These three categories were supplemented by an additional question of what course of actions these mediums inspired, and the top three of those were to Read, Recycle and Register to vote.
Of course the Sci Fi Channel staff had to throw their own two cents and under the Television slot, they threw in Quantum Leap, The Jetsons and V: The Miniseries, ejecting their own Stargate: SG-1, Doctor Who and Babylon 5 from the list. (This may very well give us some insight to the insensible logic to their programming.).
For movies: They inserted Gattaca, Back to the Future and Dr. Strangelove. These three additions ejected The Day After Tomorrow, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Armageddon from the list.
I’ll bet it was a pretty tough decision for everyone involved to create top-10 lists because so many different titles can be in a top-10 list for so many different reasons. Authenticity, entertainment, consistency, relating to, making you forget or even making you remember.
Being the leery guy that I am, I suspect that within the year we’ll be seeing these top-10’s in their own Sci-Fi tier programming. If that happens, I’m blocking The Sci-Fi Channel, period. But the more mundane or important reason the survey was conducted was to bring awareness to the things these different categories can come together to create. It’s a new venture where The Sci-Fi Channel is bringing together leaders in science, technology, art, architecture, education and policy to demonstrate how people can bring about change for the better. This new effort hopes to inspire individuals from the general public to corporation policymakers to meet the challenges of the future. (…Don’t worry, i don’t get it either. I hate rhetoric.)
Personally, I think they need to focus on programming quality, and insert public awareness spots around the 200 Eureka ads we see in an hour’s time, but that’s just me!
Believe it or not, The Sci-Fi Channel launched in 1992 and is currently in 86 million homes.
But enough about that…
If you could add one top 10 item to each of the above categories, what would they be?
Sources: SciFi Wire, SciFi Visions
Image: Screenshot from 2001ASpaceOdyssey.org
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Sorry Greenknight333 but I didn’t read any of the Dark Tower series. In fact back in the day before all these distractions I read more Dean Koontz than King. Sorry I can’t help ya on
that.
On Tripps I meant where did you think landed at the end of The Stand.
Since he’s a fallen Angel he knows no afterlife so he was just dumped on that beach at the end.
I remember when I was younger I thought that was a lame ending for his charcter.
I didn’t realise King had his own version of the Avengers going….
(Extra stuff).
I did hear that the guy that hit King died about 2 years after the accident and I think King even went to his funeral.
The guy was very depressed that he hit Stephen King and they said that he slid into a depression and died of a disease.
King meanwhile, seems like he’s lost the spark?
if I had his ear I would tell him to write some sci-fi stories.
790
I think he hit one of the alternate reality threads that King said all emanated from the Dark Tower..Kind of like the DC Crisis on Infinite Earths..I Thought for sure he was going to turn up in the Dark Tower Series as a helper to Flagg but like I said I haven’t read the final book…
Of course !!!
Gheesh I should have figured that out myself from your last thread. (Idiot 790 !!!!).
Yeah your totally right on Greenknight333. Thanks for that info.
Closure….ahhh.
My god, how can that be an accurate list without
Farscape?!
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