Re: [scifinoir2] Syfy's New Flagships Recycle Old Favorites

[Mr. Worf]

I never got around to catching it. What was it about?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@lycos.com>wrote:

> Good vs Evil, a USA show from earlier this decade.
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>  Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Syfy's New Flagships Recycle Old Favorites
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>  Date : Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:02:15 -0700
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>  From : "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com>
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>  To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
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> What is G vs E ?
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> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:
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> > Yeah, I mentioned that in my review of "Warehouse 13" the other night,
> > along with similarities to "Level 9", "G vs. E", "The Chronicle", and
> > others--and all of them are better than this show. I hope it gets better,
> > but have doubts...
> > but I must say, between SyFy and another channel --was it USA? TNT?--the
> > debut was aired at least half a dozen times in the last week.
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> > From: "Tracey de Morsella"
> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:28:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Syfy's New Flagships Recycle Old Favorites
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> > I was thinking like you. Friday the thirteen meets XFiles. Dead on
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> > *From:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com]
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> > Behalf Of *Mr. Worf
> > *Sent:* Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:26 PM
> > *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> > *Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Syfy's New Flagships Recycle Old Favorites
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> > I'm glad that someone made the same connection that I was seeing.
> Warehouse
> > 13 is a LOT like Friday the 13th but a little more humorous. More like
> > Friday the 13th meets Xfiles.
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> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Tracey de Morsella <
> > tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com> wrote:
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> > By Sarah Hope Williams ,
> > 2:00 PM on Sun Jul 12 2009
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> > Copy this whole post to another site
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> > Slurp cancel
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> > [image: sending request]
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> > Syfy is back, now with "Y"s, vying even harder for your attention. But
> the
> > network's name isn't the only thing that has been re-purposed; its new
> > staple shows seem oddly familiar. Why is Syfy so unapologetically
> recycling
> > old television?
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> > Syfy is trying to impress us with its new look and new shows, like a
> > small-town girl who moves to the big city to be an "actress", bleaches
> her
> > hair platinum blonde and changes her name. And while we remain skeptical
> of
> > clichéd reinvention, we have to admit – it worked for Norma Jeane.
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> > [image:
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> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/07/504x_Warehouse13_cast-thumb-550x268-13745.jpg
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> > *Warehouse 13 * premiered this week on
> > Syfy, and many viewers were filled with a strong sense of Déjà vu. A pair
> of
> > odd-couple government agents are sent to investigate paranormal activity,
> > blatantly setting the characters up as replicas of Mulder and Scully.
> > Couldn't Syfy at least have mixed things up a bit by making Pete being
> the
> > by-the-book skeptic and Myka being the intuitive true-believer? But it's
> not
> > just the agents themselves that are borrowed directly from the archives:
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> > [image:
> > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/07/friday-series.jpg]The<http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/07/friday-series.jpg%5DThe>
> > name of show, and its very concept, evokes another direct influence: the
> > quirky Canadian series *Friday the 13th
> > * that aired in 1987, about a pair of cousins who inherit an antique shop
> > that turns out to be filled with supernatural artifacts. They too are
> aided
> > by an eccentric middle-aged man with a vast knowledge of the
> supernatural.
> > In *Friday*, the female lead is named Micki, and *Warehouse's*
> tight-laced
> > female agent is Myka – here again, Syfy strives to make things new and
> shiny
> > by swapping "y"s for "i"s.
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> > [image:
> > http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/07/T1iT41eeWdY_02.jpg]
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> > [image:
> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/07/itHmmsweuro.jpg]
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> > This isn't a new approach by any means. When Syfy's old staple show, *
> > Eureka*, first premiered in 2006, its premise was equally familiar;
> > government official gets sent to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to
> > investigate a strange occurrence, teams up with local law enforcement and
> > becomes deeply embroiled in the wacky little town and all its colorful
> > characters. Sheriff Carter is no Agent Cooper, but the sense of odd
> > familiarity about the show was undeniable. *Eureka* appeared to be a
> > candy-coated kid's coloring-book version of *Twin Peaks
> > .*
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> > [image:
> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/07/C9kejvxRokg.jpg]
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> > The question remains, why isn't Syfy trying harder to hide its
> repackaging
> > of television we already know and love? Do they hope that by
> transparently
> > recycling these well-worn television tropes they can take a direct route
> to
> > high ratings and fan admiration? Certainly the ever-increasing number of
> > movie sequels indicates "more of the same" is a safe bet. Syfy already
> seems
> > to be engaged in rebooting even more 80's television, including *Quantum
> > Leap* and *Alien Nation*. It is remarkable how much attention all these
> > "new" shows have gotten on blogs, message boards and by word of mouth.
> > Perhaps the network executives at Syfy know the game better than we
> imagine,
> > and are inviting us to play along as we watch them pressing our buttons.
> But
> > don't they also know that "familiarity breeds contempt"?
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> > You have our attention, Syfy – now can you show us something new?
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> > http://io9.com/5312950/syfys-new-flagships-recycle-old-favorites
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