They want their shows to continue (preferably forever), but the show needs more viewers in order for the network to renew it.

Hardcore scifi fans take everything way too serious and like to have aggressive opinions about everything. No one can tell them they’re wrong, no one can change their mind. They have a limited scope of what they expect from their shows, movies, books, and comics/graphic novels and are not open to new ideas or to any of the above media trying to make their content more accessible.

And if the above media (television and film in particular) cannot be made more accessible, then it will not get enough viewership and will no longer be produced.

Additionally, the aggressive, purist nature of hardcore scifi fans is a turn-off for many a layperson. Hardcore scifi fans can’t just sit back and accept scifi as it is, they must analyze it and critique it and hold exceptionally high standards for all scifi exploits thereby often taking the fun out of it.

Analyzing media is not a bad thing. In fact, it’s what makes scifi great; the many layers it packs on, the allegories, the philosophical themes, all are what make scifi better than your average genre. But if you can’t just enjoy the surface of it in the first place, then what’s the point?

I love scifi. I love analyzing and overanalyzing and watching and re-watching scifi. I love the themes and the allegories and all of it, but once you start chastising people for only enjoying scifi at face value or for liking something that you deem unworthy because it doesn’t have enough layers or good enough acting or good enough writing or isn’t scientifically or technologically accurate, you’re only serving to distance them from the world of scifi and preventing them from ever discovering the deeper layers of that world.

So please, for all our sakes, stop being self-important jerks.

*Disclaimer: This rant is a generalized rant. Not all hardcore scifi fans act as the above states. If you’re reading this, I’m not talking about you…Or am I?