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new series of Red Dwarf in Autumn! what more could you want 
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Prometheus?
i agree it seems to be dying on TV though, which is a shame. in films it seems to be doing well!
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BRING BACK FIREFLY. That is all.
+1 or at least make another movie. i wanted to know more about the Shepard bloke....
loved that series.
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niche?
*cough* Star wars *cough*
i think its just too expensive compared to other crappy TV ideas. i blame the morons who watch soaps!
Afraid I can't get many more links for it while I'm at work, but have been anticipating this one for a while
www.trionworlds.com/en/games/defiance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trion_Worlds#Defiance
www.trionworlds.com/en/games/defiance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trion_Worlds#Defiance
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BRING BACK FIREFLY. That is all.
This.
I still hate Fox to this day for their failure to advertise this amazing series which lead to it's untimely death
The only time I used to see sci fi on tv was when they showed star trek on one of the BBC channels, simply it not being on the BBC anymore would indicate its fallen out of favour with the general public.
I did enjoy the BSG remake briefly until I got bored with it, it was a very different breed of sci fi to trek and more like watching a soap opera set in space.
I don't think the style of sci fi you get in star trek is at all popular anymore and sci fi you get now is more about being a serious drama rather than a fx extravaganza. If you do get shows with lots of fx they're usually aimed at family audiences.
I miss the sci fi of old.
I did enjoy the BSG remake briefly until I got bored with it, it was a very different breed of sci fi to trek and more like watching a soap opera set in space.
I don't think the style of sci fi you get in star trek is at all popular anymore and sci fi you get now is more about being a serious drama rather than a fx extravaganza. If you do get shows with lots of fx they're usually aimed at family audiences.
I miss the sci fi of old.
Except that Prometheus opens in cinemas in approximately 90 days?
Biggest sci-fi movie since the likes of Contact and Matrix.
And the cycle continues - everyone gets bored of a particular genre, and then Ridley Scott makes a film within that genre that spawns a resurgence in interest.
Having just watched all 14 episodes plus Serenity... I agree with this guy!!
Yea, I watched it on Netflix the other week. I was actually sad when I realised there would be no more episodes
I so hope this is what happens.
Good sci-fi is an creative art form. You can't just roll them off a production line like other genres of movie.
Prometheus isn't an entirely original plot BTW, it is quite similar when you think about it to Stargate (1994).
Prometheus isn't an entirely original plot BTW, it is quite similar when you think about it to Stargate (1994).
niche?
*cough* Star wars *cough*
i think its just too expensive compared to other crappy TV ideas. i blame the morons who watch soaps!
Star Wars is still a very niche franchise in the grand scheme of things. Allot of it's popularity and exposure comes from very nerdy outlets, novels, comics, videogames etc.
Sci Fi has turned into 'Sci Fi lite' in the last few years. The networks don't want to appeal to the people who know their phasers from their proton torpedoes. They want to appeal to the casual crowd that aren't traditional sci fi fans (the morons who watch soaps as you so elequently put it), the ones that probably assume the genre is to complicated to enjoy and every episode of a show will be full of technobabble that they won't be able to follow (like Star Trek). It's all about viewing figures and the traditional fans are outnumbered in the viewing figures department.
This is why you get shows like Lost, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Alcatraz etc. They add just enough sci fi or fantasy elements to entice traditional fans but have enough drama and focus on the characters (as if you were watching a soap) to entice the casual market.
It's all about shows that people can pick up easily without having to watch hours of previous episodes to understand what's going on and allot of shows do that.
new series of Red Dwarf in Autumn! what more could you want
To of let this show die after season 6.
Ever since, the newer ones have been like small little stabs in the gut of the show. It's like watching someone feed a full fat kid doughnuts as tears stream down his cheeks.
"I DONT WANT ANYMORE... PLEASE..." ;_;
As for sci-fi, seems to of been killed off by "edgy" drama/detective shows like for example CSI, 24 or House.
These type of shows appear to the be where the money is going/gone in the past few years and Sci-fi has been slashed from networks.
They should make The Matrix tv series, based on the first film for most of it, with it possible starting when the AI start to revolt, maybe the first man to ever realise they're in the Matrix, then as he slowly releases people and they never visit Zion, I would watch that.
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Did you think i meant the Photon Torpedo form Star Trek or something?
I always liked the universe the Matrix is set in. They had a good go at fleshing it out with the Animatrix, the potential is definitely there to create something good.
Yeah I envision an irobot style start, then it kicking off, and a terminator style war, followed by back to the 20th century style fight against the agents.
It has so much potential that its possibly would never live up to it, unless hbo made it.
It has so much potential that its possibly would never live up to it, unless hbo made it.
Star Trek had "photon" torpedoes, Star Wars had "proton" torpedoes.