5 Reasons Scifi Does Better In Movies Than In TV

Why is science fiction so much hotter at the movies than on television?Peoplehave inquire for a while . Recently , the universally panned Jumper and the blah I Am Legend and Cloverfield have strike bighearted . But the well - received Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on the brink of cancellation . We explain this unknown phenomenon , after the jump .

1 ) TV and movies show the same radiation diagram . Sarah Connor Chronicles hadrecord - high viewershipof 18.3 million for its first installment , but has since dropped to around 8 million . The same thing , more or less , happened to Bionic Woman and the 2d season untier of Heroes . When this happens to a TV show , it ’s a calamity . But a movie that makes pail of cash in its opening weekend and then drops is considered a success . flick do n’t have to throw people for future installments , they just have to crochet you once and then go off .

2 ) Movies can give way bigger special - effects budget . This one is obviously a no - brainer . But actually , it ’s the least of the reasons why a TV show would have a hard time gain over audiences . see at the two most successful scifi appearance of recent years : Lost and Heroes . Neither show wears its ocular effects budget on its sleeve , and you could easily mistake them for goop operas or “ vanilla extract ” dramas a lot of the time . There ’s not a lot of bling bling on the screen in your average Lost episode , liken with , say , Transformers . Or Sarah Connor , which has tons of VFX .

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3 ) interminable secret plan maze . Joss Whedon excellently said that a television show is a question , but a movie is an answer . That ’s why Firefly spun out tons of closed book , like what happened to River in her special school , or what was the plenty with the Reavers . And Serenity , the film based on the TV show , had a ego - contained plot and answered all your tarry questions in the course of instruction of two - ish hours . idiot box display , specially in this era of discharge storytelling , spin out sempiternal patch that repay obsessional viewer — and scare away chance unity . ( This is why I ’m still question if J.J. Abrams can do a Star Trek film that does n’t feel like a tease . )

4 ) Scifi TV is actually cheap than flick . The cheesiest SF moving picture nowadays tend to go straight to DVD , or at most appear in a few festivals . Yes , a moving picture like Transformers is implausibly bum and dumb , but it does boast an A - leaning lead story actor ( no matter how you may palpate about Shia LaBoeuf . ) If transformer was a TV show … well , it would be Knight Rider .

5 ) The networks . for certain , there are pile of things the movie studios and electrical distributor can do to mess up up a movie ’s probability . They can market it awfully , or not at all . They can release it during a packed weekend . And unnumerable amazing SF pic have snuff it in the evolution “ process . ” But nothing the movie studio apartment or distributors can do could be as horrendous as what Fox and other networks have done to strangle promising SF shows in their babyhood .

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