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		SyFy decides it needs a little more sci-fi, orders Ron Moore's arctic thriller Helix, which is basically his unused script for The Thing (deadline.com)		49
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Mugato		2013-01-18 12:17:07 PM

It could be the suckiest suck that ever sucked but it's sci-fi. It's not wrestling, it's not assholes pretending to look for ghosts and it's not Urkel making people wander around dark rooms so it's ok in my book.

Via Infinito		2013-01-18 12:19:32 PM

I hope they do it. I'll watch it. But I also watch things like Sharktopus and The God Monster of Indian Flats, so my bar is set kinda low.

Cheese eating surrender monkey		2013-01-18 12:30:38 PM

It's gonna be God all along, right?

/ somebody had to.
// enjoy the usual BSG sucks/was awesome threadshiat, guys.

Stratohead		2013-01-18 12:32:56 PM

so they cancel Alphas, they won't pick up BSG Blood and Chrome (which is the show all the new series "haters" wanted to see in the first place) but they decide to green light a project no one cares about or has heard of so they can cancel it for underperforming after they completely fail to support it? typical.

olddeegee		2013-01-18 12:34:18 PM

They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

theorellior		2013-01-18 12:39:55 PM

What, did Bonnie Hammer keel over and die? Maybe she left to helm The Golf Channel to turn it into 24-hour cooking shows and reality programming, because that's what the lowest-common-denominator wants.

Ow! That was my feelings!		2013-01-18 12:41:23 PM

Approves.

Mugato		2013-01-18 12:42:55 PM

Cheese eating surrender monkey: // enjoy the usual BSG sucks/was awesome threadshiat, guys.

How about the diplomatic "I could never get into it myself but I recognize it was a well made show and I'm glad to see any sci-fi on TV"?

....and this is the only Starbuck, assholes!

www.murdoconline.net

/couldn't resist

Onkel Buck		2013-01-18 12:46:02 PM

Ow! That was my feelings!: Approves.
[chuckyg.com image 279x200]

Came for this leaving rocked!

/Gimme an R!

Bondith		2013-01-18 12:50:30 PM

Speaking of unused scripts for The Thing, anyone ever see Arctic Predator starring a slumming Dean Cain? I thought it was it was the prequel/remake to the original The Thing until I IMDBed it and found out Dean Cain wasn't in that (plus the movie I was watching was set in the wrong polar region).

All those shapeshifting-monster-eating-scientists-in-the-cold movies look alike.

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 01:07:57 PM

I really liked Alphas. Fark you, Syfy.

Continuum's good, but it's not a Syfy show.

Cyno01		2013-01-18 01:15:08 PM

NeoCortex42: I really liked Alphas. Fark you, Syfy.

Continuum's good, but it's not a Syfy show.

Watched the first season of Continuum last week, not bad, but yeah, syndicated. And a ripoff of Time Trax, but nobody remembers that show.

Saiga410		2013-01-18 01:20:37 PM

Cyno01: And a ripoff of Time Trax, but nobody remembers that show.

Must watch Continuum now. I loved Time Trax.

Dingleberry Dickwad		2013-01-18 01:27:15 PM

olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

Wait, what? (Does some double checking) Fark you syphylis! Warehouse 13 is now the only thing keeping me watching that channel.

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 01:32:30 PM

Dingleberry Dickwad: olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

Wait, what? (Does some double checking) Fark you syphylis! Warehouse 13 is now the only thing keeping me watching that channel.

I'm curious to check out Defiance. Other than that, I'm pretty sure Warehouse 13 is all that's left for me to watch on SyFy.

ShawnDoc		2013-01-18 01:32:35 PM

Except Moore isn't writing it, per the link he's Executive Producing, but someone called "Cameron Porsandeh" is writing it (and I don't see an entry for him at IMDB).

realmolo		2013-01-18 01:36:18 PM

I didn't know they cancelled "Alphas". I really like that show.

Honestly, if NBC was smart (they're not), they would pick up "Alphas". It's a high-quality show, and it's what "Heroes" should have been.

Arn_Dee		2013-01-18 01:36:19 PM

But they don't pick up Borealis? Motherfarkers.

TDBoedy		2013-01-18 01:38:15 PM

alpha's blew, it was basically X-men with crappier powers and the serialization was shiat.

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 01:38:44 PM

realmolo: I didn't know they cancelled "Alphas". I really like that show.

Honestly, if NBC was smart (they're not), they would pick up "Alphas". It's a high-quality show, and it's what "Heroes" should have been.

It was initially picked up by ABC, but the Writers' Guild Strike killed it before it had time to start. Then it moved to SyFy.

Mugato		2013-01-18 01:57:06 PM

realmolo: Honestly, if NBC was smart (they're not), they would pick up "Alphas". It's a high-quality show, and it's what "Heroes" should have been.

Well when they cancel "Hannibal" after the first commercial break of the first episode, they'll be an opening.

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 01:59:07 PM

Mugato: realmolo: Honestly, if NBC was smart (they're not), they would pick up "Alphas". It's a high-quality show, and it's what "Heroes" should have been.

Well when they cancel "Hannibal" after the first commercial break of the first episode, they'll be an opening.

Whitney got a second season. NBC programming decisions follow no rhyme or reason.

Cyno01		2013-01-18 02:03:30 PM

NeoCortex42: Dingleberry Dickwad: olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

Wait, what? (Does some double checking) Fark you syphylis! Warehouse 13 is now the only thing keeping me watching that channel.

I'm curious to check out Defiance. Other than that, I'm pretty sure Warehouse 13 is all that's left for me to watch on SyFy.

Did they cancel Haven too?

/will give Defiance a chance, looks intriguing
//but between The Event, V, Outcasts... ive been burned lately
///when is Falling Skies back?

Saiga410		2013-01-18 02:13:00 PM

Cyno01: NeoCortex42: Dingleberry Dickwad: olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

Wait, what? (Does some double checking) Fark you syphylis! Warehouse 13 is now the only thing keeping me watching that channel.

I'm curious to check out Defiance. Other than that, I'm pretty sure Warehouse 13 is all that's left for me to watch on SyFy.

Did they cancel Haven too?

On November 9, 2012, it was renewed for a fourth 13-episode season

I really wish Netflix would pick up Haven. I missed all of the 3rd season.

Falling Sky should restart sometime in May/June

Mugato		2013-01-18 02:16:53 PM

NeoCortex42: Well when they cancel "Hannibal" after the first commercial break of the first episode, they'll be an opening.

Whitney got a second season. NBC programming decisions follow no rhyme or reason.

I imagine Hannibal will have a bigger budget and won't have the same broad appeal as a broad comedy about a broad.

DontMakeMeComeBackThere		2013-01-18 02:17:37 PM

TDBoedy: alpha's blew, it was basically X-men with crappier powers and the serialization was shiat.

Oh, you're one of those....

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 02:22:07 PM

TDBoedy: alpha's blew, it was basically X-men with crappier powers and the serialization was shiat.

X-men sucked, it was basically Superman with his powers split up.

Norfolking Chance		2013-01-18 02:47:16 PM

Mugato: Cheese eating surrender monkey: // enjoy the usual BSG sucks/was awesome threadshiat, guys.

How about the diplomatic "I could never get into it myself but I recognize it was a well made show and I'm glad to see any sci-fi on TV"?

....and this is the only Starbuck, assholes!

[www.murdoconline.net image 277x336]

/couldn't resist

Dude, I heard you liked Starbuck, so I put Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks

www.neatorama.com

Mugato		2013-01-18 02:48:12 PM

NeoCortex42: TDBoedy: alpha's blew, it was basically X-men with crappier powers and the serialization was shiat.

X-men sucked, it was basically Superman with his powers split up.

Superman sucked. He was basically Jesus who could shoot lasers out of his eyes but couldn't turn water into wine.

Phil Moskowitz		2013-01-18 02:49:19 PM

sounds boring as shiat.

Bondith		2013-01-18 02:58:29 PM

Mugato: NeoCortex42: TDBoedy: alpha's blew, it was basically X-men with crappier powers and the serialization was shiat.

X-men sucked, it was basically Superman with his powers split up.

Superman sucked. He was basically Jesus who could shoot lasers out of his eyes but couldn't turn water into wine.

Jesus sucked. He was basically Gilgamesh with water wings, but without the badassness

Cheese eating surrender monkey		2013-01-18 03:02:08 PM

Mugato: Cheese eating surrender monkey: // enjoy the usual BSG sucks/was awesome threadshiat, guys.

How about the diplomatic "I could never get into it myself but I recognize it was a well made show and I'm glad to see any sci-fi on TV"?

This is Fark, godsdammit. We don't do diplomacy and/or moderation.

Now, to post some ponies...

altmulder		2013-01-18 03:15:05 PM

I'll leave this right here>>>

Link

gonna miss those girls.........

Precision Boobery		2013-01-18 03:45:18 PM

in which we get compelling and thrilling single episodes which will eventually add up to a disappointing pile of unexplainable destiny and divinity.

neversubmit		2013-01-18 04:03:27 PM

Mugato: It could be the suckiest suck that ever sucked but it's sci-fi. It's not wrestling, it's not assholes pretending to look for ghosts and it's not Urkel making people wander around dark rooms so it's ok in my book.

/fap

BafflerMeal		2013-01-18 04:37:07 PM

Ron Moore series checklist:

Scottish engineer: check
Asian wife for Scotsman: check
Ambiguous ethnicity brown person with a secret: check
Things that can look like us: check
Occupation by things: check
Paranoia and mutiny: check
God(s) did it: check

I look forward to Deep Space Nine vol. 3

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 04:43:20 PM

BafflerMeal: Ron Moore series checklist:

Scottish engineer: check
Asian wife for Scotsman: check
Ambiguous ethnicity brown person with a secret: check
Things that can look like us: check
Occupation by things: check
Paranoia and mutiny: check
God(s) did it: check

I look forward to Deep Space Nine vol. 3

upload.wikimedia.org

Excuse me?

BafflerMeal		2013-01-18 04:46:22 PM

NeoCortex42: BafflerMeal: Ron Moore series checklist:

Scottish engineer: check
Asian wife for Scotsman: check
Ambiguous ethnicity brown person with a secret: check
Things that can look like us: check
Occupation by things: check
Paranoia and mutiny: check
God(s) did it: check

I look forward to Deep Space Nine vol. 3

[upload.wikimedia.org image 271x331]
Excuse me?

Ah, sorry. Being of that stock I forget how sensitive people can be about that little body of water between them.

Mugato		2013-01-18 04:56:47 PM

NeoCortex42: Excuse me?

Scottish, Irish...get off your ass and go to Starfleet Academy so you don't have to call Nog "Sir", ya Mick.

farbles		2013-01-18 05:09:50 PM

Put me down with Arn_Dee, why do we need the Ron Moore series when Arctic's already been done and done well with Borealis? Man, I cannot believe that didn't go to series, it was bloody awesome for a pilot.

I would have liked some sort of end for Alphas. Yes, it was yet another 'homage' to X-Men, but it was a well done one that rivalled the original sometimes. It deserved a movie to wrap up loose ends.

Basily Gourt		2013-01-18 05:27:32 PM

olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

I've never forgiven them for canceling Eureka. A profitable show with great ratings that just wasn't making enough money for the greedy bastards.

Fark them to hell indeed.

NeoCortex42		2013-01-18 05:29:20 PM

Basily Gourt: olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

I've never forgiven them for canceling Eureka. A profitable show with great ratings that just wasn't making enough money for the greedy bastards.

Fark them to hell indeed.

I love Eureka, but it started going downhill after the timeline change. It also got tiring that every single episode was about something that could potentially end the entire world.

Dingleberry Dickwad		2013-01-18 05:36:47 PM

NeoCortex42: Basily Gourt: olddeegee: They cancelled "Alphas". Fark Syfy. Fark them to hell.

I've never forgiven them for canceling Eureka. A profitable show with great ratings that just wasn't making enough money for the greedy bastards.

Fark them to hell indeed.

I love Eureka, but it started going downhill after the timeline change. It also got tiring that every single episode was about something that could potentially end the entire world.

The final episodes were real bad IMO. They spent something like 4-5 episodes focusing on Holly going bad? I love me some Felicia Day, but they overplayed that way too much. I never understood the whole Sheriff Carter and Carter thing they did the entire show. They just seemed to have no chemistry together whatsoever.

fusillade762		2013-01-18 05:57:53 PM

BafflerMeal: NeoCortex42: BafflerMeal: Ron Moore series checklist:

Scottish engineer: check
Asian wife for Scotsman: check
Ambiguous ethnicity brown person with a secret: check
Things that can look like us: check
Occupation by things: check
Paranoia and mutiny: check
God(s) did it: check

I look forward to Deep Space Nine vol. 3

[upload.wikimedia.org image 271x331]
Excuse me?

Ah, sorry. Being of that stock I forget how sensitive people can be about that little body of water between them.

I once made the mistake of asking an Irishman if he was British and almost got my ass kicked.

BafflerMeal		2013-01-18 06:11:45 PM

fusillade762: BafflerMeal: NeoCortex42: BafflerMeal: Ron Moore series checklist:

Scottish engineer: check
Asian wife for Scotsman: check
Ambiguous ethnicity brown person with a secret: check
Things that can look like us: check
Occupation by things: check
Paranoia and mutiny: check
God(s) did it: check

I look forward to Deep Space Nine vol. 3

[upload.wikimedia.org image 271x331]
Excuse me?

Ah, sorry. Being of that stock I forget how sensitive people can be about that little body of water between them.

I once made the mistake of asking an Irishman if he was British and almost got my ass kicked.

I can understand that. Scottish vs Irish is a whole different kettle of fish than Scot / Irish vs British / English.

x23		2013-01-18 09:54:56 PM

The Thing was in Antarctica. this article says Helix is in the Arctic.

it's like saying Chile and Finland are the same place.

TyrantII		2013-01-18 10:20:08 PM

Ron Moore just producing and not writing is bad news for a series. He works magic in the writers room, when he's just the executive producer, things tend to suck and you get wandering dreck like Caprica.

Cyno01		2013-01-18 10:46:05 PM

StoPPeRmobile		2013-01-19 12:11:45 PM

Norfolking Chance: Mugato: Cheese eating surrender monkey: // enjoy the usual BSG sucks/was awesome threadshiat, guys.

How about the diplomatic "I could never get into it myself but I recognize it was a well made show and I'm glad to see any sci-fi on TV"?

....and this is the only Starbuck, assholes!

[www.murdoconline.net image 277x336]

/couldn't resist

Dude, I heard you liked Starbuck, so I put Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks

[www.neatorama.com image 500x332]

I only see one Starbuck. You might need to get your eyes checked.

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