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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Not to be cynical, but I suspect a large part of TNG's success was that it was the least awful science fiction television show on at the time. Despite the stigma attached to the genre, it's still popular, with lots of people on the fringes who would watch an SF show if they could find one that didn't go out of its way to insult their intelligence. I mean, consider the competition. You had War of the Worlds, which I actually remember as being kind of good, and rather scary at the time. But it lasted a season before getting "retooled," and then they never showed the retooled version here anyway. You had Hard Time on Planet Earth, of which the less said the better. You had Manimal. And Automan. Good lord. And Starman. These shows weren't at the bottom of the barrel, they were miles beneath it, reachable only by deep sea oiling rigs. Of course, there is the late 80's Buffy equivalent, Beauty and the Beast, which was quite popular within its demographic (lonely housewives) and lasted for a fair amount of time. Still, not a show that appealed to quite the same audience. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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