You may have Syfy if you are…
Posted by gregchiaramonti on July 12, 2009
I’ve got Syfy on my fingahs!!! (I keep going around saying that… if you listen to The Beatles you’ll know the reference). Supposedly the main reason for the Sci-Fi Channel to change to Syfy is that it can be trademarked, while Sci-Fi is a genre description so it couldn’t be. It’s just freaking me out, like, I feel as if I have a reading disorder as I know the word should be “sci-fi” but it’s spelled all weird now and somehow my brain is confused, like learning a new language. And their tagline is “Imagine Greater”, which is like a rip-off of the old Apple “Think Different” (both have adverb troubles, too…)
I think the problem with “syfy” is that it reads as “siffy” and not “sci-fi just spelled differently”. I think if they were a brand new channel/site it wouldn’t be a big deal, but to just re-brand an established channel that does well within its niche is weird. And if they are looking to expand beyond sci-fi content, then why not come up with some completely new name to reflect that? Weird…
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Stupid Future said
Awesome, I like the Public Tardis, that’s my fave. Makes you wonder who cleans those Stargates, though…some kind of “Defender” of cleanliness? I read that they are doing it to get away from geeks in their basements, or something like that. Scoff the hand that feeds, I say. Scoff. Scoff. Scoff. It’s the sound of the Sci-Fi audience slowly migrating to some other media outlet….