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Helix starts Jan 10th @ 10pm, my DVR is already set. Starring Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer), a bunch of people who look like SyFy movie regulars, and Jeri Ryan is in for a couple episodes. Couple more new shows: Bitten (sexy werewolves) and Opposite Worlds (reality). OW sounds interesting, a house divided by a glass wall; one side futuristic the other stuck in the past. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=111715
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Helix is awful, even by SyFy standards. It's dumb with no redeeming quality.
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Jan 14, 2014 03:27
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If wormil hates it, then I must check it out. I usually enjoy the stuff he hates.
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Jan 14, 2014 03:29
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I actually didn't mind Helix. It's got potential, but it's not there yet. Meanwhile, Bitten... that's awful.
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Jan 14, 2014 03:29
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GreenNight posted:If wormil hates it, then I must check it out. I usually enjoy the stuff he hates. Then Helix will be your favorite show of all time!  Actually I didn't hate it but was incredibly bored and spent most of the two episodes reading the forums on my phone. I'm a sucker for outbreak/mystery movies but the characters are one dimensional, the drama is conveniently planned out (CDC boss + brother who had affair with boss's wife + ex-wife who wants to be in charge + pretty lab assistant with crush on boss + mysterious military guy + Japanese scientist who is ridiculously obvious about hiding that he knows more than he's telling). Inevitably one or more of the "villains" will be a red herring, a good guy in bad guy disguise. The son will turn against the father. There will be constant tension between man & ex-wife which will cause tension with pretty lab assistant. More and more of each episode will focus on the drama while the mystery becomes a moving goal post. But yeah, I didn't totally hate it (just mostly).
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Jan 14, 2014 03:57
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e: nm
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Jan 14, 2014 04:06
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Can someone get a new thread up for Being Human? If no one is up for it, we can use this one. Season 4 premiere was tonight.
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Jan 14, 2014 06:59
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 Syfy's new Big Brother-esque reality competition series Opposite Worlds starts tomorrow. Pits two teams against each other, with the winning side getting "the future" which is luxury and the other side "the past" which is crappy caveman. Airs two shows weekly, a taped Tuesday show, and a live Wednesday show. http://www.syfy.com/oppositeworlds It's hosted by Luke Tipple, who just recently hosted the underrated Capture on CW last year. Here's their spiel: Syfy posted:Opposite Worlds is a competitive reality series, airing Tuesdays at 10/9c and Wednesdays (LIVE!) at 10/9c. In Opposite Worlds, 14 people face off on opposing teams that live in a house separated into two distinctly different worlds: one past and one future, each with its own unique advantages and disadvantages.
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Jan 21, 2014 17:52
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Being Human is still a fun show but like Haven, I'll be surprised if it gets renewed.
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Jan 21, 2014 18:02
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Not sure what kind of ratings they're happy with currently. Being Human pulled a .5. Haven was getting a .4. Helix premiere got a .6. Last Fridays Helix ratings have yet to be posted. Syfy's originals aren't doing that great, but for what they're airing currently, they're doing decently? Their non-Canadian dramatic originals are consistently in the top 100 shows. Only Face Off places that highly in their reality fare, everything else has been bombing. There's also a somewhat relevant interview here about their genre push: http://www.adweek.com/news/television/can-syfy-bring-back-sci-fi-155069 AdWeek about Bill McGoldrick posted:Bill McGoldrick, who in November was named evp, original content at Syfy in the wake of Mark Stern’s departure, said he’s been recruiting high-profile talent like Helix’s Ron Moore. “I’m definitely out there pounding on everybody’s door who has a name in the genre,” McGoldrick said. “And we’re open to people who aren’t necessarily associated with the genre but have a great idea.” You get the sense they want new content, but I'm not sure that will come at the cost of some of their existing shows yet. At least they seem happy to give their somewhat steady originals 60-70 episode runs, which Being Human and Haven would both reach with another season.
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Jan 21, 2014 18:27
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Opposite Worlds isn't too bad, although maybe part of that is because I really, really want to see the pro gamer, the "self-employed stylist", and NOO YAWK FIAHFITAH (who spends 2-3 hours a day in the bathroom shaving his entire body) stuck in the stone age. For the rest of their lives, preferably. The stone age guys seem mostly alright, just poo poo at starting a fire with flint and steel (which, admittedly, often takes a while to succeed at). Notgothic fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Jan 22, 2014 |
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I thought it was decent as well. Sucks for the guy who apparently broke his leg in the first comp.
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Teek posted:I thought it was decent as well. Sucks for the guy who apparently broke his leg in the first comp. Yeah, that's a lot of the reason I want to see the stylist guy exiled to past-land. I looked away at the wrong second, did he seriously just full-on tackle that guy (Charles, I think)? What did he think was going to happen there, I wonder. Like, if you tackle a dude then you're obviously both going over the side.
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Jan 22, 2014 05:44
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I'm a sucker for bad television, I'll admit, but the fact that I literally just watched a reality competition show where twelve adults in unitards sumo-wrestled with stun guns on a six-foot high platform? Color me intrigued, Opposite Worlds. You have my attention. 
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Jan 22, 2014 05:46
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I just got around to watching last week's Being Human and man, that show throws completely dark. Nobody can ever really be happy on that show, Aiden's wife comes back and we find out (but Aiden doesn't) that she killed their son right after she was turned into a vampire.
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Jan 27, 2014 08:43
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I'm wondering where they are going with that. "Oh hey, I'm back after hundreds of years!"
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Syfy is looking to turn the comic book DMZ into a series. Taking place an indeterminate time in the future after a second Civil War has turned America against itself. The book follows Matty Roth, an independent journalist in the titular DMZ of Manhattan. It'll be interesting to see if the show stays as political as the comic was.
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muscles like this? posted:Syfy is looking to turn the comic book DMZ into a series. Taking place an indeterminate time in the future after a second Civil War has turned America against itself. The book follows Matty Roth, an independent journalist in the titular DMZ of Manhattan. It'll be interesting to see if the show stays as political as the comic was. Man, yet another comic based series. And based on one of my favorite comics to boot!
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Being Human continues to be one of my favorite shows. I really laughed at Aiden reminiscing about the 80s when "every vampire knew karate. The stakes would go away and then it was all front kicks and sweep the leg."
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muscles like this? posted:Being Human continues to be one of my favorite shows. I really laughed at Aiden reminiscing about the 80s when "every vampire knew karate. The stakes would go away and then it was all front kicks and sweep the leg." I loved how Sally's reaction to 20's era Aidan's mustache mirrored my reaction to it a couple seasons ago. Also "The curtain"
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Feb 11, 2014 04:17
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Being Human has been canceled: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/25/being-human-canceled-after-four-seasons-by-syfy/240192/ Sucks because I'm sure it'll end on a cliffhanger.
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Feb 25, 2014 23:04
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First Warehouse 13 and now this. I'm still surprised as gently caress Haven got renewed because it seems they're cleaning house.
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Feb 25, 2014 23:05
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I only hope they gave the writers enough advance warning to cap it off properly. They've been pretty good about that with other series but it doesn't sound like that's the case here. Oh well, that show never got beyond guilty pleasure for me but it was still a pleasure.
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Feb 25, 2014 23:21
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It'd officially become my girlfriend's favorite show. She's gonna be pissed.
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Feb 26, 2014 03:54
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Yeah, that sucks. Its not the best show ever but I liked it and the cast has a great chemistry.
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Feb 26, 2014 04:04
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I just caught up on Being Human and man it's a brutal show. They poo poo on the characters at every opportunity.
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GreenNight posted:I just caught up on Being Human and man it's a brutal show. They poo poo on the characters at every opportunity. Did it end up being better than the original?
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wormil posted:Did it end up being better than the original? Yeah, definitely.
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Well, they've started advertising it as the Final Season/on the path to the series finale. Looks like the upcoming plot is Sally's time travel shenanigans keep Danny from killing her, thus causing pretty much the entire show to not happen.
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Sally deciding to just live in her past self is kind of creepy. Also being a big fool and changing all the past.
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muscles like this? posted:Sally deciding to just live in her past self is kind of creepy. Also being a big fool and changing all the past. I missed it, is she possessing her past body?
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Rhyno posted:I missed it, is she possessing her past body? Yeah, that's how she kept Danny from killing her. She possessed her body and just beat the poo poo out of him. Edit: Crap, I just realized something bad about this timeline, Bishop is still alive.
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I'm not sure what the show runners have said but it really feels like they got the news about the series ending halfway through the season. Mostly because if they continue with the story started last night they've completely blown up everyone else's storylines. So no conclusion to the Josh stuff, nothing for Aiden and the Lil Smokie thing is dropped too even though it seemed like it was building towards something what with her killing Robbie.
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Mar 4, 2014 13:57
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muscles like this? posted:Yeah, that's how she kept Danny from killing her. She possessed her body and just beat the poo poo out of him. I think its safe to say, based on last night, that Sally dying will drive Aiden back into Bishops arms, and that can only end terribly as his wife comes back and murders them all
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Mar 5, 2014 05:01
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Syfy has ordered a six hour mini-series called Ascension: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/13/syfy-orders-six-hour-event-series-ascension/ Description makes it sounds interesting.
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quote:...a covert space mission launched by the U.S. government in 1963, which sent hundreds of men, women, and children on a century-long voyage aboard a starship called Ascension to populate a new world 1963, during the Mercury program, seems like an odd choice. The amount of retconning necessary to make that seem plausible fills me with doubt. Might as well have made it 1953 using a spaceship recovered from the Nazis. It could exist in the same universe as Iron Sky 
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Mar 14, 2014 17:58
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How many episodes of Being Human are left?
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Mar 14, 2014 18:00
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haveblue posted:How many episodes of Being Human are left? 4
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Warehouse 13 comes back soon and that's over too. It's why I was surprised they renewed Haven, seems like that whole period of shows is on the chopping block.
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Teek posted:Syfy has ordered a six hour mini-series called Ascension: I'm fully down with this. Now here's hoping it actually happens. How many new shows was Syfy looking at this time last year, none of which happened?
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