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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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To Commemorate Ron Moore's Slowly Fading Career, We have Invisible Cylons
« on: March 05, 2005, 04:44:45 PM »

A LOW BUDGET has never stopped Ronald D. Moore from continuing to crank out the CRAPPY SCRIPTS. In fact; the lower the budget Ron Moore has, the WORSE his ideas get as a producer and writer (if that is even possible.) Ronald D. Moore's latest assault on the intelligence of television viewers involves "Invisible Cylons." Yes, you read correctly...."INVISIBLE CYLONS." This is really an ECONOMIC SOLUTION to not having to rebuild the fabulous armor costumes of the Cylons from the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES", isn't it? Just when you thought it was TACKY ENOUGH for Ronald D. Moore to have SLUTTY ACTRESSES in COCKTAIL DRESSES calling themselves "Cylons", we now have Ronald D. Moore devising an even more ECONOMIC ALTERNATIVE to rebuilding the "Cylon" armor:

                                                   INVISIBLE CYLONS, YOU CAN'T SEE THEM

Is this the ultimate COP OUT or what for a television producer and writer? Why rebuild the fabulous "Cylon" armor from the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES", or why even have "Six" give "Baltar" a DAILY LAP DANCE in her RED COCKTAIL DRESS, when you can just NOT SPEND A DIME and write INVISIBLE "Cylons" instead?

I've heard of LOW BUDGET, but this is RIDICULOUS!! This points to a FUNDAMENTAL FACT that I have been saying all along. That the SCOPE of the "REAL 1978 GALACTICA SERIES" was TOO MUCH for Sci-Fi Channel and Ronald D. Moore to deal with, both in terms of BUDGET and PRODUCTION DESIGN. So, Sci-Fi Channel and Ronald D. Moore SCALED DOWN their production (the production they had the NERVE to call "Battlestar Galactica") to fit the COMFORTABLE PARAMETERS of a "RICK BERMAN 'STAR TREK' PRODUCTION", complete with SOAP OPERA ELEMENTS, INVISIBLE ALIENS THEY COULDN'T AFFORD TO BUILD, etc.

One of the interesting aspects of Ronald D. Moore's production, is that as time goes on, the production becomes MORE AND MORE DISAPPOINTING. "Invisible Cylons", Ronny boy? Was this a BUDGET MANDATE, or your usual LACK OF IMAGINATION KICKING INTO HIGH GEAR? Lets take this one step further, Ronny boy....Lets have Universal/Sci-Fi Channel CANCEL your entire WORTHLESS PRODUCTION, and make it INVISIBLE FOREVER!!!.....Just the "Cylons" being INVISIBLE in your production ISN'T ENOUGH....I want your entire production INVISIBLE to my television screen!!  Kiss


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Re: To Commemorate Ron Moore's Slowly Fading Career, We have Invisible Cylons
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2005, 06:00:34 AM »

Ron Moore's career is just about invisible now, isn't it?  Kiss
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