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Lifetime for Men - The SciFi Channel

amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhourThe woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
edited August 2007 in Social Entropy++
So my girlfriend called me on this the other day.... I noticed her switching to lifetime to watch yet another "battered and abused" movie starring John Stamos and/or (insert washed up soap opera actress here) and I remarked on how lame those movies are, and she immediately called my bullshit on this, reminding me that I'm constantly watching the SciFi channel, which is notorious for doing the exact same thing, but subbing the "battered woman" for the "killer mutant (insert animal DNA here)"

Anyone else like the SciFi channel, excited about the new lineup? Still watching Enterprise on Mondays? Does the new Flash Gordon suck or what? Personally, I'm not a fan of the new Flash Gordon. Ming should be a horrible stereotype, and they shouldn't be jumping back and forth between dimensions. That's just me though.

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    TrexyTrexy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i only watch sci-fi for the outdated movies and 50-year-old twilight zone episodes

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
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    Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Ming was the only thing I didn't like about the new Flash Gordon. He should be a horrible stereotype.

    I liked everything else about it though.

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Actually I did kind of like that Fear Tactics show they used to have

    "Oh no a giant rat mutant running around a laboratory"

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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    SpikeTV is Lifetime for men.

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    Kevin CristKevin Crist I make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father'Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Sci Fi has the best awful movies on the weekends. Like not even good enough for a direct-to-dvd release. The titles are always one or two words: The Basilisk, Gargoyles, Alien Apocalypse, etc etc. so good to watch when you have nothing better to do.

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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    lostwords wrote: »
    Sci Fi has the best awful movies on the weekends. Like not even good enough for a direct-to-dvd release. The titles are always one or two words: The Basilisk, Gargoyles, Alien Apocalypse, etc etc. so good to watch when you have nothing better to do.
    They had one about space vampires that I guiltily enjoyed. Michael Ironsides was in it.

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    I am looking forward to Sam being on Atlantis next season.

    Also, Jewel Staite.

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    Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    They don't play the head-on commercials so they're ok in my book.

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    M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lostwords wrote: »
    Sci Fi has the best awful movies on the weekends. Like not even good enough for a direct-to-dvd release. The titles are always one or two words: The Basilisk, Gargoyles, Alien Apocalypse, etc etc. so good to watch when you have nothing better to do.

    S.S. DOOMTROOPER oh man was that movie dumb. But I do watch them when I have nothing else to watch.

    I watched Scifi all the time for Stargate and some of the better series/ mini series they show.

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    lostwords wrote: »
    Sci Fi has the best awful movies on the weekends. Like not even good enough for a direct-to-dvd release. The titles are always one or two words: The Basilisk, Gargoyles, Alien Apocalypse, etc etc. so good to watch when you have nothing better to do.
    The had one about space vampires that I guiltily enjoyed. Michael Ironsides was in it.

    Oh man, I never heard of this, but it sounds awesome. Looking it up on imdb, its called Bloodsuckers, and is described as "Buffy meets Star Trek in a Mad Max world". I hope this is out in dvd.

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    You mean the one where the guy inflates a dog like balloon by blowing into its asshole?

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    SpikeTV is Lifetime for men.


    This is probably more true than it being SciFi. But I do loves me some Scifi Channel.


    Ghost hunters? Yes please.


    They were running Dead Like Me for awhile as well and that was some great stuff too.

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    WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    SpikeTV is Lifetime for men.

    No it's not.

    Well... maybe a little.

    Lifetime makes an effort to try to be supportive of women and portray women in a positive way while still appealing to interests that are common among women (with a dose of "ZOMG M3N R T3H 3VIL!!1!")

    SpikeTV merely panders to all that idiotic stereotypes applied to men because nobody's got the balls to stand up and tell the mainstream media that not all men are beer-swilling, car-obsessed, violence-loving, emotionally stunted ignorami.

    The former doesn't appeal to me, the latter offends me, so I'm stuck watching Grey's Anatomy (which I love intensely) on CBS.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
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    DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    Werrick wrote: »
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    SpikeTV is Lifetime for men.

    No it's not.

    Well... maybe a little.

    Lifetime makes an effort to try to be supportive of women and portray women in a positive way while still appealing to interests that are common among women (with a dose of "ZOMG M3N R T3H 3VIL!!1!")

    SpikeTV merely panders to all that idiotic stereotypes applied to men because nobody's got the balls to stand up and tell the mainstream media that not all men are beer-swilling, car-obsessed, violence-loving, emotionally stunted ignorami.

    The former doesn't appeal to me, the latter offends me, so I'm stuck watching Grey's Anatomy (which I love intensely) on CBS.
    Both channels by their very nature appeal to gender stereotypes.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Trexy wrote: »
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    MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    SpikeTV is G4 for people like the writers for G4.

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    Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Green wrote: »
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    You mean the one where the guy inflates a dog like balloon by blowing into its asshole?

    Yeah, the stuff like that.

    MKR, not the regular product commercials. The little 10 second clips for SciFi channel they show before the show comes back on.

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    The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    Green wrote: »
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    You mean the one where the guy inflates a dog like balloon by blowing into its asshole?

    Yeah, that one's just creepy.

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    DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    The Geek wrote: »
    Green wrote: »
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    You mean the one where the guy inflates a dog like balloon by blowing into its asshole?

    Yeah, that one's just creepy.

    Gotta wonder who thought that one was a good idea.

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    bentbent Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I saw Killer Klowns from Outer Space on the Sci-Fi channel, and I've never really forgiven it since.
    That film was actually fucking hilarious, thinking about it.

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    GreenGreen Stick around. I'm full of bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    bent wrote: »
    I saw Killer Klowns from Outer Space on the Sci-Fi channel, and I've never really forgiven it since.
    That film was actually fucking hilarious, thinking about it.

    That is a fantastic movie

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    The Geek wrote: »
    Green wrote: »
    SojakFA wrote: »
    Honestly though, half the reason I watch SciFi is for the commercials. Their commercials rock.

    Can anyone relate?

    You mean the one where the guy inflates a dog like balloon by blowing into its asshole?

    Yeah, that one's just creepy.

    Gotta wonder who thought that one was a good idea.

    :winky:

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    MugginsMuggins Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Green wrote: »
    WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO

    Mr. Mitzvah got cut.

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    Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Man, do they still show those crazy UFO documentaries and whatnot?

    I love that sort of shit.

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    Shorn Scrotum ManShorn Scrotum Man Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Man, do they still show those crazy UFO documentaries and whatnot?

    I love that sort of shit.

    Recently they've been doing alot of ghost stuff. My room mates watch all of them.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was watching that star trek movie.. Generations? on the tv. the one where data has his emotion chip in during most of it.

    anyways they cut out the bit at the end where Data finds his cat spot in the wreckage of the enterprise, still alive and he starts to cry. the best fucking scene in that movie was cut out. I was so upset

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    they had first contact on the other day, too, but I had just watched it the other day, so I didn't record it.

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Wren wrote: »
    I was watching that star trek movie.. Generations? on the tv. the one where data has his emotion chip in during most of it.

    anyways they cut out the bit at the end where Data finds his cat spot in the wreckage of the enterprise, still alive and he starts to cry. the best fucking scene in that movie was cut out. I was so upset

    Data was the best part of that entire movie

    The rest I could take or leave

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Wren wrote: »
    I was watching that star trek movie.. Generations? on the tv. the one where data has his emotion chip in during most of it.

    anyways they cut out the bit at the end where Data finds his cat spot in the wreckage of the enterprise, still alive and he starts to cry. the best fucking scene in that movie was cut out. I was so upset

    Data was the best part of that entire movie

    The rest I could take or leave

    "Oh shit"

    also killing off kirk was so lame

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I mean seriously. scotty has been brought back from the past already. kirk and scotty teaming would've been so awesome

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    MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Kirk is lamesauce, whatever. It's all about Sisko.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Mysst wrote: »
    Kirk is lamesauce, whatever. It's all about Sisko.

    sisko is cool when he's not being jesus

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    WerrickWerrick Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Mysst wrote: »
    Kirk is lamesauce, whatever. It's all about Sisko.

    I WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE SHIRT!

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    amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Eureka is the shit too. Not like from a butt or anything, but THE shit. It's f'ing hard to follow if you missed season one, but basically it's about some shmo who ends up on the wrong backroad and goes into a government run town of supergeniuses, so he becomes Andy Griffith there.

    The best movies are the team ups, like Boa vs Python, which came after boa and python. Plus, scifi totally owns the genetically engineered shark franchise, and lou diamond phillips. They own him too.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    eureka is a neat premise but the show is so boring. maybe its all the no name, un-talented actors in it

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