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Can Sci-Fi Fans Face the Future?
khendron writes "The Toronto Star has an article about sci-fi fans and their ongoing habit of protesting the cancellation of their beloved TV shows. From mailing bras to starting malicious Internet rumours, devoted viewers try all sorts of things to protect what they love. That's not always good news."
Sci-fi fans? Surely these are manziers or bros that are being mailed in.
If you want to have a "reality TV" show called "Survivor," you had better have all the contestants but one die, and you'd better not help them out at all. Just videotape what happens when you drop 16 people off with no supplies but the shirts on their backs and whatever they had in their pockets at an undisclosed location with no civilization for at least 100 miles in any direction.
That would never work. You know that as soon as they decided to resort to cannibalism, the film crew would be the first ones to go.
how was any one individual physically able to say the words 'Let's axe Futurama'
This is a question you should axe yourself.
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1) Geeks buy hi-tech TV gear that skips ads
2) TV shows popular with geeks loose money
3) Shows get cancelled
The alternative, of course is in-show advertising:
ALIEN AMBASSADOR: We demand tribute from your puny species!
EARTH AMBASSADOR: Our delegation comes bearing Crucial Ballistix RAM. Truly, the latency is low, and the tracer LEDs magestic.
-- later --
COMMANDER: Fire at will!
* FIGHTER 1: Fires missile
* HUGE MISSILE: Hits FIGHTER 2 and explodes
COMMANDER: You fool! You hit the window!
PILOT 1: Damn that 3M Security Glass!
I'm scared of numbers that can't be written as a fraction. It's an irrational fear.
3) It's an indication of a pause to choose the appropriate word. Of course the speaker probably paused several times per sentence anyway -- this pause was left in to indicate the interviewer's impression that she paused because she has strong feelings on this subject and wished to be precise, which itself is useful information.
... mildly neurotic. But I guess we all freak out over something or other. Carry on.
Getting worked up to the point of all caps and an exclamation point in your brain is
In totally unrelated news, the Bush Administration has announced that Iraq is currently harboring the network executives who cancelled 'Star Trek: Enterprise'. Bush issued a statement saying that "The enemies of freedom have cancelled 'Enterprise' but they cannot cancel freedom itself. I call upon all able-bodied Trekkies, Trekkers, and Klingons to enlist now in defense of the ideals of the Federation. May you live long and prosperate."
Meanwhile Donald Rumsfeld announced the creation of a new "Starfleet Brigade" for the recruits, which would feature multi-colored jumpsuits and flak jackets bearing the Federation insignia, and allow Klingons to serve in full battle attire. Said Rumsfeld, "Good golly, the warrior spirit of those Klingons is just what we need to put those darn Baathist insurge- excuse me, I mean, evil network executives- on the run!"
In response to criticisms that such moves violated the Prime Directive, Dick Cheney suggested that Iraq had a program under Hussein to secretly acquire warp technology, in violation of sanctions. Therefore, as a post-warp culture, the Prime Directive no longer applied to Iraq. In support of these allegations, Colin Powell gave a PowerPoint presentation showing grainy satellite photos of what he identified as warp field coils and tanker trucks filled with Dilithium crystals. When asked how the Iraqis could possibly have acquired warp technology, Cheney hinted darkly that the whole thing smelled of a Romulan plot.