SLIDERS

There is a 75% chance they will fuck this up.

Flesh Gordon: [Terrified] DYKES?

You acquire the media rights to one of SciFi's greatest characters, something truly marketable that is prime for a comeback...you have in your hands something that was once a glorious, grand, larger than life adventure strip drawn to sheer perfection by Alex Raymond -- which in turn literally HANDS YOU ON A SILVER PLATTER brilliant production designs, script ideas, character concepts, whatever else you could possibly ever need -- you then also had the fun Buster Crabbe serials to look back on as further inspiration AND you had the bold, cool, kookiness of the feature film, too...

...And yet THIS is what you came up with? Sheesh, you guys at SciFi TRULY SUCK. If there was any sense of cosmic justice in the universe, you'd all turn in your resignations tomorrow and just admit to how utterly clueless you are to genre projects.

How you could totally screw something like this up -- as I said, something literally handed to you on a silver platter -- is only a further testament to the brain trust that likewise gave the world MANSQUITO.

Hell, if nothing else, here's a side note to Bonnie Hammer: FIRE ALL OF YOUR MARKETING PEOPLE. Seriously, for a new show, could you possibly have released shittier stills that convey absolutely NO sense of fun, NO sense of scale, NO worthwhile production values, or for that matter ANYTHING to make this venture seem worthwhile? For crying out loud, if this was all you had to work with then just release some production sketches of "things to come", that you haven't filmed yet or will be rendered via effects work, to make it at least SEEM like this will be a cool show.

But, no, rather than that you just release a flood of stills that are all boring head shots, not to mention shots that show just how much you've likewise fucked up an iconic character like Ming with your hack revisionism. Not one still...not ONE...shows any sense of what Flash Gordon should be like. Hell, its telling how utterly suck ass this will be that I can Google "Flash Gordon" and "Buster Crabbe" and black & white stills from the 1930s look more lush and imaginative and fun. Nice to know that nearly 80 YEARS LATER you've actually managed to produce a show that looks WORSE than old time serials.

So seriously, just cancel this dud now. The details about the show (no ships, traveling by Stargate...oops, I meant worm hole) only solidify what a low budget, completely uncreative, HACK job this show will be.

In fact, you know what's the saddest part? After VAN HELSING came out, Stephen Sommers announced he wanted to do a big budget FLASH GORDON film and people griped about that. Well, the "tone" of VAN HELSING may have been too comical or over the top for some (given Sommers film style), but I'd have taken a big budget Sommers film over this shit any day of the week. In fact, I can't believe -- as a lifelong Flash fan -- that I'm NOT getting the Sommers film and have to be handed this crap instead.

Seriously, what a fucking waste of a great opportunity to do something here...

BUT...when I switch over and use FIREFOX, no problem -- the pictures are all there. I'm just your average basic computer user, but I'm sure someone here can explain "why" one browser shows the pictures and the other doesn't.

So go figure. As yet another testament to their utter cluelessness, you'd have thought that SOMEONE at SciFi would have noticed the glitch and fixed it by now. But, hey, what do they care if people CAN'T see the pictures they put up?

Oh wait. Scratch that. Given how shitty this project looks, maybe that IS their plan after all!