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The Sci Fi Channel will soon be the Syfy Channel.
Studio Heads: "Excuse me while I ask someone else to the prom."
Limo rolls. Eggshell cracks on face. Maniacal laughter echoes in the distance.
The Syfy Channel will essentially shun its CORE audience to court a new demographic of viewers: people who find "sci fi" geeky, reality TV enlightening, and books a relic of the past.
What, ideally, was so great about a Sci Fi Channel was that a broadcast valued the medium of fiction, the written word and the ideas and characters that writers created in a marriage to the visual and audio of television and film.
Without the FICTION "Fi", you've got nothing but "Syfy" or a made up term that is shallow in meaning. I don't like how literature is buried and resurrected at whim.
Don't get me wrong--I support change. When I first heard the term spec fic, I was intrigued. Not offended. Not afraid.
Syfy? Well, phonetically, it works but what about CONTENT wise? What's the meaning of it all? How will attracting new viewers with this made-up term support the fiction, the LITERATURE = (TRUEness) that gives birth to the television and movies that the Syfy Channel will produce?
It's all just bullshit and offensive to all writers.
Studio Heads: "Excuse me while I ask someone else to the prom."
Limo rolls. Eggshell cracks on face. Maniacal laughter echoes in the distance.
The Syfy Channel will essentially shun its CORE audience to court a new demographic of viewers: people who find "sci fi" geeky, reality TV enlightening, and books a relic of the past.
What, ideally, was so great about a Sci Fi Channel was that a broadcast valued the medium of fiction, the written word and the ideas and characters that writers created in a marriage to the visual and audio of television and film.
Without the FICTION "Fi", you've got nothing but "Syfy" or a made up term that is shallow in meaning. I don't like how literature is buried and resurrected at whim.
Don't get me wrong--I support change. When I first heard the term spec fic, I was intrigued. Not offended. Not afraid.
Syfy? Well, phonetically, it works but what about CONTENT wise? What's the meaning of it all? How will attracting new viewers with this made-up term support the fiction, the LITERATURE = (TRUEness) that gives birth to the television and movies that the Syfy Channel will produce?
It's all just bullshit and offensive to all writers.
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