She's very pretty but True Blood is sci-fi? Not in my book.

I guess I just get used to people lumping sci-fi in with fantasy, and it's kind of fantasy.

That's understandable. Personally it irks me how the entertainment industry lumps sci-fi in with fantasy. I guess they figure that having science fiction stand on its own won't garner enough fans. If you look at SyFy's current programing for example, the vast majority of it is really fantasy and not sci-fi. They might was well change their name to the Fantasy Channel.

But you have to admit that the two genres do seem to attract much the same crowd.

It also depends how you define SF. For instance, are vampires fantasy? What if it's described as a virus that mutates the body? After all, it's an explanation rooted in science. Compare that with an episode of Star Trek where a crew member is "possessed" by an entity via some ill-defined mechanism. In fact, one could claim that between the Head Six and Baltar visions, the Starbuck mystery, and the way the series plays out, that BSG was in fact just as much fantasy as many other series.

It's not the idea, it's the execution that makes an idea more or less fantastical.



As someone who's not watched any of the series currently airing on SFC, on what are you basing this statement? Promos? Other people's (likely less-than-flattering) opinions?


The Jedi Master

I know enough about the basic premise of the major shows currently on SyFy to know whether it falls more in line with sci-fi or fantasy. I've also seen segments of some episodes from time to time.

That's true.

Callisto was pretty Hot, she acted like a spoiled brat chick too, even worse when they made her a god for a few episodes.




Yeah, Alexandra Tydings, She could wear some lingerie!, and thats ALL SHE WORE the entire Xena and Hercules Series.

I quite like that Brazilian chick who was a prostitute, then an invading queen mother, and is now just a housewife married to a terrorist!

I think her name is Morena Baccarin!

It would be extra sweet if they could get her for the Blood and Chrome series...no, I don't know anything, just saying she would be a nice addition for the BSG spinoff.

She just plain hot and doesn't seem to have an empty head either...

Everything I've read so far indicates that Blood & Chrome is DOA. Sigh.