Threshold

[mduffy31]

I just finished with the DVD's and let me tell you there were so many great ideas for this show. They have interviews with the producers and writers where they let the viewer in on what they were and they sounded fantastic. Too bad it was killed so early.

[Ravenseye]

1. Like what?

I watched it once and it seemed interesting, but I never got into it. What kind of ideas did they have?

[mduffy31]

3. Stuff like how the plan changes from

Threshold to Foothold, and finally Stranglehold when the aliens slowly begin to take over and how they accomplish it. They get ahold of the brother of Brian Van Holt's character and he now starts to work against them because he knows the whole plan. All kinds of different stuff.

[semillama]

2. i really liked that show

network tv has no idea what to do with sci fi shows, unfortunately.

[Ravenseye]

4. The problem is people also

Too many people hear 'sci-fi' and their eyes glaze over. I read something from the Galactica producers that their target audience isn't really say Stargate SG-1 viewers, but people who watch shows like Nip/Tuck and the Shield, but people who watch those shows generally just tune out when their hear 'Galactica' or 'Sci-Fi' and don't even give it a chance.

Heck even my wife at first when I was excited about Battlestar Galactica being back on the air glazed over and dismissed it, and made fun of it. Then she watched it and became hooked. It's her favorite show. Same thing with Firefly. I think that even if Fox hadn't completely screwed that show's chances, it still would have had a hard time getting to season 2.

Yet, people will watch Sci-Fi, as long as they don't think it's sci-fi. Take Lost for example. It's not 'in your face' science fiction, but it's got tons of dedicated viewers who watch it and don't even think of it as Sci-Fi.

I'm not sure exactly what it is that turns people off when it comes to the genre. I know with my mother for instance what it is. My dad dragged her to see 2001 back when it first came out, and she HATED it. Since then she refuses to watch any science fiction. I wonder how many people watched one thing, didn't like it, and wrote off the whole genre. Like people who saw an episode of Star Trek on reruns back in the seventies and didn't like it and that was that.

Network TV has given Science Fiction a remarkable number of chances I think, for how often the shows totally fail, and I wonder how much of it is their fault, and how much is the fault of the general negative attitude so many people have.