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pride_of_erin) wrote2008-08-23 02:34 pm
pride_of_erin) wrote2008-08-23 02:34 pm
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Oh, I'll totally be tuning in to Stargate: Voyager 90210 - NOT
Being the naturally lazy person that I am, few things get me pissy enough to whine about it outside of this journal. But the latest news on the Stargate front bugged me enough to comment at GateWorld. And I like I said, I'm lazy, so I'll just express my feelings to my f-list by sharing the same rant I posted over there:
So, they're going to take everything that made Stargate fairly original among the sci-fi genre - the fact that it's NOT based in space, and using the GATE to travel to other worlds rather than a ship - toss it out the window, and become a hackneyed rip-off of a formula that's already been done to death? In a painfully transparent, pathetic and inevitably futile attempt to boost already reasonable ratings? Great plan there, guys. Really. Just awesome.
Am I the only one wondering just where the hell the STARGATE will fit into a supposedly Stargate show set on board a SPACESHIP? Or has the poor old gate gone the same way as we loyal fans? Suddenly out-dated and irrelevant?
And by the way, having a younger cast will not bring in a younger audience - the franchise as it was already brought in plenty of young people, because they loved the sci-fi genre. Young people who don't like sci-fi aren't going to suddenly tune in because it has a younger cast. Sci-fi shows will NEVER have the spectacular ratings of other TV show genres, because unfortunately, that is the nature of the sci-fi genre - it DOESN'T appeal to everyone. Trying to change this unchangeable fact is nothing but a kick in the face to those fans who HAVE been loyal and supportive enough to pump god-only-knows how much money into this franchise. And all in pursuit of the ficklest of audience demographics.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. You morons.
I know it will make absolutely no difference, but dammit, sometimes you just need to vent.
So, they're going to take everything that made Stargate fairly original among the sci-fi genre - the fact that it's NOT based in space, and using the GATE to travel to other worlds rather than a ship - toss it out the window, and become a hackneyed rip-off of a formula that's already been done to death? In a painfully transparent, pathetic and inevitably futile attempt to boost already reasonable ratings? Great plan there, guys. Really. Just awesome.
Am I the only one wondering just where the hell the STARGATE will fit into a supposedly Stargate show set on board a SPACESHIP? Or has the poor old gate gone the same way as we loyal fans? Suddenly out-dated and irrelevant?
And by the way, having a younger cast will not bring in a younger audience - the franchise as it was already brought in plenty of young people, because they loved the sci-fi genre. Young people who don't like sci-fi aren't going to suddenly tune in because it has a younger cast. Sci-fi shows will NEVER have the spectacular ratings of other TV show genres, because unfortunately, that is the nature of the sci-fi genre - it DOESN'T appeal to everyone. Trying to change this unchangeable fact is nothing but a kick in the face to those fans who HAVE been loyal and supportive enough to pump god-only-knows how much money into this franchise. And all in pursuit of the ficklest of audience demographics.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. You morons.
I know it will make absolutely no difference, but dammit, sometimes you just need to vent.