you a movie poster and the trailer for your viewing pleasure. I'm not entirely jazzed that it's in 3D, as most movies I've seen that way have been more 'miss' than 'hit' in recent years, but hopefully it won't suck. Not that it would probably matter to me anyway. The chances that I'll see this one in the theater (reads: before it comes out on Netflix) are pretty slim. But anyway... on to the eye candy:
* Scifi Fridays: before the Syfy channel changed its name, there was a period of a few years where you could watch a trilogy of "original" programming every Friday evening: Stargate, Stargate:Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. Probably three of the best series produced by the Scifi/Syfy channel... before or since. There were various tag along shows that were featured with the trilogy (most of which switched off to a different night, or died altogether), including Eureka, Dresden Files and others, but the staple three were the reason geeks everywhere tuned in.
Why did it change? Well, we can only speculate as to why poor decisions are made by stupid people, but [RANT ON] the moron President of both USA and Scifi (yeah, she was in charge of both at the same time) discovered that the USA network was losing its market share for that time slot -- losing its share, most likely, to the superior Scifi programming. But since USA was/is considered a more mainstream network, shows like the more (arguably) mediocre Monk were having a hard time competing with the superior Scifi offerings, there was an assumption that the Scifi channel was essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul (i.e. the USA and Scifi audiences were largely the same people), and USA had the bigger advertising dollars, something had to give. And geekdom suffered.
The result: the Scifi programs that were the anchor of Scifi Friday eventually petered out once they were spread out over the week -- hence giving people that would have only watched one or two of the programs no reason to sit through the extra two hours of commercials. Thus, three great programs died, and the inferior (arguably) Monk got to limp along for more seasons than it deserved.
Thank you television executives for proving, once again, that just because you've got your head so far up your butts that you can see daylight does not mean that you're in the clear. Your head is still in your butt. And no the smell will not go away until you remove it.
Oh, but yeah, that's all speculation...
[RANT OFF].
Why did it change? Well, we can only speculate as to why poor decisions are made by stupid people, but [RANT ON] the moron President of both USA and Scifi (yeah, she was in charge of both at the same time) discovered that the USA network was losing its market share for that time slot -- losing its share, most likely, to the superior Scifi programming. But since USA was/is considered a more mainstream network, shows like the more (arguably) mediocre Monk were having a hard time competing with the superior Scifi offerings, there was an assumption that the Scifi channel was essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul (i.e. the USA and Scifi audiences were largely the same people), and USA had the bigger advertising dollars, something had to give. And geekdom suffered.
The result: the Scifi programs that were the anchor of Scifi Friday eventually petered out once they were spread out over the week -- hence giving people that would have only watched one or two of the programs no reason to sit through the extra two hours of commercials. Thus, three great programs died, and the inferior (arguably) Monk got to limp along for more seasons than it deserved.
Thank you television executives for proving, once again, that just because you've got your head so far up your butts that you can see daylight does not mean that you're in the clear. Your head is still in your butt. And no the smell will not go away until you remove it.
Oh, but yeah, that's all speculation...
[RANT OFF].
