But “Syfy” is meaningless in the context of what they were supposed to be, and The SciFi Channel said it perfectly. It was already identifiable. I remember how badly I wanted cable when I couldn’t afford it just to get The SciFi Channel, and how when I finally did get cable, I had to make sure my package included the one channel I wanted — THE SCI FI CHANNEL.

Boy are those days gone.

SyFy — Still and always an epic FAIL. Negative points for being a non-word.

Serious lover of science fiction here. And I can’t stand the rebranding, it insults my intelligence every time I see it. I watch all my science fiction on hulu.com and netflix now, and never bother turning the TV on.

Maybe if they’d made an effort to serve up more good science fiction they’d have done better with people like me who only want to watch science fiction.

OH — and 40-something woman, no basement-dweller, not anti-social. A few degrees.

I feel sorry for the Lady who doesn’t like it, but it’s perfect for someone who grew up reading real scifi.

I’d like darker stories and less of the fem drama bits

In short this was the recipe used at SciFi for many eyars:

If it's popular and not a reality show then cancel itunless its the only show left on teh line up in whcih case we have to keep at least 1 non-reality TV show afterall this is the SciFi channel; at least until we do a name change then we can cancel all the Science Fiction shows

If its not popular but its a reality show keep it; its just too dirt cheap to cancel even if it pisses off the fans.

The Stand, now I read that 3 times and although the movie seemed like a milquetoast version of it, they nailed the casting perfectly. (Fans of the Stand should read a book called Swan Song which I think is better, based on same theme as the Stand)

Indeed.
I had to turn off my cable for a while and hadn’t gone to the website… When I found out they were calling it SyFy, I almost threw up. I have to agree with IntelliQ as well that whenever I see the dumbing down of the spelling to be “hip” or whatever, it makes me slightly ill. But I can dig it as to the copyright issues. It still doesn’t take away from the fact that SciFi is better.

Oh, and SyFy is not GIRLIE, Rod. I doth take offense.

Re: Stephen King flicks – man, you either have really awesome or really BAD adaptations. The Shining is one of my favorite films ever, despite it being different than the book. That said, The Mist was haunting and tragic. I need to see the B&W!

I dunno, I thought Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and Misery were all pretty well done as well. Would also offer up Stand By Me and Carrie as being decent adaptations. Maybe because the Shining was the first one not completely hacked up by Hollywood. Maybe Carrie wasn’t mainstream enough but for it’s genre it turned out to be a good classic gore fest, but I would agree that a lot of his stuff just didn’t translate too well into film through somehow. For example The Dead Zone… casting Christopher Walken was great as the hero, Martin Sheen as the bad guy, not so much.

The Shining is STILL the BEST adaptation of a Stephen King novel put to film to this day. IF there is ever a Dark Tower movie/series made, I hope whoever does the script takes a long, hard look at how The Shining was done. I’d hate to see some of Stephen King’s best work turned into Pet Semetary.