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Sunday, July 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Science fiction with a smile

Mysteries and magic unfold on the renamed Syfy network, from the funny "Warehouse 13" to the charming "Eureka"

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009 01:53 PM

@tomreedtoon

And the freedom is gained the same way, by dying and being burned in an oven.

Have you considered Match.com?

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 05:44 AM

sawmonkey, it's just the truth. Nothing special.

The problem is that few people are willing to speak the truth. Perhaps they aren't even capable of thinking the truth. People are too afraid of being alone. They would rather remain slaves to the inhuman system they call "love."

I've never forgotten that above the gates of concentration camps the Nazis posted the slogan "work makes one free." Above the concentration camp of romance the slogan is "love makes one free." And the freedom is gained the same way, by dying and being burned in an oven.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:42 AM

Tomreedtoon

About the ladies...Good-un!

Monday, July 6, 2009 09:17 PM

SeyeFeye

Irish separatist science fiction programming

Monday, July 6, 2009 06:24 PM

It might help their viewership if...

THEY STOPPED BLASTING THE COMMERCIALS AT MAXIMUM VOLUME! Maybe its just a Canadian thing but the parent company of this network seems to think that we are all deaf as posts. The Canadian version of the channel plays the odd movie I'd like to watch but when I continually grab for the remote, there must be something wrong. Didn't the government pass a law about this some years ago? Every one of the parent company's channels are the same...

Monday, July 6, 2009 03:55 PM

Problem with Syfy

is that the first thing that came to my mind was Syufy, the theatre chain.

Monday, July 6, 2009 02:46 PM

Privacy

The most interesting part of this review is the first three paragraphs, about which I blogged at http://tinyurl.com/c62456

Monday, July 6, 2009 09:36 AM

What's in a name?

This network is a hoot. Some of the best actors deign to make some syfy movies that no one would ever watch out in theatres but these flicks can be very very good entertainment. Good action and believable , err OK, some very unbelievable agendas and plots to be consumed and analysed. Eureka is a fine series. The flicks with dragons and knights that seem to flood the site are also pretty good. Now if Chris Carter could only rework The X Files again that would be spooky and not as actionless as the latest film for this site, many would be very appreciative.

Monday, July 6, 2009 07:02 AM

Candypants, as you're one of the slavemasters of men...

...I would expect you to claim that you are not a slavemaster of men. At least in the presence of men.

It doesn't matter; we know what you are. We still have to waste our lives supporting you and the rest of your species, but know that we resent you, hate your guts, and seek to abandon you and let you starve to death when your enslavement prematurely ends our lives. You certainly won't survive for long, when there is no one to give you money or fix your car.

Monday, July 6, 2009 06:24 AM

A better name for Sci Fi

would have just been:

Psi, or the greek leter called Psi.

In that you have the implication of the paranormal, the scientific, and the fanciful.

Just a little letter logo, and our cares melt away.

Moving past that, Warehouse 13 does sound like a hoot, I personally sometimes find the earnestness of eureka, (and especially Battlestar Galactica) to be just a little misplaced.

Aknowledgement of the silliness of the situation I think, adds to the reality of the story, but perhaps I'm in the minority in this.

I look forward to this Andy episode of Eureka, however, Seadonkia has once again peeked my interest in something I otherwise might have skipped over infavor of another Daily Show rerun.

Monday, July 6, 2009 04:57 AM

@TomReedToon

Durian Joe, the chief interest in Friday The 13th: The Series was not Robey, or Dis-Robey as I like to think of her. It was the fact that killing people was the only goal of those "cursed antiques." If God existed, killing people would not aid Satan, since people would be going to either place, depending on the lives they lived. All the people killed must have been going automatically to Hell for Satan's pleasure or he wouldn't do it. And that could only mean that God is dead. This implicit significance of the series was perfect for the goths, vampire freaks, gore hounds and other death lovers that were the only audience for that pathetic show.

Says you. I found the show mildly entertaining and, being a lover of the horror genre, I appreciated its existence on TV. Still, it wasn't in the same league as "The Twilight Zone" or "X-Files" or even "Kolchak, the Night Stalker," which in retrospect was not very good, except for the always wonderful performances by Darren McGavin. For me, Friday the 13th's chief asset was Robey's assets.

And, what Candypants said.

Monday, July 6, 2009 12:23 AM

@tomreedtoon

- "We men are damned. We work to death while women's only duty is to remain pretty. They dance. We slog to and from work to earn money for them. This is not cheap sexism. This is reality. Wince as you drink it in, if you must, but don't deny the truth."

- Really? In what universe? And how can I get there?

Just kidding, but, man, that's really, really not how it is. Like, in reality. Where we live.

A woman

Sunday, July 5, 2009 11:19 PM

Four responses of varying degrees of dismay.

Christopher1988, you're in denial. We men are damned. We work to death while women's only duty is to remain pretty. They dance. We slog to and from work to earn money for them. This is not cheap sexism. This is reality. Wince as you drink it in, if you must, but don't deny the truth.

Durian Joe, the chief interest in Friday The 13th: The Series was not Robey, or Dis-Robey as I like to think of her. It was the fact that killing people was the only goal of those "cursed antiques." If God existed, killing people would not aid Satan, since people would be going to either place, depending on the lives they lived. All the people killed must have been going automatically to Hell for Satan's pleasure or he wouldn't do it. And that could only mean that God is dead. This implicit significance of the series was perfect for the goths, vampire freaks, gore hounds and other death lovers that were the only audience for that pathetic show.

Disturbing Clown, the people of Caprica are destined to die a futile death in Battlestar Galactica: The Cheap Remake. You want to call that non pessimistic?

And finally, october271986. You are the enemy. You are one of the suits I was describing. You think you can rename crap and convince people to buy it. That didn't help GM or Anti-Christler, and it won't help SciFi. You are one of the failures of American society. Either pick up a wrench and learn a useful skill or present yourself to a disintegration chamber immediately.

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