SciFi now SyFy? Wy?

The SciFi channel is changing its name to SyFy…When I first saw this I immediately thought of all of those signs saying “Drive-thru” instead of “Drive-Through” because it costs too much to pay for the extra letters. At least those signs have a slightly reasonable purpose behind their dumbing-down and destruction of the English Language, so I wondered what could possibly be the reasoning behind SciFi’s change? They’re not exactly charged by the letter, and it’s not that much shorter.

Turns out…they’re trying to make the channel sound more “human.”

Er…what? First of all, this is an insult to the intelligence of their viewer: They can’t understand what SciFi means, so we’ll spell it phonetically!

Second of all…SciFi is inhuman? Does this make the people that enjoy it similarly inhuman? This is almost as bad as that stereotype that all geeks are pimply-faced 40 year old unwashed men living in their mother’s basement.

It’s just another blow to a channel that has, more and more, provided nothing but crappy worse-than-B-grade TV movies, wrestling, and…er…more wrestling, often alienating the core audience that the channel was originally conceived for.  The one good thing remaining on it is Battlestar Gallactica and…it’s in its final season. When that’s gone, what reason will any good “SyFy” loving geek have to return to the channel that has nothing for them?

None. It might as well change its name completely and become “Spike 2, even more Stuff For People with IQs of a smashed turnip.” Just as how the music disappeared from MTV, the SciFi is disappearing from…SyFy.

They’re not just losing their core demographic, they’re driving us away. SciFi was created for people who by and large want intelligent content rather than mind-numbing idiocy. We want quality. What’s so bad about being TV for Smart People?

I’m with Wil Wheaton on this. “SyFy? Fyck You.”  I’ll be watching Discovery or, you know, anything that’s been cancelled by Fox.