The SyFy Channel Stands For "Syncope Feint"

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If any cable channel (business) has done more to put itself into a permanent state of corporate ischemia due to its endless attempted con jobs on the general public, it is the SyFy Channel. Never keeping any one identity from day to day, never being honest with the general public as to what its stance is with science fiction television programming, never being honest as to what its discernable on-air identity is supposed to be, never explaining in concrete terms, always giving interviews for the digestion of the general public with the intent to deceive and throw off-guard (Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, Mark Stern), the SyFy Channel has become nothing more than an unreliable source of information of itself.

Many interviews given by David Howe for example...have been nothing more than futile exercises in retraction because he received heat and criticism for what he and his other two colleagues (Bonnie Hammer, Mark Stern) stated earlier.

1. Many, many times...Hammer, Howe, and Stern have defined science fiction fans as "nerd boys living in their basements." David Howe recently bounced back by saying...."No, no!! We at the SyFy Channel never said that at all!! Somebody else said it!! We at the SyFy Channel love science fiction fans and we want to grow and expand our audience including our treasured core group of science fiction fans!!"

2. Perhaps it was an off the cuff remark...perhaps it was a remark said in passing...but David Howe recently stated that the reason why Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" (Galactica in Name Only) series wasn't more successful than it was....was because it aired on a network called "Sci-Fi Channel." His remark is extremely interesting on two counts:

a. He is admitting that Ronald D. Moore's sham take on "Battlestar Galactica" was indeed...not as successful as the Sci-Fi Channel tried to make it out to be through its guerrilla style stealth marketing.

b. He is trying to blame the name of a cable channel on Ronald D. Moore's failure to reimagine "Battlestar Galactica."

How about more likely explanations for the failure of Ronald D. Moore to reimagine "Battlestar Galactica" such as...Ronald D. Moore's lack of talent as a producer and scriptwriter...his failure to grasp what "Battlestar Galactica" is....and the equally astonishing lack of talent from co-producer David Eick.

For whatever reason...perhaps one of those reasons being that Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern never believe that their remarks in interviews will be recorded and preserved for future posterity, they have been giving interviews from two...distinct....opposing standpoints:

1. That they love science fiction fans and all things science fiction...and want to build upon this audience by bringing in everybody.

and....

2. They hate science fiction fans...regard them as nothing more than "fanboys living in basements"...and want to distance themselves from these fans by getting as far away from science fiction programming as much as possible.

The logical explanation here is obvious. #2 is how they really feel...and.... #1 is their official retraction because they received intense criticism for #2.

The biggest problem plaguing Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern is that the three of them are not science fiction fans. They are corporate elitists who for whatever reason...were thrown into managing a cable channel (by NBC-Universal) that is supposed to be Science Fiction. And they have been fucking up really badly because of it. I gotta tell you. Just from reading the endless interviews give by the three of them, they are the least qualified individuals on the planet to be managing what is supposed to be a Science Fiction channel. The three of them were thrown into this job....a job they have never known how to do...and the channel itself and the viewing public have been suffering ever since.

You don't hire a team of auto mechanics..and throw them into the job of launching the space shuttle for its next mission. It isn't going to happen because knowledge wise...the auto mechanics are way out of their league.

Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" Series Is Already Dated, And Correctly Labeled By Those Who Didn't Like It

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The passage of time is not being kind to Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" (Galactica in Name Only) series. His weird and self-indulgent experiment into a political soap opera inexplicably set in outer space has doomed the series (along with "Caprica") to a fate of outdated commentaries on yesteryear politics. Osama Bin Laden is dead, 9/11 has been avenged, and George W. Bush is thankfully no longer in the White House. It also hasn't helped the series any that it was badly produced and written as well. "GINO" was produced at a time when Ronald D. Moore's ego busting out of his ass perfectly emulated the pompous arrogance of United States foreign policy. Both were outrageous...and both perfectly complimented the other.

Ronald D. Moore made permanent enemies in this lifetime because of his "GINO" and "Caprica" series. Not because he expressed his pompous political views in both series...but rather because he is one of the worst television producers and scriptwriters of all time. Casual television viewers know it, the Science Fiction community know it, the ComicCon crowd know it, and the fanbase of the "1978 Battlestar Galactica" series know it. With hatred of what you do and how you do it permanently installed...the inevitable labels pefectly describing what Ronald D. Moore did in "GINO" and/or "Caprica" have begun to arise...

Pompous -

Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series was the biggest pile of donkey lard ever produced for television...cable or broadcast. Its overwhelming self love of what it thought it was and hoped it was blinded it to what it really was. An amateurish excursion into bad television.

Rotten -

In the areas of producing and scriptwriting, it didn't get any worse than Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series. Substituting easy to manufacture hostility and conflict for imagination and narrative cohesiveness, Ronald D. Moore's "GINO" series became a ceaseless freak show of rapes, murders, and mugging it up to the camera with endless frowning courtesy of Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell.

Indecisive -

From day one, Ronald D. Moore didn't know what the hell to do with this series. Is it set in outer space or on Earth? Do the people wear costumes or business suits? Are the Cylons good or bad. Thankfully, Ronald D. Moore knew how to keep his job despite his unprecedented shortcomings as the executive producer and head writer. He winged it as he went along.

Dated -

Watch an episode of "GINO", and you're immediately taken back to the miserable decade of the 2000s when we lost the World Trade Center, lost our Democracy thanks to George W. Bush, and lost good television via Ronald D. Moore. We were also introduced (in this decade) to what extent NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel would go to in order to ram bad television down our throats....Verbally attack the general public on Internet bulletin boards.

Career Ending -

I challenge anyone to find a former cast member or production team member of "GINO"....who has gone on to legitimately bigger and better things in their would be careers as a result of "GINO." And no...an occasional Lifetime movie of the week for Katee Sackhoff doesn't count. And no...Ronald D. Moore's endlessly rejected post-"GINO" projects don't count either.....His "Thing" remake script....His Harry Potter / Police Precinct nonsense....etc..

Two Years Into The Name Change to "SyFy" Channel, Bonnie Hammer's Network Is Still a Boring Trash Heap

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Two years ago this month.....the Bonnie Hammer decimated "Sci-Fi Channel" became the unchanging and boring trash heap of a cable channel it always had been...newly christened "SyFy Channel."

In two years time...what has the name change to "SyFy Channel" yielded for Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern? Has anything genuinely exciting happened for the three of them from a legitimate business standpoint? Is there now a "SyFy" Global Empire of some sort spanning the globe? Not according to NASA satellites or the FOX Business Channels. Have retail outlets sprung up displaying the "SyFy" moniker? Has anything happened.....in any way....from a business standpoint....that has propelled Bonnie Hammer...David Howe...and Mark Stern into economic Godhood beyond the broadcasting doldrums of the "SyFy Channel?"
Resulting from the name change to "SyFy Channel?"

A big and resounding "Nope!!" to all of the above questions. One has to wonder why...two years ago....the three of them went to the trouble of implementing such a name change universally hated by everyone in the first place!! But hey!!....Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern had a plan. A plan (whatever it was) that hasn't come to fruition yet....TWO YEARS LATER.....after changing the name to "SyFy Channel".....But hey!!....Bonnie Hammer....David Howe....and Mark Stern have never been known for succeeding at anything they have set their minds to do.

Two years later...and the only thing that has come to pass on the "SyFy Channel" is the same old boring crap that always came to pass when it was still called "Sci-Fi Channel" under Bonnie Hammer's stewardship. The three of them have always had this knack for wanting to implement bold and new plans....and failing miserably in the process.

Two years later....There are no "SyFy Channel" shopping malls. There is not a "SyFy Channel" space shuttle. There are not competing lines of "SyFy Channel" mens and women clothing (as seen in Ronald D. Moore's "GINO".) There is not a "Bonnie Hammer Fragrance" perfume in your local cosmetics outlet competing robustly with the "Liz Taylor" fragrances or the "Kim Kardashian" fragrances.

Two years later....Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern are still on the payroll for some unknown reason.

Casey Anthony Used To Work For Universal Studios??

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700149079/Casey-Anthony-weeps-as-prosecutor-calls-her-a-liar.html?pg=2

Can it be? Could it be true? If it weren't true....why would she say..."I used to work for Universal Studios?" She could have just as easily have said...."I used to work for Dairy Queen"....or....."I used to work for Burger King." Yet, Universal Studios popped into her head when the urge of mentioning a potential former employer arose.

In what capacity did she work for Universal Studios?

1. Executive in Charge of Motion Picture Development?
2. Executive in Charge of Creative Affairs?
3. An Event Planner at Universal Studios Theme Parks?

I'm intrigued!! I'm bubbling over with curiosity!! Universal Studios / SyFy Channel...The corporation having always taken relentless pride in iteself despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary....has apparently experienced one of its very own falling from grace. And in a spectacular....media saturated / media frenzied manner to boot!!

How does a former employee of Universal Studios...end up like this? Is there something within the corporate culture of Universal Studios having caused such a spectacular fall from grace as this? Something in the food being served at the Universal Studios cafeteria?

You work for Universal Studios one day....and then you're the media darling of CNN the next!! Is it possible to even think it??

Can Casey Anthony go backwards? Can she rise above all of this and return to flashing her badge at the Universal Studios front gate in order to resume whatever it was she was doing before....all of this?

Stay tuned tomorrow!! Same Bat-Time....Same Bat-Channel!!

What Does Mayor Gregor Robertson Think About The SyFy Channel Occupying His City?

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He can't be too happy about the SyFy Channel dug into Vancouver as if it's a foxhole in order to film its various television series and movies there. Television series and movies of a dubious quality. Despite the financial benefits to the local economy of having the SyFy Channel there, there has to be some internal feelings within the Vancouver City Council and the Mayor himself of having a backwater little cable channel permanently entrenched there filming below par garbage within their city limits.

It was Vancouver resources and Vancouver filmmaking equipment utilized by the SyFy Channel to film such garbage as "Sharktopus"....."Ice Spiders"....."Caprica"....."Blood & Chrome".....and "GINO." Is that the sort of history that Mayor Gregor Robertson will eventually want logged in the Vancouver historical records? That the likes of....."Sharktopus"....and "Ice Spiders".....were filmed in his city? Even if there are historical records specifically pertaining to the filmmaking history of Vancouver....I doubt very much that Mayor Gregor Robertson wants the SyFy Channel's "B-Movie Schlock" contributions included in such records.

The SyFy Channel is a "Schlock-Ploitation" cable channel....with nothing in their broadcast history worthy of historical preservation. They crank the shit out....and they "eek" out a few...meager....advertising dollars from their brainless endeavors. From there....it's onward and downward to the $5.00 discount DVD bins at Wal-Mart for these mindless productions conceived by Bonnie Hammer....David Howe....and Mark Stern.

A city with the prestige of Vancouver deserves the likes of PBS and Masterpiece Theater to be filming there. Not the SyFy Channel and "Fact or Faked?" I'm sure the SyFy channel's presence in his city is one of those daily aggravations that Mayor Gregor Robertson just shakes his head "no" in utter incredulity and disgust at. He won't kick the SyFy Channel out of his city because of the benefits to the local economy...but at the same time....I'm sure he isn't too thrilled that they are there either. It would be the same thing as the Klu Klux Klan holding a rally in a city. City officials wouldn't be too thrilled that they are there...but they tolerate the presence of the Klu Klux Klan because they have free speech rights, and have a right to exercise those rights as long as they don't hurt anybody.

The SyFy Channel has free speech rights to film garbage, they aren't hurting anybody....so Mayor Gregor Robertson allows them to stay there.

To What Depths of Sleaze Will NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel Executives Sink to In Order to Stealth Market "Blood & Chrome?"

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Stealth marketing is the preferred religion of those corporations that have absolutely no internal talent whatsoever in such areas as the conception and physical development of movies and television series. NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel took stealth marketing to such an extreme in their rabid promotion of Ronald D. Moore's "Galactica in Name Only" series that as a last resort (because traditional forms of stealth marketing weren't working)....they engaged in arguments with the general public on Internet forums such as the former http://www.scifi.com/galactica, and the present http://www.stallioncornell.com/board.

NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel executives and their hired thugs from "Abraham & Harrison" proved that there was no sleazy depth that they would not sink to in order to promote Ronald D. Moore's series. They would insult your family, your economic status, what region of the United States you lived in, what your religion was, what your nationality was....and even find out what the phone numbers were of the people they were arguing with...call those people...and breathe into the receiver without saying anything when the phone was answered....if you dared to express your negative, personal opinion of Ronald D. Moore's series.

This was and is the world of guerrilla style stealth marketing as practiced by NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel executives. A world I fully expect to pick up steam again when the time comes for the "Blood & Chrome" pilot movie to air on the SyFy Channel.

Based upon this inexplicably psychotic behavior of NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel when it comes to stealth marketing....I am fully convinced that they will resort to these additional immoral practices (as well) in order to stealth market (guerrilla style) the "Blood & Chrome" pilot movie...

1. Walk up to people on the street and pick fights with them.

2. Walk into hospital rooms in order to try and convince scheduled surgery patients....and post-surgery patients still on anesthesia...to watch the "Blood & Chrome" pilot movie.

3. Walk into a McDonalds or a Burger King during the lunch rush in order to preach the good gospel of Lord Thy God Ronald D. Moore.

4. Dial 911 in order to try and convince the 911 operator(s) that the "Blood & Chrome" pilot movie will rejuvenate them spiritually.

5. Barge in on weddings, bar mitzvahs, funerals, wakes, suicide attempts, births, and yes...even conceptions....in order to promote "Blood & Chrome."

6. Barge in on church services and confessions in order to promote "Blood & Chrome."

7. Barge in on police interrogations in order to promote "Blood & Chrome."

8. Barge in on loving couples having intimate candlelight dinners in order to promote "Blood & Chrome."

9. Barge in on surgeries actually taking place in order to promote "Blood & Chrome."

10. Leave messages on the White House web site for the First Family to watch "Blood & Chrome" with each message ending in......"For Whom The Bell Tolls"........

Just wait and see....NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel will resort to all of this.

Debunking The Notion That Ronald D. Moore's Sham Interpretation of Battlestar Galactica Was Legitimately Loved And Adored

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Was there ever a television show more ridiculously promoted and more ridiculously unsuccessful as Ronald D. Moore's "Galactica in Name Only" series? Usually a good indicator of how unsuccessful a television series really is....is the highly suspicious collection of prestigious awards the television series receives....awards the actual contents of the television series fail to live up to. Awards which seem way out of place being bestowed upon such a lackluster television series. What the awards represent being way above and beyond the television series itself...such as Ronald D. Moore's "Galactica in Name Only" series.

Harlan Ellison gave this series an award? Why? Because the SyFy Channel's stealth marketing department told him to? The United Nations honored this series in some way? Why? Because the SyFy Channel's stealth marketing department put in a request for them to do so? Because somebody at the SyFy Channel knew somebody in the United Nations?

What came through loud and clear throughout the relentless promotion of this shit-bag series....was that the SyFy Channel really made its rounds....and really got around to the darndest of places....in order to beg, plead, twist arms, and pray....for anyone and anything to artifically praise this series. It just seemed odd at the time....and it felt odd....that such an underwhelming television series was supposedly receiving such legitimate praise. Praise that was way out of....and way above and beyond....what Ronald D. Moore's "Galactica in Name Only" series actually was. And regardless of the wide variety of different sources "GINO" was supposedly receiving legitimate praise from....you could tell that the same stealth marketing script was being followed to the letter by everyone involved....including the United Nations, Harlan Ellison, and the inexplicably gushing television reviews (from critics who had to be on acid at the time) praising the series.

Yes, the SyFy Channel constructed a convenient little fantasy mechanism for itself through stealth marketing. It can be concluded that a stealth marketing operation of this magnitude was being overseen by Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern. Operations of this magnitude don't happen by accident. They don't randomly fall out of the sky in order to give Ronald D. Moore's "Galactica in Name Only" series every benefit of the doubt known to man despite its contradicting...overall sucktitude. This behemoth of a stealth marketing operation was planned right down to the letter with sharpened pencils....with extra fine points. This sucker was conceived...and Bonnie Hammer gave birth to it.

When you think about it....Why would anyone in their right mind love a television series where two of the primary cast members are frowning...mumbling...and staring stone faced off into the distance? (Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell.) Why would anyone love a television series where ugliness including rape, torture, and murdering helpless infants were the primary excuses for its relentless narrative laziness? Why would anyone love a television where bad acting, obvious location shooting in Canada, and business suits straight off the rack from "Sears" were its ridiculously flaunted faults?

Maybe there is a lesson in here somewhere for Ronald D. Moore, Bonnie Hammer, David Howe, and Mark Stern. The next time they're looking for love....they won't find it by making a television series.