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Metropolis posted:
That's why the ratings haven't tanked.
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Well, this is being sent to die :quote:Syfy's announced that all six episodes of its alt-history space show Ascension will air in three days. Its release date has also moved from November to December 15, 2014. With two episodes airing every day, the miniseries will be gone by December 17 http://io9.com/this-bodes-ill-syfys-announced-that-all-six-episodes-o-1646028405
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Oct 14, 2014 13:56
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GreenNight posted:Well, this is being sent to die : What even is the point of doing this?
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Oct 14, 2014 14:00
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Regy Rusty posted:What even is the point of doing this? I could there being a larger order coming out of it. BSG did it the same way with the premiere over two nights if I remember correctly.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:02
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Edit: I'm dumb. I thought they were just burying it like Blood and Chrome or the last half of Caprica. But maybe they're... not burying it?
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Oct 14, 2014 14:03
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Party Plane Jones posted:I could there being a larger order coming out of it. BSG did it the same way with the premiere over two nights if I remember correctly. BSG was a 2 part miniseries.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:04
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DirtyRobot posted:or will, at the very least, take a chance on something that isn't wrestling for the first time in basically a decade You haven't been watching Syfy much have you? They have tons of genre appropriate programming. Syfy is better recently than it has been in the past 10 years.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:05
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bull3964 posted:You haven't been watching Syfy much have you? They have tons of genre appropriate programming. I basically retracted that post, but my point was that they did seem to be turning it around and had been making good decisions both with recent new shows and other ones in the works, until I thought they were randomly burying this.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:08
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SciFi was the best when it ran 7 hours of Stargate every day
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Oct 14, 2014 14:09
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For those who care, The Profit season premiere is tonight.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:26
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Mu Zeta posted:SciFi was the best when it ran 7 hours of Stargate every day Stargate and Twilight Zone. And a power hour of Transformers and Robotech in the mornings. Would get up to watch that poo poo every day before school.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:29
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The Sci-Fi Channel was at its best when it was Wonder Woman, Manimal, and The Prisoner marathons hosted by Harlan Ellison.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:29
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xbilkis posted:It really is remarkable. Seinfeld could get by despite Jerry being a terrible actor because everyone else was so good, but everyone on Mulaney is so over the top that it's unbearable. Nasim Pedrad is still acting like she's in a live sketch show for a sitcom, the drug dealer guy is basically "too much" personified, and the PA in yesterday's episode might be the worst actor I've ever seen in anything on the scale of a network television program. You forgot how Mulaney once again went to the old gay man next door for advice. I mean, goddamn. I actually listened to both of Mulaney's standup albums during a long drive last week and they were loving hilarious. Dude is legitimately funny as hell and clever, so I can't for the life of me figure out how the gently caress he's managing to make something as terrible as his show (and performance in the show, Jesus Christ) is. Again, I was left feeling like Mulaney is supposed to be a parody of multicam shows but all those elements got noted out of oblivion by the network and so we were just left with incredibly telegraphed jokes and plot elements. Oh and that PA--holy poo poo, I haven't ever seen reads that bad on TV. Not in the most dire zero-effort loving Jim Belushi vehicle have there been actors that bad. I just... I don't understand what the gently caress is going on with Mulaney.
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Oct 14, 2014 14:34
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Speaking of Syfy, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are developing a series for them.quote:According to the press release sent out by Syfy, the new series Incorporated will take place in a future world where "corporations have seemingly unlimited power." And the story centers around one character who is trying to beat that system. A world with all powerful corporations? Sounds pretty far fetched to me. Also, how bad is OUAT now that it is apparently Frozen the TV show?
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Oct 14, 2014 14:38
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GraPar posted:Hey, the first episode of The Affair was pretty drat good. Yeah it was okay. Once you get past the fact that just about every character in Dominic West's family is an insufferable prick (which, given the narrative style, actually makes sense), it is a decent show, albeit predictable. Really, I was ready to completely write it off until Part 2 of the ep. At least wait it out through the full episode before making a judgement call on it.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:02
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zoux posted:Speaking of Syfy, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are developing a series for them. So basically Continuum except set solely in the future.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:08
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zoux posted:Also, how bad is OUAT now that it is apparently Frozen the TV show? I only watched the season premiere out of morbid curiosity, but you know...bad.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:14
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I watched the first season of OUAT in my darkest days of Needing poo poo to Watch and well, that's a real bad show. Then I started reading about how all the Frozen poo poo has "ruined it" and well, I just can't conceive.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:16
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I stopped watching OUAT in the middle of last season, in which it was revealed that literally every single character is related somehow, and their great-grandpa is Peter Pan.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:35
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zoux posted:I watched the first season of OUAT in my darkest days of Needing poo poo to Watch and well, that's a real bad show. Then I started reading about how all the Frozen poo poo has "ruined it" and well, I just can't conceive. My wife likes that awful show, and I don't think anything this season has "ruined" it any more than it already was.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:51
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Once Upon a Time is a bad show, and has always been a bad show, that still manages to scratch an itch you never knew you had. It's campy and ridiculous and silly and stupid and your IQ lowers 20% for the next 24 hours after watching an episode, but despite all that it's still fun. I don't get the Frozen complaints. The show isn't doing anything different with this than they have with a half dozen other fairy tales they've introduced, from Peter Pan to Snow White to Wonderland.
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Oct 14, 2014 15:54
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Been watching The Trailer Park Boys the entire Columbus Day weekend and that poo poo is addictive. Its not a laugh a minute thing, kind of you gives you those wry smiles you'd have watching a Guest mockumentary, but once in a while you'd just erupt into guffaws at a new bit of ridiculousness. The characters and the ongoing story is what keeps you watching though, their stupid goals and the ensuing shitstorm at the end of each season, and how they kind of rise from the ashes, like some sort of poo poo bird, from a poo poo slide, from a Pompeian poo poo-calapse (I LOVE Jim Lahey). What I'm trying to see is watch it already, ya pricks.
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Oct 14, 2014 16:02
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Kitties aren't s'posed to smell like cigarettes, they're s'posed to smell like kitties.
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Oct 14, 2014 16:14
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"What's an aptitude test?" "Suitability test, Ricky." "Well I'll wear a suit if I have to." It's the simple things.
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Oct 14, 2014 16:18
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Jack Gladney posted:The Sci-Fi Channel was at its best when it was Wonder Woman, Manimal, and The Prisoner marathons hosted by Harlan Ellison.
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Oct 14, 2014 16:22
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Wrong, when they had new episodes of MST3K. I still haven't forgiven them for canceling it 
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Oct 14, 2014 16:26
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Do yall ever watch Lawrence Welk reruns on Saturday Afternoons? That is some weird poo poo.
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Manos del Sino posted:Once Upon a Time is a bad show, and has always been a bad show, that still manages to scratch an itch you never knew you had. It's campy and ridiculous and silly and stupid and your IQ lowers 20% for the next 24 hours after watching an episode, but despite all that it's still fun. The only thing different about them using Frozen this (half)-season is that they pretty much had to jump through a bunch of hoops from Disney - so they keep the movie as the origin story instead of inventing their own - and presumably whatever arcs they wanted for the characters they could put their own spin on it but still needed approval from Disney. Other than that there's nothing really offensive about it at all. Also, instead of anthology-style flashbacks which they normally do the flashbacks are linear and currently pertain to the Frozen cast moving onward from the movie and the other characters they added for the half-season. It's pretty good.
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Oct 14, 2014 16:55
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zoux posted:Do yall ever watch Lawrence Welk reruns on Saturday Afternoons? That is some weird poo poo. That was running on tv at the same time as All in the Family and MOD Squad and stuff, too.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:01
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James Woods Fan posted:
It's not as bad as it could be given it is written by Bendis maybe the worst comic author working today.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:25
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He's not even the worst comic book writer whose middle name is Michael.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:26
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sbaldrick posted:It's not as bad as it could be given it is written by Bendis maybe the worst comic author working today. Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff You heard it here folks Jeph Loeb > Bendis.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:27
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sbaldrick posted:It's not as bad as it could be given it is written by Bendis maybe the worst comic author working today. I like how you say this when Bendis has written some amazing stuff, and Powers is a really good comic. There are also much much worse writers out there, like Scott Lobdell and Mark Millar
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Oct 14, 2014 18:27
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You've made powerful enemies this day sbaldrick.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:28
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Sober posted:A fair assessment, but it is at least fun to watch. I basically agree with what you're saying except that for some reason it doesn't click for me anymore. But that's not from the Frozen stuff, I also quit last season during the Peter Pan crap. My only real complaint about the Frozen material is Christoff looks awful. Thanks for lampshading it instead of casting someone cute, I guess.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:42
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sbaldrick posted:It's not as bad as it could be given it is written by Bendis maybe the worst comic author working today. Now that's funny.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:44
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The worst you can say about Bendis is he's sorta bland and writes plots that frequently don't go anywhere. This is an industry where John Byrne has written about Superman being mind-control raped, JMS tried to turn Superman into John Galt, and Mark Millar... gently caress, Millar's Superman story is actually okay so I can't keep that theme, but he's loving Millar.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:51
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House of M for the win, maybe the only storyline worst then that is One More Day.
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Oct 14, 2014 18:55
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sbaldrick posted:House of M for the win, maybe the only storyline worst then that is One More Day. Someone needs to read the 90s comics or even some DC
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I like House of M.
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