Dear Sci-Fi channel.....

An open letter to the sci-fi channel...

With all due respect to my esteemed colleague Odessa Russell, I apologize if I am stepping on your most honored toes, but as an avid, some might say obsessed, still others might say demented, science fiction fan I kind of need to vent.

I will endeavor to stay within my jurisdiction by dwelling on the movie choices that are made by them and simply say that the sci-fi channel desperately needs a tune-up.

"Made for Sci-fi channel" movies consistently fall into two categories, either giant animal (usually snakes), or natural disasters (usually a weather related mishap). These crap fests are usually run on Saturday nights and the preceding day is devoted to running like minded movies all day. Hence we get a whole day of Boa, Anaconda, Cobra, or avalanche, snowstorm, tidal wave films which are so bad, and so predictable that they are virtually "Made for Disney Channel" caliber.

During the last ratings period Sci-fi channel ratings had dropped by almost 20 percent and here is why:

The aforementioned "movies"; get some better ideas, put a little more money into them (CGI is great and all but you are really pushing it), and for god's sake, enough with the programming by autopilot on weekends! You have access to a vast library of films covering some 70 years of cinematic history; we don't need to see Dean Cane fight another blizzard or giant chameleon.

37 hours a day of Stargate, with the occasional break for Battlestar Galactica (a show so bad that it didn't even work in the 70's when everyone was coked out of their gourds) is too much. Both of these shows belong on Nickelodeon, not the Sci-fi Channel. They suck, and are so amateurish that they MUST just make it up as they go along. And please take Stargate Atlantis with you. Throwing money after a huge mistake is how the U.S. got in so deep in Iraq.

Um PASSIONS; you are showing farkin' PASSIONS? It's a soap opera and therefore it is refuse. Let Oh! or Lifetime (television for women) take it away and get back to SCIENCE FICTION!!!

That's it for now. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but when something that was once pretty good has devolved into a pathetic joke, someone needs to speak up. And along those lines, if anyone from the Bush administration needs a reality check, feel free to write me anytime...

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