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Threshold (2005)
Network TV is notorious for the jerk the rug move
CBS demonstrates over and over why it has no evening viewers after the 6 o'clock news. Get viewers interested in a new series (i.e. "Threshold")and just leave them hanging. What a bunch of stuff. The program managers of this network should forget competing with cable networks and just go to all news if they are going to keep doing this kind of stuff.
"Threshold" is a cheap production but has an excellent story line so I do not see why the "Sci Fi Net" wouldn't pick them up. They are notorious for cheap (Like killing FarScape because it cost too much and keeping StarGate SG1 because it is cheap).
I just don't know why the three big networks keep doing this to viewers. Look at "Space above and Beyond" and "Surface". Get the viewers interested and kill it. Mash was really bad but look how long it ran. Why can't good Sci Fi series on the big networks have and good run or at least give closure? Do they just not have any Sci Fi writers?
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Series should be called political science fiction instead of science fiction!
I for one am not really impressed with this science fiction work. It should more aptly be called a political science fiction work. First the special effects budget was cheap-ed out on by making the Cylons into human looking androids, as opposed to robots. Granted the robots in the first episode did look good, but overall the special effects are mediocre at best. Second Cylons are supposed to be machines. How can a human win in a battle of fist? Come own!! Third how can they have babies? Who is having sex with the androids? Fourth why are there so many people who do not understand that they are the only humans left and cannot afford to fight each other until the Cylons are defeated once and for all? What is all of this political intrigue crap? Why isn't there more fighting Cylons than there is fighting each other? If this is all that is left of the human race the Cylons deserve to win. Fifth the attempt to make the hero icon a woman fell short in the character of Starbuck. What they hit is a loose foul-mouthed female with no manners or cunning. Why couldn't they have made the heroine someone with class instead of a gutter snipe?