Could This Year Be The End Of Science Fiction On TV?

J.J. Abrams create the boom in skill fiction TV with the runaway success of his island - castaway show lose . Can his fresh show , Fringe , keep that same boom from ending ? Despite zig - zagging rating , Fringe is actually the most successful science fiction show on TV in good order now , and everything else is softening alarmingly . Could the 2008 - 2009 season be the end of science fiction on television ? Sadly , Fringehad the weakest debutof any Abrams show since Felicity . The 2d episodedid betterthanks to the House premiere , and then the third episodedropped again . But the third episode mark well than the first , and as long as House remains passably popular , Fringe may be able to tantalize its coattails . It ’s voiceless to overdraw how much the current harvest of scientific discipline fabrication exhibit owe to Lost . They almost all feature on-going mythologies and confederacy , and steering wheel within wheels , and unshaven man star into space . And yet , no other show has managed to sustain watcher ’ interest — or even build on them , the means fall back did in its most recent season with its flash - forwards . So far , this TV time of year is looking like a bit of a battue for skill fiction . The almost certainly ending Smallville ? Down 14 percent from its season opener last twelvemonth . Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles?Dropping steadily , lamentably . Knight Rider ? Last night ’s debut hadhalf as many viewers as February ’s TV motion-picture show . And as we ’ve already mention , Heroes drop a twenty-five percent of its looker from last yr . novel British goggle box retreads Life On Mars and Eleventh Hour have generated bombination that ’s muted at intimately .

But looking at the bigger picture , it ’s not look like a smashing season for written television in general . Most shows seem to be snitch with soft ratings , or worse . It just proves the risk of trying to prognosticate the time to come : When the writer get going on ten-strike last winter , some people claimed the absence of script show from the airwaves would make hoi polloi escape them more . rather , a lot of viewer seem to have decided they can live quite jubilantly on a diet of realness television set and plot shows . It may also be true that viewers have decided that they ’re tired of epic science fabrication on a little - screen budget . Maybe they no longer want to journey to the eye of mystery with a gang of desperadoes . Maybe they ’ve decided that superhero narratives work best on the enceinte screen , and express like Heroes and Smallville that examine and do comic - booky stuff on a modest scale leaf , calendar week after hebdomad , are n’t as much play as seeing Jon Favreau or Chris Nolan give birth a tidy two - hour ( ish ) superhero epic with costumes and immense set - piece of music . Maybe they no longer want to keep runway of who came from which alternate future on show like Heroes and Sarah Connor . It ’s really hard to say . One matter does bode well for science fiction on TV , if it can retool a flake . If we really are headed for a stomach - slamming curler - coastery downswing that ’ll make the Great Depression look like a wee strain pouch , then hoi polloi will need cheery escapist entertainment more than ever . If scifi TV can retool itself to get disembarrass of some of the ominous ooh - everybody’s - sinister trapping and go for more of a fun , Glen Larson vibe again — peradventure without quite so much camp — it could be the amusement of choice for the dismal year to arrive .

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