A lot of the movies shown on Saturday and Sunday nights on SyFy, whether made for the network or old theatrical/DVD releases, are reworkings of Greek mythology in which the gods are real and magical stuff happens.
At one point, the wackadoodles attacked Harry Potter, but then they backed off. I suppose they realized that that fan base was too large and devoted, and it would be a losing battle for them. I’d love to see them work themselves up into manufactured outrage over SyFy’s movies and end up looking like asses.
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They're not going to get worked up over "SyFy*" movies, people would actually have to start watching them. :)
* - This is an abomination, about which I'm surprised The King has not commented.
I've decided to pronounce it "siffy" for the foreseeable future.
Well, that's true. The audience for Syfy movies is surely much smaller than for the Harry Potter movies, and probably for the Potter books, as well.
I'm one of those who doesn't object at all to the term sci fi. Years ago, I had a t-shirt with the Greek letters psi and phi on the front, custom made at a local t-shirt shop. I used to wear it to the local science-fiction convention just to annoy the people who get all upset over the phrase.
The network should have just stuck with the Sci Fi name, though. Corporate rebranding is always such a waste of effort and money.
I don't object to the term sci fi, either (even if "futuristic fantasy" is far, far more accurate). I just object to dumbing down its spelling. Hence "siffy."
In fact, at the moment, I can't think of a word in which "Sy" is pronounced like the "Sci" in "science."
But my objections are usually a good indication that the public is moving the other way. Soon, coffee shops will offer free WyFy, and I'll be forced to bury my head in shame yet again.
I'd also like to draw an important distinction here: there are science fiction movies, and then there are the truly awful movies made specifically for the siffy network. It was the latter whose nonexistent viewership I was mocking, in case that wasn't clear.
(I'm a huge Bruce Campbell fan, and I still can't get the awful taste of Alien Apocalypse out of my mouth...)
You'll have to shout out your disagreement using a mic - a spelling that's one of my pet peeves.
Yeah, Alien Apocalypse was pretty awful, if that's the one I'm thinking of. Were heads chewed off?
Heads were, indeed, chewed off.
And "mic" I can at least see, insofar as it's obvious where the spelling came from.
Then it is the movie I was thinking of. The head-chewing was the best part, although as I remember it was repeated too often and lost its impact. The spurting, headless bodies were cool, but we've all seen that in other cheap movies. Gee, that sounds so blase.
True, mic is a real abbreviation, unlike mike, the older spelling. But the older spelling is the way it's pronounced. Which is also true of SyFy, right? (No, I don't mean that SyFy is pronounced mike.)
As to the pronunciation: There's the name of the most fascinating character in HEROES, Sylar. That first syllable is pronounced like sci.
Good point.
Or, for that matter, just "Sy," which I normally see as Cy, but still.
I'm still sticking with siffy. :)
(Since I'm a database guy, I suppose Sybase should have sprung to mind, too.)
Or MySQL.
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