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Old August 26th, 2006, 05:06 PM

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Remember when MTV meant Music Television? Look at the nonesense it is now; for the shallow teenagers. Like mentioned, it can be relabeled "Reality Channel" although there is nothing real about it. People are not real when there are known cameras watching. I hate all that ignorance.
SciFi Channel is sliding towards this.
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Old August 26th, 2006, 08:04 PM
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I blame music in movies for a number of stupid movies.

Why? Becuase when you have music, your actors don't have to work to show which are important scenes, to convey emotion to the viewer, to give a sense of life to the movie.

Just play the appropriate music and instant atmosphere. A lot of older movies are both very good, very nuanced and have no music.

How nuanced are modern movies?
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Stargate was good with not relying on music. Stargate kind of counts, since it's in widescreen and has the 'feel' of a movie.
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Man I was pissed when I wrote that post. To be honest I am still a bit upset over how f***ing dumb those idiots over at Sci-Fi channel appear to be. You don't drop your #4 rated show and replace it with crappy double "D" back yard, lets break out the video camera, movies!

Hell my nephews could make better movies than some that have recently been on Sci-Fi.

No effort at all is going into the movies, horrible production values, bad acting, rotten scripts, even worse dialog. Its like a Lucas script feast without the budge or SFX, or Steven Spielburg's (sp) to back them up.
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Lack of compitition drives most companies to believe that they can do whatever they want. Thus the Sci-Fi channels competitor is?????

WELL, what do you know! There is none! Who'd of Thunk it.....

Babylon 5 follow up shows would still be on the air if they (studio management) just left M.J.S. alone and let him do what he needed to do. They played the 'Ranger' series out of order because they didn't like the way the opening story was (not exciting enough). The man wrote one of the best Sci-Fi series and he didn't know what he was doing? (as AT would say "that's F'd UP!) Now you know why SG-1 is going bye bye.
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Cable access I would say. No, the home made movies on Cable Access even have a better production value than those on Sci-Fi.
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SciFi channel made it clear that MGM's license fees was one of the main deciding factors on cancellation - much like how UPN would've cancelled Enterprise in the 3rd and 4th seasons.

Also, SciFi has made it clear that they will use their contract with MGM to prevent any future Stargate SG1 television series.
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I would like to see Sci-Fi try and go up against MGM.. That would be so funny.
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I must say I completely disagree that the time has come for SG-1 to end. Stargate is, in my opinion, the best sci-fi on TV, anywhere. It has grown, it has matured over these past 10 seasons, but is still engrossing in a way that other shows simply can not match. It's not just science-fiction; it has aspects of drama, comedy, and many other things that combine into one spectacular whole that has stood, unmatched, for 10 years.

I for one hope it continues, since even if the quality isn't quite as good as it used to be (a fact I am not willing to concede), it is still the best sci-fi to be found.
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