Comment It occurs to me (Score 1) 684
That they simply asked an intern to draw up a list of every scifi show s/he could think of, then they went down the list, grabbing ones they'd heard were cool and throwing in the ones they were sure they'd get yelled at for not including (Dr. Who, Firefly, Star Trek, Buffy, and Xena may have made it on that way -- not saying they are or aren't good, but that they'd have the "yelling" factor.)
I mean, it doesn't look like any devoted scifi fans were asked, and it seems clear that some stuff was thrown on there just because they couldn't think of something better. I mean, to include The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man, to include Buffy but not Angel, to include Firefly but not Farscape, to include The Greatest American Hero but not Mork and Mindy, to forget The Prisoner, Space Above and Beyond AND Earth 2 but remember Atlantis and Voyager? Heck, to put in Voyager, TNG, and the original Star Trek but not DS9 -- that shows nothing more than sloppiness. I blame Arts/Entertainment editors who just wanted something that'd get Slashdotted.
(also, it looks like some of their comments were written by "someone who cares a lot about this show" and others were written by "the guy who's in charge of writing 45 words about every TV show ever written")
I mean, it doesn't look like any devoted scifi fans were asked, and it seems clear that some stuff was thrown on there just because they couldn't think of something better. I mean, to include The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man, to include Buffy but not Angel, to include Firefly but not Farscape, to include The Greatest American Hero but not Mork and Mindy, to forget The Prisoner, Space Above and Beyond AND Earth 2 but remember Atlantis and Voyager? Heck, to put in Voyager, TNG, and the original Star Trek but not DS9 -- that shows nothing more than sloppiness. I blame Arts/Entertainment editors who just wanted something that'd get Slashdotted.
(also, it looks like some of their comments were written by "someone who cares a lot about this show" and others were written by "the guy who's in charge of writing 45 words about every TV show ever written")
