SG:U The Demise Of Syfy

Stargate: Universe returned to TV a few weeks ago and now has started it's last half of it's last season. It's a shame because it's a great show and it's really sad that they likely won't be able to send off the show with a resolution. Instead it'll likely have a cliffhanger ending and then nothing.

At least SG:U had two seasons while Firefly had a little over a half a season before getting cancelled. That was also a great show cut down before it's time. I have no idea why Scifi channel would cut that and keep Expedition Truth where they never find anything at all or the new Fact or Faked show.

Obviously I know why, those shows are cheaper to produce but SG:U is stellar in it's execution and storylines. It's SCIFI!!! What more could a channel called Syfy want?!?! Name a show that's left that is an actual scifi show set in space? There aren't any!

The closest thing we've got going on now is The Walking Dead and it'll be fall before the new season starts back up again. So until then it's old Star Trek reruns, a precious few SG:U original airings, and little else to satisfy the scifi enthusiast niche.

If only I were in charge of the Scifi channel, first the logo never would have changed to the more girly and emasculated syfy. There would be original shows on and there would be original dramas, comedies, and reality shows as well as they have a market. I would have optioned The Walking Dead before AMC knew it was even a property to option and I would give the starved masses and fans of Scifi something to watch and start talking about again!

I would explore the Honorverse from author David Weber, I would option the older Keith Laumer Bolo stories for production. I would find the best TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it) stories out there and produce them instead of the lame CGI creature fests they put on every weekend. Scifi would stand for something again instead of how bad it's fallen and the punchline to a bad joke of a channel. Then on top of all of that I'd have a classic movie feature to air the movies that made scifi into scifi and defined a genre!