This is all your fault.

This is your Fault.

I have been e-mailing with a fellow nerd and the discussion eventually wrapped around to programming on SyFy and its surplus of "Paranormal-Activity Finders" programming and how much reality television is ruining everything we like and that "SyFy" is a stupid name.

I think the largest dis-credit to the insert-paranormal-belief-is-real-here shows is that they are airing on a channel called "Science Fiction" But I can't blame the channel for their programming really because they have discovered a way to make maximum amount of money with minimum amount of effort.

You're the reason this is is off-air

Gone are the days of Saturday Japanime and MST3K, cheesy b-movies from decades ago and Twilight Zone marathons. I think it's a sign of the times and the changing role of television though, it used to be that watching the Sci-Fi channel used to be the only way you could do those things, but now you can watch all the over-the-top anime you want thanks to fan-subs and rent entire seasons of every t.v. show ever made. People don't need a dedicated channel to do these things for them anymore and often prefer not to.

Since most of their business model was built on non-original content, when that content became available through other means it's left them scrambling to find a new way to make money and reality television is the easiest and cost-effective way to fill the gap. It's easy to critique, but my choices as a consumer is what helped make the SyFy (may the marketing department that came up with that name dye yn a fyre) channel what it is today.

What surprises me is that people don't realize that. Television as it is now, is dying off slowly but surely. People are loving being able to watch what they want when they want, without commercials. Most of my friends "don't watch t.v." but can discuss the latest gag on Family Guy because they have the internet. The way we consume our media is in transition. Television programs as we know them seem to be at a great risk to phase out of existence, like radio programming before it. In my opinion, what is on t.v. now are the last gasps of a dying medium, which are never pretty.

Internet killed the T.V. Star