5 years and still going

[Kitsune]

Dude, that's a feature.

[Xerapis]

But really,  you should hope that feature kicks in before you begin account creation.  Genital-seeking shrapnel would be less painful.

[Lantyssa]

It'll at least give you something to do while you wait on patching in any event.

[Ironwood]

The real kicker is that they're not telling you the dvd will explode in your dvd drive and the shrapnel will seek your genitals.

Hehhe.

My day was shit until I read that.

[raydeen]

And now, a brief musical interlude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpMAubwfQg

And now back to the show.

[Merusk]

And now, a brief musical interlude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpMAubwfQg

And now back to the show.

"We've still got "Crusade" so we ain't too sorry..."

That song was written by someone never actually watched an episode of Crusade.

[HaemishM]

And now, a brief musical interlude.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpMAubwfQg

And now back to the show.

Le awesome.

And I liked Crusade, mostly because I just dug Galen's character. It had potential.

[raydeen]

I must confess, I never saw much of Crusade. Something got in the way either time-wise or programming wise (I don't remember). It'll be one I catch on DVD. I've seen most if not all of the movies though. B5 remains the pinnacle of sci-fi with BSG sneaking up from the rear. Actually Doctor Who is the tops but for a closed, finite storyline/series, B5 takes it.

[Merusk]

If only the DVDs weren't so damned expensive.

And Crusade...  c'mon.. you fire the guns by punching and kicking? Wtf?


Ed:  Hrm.. Amazon.com has a full run set for $220us. The price dropped, whee.  I remember they were $60 or $70 a season before.

[HaemishM]

If only the DVDs weren't so damned expensive.

And Crusade...  c'mon.. you fire the guns by punching and kicking? Wtf?

That wasn't Crusade. That was the one-off movie Sci-Fi Channel did called Legend of the Rangers. It was supposed to be a pilot for a new series, but the ratings weren't good enough for Sci-Fi. Crusade had Gary Cole as the Captain, a cameo by Capt. Lochley and Dr. Franklin, had Galen the technomage and a few other characters. Crusade had some groan moments (like first season B5) but was overall decent.

[Merusk]

Really? Crap my mistake then.  Guess I never saw Crusade, as I don't recall what you're describing at all.

Also, any Rangers story with Franklin that didn't have Marcus could never beat this

[HaemishM]

Yeah, Marcus was the shit.

Crusade was a series that TNT ran which spun off from A Call to Arms, about the crew of the Excalibur trying to find a cure to the Drakh plague. It only ran 13 episodes before TNT shitcanned it for more wrestling.

[CmdrSlack]

Did anyone watch the pilot for that Flash Gordon show?

It was pretty meh for the most part.

[Signe]

It came on after Dr. Who so I watched.  It was very forgettable.  Seriously.  I don't even remember the plot.

[Roac]

The last few of these tacked-on sci-fi shows have had at least decent acting.  I liked the main two characters in Dresden Files, for example, even though the stories themselves were bad.  I like Jane in Painkiller Jane.  But Flash Gordon?  Wow, bad.  The acting was terrible, to the point that I can recall high school performances that were better.  Commercials from local dealerships are bett... well, ok, that's a close contest.  The story was bad.  The theme music was bad.  The alien robot was an insult to watch. 

[schild]

I found Jane (and all of Painkiller Jane), not only to be some of the worst acting I'd ever seen, but also the worst storytelling. The whole fucking thing was a wreck. I'm pissed I wached as much as I did.

[Signe]

I was able to enjoy Dresden Files mostly because of the same reasons as Roac.  I didn't like Painkiller Jane a bit, though, and turned it off during the first episode and never watched again. 

[LK]

I can't watch anything Sci-Fi now.  Their shows all have a style to them that isn't like, say, Farscape-quality.

[Morat20]

I can't believe they killed the Dresden Files and not Painkiller Jane. (Although the Dresden numbers apparently tracked too female for Sci-Fi's tastes -- they sell access to the prime male market, not the female).

Eureka's not half bad, and I watch that regularly. I'm hoping their Tin Man miniseries doesn't suck, but I'm sure it will. Otherwise -- Sci-Fi's programming choices looks like it was done by retarded monkeys.

The truth is a little more prosaic -- what they WANT are low-budget shit that attracts 13 to 39 year old men, like wrestling and their series of low budget "Insert Animal Here" movies about killer Whatever the Hell Animal They Chose.

However, that would just make them a crappier version of TNT (or Spike or whatever they call themselves these days), so they try for high-quality Sci Fi programming -- and realized that could get them a lot of new eyeballs and seperate them from Spike. The high-quality stuff had sticky fans, good word of mouth, got glowing reviews --- which means more and new eyeballs for their channel.

But that costs money.

I think ultimately they view stuff like BSG as a four-year, very expensive commercial designed to get people to watch Wrestling on Sci-Fi. And they're pissy that they keep having to do that shit. So they run Farscape just a year, then piss off the fans. They cancel SG-1, after fucking with it for years to try to get more young male viewers. They're probably thrilled as shit BSG is ending, someone else pays for shooting Doctor Who (they just pay to air it)....

[sam, an eggplant]

I also liked Dresden.

Painkiller jane was canceled too, and rightfully so. Watching the terminatrix try to act was not entirely unlike getting a colonoscopy without fasting, anesthesia, or lube. And c'mon, "Andre McBride"? Fuck you for not even trying, Sci-fi.

If there's any justice Flash Gordon will be canceled also. Actually, if there's any justice, not only will Flash be cancelled, but whoever greenlit that piece of dogshit will be tarred, feathered, drawn, quartered, buried at a crossroads, and the earth strewn with salt so nothing will grow for thousands of years.

Wait, why is this in the MMO forum again?

[Signe]

If this thread had not been derailed, it wouldn't have lasted these five years.

[Margalis]

SG-1 really sucked, I never understood how anyone could like it.

[Oban]

SG-1 really sucked, I never understood how anyone could like it.

[voodoolily]

Hey you leave McGuyver out of this!

[Nerf]

Flash Gordon might have legs, although only if they start playing the queen intro on the fucking opening sequence.  I've watched all the episodes so far, it's not epic, and needs more naked wimmenz.  What is going to kill that show is the lack of Queen in the opening credits, every time it's on, for the first 15 minutes all I can think is "why the fuck aren't you stupid bastard playing some Queen for the opening credits, fucking morons.", the other 45 minutes are bearable.

Note:  I just moved, and am bored out of my fucking skull waiting to hear back from various interviews, that could have somthing to do with me being able to watch horrible things.

Note2: Drunk. Superbad rocks.  Theatre that servers alchohol rocks harder.

[tkinnun0]

"why the fuck aren't you stupid bastard playing some Queen for the opening credits, fucking morons.", the other 45 minutes are bearable.

That's why I stopped watching Star Trek: Enterprise; the bastards went and changed the theme song.

[Morat20]

SG-1 really sucked, I never understood how anyone could like it.

I believe the Richard Dean Anderson picture explained it all.

Although, frankly, two episodes in the first two seaons made it for me -- 1969 and Window of Oppurtunity. Mostly the latter, which was a Groundhog-Day style thing that was really good.

One fun thing I learned from browsing commentaries on the DVDs is that Richard Dean Anderson absolutely MUST have a prop to play with -- his character was locked in a cell and he took off his own shoe to play with it. And apparently he has a habit of ad-libbing stuff that's good enough to keep, despite adding money to the budget (touching the water-effect Stargate thing, forcing FX work rather than stock shots -- which was much more pricey in 97 than now, that sort of thing).

[voodoolily]

Note:  I just moved, and am bored out of my fucking skull waiting to hear back from various interviews, that could have somthing to do with me being able to watch horrible things.

Here you go!

[Megrim]

Note:  I just moved, and am bored out of my fucking skull waiting to hear back from various interviews, that could have somthing to do with me being able to watch horrible things.

Here you go!

bahahaha, what the hell kind of spider causes that?

[Xerapis]

That's why I stopped watching Star Trek: Enterprise; the bastards went and changed the theme song.

Wow, here I was worried I was the only one who had a seemingly irrational hatred of lyrics in Star Trek theme songs.

I feel so much better now.

[Slayerik]

Note:  I just moved, and am bored out of my fucking skull waiting to hear back from various interviews, that could have somthing to do with me being able to watch horrible things.

Here you go!

I had a zit like that once. True story.

[Nerf]

Note:  I just moved, and am bored out of my fucking skull waiting to hear back from various interviews, that could have something to do with me being able to watch horrible things.

Here you go!

Jesus fucking Christ, what would possess someone to try to drain the massive cyst on the side of their face at home, in the bathroom?
Along those lines, why would you have a link to that handy?  This is why I don't like people, and wish every day that I would've gone into programming instead of sales.

[Furiously]

That was disgusting.

[Rishathra]

That's why I stopped watching Star Trek: Enterprise; the bastards went and changed the theme song.

Wow, here I was worried I was the only one who had a seemingly irrational hatred of lyrics in Star Trek theme songs.

I feel so much better now.

Wait, I thought tkinnun0 was referring to the way they changed the song starting at the third season.  I actually really liked the song, and thought it went well with the theme of the series - at least, the theme I thought they were going for, not the one they actually did.  When the tempo was changed in the third season, it sounded like ass though.  I never understood why they did that.

[WindupAtheist]

I started watching Enterprise, and I saw the intro, and I thought...  This is great.  It's different.  This isn't more pompous crappy TV-level orchestral crap, it's an actual song.  Oh and look at the Wright Brothers, and the Space Shuttle.  This is going to be awesome.  It's going to be a show about people like... trekking among the stars, not a bunch of masturbation to the Star Trek Mythos(tm).

Then I watched the show and it sucked, so I quit.  Later I heard about the Borg and some Space Nazi shit and was glad I got out early.