Of course we forgot to set the DVR, so we missed the first one. And now the turd sandwiches at Syfy, in their infinite wisdom, aren't playing it again, only streaming it on their site. Yay, everyone, let's gather 'round the 15-inch screen of an old laptop and watch a stuttering, laggy version of a great show that was given no chance in this age of if it isn't an immediate hit you better axe it, even though now more than ever there are too many shows to choose from and it takes time for most to grow an audience. I envision the last four episodes of Caprica taking up space on the DVR for weeks until we both finally watch "Blowback" separately online.
The Syfy people really are starting to disgust me. Before it was just a mild annoyance that they had hardly anything original to watch, but now it's more like an intense hatred. And I don't include their original movies; let's just pretend that those don't exist. There have been quite a few series that I love, but it seems like every time they come up with a new show they get soon rid of an older one...or two.
Obviously I don't know their situation, what they can acquire to air and such, but it's like they actively try to be awful. They were supposed to be all about science fiction (and a bit of fantasy laced with scifi), at least I assumed so by reading and what I thought was comprehending their name. I only remember some repeats of Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG (which I think is still currently playing), and a marathon of select episodes of Quantum Leap a few years ago. I don't recall any movies besides the various Star Treks, though I think there were a few commercials. I think they might have shown Starship Troopers. Up next is Star Trek Nemesis and - oh, you've got to be kidding me - another original movie, Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.
Hey, if I'm lucky, maybe it's just a terrible nightmare where this kind of ten miles below the bottom of the barrel stuff is acceptable, Ghost Hunters isn't a serialized dramedy, and wrestling is considered scifi. Someone please, please wake me up!
Here is "Blowback," the first of the final five episodes.
If the video no longer works you should be able to find the episodes at Sidereel.
Of course, I'm four days late to the party since I'm not always scavenging the Internet for dirt on all my favorite shows. There's just no time. But that's what they should have given to SGU. No, I did not really like the show in the beginning, but I kept watching because it was tense, the acting was there, and I liked Eli. Since then it has definitely grown on me and now the characters whose personalities I hated in the beginning I now look forward to, because I know their motivations and back stories. Most of them are well-written, not cardboard cutouts. It shows how people would actually act in a survival situation: yes, at times selfishly.
I can't stand the Syfy brand. They should have renamed it years ago if it was so important to them. I really think they're trying to alienate every last one of their remaining viewers. New shows are given no support and are expected to soar, and when they don't they get axed. There never seems to be any bother to try to fix the problem, either with some actual advertising or maybe budget cuts or a new direction if a storyline is what's turning viewers away. They just seem to be making way for "reality" and wrestling. That's why they renamed the channel, so they could drop the pretense of being about science fiction. For years I've been waiting to see reruns of old scifi shows and movies, but those are very few and far between. Mostly we get Ice Spiders, Harpies (which actually made my jaw drop), and a myriad of other spectacularly terrible original movies.
I'm sick of this. I'm just about done with the channel. All that's left now, with the cancellation of Caprica, too (another show with great promise that was struggling to find its legs) are Haven; Sanctuary; and Eureka and Warehouse 13, which only have 10 to 12 episodes a year. I love all those shows, but I know they'll all be canceled before their time and usually on a cliffhanger.
How do you run a TV channel like that? All they do is slash programming. I don't see how they can survive with only a couple new episodes of original must-see programming on per week during any given half season. If they come up with more new concepts people won't flock to them in the droves Syfy's hoping for either, because their marketing division obviously has no idea what they're doing, and everyone knows they'll just be gone in a year or two.
Until the series ends, I'll always be behind adding to this playlist. I had to stop for quite a while, so there's a big gap. Still, there are 170 songs to enjoy.
This is the essence of The Blacklist. Probably my favorite is Disturbed's cover of "Sound of Silence." The scene it played over was one of the most devastating ever in the series.
taking up space on the DVR for weeks until we both finally watch "Blowback" separately online.
