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First and second episodes was released. Says at the end coming to sci-fi in February.

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I have extremely low expectations for this.

syfy as a network couldn't be any more dead to me

Seems all-right actually, pity its stillborn in favour of shows about vampires and superheroes.

People have become a lot dumber over the years. Nothing to be done about it.

Avatar was at least scifi. Its all the teen angst that makes my hair hurt.

I really think society at large has lost a big chunk of its curiosity. Learning is out of vogue...so we have formerly educational channels now covered in reality TV. Scifi does't seem to be about ideas anymore. And fantasy has been reduced to super hot 20-somethings and their emo naval gazing.

Jesus. I am in a dark mood tonight.

Prometheus gets a bad rap. I actually put off watching it for months just because I was so sure it would be a mess, but it was actually a pretty fair film, with an excellent aesthetic. The plot didn't make much sense, and it was completely missing the horror elements, but it was at least interesting.

A lot of the problem with scifi now is, I agree, the attempt to make it family viewing. They are pushing really hard for that young demo, and so you wind up with teenaged leads...which torpedoes the whole thing for any sort of serious audience. Remember that thing on Fox about going back to colonize the cretaceous or whatever? With the dinosaurs? The pilot fell flat on its face because fully half of it was about, "Oh my life is over, my father doesn't understand me!". It was awful.

I just don't get it, because I was a little kid cheerfully watching old and bald Patrick Stewart boldy go all over the damn place, and I didn't give too shits about the one young character on the show. Network execs don't get that young people aren't actually hateful of old people. They form a full blown cult over Steven Colbert, for crying out loud.

I'm trying really hard to give Revolution a chance, but it suffers from a too-young cast as well.