{"id":2880,"date":"2011-02-25T22:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2011-02-25T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T22:08:51","slug":"you_used_to_be_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"You Used To Be Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Den of Geek looks at the rise and fall of the Sci Fi–now (gag) Syfy–Channel<\/a>. The niche network that once aired some pretty great science fiction series (Farscape<\/i>, Battlestar Galactica<\/i>) now relies on a heavy rotation of cheesy reality series and wrestling. The few original series that remain on the schedule can be called science fiction only in the loosest sense of the term, much in the same way that Kraft Singles can loosely be called cheese. The blandification of the Sci Fi Channel was probably inevitable, given the brutal economics of cable television and the inherently small audience for true-blue science fiction. The rise of reality TV simply hastened its demise. <\/p>\n

It’s not as if geeks have nothing to watch. Quality genre shows like Fringe <\/i>continue to attract rabid followings (even if the ratings aren’t great). And through the magic of streaming video, we’ll eventually be able to drown ourselves in the cult classics from decades past. But at a time when just about every niche interest has found a home on the entertainment spectrum, it’s a little sad to note that we nerds have to content ourselves with the bones pop culture tosses us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Den of Geek looks at the rise and fall of the Sci Fi–now (gag) Syfy–Channel. The niche network that once aired some pretty great science fiction series (Farscape, Battlestar Galactica) now relies on a heavy rotation of cheesy reality series and wrestling. The few original series that remain on the schedule can be called science […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ks","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}