Re:Sci Fi Gets No Respect

Pul-eese! After carousing some TV fan forums i am quite depressed.
TV science fiction fans (the fans not the shows) seem to be the most parochial, provincial, narrow-minded, anti-intellectual unimaginative, anti new-idea, anti-scifi group of people i ever come across outside of my immediate red-neck family.
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I think they are a different kind from “Movie and Book” Scifi people. the answer to that I think is found in the schitzophrenic creation method of TV series and it’s stick to: formula/watch the ratings/ satisfy all the population segments “No growth, no hugs” etc attitudes.
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Here is a great subject for sociological research and a book or two or twenty.

Perhaps part of it is that movies and books are as if a story told by one person to one specific person but TV series are stories co-authored by many people to try to fit an audience of a composite person (the statistic) whcih sometimes turns out to be nobody real …like 3.3 children in a family.