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What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows?
brumgrunt writes "Dollhouse. The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Fringe. Three science fiction shows that Fox commissioned, put on the air, and — in the case of at least one of them — has won rave reviews. But why does it seem that Fox is trying to kill some of its own shows with crazy scheduling decisions? How can Fringe survive after being pulled for two months, and what hope is there for Sarah Connor and Dollhouse on a Friday night?"
> But on the flipside, most US TV series don't appear to really have "proper" endings, unlike many Japanese anime. So not sure how that works out.
What? You mean the same regurgitated shit little girl turns out to be a little gay boy bullshit? Anime is some of the most useless same story recycled trash out there. Not that American television is the golden standard, but it really shines compared to that Jap crap.
Egads.
Firefox was canned because it was a standard depiction of Cowboys and Indians... IN SPACE, and everybody who watched that saw it for what it was.
A steaming pile of Scifi shit.
This is nothing new here. And it's so well known to people who enjoy scifi that, at this point, the blame is shared by the creators of the show. So, now, I believe it is safe to say:
If you have an awesome idea/concept/script/pilot for a scifi show and you end up going with Fox to get it on the air, you are a FUCKING MORON.
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Got that, nweaver. Fringe sucked moldy dog turds. But then, I could only bare to watch the pilot and still haven't washed the taint from my mind. I hate colorful wink-at-the-camera insane geniuses for side-comedy's sake. If I want The Nutty Professor, Jerry Lewis set the standard. In terms of writing, you often hear SF writers state the maxim that every book is allowed _one_ miracle. That pilot used a whole season's worth even without pulling leprechauns out of their asses for a secret weapon. Much the same for Eleventh Hour, truth be told. I hate the basic "sniff the glove neofascist" premise of that show that a scientist needs an FBI agent with constant PMS to guard and watch him. Both those shows just felt "wrong" and had me constantly critiquing how I could better write or direct each scene.
Both shows are thuggish rip-offs of the immensely more intelligent and mature -- _for_, as well as _by_, Canadians -- ReGenesis. Three of the five seasons are on Hulu. Fringe lovers in withdrawal -- go to Hulu and behold the wonder of adult SF untainted by the Hollywood rule that SF is for 11-year-old boys. You Eleventh Hour watchers too.
Our household is split on the others. My wife has drifted off from Connor in boredom and won't watch it with me anymore. Probably only watched it in the first place because she loved Firefly. A "River" fetish. She likes Dollhouse more than I do but I'm willing to keep at it.
I think the point of the scheduling is putting them before Numb3rs. Numb3rs could loosely be called science fiction if math purists would grant me some slack on applied theory, and, if not, it appeals to the same audience so I suspect the idea at FOX was to create something like a SciFi Friday in synergy with CBS. As network wonk strategy goes, it seems rather unusually intelligent to me. As always, the people who have something better to do on Friday night will record them.
Citation please.
Or is your own ideological bias assuming facts not in evidence.
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