Dear Sci-Fi Channel
Monday, September 22nd, 2008Dear Sci-Fi Channel,
Major fan here... No, not of you. Only of science fiction in general. Actually, the only reason I ever tune in to your stuff is to watch Eureka and Stargate Atlantis. It would have been Stargate SG-1, too, but you cancelled that for some reason. Needless to say, science fiction fans are geeks, nerds, and whatever other words you can use to describe people who understand the concepts behind warp drives, wormholes and holographic storage crystals. We're also somewhat obsessive and fanatic when it comes to our TV shows.
Don't think we didn't notice that you cut Stargate Atlantis' opening sequence to 10 seconds from 60 seconds. Don't patronize us when you say it's to make room for more footage... We're science fiction fans and it doesn't take a rocket scientist (which, you know, we could easily be) to notice an increase in commercial time. We could understand starting Eureka off with a shorter sequence to begin with, but to cut both Eureka and Atlantis after seeing how amazing the full sequences are? That's just insulting. We all understand your want to advertise your wrestling matches, but, to be honest and perfectly blunt: Nobody cares. We watch your station for the science fiction, which you are slowly erroding away to make a negligible increase in your profits.
Thank you,
A very angry wolf.