From: rhandley@optonline.net   
      
   "The HairyBeast" :   
   >So please, I'm so tired of hearing people bash sci/fi for not having   
   >widescreen, or showing a TV icon bug, or having too many commercials. Its   
   >the same crap over in the battlestar galactica group.   
      
   And you think this is going to stop anything?  It's an unmoderated   
   discussion group, for unmoderated discussion.  No one likes to be told   
   what they can and can't discuss.  If you don't like negative comments   
   about the Sci-Fi Channel, then you should devote your time to their   
   bulletin boards, when negative comments are removed to maintain the   
   illusion that people still like their programming.   
      
   >Its the way it is, its the way its been, and always will be.   
      
   What is?  Do you mean SciFi Channel?  If so, then no way, not by a   
   longshot.  The channel hardly even SHOWS SciFi anymore.   
      
   >If you really don't like it, maybe its time to petion sci/fi for a   
   >commercial free pay channel.   
      
   And if you don't like that people don't like it, feel free to petition   
   for a negativity-free pay newsgroup.   
      
   >Sorry to rant, I'm just soo tired of all the whining about the sci/fi   
   >channel.   
      
   One thing that annoys the crap out of me is when people label   
   criticism as whining.  Why is it whining to point out where a   
   once-proud station has fallen apart?  Why is it whining to point out   
   that half their programming wouldn't qualify as sci-fi by any stretch   
   of the imagination?  Open your mind -- not everyone shares your   
   opinion of things, and if that's not okay with you, then the Usenet is   
   never going to satisfy you.   
      
   >Where would we be with out it? No star trek, No Battlestar, No   
   >Farscape, no SG1, No Godzilla   
      
   That's silly reasoning -- if they weren't showing Star Trek, someone   
   else would -- it's the omst successful sci-fi franchise of all time   
   and has not been off the air since 1972.  If they canceled SG1,   
   someone else would pick it up because it's become immensely popular.   
   If they weren't showing Farscape repeats, someone else would for the   
   same reason (though I have no idea why).   
      
   > I know there not perfect, but find me a basic cable station that is.   
      
   Well, I can find you a thousand that don't pass John Edwards, Cape   
   Fear and Hercules off as sci-fi.   
      
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