This is my commentary on the name change

[trinityvixen]

From EW:

One can't forge a destiny without being beholden to all the baggage that comes with the name. I get all that. But if you're gonna change the name, then CHANGE THE GODSDAMNED NAME. Don't half-ass it. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. (I'd have liked The Mansquito Network, but I'm in the vast minority.)

...I would have voted for "The Mansquito Network." I've said it once, I'll say it again: there will never be another Sci-Fi, SyFy, or Whatever-Sells-to-the-Norms Channel Original Movie with a better name than Mansquito.

Just say it aloud: Mansquito. It is officially the name to end all names. It certainly sounds better than a network moniker that closely resembles a venereal disease...

Also: NO. If you're not responsible enough not to change your name to the STD Channel for non-nerds, you don't get to retell Alice in Wonderland with the people who did Tin Man.


(One more BSG tidbit: The Cylon-centric stand-alone movie The Plan was directed by Edward James Olmos. I love you, Daddy Adama, but stay on the other side of the camera from now on, okay? The movie will also apparently change the way we see the series so much we'll all have to watch it over again. Somebody check me on this, but did they say the same shit about Razor? 'Cause, ewww no.)

Comments

[oblvndrgn.livejournal.com]

I hadn't really heard about the name change before I read some webcomic today. I thought about it, and I actually don't think it's as bad as people say. The business angle could very well be an accurate one - I'm certainly not the best at IP law, but from what I understand, it would be really hard to protect things with "Sci-fi" on it because it's an already existant term, whereas SyFy let's you keep the same pronunciation without running into legal matters. What's the big deal?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Because it's stupid? It sounds and it looks stupid? I mean, there was a comic article about this to the effect of "Why doesn't Comedy Central also change its name? It could be, using SyFy as a rubric, CMDY." This is a cable station, not the NYSE.

Plus, it's not even marginally as clever as our sci-fi club's Psi-Phi shirts. So :P

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Plus, it's not even marginally as clever as our sci-fi club's Psi-Phi shirts. So :P
I'm still to this day amazed that nobody else has picked up on those, because seriously, BEST FANDOM SHIRTS EVER

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

SS Doomtrooper, you silly female!

Anyway, a MANsquito would be no danger. It's those WOMANsquitos you would need to watch out for (Malarial Kingdom, here we come!)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Dude, I will fight to the death for Mansquito. SS Doomtrooper could be the name of a video game. No one has ever come close to the awesomeness of Mansquito.

The fact that Mensquitos would be unable to infect you with anything says loads about the channel, too--all of which, given its standard WWE/Ghost Hunters/Stargate lineups, is true.