Linkie-loo: The science fiction version
Thu, Mar. 19th, 2009 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarlettinaThe New York Times is running an article about Star Trek fans who build their own Enterprise command chairs. They call the piece "Getting Their Trek On."
io9.com is entertainingly snarking about the renaming of the Sci Fi Channel. I have a feeling the snarking will go on there and elsewhere for a quite a while yet. And really, how could it not? Syfy? Someone here (or elsewhere) argued that Sci Fi could have rebranded as the If Network and it would have worked just as well--or better--given their network bumpers have been about the concept of "if" for a couple of years now. It would have achieved the same effect that the network claims it wants to achieve. I know all the business reasons that the network stated: brandability and so on. But really, the cluelessness of their final choice is merely another confirmation of what fans have known all along: the people who run this network have no idea what they're doing. Their successes have been flukes rather than intentional accomplishments.
Via a couple of different sources, there's been some coverage of a panel held at the UN featuring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Battlestar Galactica producers Ron Moore and David Eick and several UN reps, moderated by Whoopi Goldberg. The panel was apparently intended to use BSG as a vehicle for discussing planetary issues like human trafficking, torture and so on. Great idea. Apparently, the concept is being extended to other movies and TV series. Should be interesting to see where it goes from here.
io9.com is entertainingly snarking about the renaming of the Sci Fi Channel. I have a feeling the snarking will go on there and elsewhere for a quite a while yet. And really, how could it not? Syfy? Someone here (or elsewhere) argued that Sci Fi could have rebranded as the If Network and it would have worked just as well--or better--given their network bumpers have been about the concept of "if" for a couple of years now. It would have achieved the same effect that the network claims it wants to achieve. I know all the business reasons that the network stated: brandability and so on. But really, the cluelessness of their final choice is merely another confirmation of what fans have known all along: the people who run this network have no idea what they're doing. Their successes have been flukes rather than intentional accomplishments.
Via a couple of different sources, there's been some coverage of a panel held at the UN featuring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell and Battlestar Galactica producers Ron Moore and David Eick and several UN reps, moderated by Whoopi Goldberg. The panel was apparently intended to use BSG as a vehicle for discussing planetary issues like human trafficking, torture and so on. Great idea. Apparently, the concept is being extended to other movies and TV series. Should be interesting to see where it goes from here.