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THE TRACK RECORD OF UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL......"JOHN EDWARD" CANCELLED....."THE CHRONICLE" CANCELLED......"FARSCAPE" CANCELLED....."TREMORS" CANCELLED......"DREAM TEAM" CANCELLED...."SECRET ADVENTURES OF JULES VERNE" CANCELLED....."BLACK SCORPION" CANCELLED....."SCIOGRAPHY" CANCELLED....."SCI-FI VORTEX" CANCELLED....."INVISIBLE MAN" CANCELLED....."G VS. E" CANCELLED....."WILLIAM SHATNER'S FULL MOON FRIGHT NIGHT" CANCELLED...."FIRST WAVE" CANCELLED....."FTL NEWSFEED" CANCELLED....."NEW OUTER LIMITS" CANCELLED......"POLTERGIEST-THE LEGACY" CANCELLED....."TOTAL RECALL-2070" CANCELLED......"THE WAR ROOM" CANCELLED......"SCI-FI BUZZ" CANCELLED......"TRIPPING THE RIFT" CANCELLED......"SLIDERS" CANCELLED....."WEEKLY SCI-FI NEWS WITH CHASE MASTERSON" CANCELLED...."MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000" CANCELLED....."VR-5" CANCELLED........"TIME TRAX" CANCELLED......."THE FLASH" CANCELLED......"NOW & AGAIN" CANCELLED......"M.A.N.T.I.S." CANCELLED......."FANTASY ISLAND" CANCELLED......"TIME COP" CANCELLED........"SPACE PRECINCT" CANCELLED......."MAX HEADROOM" CANCELLED......."THE MAGICIAN" CANCELLED....."SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN" CANCELLED........"BIONIC WOMAN" CANCELLED......"HULK" CANCELLED......"SWAMP THING" CANCELLED......"WONDER WOMAN" CANCELLED......"THE IMMORTAL" CANCELLED......"VIPER" CANCELLED......"RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" CANCELLED (??)........CANCELLATIONS INCLUDE SCI-FI CHANNEL ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING AND SYNDICATED SERIES SHOWN ON SCI-FI CHANNEL...."RONALD D. MOORE'S TREKKIE STAR: GALACTICA" HAS NOT BEEN CANCELLED YET.....

"VAN HELSING" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."THE HULK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."CAT IN THE HAT" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."JOSEY & THE PUSSYCATS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."FLINTSONES" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIVA: ROCK VEGAS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE...."HOWARD THE DUCK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."PITCH BLACK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE....."VIRUS" FAILS AT BOX OFFICE.....

WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS CANCELLED ALL OF THE SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AND REPLACED THEM WITH NON-SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, THEY NEGLECTED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE NETWORK TO SOMETHING MORE FITTING. "THE HORROR CHANNEL", "THE USA NETWORK FILM VAULT CHANNEL", "THE INFOMERCIAL NETWORK", "THE HORROR/ACTION CHANNEL", OR "THE COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORK" WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE TITLES.

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS TRACK RECORD WITH FANTASY MOVIES ISN'T MUCH BETTER. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS USUALLY RUNS INTO PROBLEMS WHEN THEY TRY TO MAKE LIVE ACTION MOVIES BASED ON COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS. THE "HULK" BORED AUDIENCES TO DEATH BARELY 10 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE.....TURNING "VAN HELSING" INTO A SUPERNATURAL "RAMBO" WAS TOO RIDICULOUS FOR WORDS....."CAT IN THE HAT" PROVED THAT 5 YEAR OLD KIDS WEREN'T READY FOR "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" HUMOR......"JOSEY AND THE PUSSYCATS" WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A "CHARLIE'S ANGELS" RETREAD BASED ON A 1970 CARTOON THAT NO ONE REMEMBERED......THE "FLINTSTONES" MOVIES PROVED THAT REBUILDING "BEDROCK" ON A STUDIO BACKLOT WASN'T ENOUGH TO DRAW IN THE FANS OF THE CARTOON.....SOME PROPERTIES SHOULD BE LEFT IN CARTOON FORM, WHICH "ROCKY & BULLWINKLE" PROVED......"HOWARD THE DUCK" WAS GEORGE LUCAS'S FIRST CAREER FLOP. HOW FITTING THAT LUCAS CHOSE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FOR THAT MOMENTOUS OCCASION......"PITCH BLACK" WAS "PITCH DULL"....."CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK" DISAPPEARED FROM THEATERS FASTER THAN "FINAL FANTASY-THE SPIRITS WITHIN"......AND "VIRUS" PROVED THAT WHEN UNIVERSAL STUDIOS MADE A MOVIE FOR THE SUMMER OF 1999, NO ONE CAME AND WENT TO THE BEACH INSTEAD......

THE MANAGEMENT OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS AN OPENLY HOSTILE REGIME TOWARDS THE VIEWING PUBLIC, SCIENCE FICTION PROGRAMMING, AND THE "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" COPYRIGHT. THE ENDLESS GRAVEYARD OF CANCELLED TELEVISION SHOWS ON "SCI-FI CHANNEL" AS WELL AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ENDLESS BOX OFFICE FAILURES INDICATES THAT THIS IS A CORPORATION THAT DELIBERATELY LOST ITS WAY IN MAKING RATIONAL BUSINESS DECISIONS. ONE CAN ALWAYS HOPE FOR MIRACLES, AND THE PERMANENT FINANCIAL DOWNFALL OF "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS/SCI-FI CHANNEL" IS A DREAM SHARED BY MANY.
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How Could Ron Moore's Production Explode In The Sci-Fi Channel's Face?
« on: February 04, 2005, 02:53:46 PM »

Judging by the way Universal/Sci-Fi Channel behaves all of the time, you would think that they would know what the public wants to see. Universal/Sci-Fi Channel had quite a LOFTY AGENDA in mind when they first greenlit Ronald D. Moore's production. They wanted to:

1) Reinvent televised Science Fiction.

2) Keep the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" dead.

3) Set ratings precedents with Ronald D. Moore's series.

4) Sweep the fanbase of the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" under the rug for good.

5) Let the "Galactica" fanbase know in no uncertain terms that since they owned the "Galactica" property, they could do whatever the FUCK they wanted to do with it, GOOD OR BAD.

6) Perhaps most importantly, during the entire three years that Universal/Sci-Fi Channel and Ronald D. Moore have been in business together; both Universal and Ronald D. Moore made it the A-1 PRIORITY to let the public know (and they did indeed, RAM IT DOWN OUR THROATS) that they DON'T GIVE A FLYING RATS ASS about the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES."

Out of the six initial goals of Universal and Ronald D. Moore I listed above, both Universal and Ron Moore ONLY accomplished two of them. And that was numbers 5 and 6. They TOTALLY SUCCEEDED in letting us know that THEY DON'T GIVE A FLYING RATS ASS about the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES." And they also did SUCCEED in proving that they could do whatever the FUCK they wanted to do with the "Galactica" copyright, GOOD OR BAD. In this particular instance, IT WAS ALL BAD. As for the rest of Universal's agenda, they FAILED at reinventing televised Science Fiction. They FAILED at keeping the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" dead. They FAILED to set ratings precedents with Ronald D. Moore's series. And they FAILED to sweep us (the fanbase of the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES") under the rug for good.

How could Universal/Sci-Fi Channel NOT KNOW the very business they are in? According to Russel Sanders latest "INSIDE INFORMATION" on Ronald D. Moore's production, NOTHING is going according to plans for Universal/Sci-Fi Channel. Putting it mildly, Universal/Sci-Fi Channel is having a VERY HARD TIME with Ronald D. Moore's production right now. They have been DISAPPOINTED in the performance of Ronald D. Moore's series. So much so, that they are waiting until the last possible moment to decide whether or not to give Ron Moore the order for six additional episodes. This is certainly a far cry from the PROPAGANDA SATURATED BULLSHIT being reported (daily) on www.ragnaranchorage.tk, www.Galactica2003.net, and www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire.

Universal/Sci-Fi Channel is supposed to have all of the answers, right? In their infinite, corporate wisdom; it was supposed to be a FOOL PROOF PLAN of treating the "Galactica" fanbase LIKE SHIT, ATTACKING the public on their bulletin boards, and PUBLICLY INSULTING the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" and its fans. In the midst of all of this DAILY ABUSE being fanned out by the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel corporation for the past three years, they still somehow convinced themselves that everything would just "MAGICALLY COME TOGETHER" for them, Ronald D. Moore, and his tv series. That despite the ABUSE they were fanning out during their CORRUPT MARKETING CAMPAIGN, they would still......somehow......come out on top.

Three straight years of all of this PSYCHOTIC BULLSHIT being fanned out by the Universal/Sci-Fi Channel corporation, the fruits of their labors are this:


        THE FUTURE OF RONALD D. MOORE'S PRODUCTION IS UNCERTAIN, QUESTIONABLE, UNLIKELY, DOUBTFUL.


For a corporation that frequently boasts of how they know the business they are in, I'm STILL WAITING for any evidence to prove it.  Kiss


                                                                                   
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