Sci Fi Channel Brings You Superheroes In The Suburbs - io9 Comments

Sci Fi Channel Brings You Superheroes In The Suburbs

ShoplifterOfTheWorld — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:54:15 PDT

I'll watch. Hope it doesn't suck like Heroes.

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

Sci Fi Channel Brings You Superheroes In The Suburbs

leepe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:52:23 PDT

Mr. Howe,

I hope you get the ratings, I really do! But, just to let you know that the core fanbase of the 'Sci fi Channel' will laugh this bigger monstrosity than all your Z-grade Saturday night movies.

leepe

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PVIII — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:45:05 PDT

Oh god no. How hard for is to ask for more shows with outer space in them. C'mon!

PVIII

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ProfessorJGriffin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:39:48 PDT

Wow, copyright infringement much. This was done, with the same title, premise, and descriptions, by a small press company in 2005.
Hell, google this title and they show up on the first page. I don't believe they have anything to do with this though... expect the "cease and desist" soon

ProfessorJGriffin

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Taed — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:58:16 PDT

In the same genre (the private lives of superheroes) would have been _Ultra_. I loved the comic. I heard that a pilot TV show was made, but has anyone ever seen it?

Taed

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Katana_Mind — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:01:44 PDT

@ggodo:
Ah, but only the initial issues, penned by Alan Moore.
As soon as he left Top Ten it became total drivel. Seriously, the difference between the first two issues and the latter ones are astounding.

Katana_Mind

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ggodo — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:50:14 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Top Ten is truly the bestest of the best when it comes to super heroes. Followed by The Tick.

ggodo

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JennaW — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:17:46 PDT

Jordan K. Gorfinkle? I thought he was DEAD*!

He was the man who created Birds of Prey, so I love him. Must now track down this comic and give it a shot just as a thank-you for BoP.

*no actual deaths were suspected

JennaW

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Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:51:28 PDT

@btgoss: Hey. You leave SS Doomtrooper out of this. Let's not say things we can't take back.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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Priam — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:12 PDT

@btgoss: Honestly, it's better than what passes for good television nowadays. Reality television needs to die.

Priam

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darcymcgee — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:52:57 PDT

Doesn't this sound a bit like The Incredibles?

darcymcgee

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btgoss — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:21:41 PDT

Could this actually be worse then it sounds?
This from the network that gave you the Warbirds/SS Doomtrooper double bill this past weekend, so they have set the bar very high for crappy shows.
I expect this show to make us long for the days of the New Flash Gordon.

btgoss

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Final — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:20:23 PDT

Anything would be better then Flash Gordon.

Final

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Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:52:30 PDT

@92BuickLeSabre: Maybe. But nobody has to watch them do it.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:24 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Hey, somebody's got to solve The Mystery of the Robotic-Overlord-Tainted Lunchmeat!

92BuickLeSabre

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Grey_Area — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:02 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: Okay, just checking. You may now continue with the awesomeness.

Grey_Area

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Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:28:21 PDT

Oh yeah. I loved Top Ten. I was saying that was a good thing to try and be like.
The concept of looking at the people in the peripher of superheroes is a great idea. They just don't seem to be going the right way with it.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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Grey_Area — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:17:27 PDT

@Garrison Dean, King Awesome: I concur. But you did like "Top Ten", right?

Grey_Area

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Garrison Dean, King Awesome — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:03:15 PDT

Boy... done right this could be some seriously awesome shit. Kind of like Top Ten. What happens when your husband is never home. How do you look infront of your kids when your power is doing dishes and your wife can fly. Do you become a villain just to see them more? I could see this being some excellent materiel for a BSG style examination of the superhero genre.

Or you could have them all fuck eachother and solve lame crimes like the Hardy Boys all the time. Which is what this looks like. I have a feeling that every episode will end with something like this.

Superdude flies through window.
"Honey I stopped the gorgon and beat away an alien invasion! What did you do today!"

Wife, who had solved a local plot involving tainted lunchmeat designed to turn kids into robotic toys, looks at the camera, winks and says..

"oh... Nothing"

DAH duh DAH!!!

Yeah.. .this is gonna be bad.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

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Mathmos — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:02:27 PDT

deadpan reportage by io9 media shills

Mathmos

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DarkPlaces — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:52:49 PDT

Stupirbia.

DarkPlaces

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Evdor — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:44:43 PDT

I'm speechless.

Evdor

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Slatz_Grobnik — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:33:36 PDT

You ever think this is random? Like the product of some extremely bored executive somewhere, trying to come up with ideas that shouldn't fly? Or is it just the "hey, people like 'DS,' and superheroes are all the rage! Let's mix 'em up!"

Slatz_Grobnik

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A-Bettik — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:32:23 PDT

hey why not? They cancel any good show they have and make crapass flicks that are no better than Lifetime movies.

A-Bettik

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Plague — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:35 PDT

Hello, hammer. Meet my head.

Soon the blurbs at the bottom of the Sci Fi channel's shows will take up half the screen.

Plague

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Aethyr — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:18 PDT

This sounds like my ideal TV show!

Aethyr

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Priam — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:31:06 PDT

I'd watch it. Not like there is much else on except on Friday nights.

Priam