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- TheBlueOne0
From the CNN article: ""The last thing we want to do is alienate our core audience," he added. With the new name, shows such as "Galactica" can be exposed to a wider audience, one not scared away by all that "Sci Fi" connotes ("space and aliens and the future," in Howe's words)."
Look I just don't get it. Like I said a solid chunk of the best selling movies in history are science fiction - you know with space and aliens and the future and stuff. Some of the best and /or most marketed TV shows in recent years have been scifi - Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes. SciFi has produced some of the most consistently taught literature in schools (1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Hobbit). I mean what "wider audience" do you want without somehow so dumbing down or being disingenious to your core content programing. Who else do you think you can appeal to? Chick flick movie fans? (Yeah, see where those numbers stack up on the best selling movies of all time. Go ahead, I'll wait.) No one is "scarred away" by science fiction except the people who will never watch the "Science Fiction " channel in the first place even if you call it "SyFy". My mother doesn't get science fiction, never will. "I don't understand why you have to watch green people." Changing the name of the channel to "SyFy" is NOT going to attract those types of people ever. Just like Oxygen will never, ever attract cage fighting fans.
- scaredversion3
- Yes, thank you. Scared. No one is scared away.TheBlueOne
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- brandelec0
- Advertising has killed Science Fiction...ideaist
- First they killed film... then television... then the internet... what's next???ideaist
- You got your girly emo shit all over my science fiction. And what the fuck does "Imagine Greater" mean? Fucking horrible.TheBlueOne
- wordsmithing has no place in science fiction / sci fi / sy fy... ; )ideaist
- i think they have fantasy mixed up with science fiction... which is a gross misstep...ideaist
- ideaist0
Science fiction differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".[2] Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and rationally about alternate possibilities[3] in settings that are contrary to known reality.
These may include:
A setting in the future, in alternative time lines, or in a historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archeological record
A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens[4]
Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature[5]
Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots, or of new and different political or social systems (e.g., a dystopia, or a situation where organized society has collapsed)[6]- Once again "the man" has forgotten to read wikipedia...ideaist
- So this puts Star Trek and Star Wars firmly in the fantasy camp.TheBlueOne
- "A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens[4]" science fiction / sci fi / sy fyideaist