Hear me, O Lords of Television.

[techs]

With low cost scifi corrupting the television landscape I plead with television producers everywhere to bring back Space Opera.

C'mon you guys. I need me some "pew pew" and some warp speed. I want to see spaceships again. I want to see baddies with bad rubber masks and over the top performances.

I want to see the heroes hopping galaxies, not public transportation.

Give me some techno babble. I don't care if it doesn't make any sense. It usually doesn't anyway.

I want humans to meet new and interesting species and blow them into cosmic dust.

When I think of aliens I want to think of 4 arms and 6 legs. Not groups of people hanging out at Home Depot.

Hear me, oh great and powerful Lords of Television. Answer my prayers.


/prayer

 

[ultimatebob]

America doesn't even want to fund real space travel anymore. What makes you think that they'll want to fund fictional space travel?

Ask the Chinese... we'll all be working for them soon anyway.

 

[zinfamous]

people like zombies now, apparently.

 

[Pocatello]

people like zombies now, apparently.

Which is too bad, I like zombies, but there are already too many zombies walking around, especially the head honchos of TV networks.

 

[lupi]

Cheap to produce minimal quality reality shit is where it's at now.

 

[mmntech]

Did someone call me?

The best hope for science fiction will be channels like AMC and HBO. Both have had success with sci-fi and fantasy shows like Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. Unfortunately, shows like that are too expensive for network TV and their respective specialty channels to make. Too many sets, costumes, lots of location shooting. When the writers went on strike, the networks learned it was far cheaper to produce semi-scripted reality. No need to hire actors, writers, costume designers, set builders. Which is why virtually every channel on the dial airs some sort of phoney reality content. As much as people say they hate it, they're still watching it and still demanding more of it.

 

[DaveSimmons]

There's supposedly a reboot of Blake's Seven under development. It's too bad they'll never find an actor to match Paul Darrow's Avon.

 

[Exterous]

people like zombies now, apparently.

Bring on the Space Zombies from Nexus 7 then!

When the writers went on strike, the networks learned it was far cheaper to produce semi-scripted reality. No need to hire actors, writers, costume designers, set builders. Which is why virtually every channel on the dial airs some sort of phoney reality content. As much as people say they hate it, they're still watching it and still demanding more of it.

The truth is depressing...

 

[DaveSimmons]

It's only an hour and a half, but Starship Troopers: Invasion was not awful. It's a CG movie like Appleseed and the anime Resident Evil movies, but the digital actors aren't any worse than Capser Van Dien or Denise Richards.

 

[gorobei]

There's supposedly a reboot of Blake's Seven under development. It's too bad they'll never find an actor to match Paul Darrow's Avon.

marc sheppard is the fan favorite for avon.

 

[Gunbuster]

I would love a Reality Dysfunction TV series but it would need a billion dollar budget and have to play latenite on Cinemax.