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Fans Attempting to Pay for Enterprise
An anonymous reader writes "What started of as a suggestion to pay for season 5 of Enterprise has actully snowballed into a project that no one has ever attempted before, that of getting fans to pay for the production costs of a tv series. It has brought on board a raft of people including lawyers. I wonder if the quoted $50 to $80 million is reachable." I gotta say that Enterprise has been better this season, but I feel like it's still only mediocre. Battlestar Galactica might be the best SciFi airing right now. And I woulda chipped in for more Firefly in a heartbeat.
Do you think people will donate money for space exploration when the closest thing they have to ever visiting space is to watch Star Trek?
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
I agree with CmdrTaco.....
You know how hard that is to say with a straight face?
Okay I mean, I don't care if Enterprise is doing better so far, last season was an absolute waste of time in my book, I can't believe they wasted a whole season not working on forming the federation. there are so so many interesting things to talk about and talking about some of the issues that they are coming up with in this season but they still spend to much time on fluff episodes.
and BattleStar Galactica? Its is THE BEST! it has the story arc possibilities of RMS's Babylon 5, with a much better cast, and I believe a lot more moxy and touches on more human issues. And I like the way they have put it together so far, I actually have started staying up on Friday to watch Galactica when I get home, even if it keeps me up to 4 AM
Oh my god! The state of Science Fiction is incredibly horrible right now. The last decent science fiction series was Sliders (first and second seasons only), but the SciFi channel had to go and ruin it. In fact, it seems to me that EVERY program to come out of SciFi channel seems to suck. Or if it started off good and got pulled into the SciFi channel, then it gets killed off. Andromeda was slightly above the fray, so SciFi killed it. But trash like the ruined SG1 and the complete papfest Stargate Atlantis keep on keepin' on. It's just not fair. It shouldn't be called the SciFi channel, it should be called the Junk Action Show channel because that's really all it is now. Where's Doctor Who? What about some of the classics of science fiction like Space 1999 or some of the Italian 70s disco cheesefests. Those programs and films have far more integrity than anything that SciFi currently produces. What is it with cable/satellite networks in general and their crap "original programming"? The Sopranos? Shite. Queer as Folk? Nothing beats the original (not the Showtime version). SciFi's original movies (Wizard of Earthsea anyone?) ALL suck the big one. These networks should not and didn't originally exist to produce their own programming. This is what happens when you give people who only have a profit motive primarily in mind the keys to the kingdom. You get a steady flow of crap disguised as creativity. PBS and the BBC produce much better programming in comparison because they are not in it solely for the money.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
They'll never scrounge up the money to do this. I hope the contigency plan is to give what money they do collect to a legitimate and worthwhile charity.
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McD's is a pretty economical choice
Even after factoring in the health cost?
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX
Why don't you take yo grammar/html code nazi self and go to hell?
Fuck you, keep on writing your stupid thoughts in big blocks, it'll makes it easier to ignore your pointless posts.
Should have known the moment you praised Andromeda that you were a worthless, dumb, fuck.
You can't take the sky from me...
It's like spending $20 on a journey album: I'm not going to stop you, but I'm sure as hell going to have my opinion of you lowered as a result.
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I like all Star Trek shows execpt the first one. I don't see why everyone loves it. I mean it was okay but come on going to the planet of the Nazis or what ever. The places they explored made no sense. Hell even with the crazy time travel Enterprise is still more believable then the orginal series.
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
Praised? I "praised" Andromeda? I did nothing of the kind. Your reading comprehension skills need a little work. I simply said that Andromeda is better than ALL of the original series and pilfered series that SciFi has done since the mid 90s. Farscape? Crap. Firefly? Total shit. Stargate * were both doomed when they had any affiliation with SciFi. But... they persist because they are popular (not necessarily good, just popular). I would say that in a long sewer pipe filled with foul smelling stuff, Andromeda is the least stinky of the lot. At least they had decent story lines. I like my science fiction to actually focus on the characters, their situations and some realistic aspect of science or the future. I don't like science fiction where the central focus is on war, violence or basically mostly action. (Yes, Andromeda has too much of that for my tastes but they make up for it with decent plot lines.) And don't get me started on the shittiest shows ever: Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine.
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Blah. Here's a "new paragraph" for you to keep you happy.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
the sun hurts my pale white skin!!!!! owww!!!!
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
The only time worth watching Sci-Fi is Fridays.. Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica.
Everything else is officially crap. I can't believe they are dumping money towards the awful made for TV movies you mentioned, while canning "Farscape".
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