Sci-fi Sunday; Where has all the Sci-fi gone?
February 10, 2013 4 Comments
I’ve been a scifi fan all my life (as have many fans) and I’ve seen over the years how movie and television have accepted it. Or have they? Movies, definitely. Apart from books, movies are the next popular medium for scifi, but television has yet to fully grasp or understand it. I hear some of you saying “What about Star Trek series? Or Battlestar Galactica (remake), or one of the other scifi shows? Okay, yes, to some extent, but when was the last time you saw a new scifi series that was picked up after the initial first thirteen episodes? They are few and far between, my friend.
I’m not the only one who’s noticed this either. Check out this list:
http://allgeek2me.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/10-science-fiction-shows-with-under-80-episodes/
I watched a lot of these shows and it was heartbreaking to see them cancelled. This article I found answers a lot of those nagging questions as to why.
http://www.scifiheaven.net/2012/03/why-the-decline/
Now with more people streaming shows online I have a feeling we will see fewer and fewer scifi shows on television. Right now, if I want to see a good science fiction show, I have to watch SPACE, but even then, they just replay the golden oldies. I have yet to see any of the cancelled shows on this station. Maybe we should start a petition.
What do you think? What were the scifi shows you liked to watch?
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Darke Conteur 
I really loved Babylon 5, but I didn’t try Firefly until after the movie came out.
The programming execs flubbed up big time with Firefly. It takes not only vision to create a good SF series, but vision on how to market it too.
Kind of like books. 🙂
Agreed. I loved Jericho. The idea, the execution, everything about it. It had great numbers too. To this day I still don’t know why it was cancelled.
We almost hate to start watching a new show, because we know they’ll yank it out from under us. I never knew about Firefly until after the movie was made, but we’ve bought the entire series. I mourn that show.
You are so right. We really need a few new GOOD sci fi shows that don’t get cancelled.
Showcase had a new sci-fi show start in September, but it’s not really sci-fi. I’m going to complain about that in a future blog post.