Hi everyone, I am back, sort of. I have found it somewhat difficult to write anything sci-fi related recently due to the fact that certain networks *Cough-SyFy-Cough* have cancelled my favourite science fiction show at the moment. (RIP SGU)(Minor Spoiler)
There is hope however, in the form of "V" (or "V" 2009). This is a show which I was excited about, then not too bothered about, then excited about again. I felt that although it had some wonderful moments, it was very inconsistent as a sci fi show.
That all seemed to change however when I saw the name 'Marc Singer' appear at the beginning of the final episode. A little bit of excitement came through me as I was suddenly transported back to the 1980's as I thought of everyones favourite resistance hero, Donovan.
This time of course, Marc Singer was not going to be running around in skin tight jeans anymore with a gun, no instead he appears to be the leader of an undergound 'real' resistance movement called "Project Aries'.
The future looks good for the new incarnation of 'V', I just hope that this will bring the show a little closer to the realm of Science Fiction and slighty more away from the regular drama that it often diguises itself as.
SGU (Stargate Universe) is in it's final few episodes, and I am sure there are many SGU haters out there that are ever grateful for that. It is however, interesting to note that these so called 'fans' of Stargate in general are now partly if not fully responsible (IMHO) for the death of the Stargate franchise in general. The producers are cleaning out their desks, there are no more TV movies planned. It's over.
This same fate happened a few years ago to another Science Fiction franchise, perhaps you have heard of it. It was called Star Trek.
Star Trek was and is one of the most enduring SciFi franchises ever, and with good reason. It was exciting, dull, experimental, crazy, soapy, epic and fun all at once. But (thankfully) shows like The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager were all somewhat immune to the plague of bloggers, youtubers, and general nastiness that web based sci fi 'fans' can generate.Star Trek: Enterprise was a superb show, which I have to admit, I did not like at first, but I gave it a chance. Sadly, the show was launched right in the middle of an explosion of unrestricted internet opinion and bad press. No longer were TV ratings and DVD sales the only measure of a shows success and survivability. ST:E suffered greatly from this swath of 'fan' criticism, which I have to say would 99% of the time be quite simply, nasty, uneducated nonsense.
SGU has suffered a similar fate.
I do hope that all the Stargate fans out there who helped kill this show will one day take another look at it and see it for what it was. An epic, dramatic, tense science fiction show with tonnes of grit and spades of entertainment.
RIP SGU.
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unfortunately, I have been busy and didn't realize that V had done their second season. ABC isn't very good with their on demand offering either.
I saw one episode on the second half of SGU but when I checked on successive tuesday evenings I didn't see it again. I need to catch up.
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