Good grief. I'm not fooled by Halliburton -> Xe or by Philip Morris -> Altria; I'm certainly not going to be fooled by SciFi -> SyFy.
Just leaving aside how very much I hate the assumption that I, an actual female-type person, can't possibly enjoy science fiction, I loathe companies that hate on their own natural customer bases. "Oh, no, geeks! Who naturally all live in their mothers' basements because they can't handle social interaction! We hate them!" If you assume that's the only audience you can draw by showing science fiction, and you hate that audience, then don't show science fiction at all! It's simple! If you want me the college sorority chick to watch, and you think she won't watch a drama if it's about killer robots in outer space or a lighter drama about an everyman if it's about how he's stuck in a town of quirky science geniuses or fluff if it's about hot explorers in outer space or an all-ages show if it's about aliens in time machines ... then, y'know, don't buy up the rights to them.
I imagine greater, all right. I imagine greater incoherency as they mangle their shows even further to wedge in yet more monster-movie-of-the-week ads. I imagine greater obscuring of the first 20 seconds back from any commercial break as their screen bugs take over the entire screen instead of just the entire bottom half. I imagine greater network interference in shows because dictating things like character hairstyles just isn't damaging enough. I imagine greater abandonment of shows I might be interested in because they're showing more of their poorly made movies or reality garbage or wrestling. I imagine greater time away from my television, actually, so that works for me ....
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Just leaving aside how very much I hate the assumption that I, an actual female-type person, can't possibly enjoy science fiction, I loathe companies that hate on their own natural customer bases. "Oh, no, geeks! Who naturally all live in their mothers' basements because they can't handle social interaction! We hate them!" If you assume that's the only audience you can draw by showing science fiction, and you hate that audience, then don't show science fiction at all! It's simple! If you want
methe college sorority chick to watch, and you think she won't watch a drama if it's about killer robots in outer space or a lighter drama about an everyman if it's about how he's stuck in a town of quirky science geniuses or fluff if it's about hot explorers in outer space or an all-ages show if it's about aliens in time machines ... then, y'know, don't buy up the rights to them.I imagine greater, all right. I imagine greater incoherency as they mangle their shows even further to wedge in yet more monster-movie-of-the-week ads. I imagine greater obscuring of the first 20 seconds back from any commercial break as their screen bugs take over the entire screen instead of just the entire bottom half. I imagine greater network interference in shows because dictating things like character hairstyles just isn't damaging enough. I imagine greater abandonment of shows I might be interested in because they're showing more of their poorly made movies or reality garbage or wrestling. I imagine greater time away from my television, actually, so that works for me ....
[/rant] Heh. Sorry about that.