I'm not sure where those godawful Saturday night movies come from. I can't get past the opening scenes, let alone make it to the credits. "Factory" for sure, "sweat shop" from the looks of it.

It's interesting, though, how it's turned out that there seem to be three centers that crank out some pretty reliably good visual sci-fi, usually the episodic variety: Vancouver BC (all the good Syffy series); Cardiff, Wales (BBC Dr. Who and spinoffs); and somewhere in Eastern Europe, where they pull off amazing feats like a respectable production of Dune. Makes sense that if you move the sci-fi productions out of Hollywood and let people spend a few years specializing in just sci-fi, the quality will inexorably rise. But it also seems like it's helped the serial productions more than the one-off movie productions. Maybe that's just where the money is.

The statement that you haven't watched "even the good ones" on Syffy, is kind of puzzling. Are you boycotting the network? Just seems kind of perverse to not watch what you think might be good. I'm with Frank in having such an appetite for sci-fi that I'm grateful when it's not half bad. Don't think I have the will or willpower to boycott the not-half-bad, considering what that leaves.