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| Polaris made it to the final three candidates to be picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel. Unfortunately, Straczynski announced in January 2003 that Polaris was turned down for being "too science fictiony".
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Um... Pardon me, sport, but exactly
how do you create a show that's "too science fictiony" for the
FRICKIN' SCI-FI CHANNEL??!!?? (Sorry... a little Nicholson showing there...)
There are days when I'd just like to walk into their executive meetings, and say: "Okay... you can tell me. Just what are you guys doing here, really?" And I'm sure I'm going to be told something along the lines of, "We're just a USA Network overflow channel... this is all the crap that USA won't show."
BTW... I got over the whole SF/Sci-Fi thing years ago. It's just labels, and they're pretty much used interchangeably these days. But maybe...
just maybe... the fact that the channel's name is Sci-Fi, and not SF or Science Fiction, really is significant...