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Homemade "SciFi Channel" for classic sf video online

June 3, 2008 12:30pm

#13: I share that concern, but I'd much rather see them go that direction than Tremors XVII or Global Warming Aliens Terrorize Danica McKellar.

Homemade "SciFi Channel" for classic sf video online

June 2, 2008 8:56pm

Personally, while I am happy to see a site like this, I am also pretty happy that the SciFi channel doesn't air these shows. Given how available these things are on the internet, it makes no sense to air them on television. The larger issue for me is that, aside from things like BSG, the SciFi is largely clogged with crap. Wrestling? Ghost Hunters? Sometimes I'll read something about the channel making the Diamond Age or something that has some resonance with the genre, and the very next day I see some truly awful "SciFi original" monster movie. I just can't believe that people intend to tune in and watch things like that, and it's boggling to me why money is spent on developing the things they do.

16th-century disease-causing critters from Japan

March 12, 2008 10:07pm

Although it's not really my genre, a lot of this stuff seems to remind me of alchemical texts, especially (and I guess unsurprisingly) Taoist ones. Phrases like :

"It is known to come up into the host’s mouth and poke its head out. Try to grab it, and you choke for air, but let go and it returns peacefully to the stomach."

and

"When the two bugs come together, their wiry legs get tangled up, the female bug spits up red fluid, and the male spits up white."

almost seem like they could be dropped into any of them.

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