languatron
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Life could be this beautiful without NBC-TV in it.
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With Bonnie Hammer and all of her "Brain Dead Minions" at Sci-Fi Channel leading the charge, decent Science Fiction Television in 2004 has pretty much become EXTINCT. We have entered an extremely disturbing era in television, an era where fresh and unique ideas within a "True Blue Science Fiction Framework" are THINGS OF THE PAST. The EROSION began in the 1990's, when Bonnie Hammer was hired by Universal Studios to WARP the Sci-Fi Channel into a BRAIN DEAD CABLE OUTLET characterized by COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORK BANALITY and GENERAL INTEREST PROGRAMMING. For some reason, the Syndication market in the 1990's began following Bonnie Hammer's BAD EXAMPLE. Syndicators began WATERING DOWN the Science Fiction concepts of programming to such a degree, the programs could no longer be looked upon as Science Fiction by definition.
Science Fiction television (if you can call it that) in 2004 is WARMED OVER, REHASHED, RECYCLED "STAR TREK NONSENSE" coming from every direction, whether the programming is produced by Sci-Fi Channel or other external entities. Contributing to the problem is THE LACK OF GOOD PRODUCERS IN HOLLYWOOD incapable of making decent Science Fiction. Contrary to popular belief among Universal Studios executives, Ronald D. Moore IS NOT a talented producer/writer. Ronald D. Moore has been the WORST OFFENDER (at the producing and writing level) of endlessly REPACKAGING and REHASHING 20 year old "Star Trek" ideas from the Rick Berman era into fairly BORING and UNINVOLVING programming in 2004. Ronald D. Moore also does not earn any points by claiming that dysfunctional characters within an outer space framework is his own, totally unique idea. Ridley Scott's "Alien" movie WAY BACK IN 1979 was filled to the brim with dysfunctional characters aboard the "Nostromo" tow freighter. Every "Alien" rip-off movie from the 1980's RIPPED OFF Ridley Scott's INNOVATIONS, NUMEROUS TIMES. No doubt Ronald D. Moore watched his fair share of these movies, as well as "Alien", and incorporated these ARCHAIC IDEAS into his production.
How I long for the era of Gene Roddenberry's "Questor Tapes", where a fresh and novel idea on television would take you totally by surprise and delight you. As long as the current crop of NO TALENT PRODUCERS/WRITERS/TV NETWORKS remain in power, QUALITY SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION IS DOOMED. 
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