Languatron is a special kind of crazy...

[Conundrum]

This little gem is from his one man board is his latest...

Associated Press
BBC-America


"Sci-Fi Channel Fridays Goes Up In A Puff Of Smoke"


Sci-Fi Channel LOWEST RATED cable network for second consecutive week


New York, NY (January 24, 2005) -The debut of 'Sci-Fi Friday' - the LOWEST RATED night of Science Fiction on television - dragged Sci-Fi Channel to its second consecutive week as the LOWEST RATED network on cable among P18-49, P25-54, and M18-49 in Prime (8-11pm). It also marked the lowest rated and least watched Friday Sci-Fi Channel has ever delivered in a quarter.

The Winter premieres of Sci-Fi Channel's infrequently loathed 'Stargate-SG1' (8pm) and 'Stargate: Atlantis (9pm), combined with the critically loathed 'Battlestar Galactica (10pm), have made the channel a viewer vacated wasteland on Friday nights. For Friday Prime (8-11pm), Sci-Fi:

-Ranked in the bottom 5 nets among P2+ (#250), P18-34s (#249), M18-34 (#248), F25-54 (#247), and F18-49 (#246),
in addition to the last place positions reported above in P18-49s, P25-54s, M18-49s, and M25-54s.

-Ranked in the bottom 250 among F18-34 (#259)

-Claimed two of the lowest three telecasts in cable among P25-54s and placed all three 8-11 telecasts in the bottom 250's.

-Claimed two of the lowest three telecasts in cable among P18-49s, and placed all three 8-11 telecasts in the bottom 250s.

-Claimed three of the lowest rated 4 telecasts in cable among M25-54 - including the #250 telecast for the day ("Battlestar
Galactica", 50,000 M18-49; "Stargate: Atlantis" 25,000 M18-49).

-Battlestar Galactica at 10pm was the #248 program on all networks across the board among P18-49.

Sci-Fi, along with sister network USA, dragged NBC-Universal down into stratospherically low ratings for the night. With the
combined weakness of "Monk" (USA), "Battlestar Galactica" (Sci-Fi), "Stargate: Atlantis" (Sci-Fi), the networks claimed four
of the lowest rated five shows among P25-54 for the night.

With a 0.005 HH rating/15,000 viewers P2+, 10,000 P25-54, and 7000 P18-49, "Battlestar" faced and was slaughtered by
its competition. Among M25-54, the series delivered 5000 viewers, less than all of the 250 programs on rival networks across
the country broadcasting that night.

When compared against Sci-Fi Channel's 1Q04 time period average (10-11pm), "Battlestar" was down:

-109% in HH ratings.
-137% in P2+
-222% in P25-54
-256% in P18-49
"Stargate: SG1"

With a 0.001 HH rating, / 5000 viewers P2+, "Stargate: SG1's premiere showed unprecedented loss vs. the 1Q04 time
period average (8-9pm):

-82% in HH ratings
-87% in total viewers P2+
-125% in P25-54
-127% in P18-49
"Stargate: Atlantis"

With its 0.001 HHrating, 5000 viewers P2+, also fell embarrassingly short of all Sci-Fi Channel's 1Q04 ratings for the time
period average (9-10pm):

-24% in HH ratings
-18% in total viewers
-44% in P25-54
-38% in P18-49

Sci-Fi Channel is a television network where "what if" is "whats not on". Sci-Fi stifles the imagination of viewers with highly
derivative series and non-events, box office bombs from the USA film vaults, as well as classic Science Fiction programming
that you can just purchase on DVD anyway (so why watch us)?, as well as our smoke screen, spin doctoring website:
www.Scifi.com combined with our "National Enquirer" news service www.Scifi.com/Scifiwire. Launched in 1992 and
currently in 5000 homes, Sci-Fi Channel is a network of NBC-Universal, one of the worlds most poorly managed and
embarrasing media conglomerates in entertainment history.

8-11pm Prime among P18-49, P25-54, M25-54, and M18-49

[koenigrules]

VERY SICK!
KR

[Swifty]

Wishful thinking really. This guy is freaking nuts if he's willing to push the crap he's doing. It would be even more scary if he actually believed the fake stories he wrote.

[Xenu]

Did y'all notice he actually credits that piece to Associated Press/BBC America? Come on....somebody out there has to be watching this stuff....where's the langy lawsuit?

[Swifty]

Xenu said:

..where's the langy lawsuit?

That'll only give him more ammunition against Sci-Fi, most likely thinking that BBC and the Associated Press are in cahoots with Sci-Fi once he gets a nice subpoena in the basement he lives in. Oh, and to add insult to injury, cut the corners of the subpoena letter.

;D

[MattLee]

Oh, and to add insult to injury, cut the corners of the subpoena letter.

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[lollywit]

Is it me or does anyone else just feel really, genuinely, sorry for him?

To get so twisted over a tv show

An intensely, fantastically, mind blowingly, OH. MY.GOD. tv show - but still... a tv show.

How heartbreaking it is to watch a human beings decline into madness right before our very eyes

[Callipygian]

I don't think he's really nuts or that he actually buys into his act. He has carefully cultivated the Languatron personality, and the result is, he's a bit of a celebrity in BSG fandom. I find him occasionally amusing, and some people in this fandom follow him all over the boards.

Mustex, who posts here sometimes, hounded him on the Skiffy boards before he was banned, and then followed him around the boards like a puppy dog for quite some time. Stallion Cornell and the Moist Boys were begging, goading and cajoling him to come to the Moist board where they now have a section devoted to Langy, and then he was granted his own space on the Mortal Storm board.

Love him or hate him, he's made himself into an institution in BSG fandom, and he's an in-demand celebrity of sorts.

Calli

[Wyvar]

Think Calli nailed it, but if she didnt, can i have some of what Lang is smoking?

[OoohFrak]

lollywit said:

Is it me or does anyone else just feel really, genuinely, sorry for him?

To get so twisted over a tv show

An intensely, fantastically, mind blowingly, OH. MY.GOD. tv show - but still... a tv show.

How heartbreaking it is to watch a human beings decline into madness right before our very eyes

Yeah. I have to agree. Reminds me of that character William H. Macy played at the beginning of "The Cooler" with serious mental disorders thrown in. Gotta pity someone like that. Very sad.

[ViperPilotMomma]

Hey, is that movie any good? My hubby just bought the DVD, site unseen!

[bluegreenturtle]

I found it disappointing and outright bad in some ways. Tastes differ though - I'm sure some people might like it.

[ViperPilotMomma]

Thanks for the heads-up! We'll give it a go.
Good thing the video store has a trading program, though!

VPM

[bluegreenturtle]

I found it hard to take W.H. Macy as a lead for an entire feature. I think he's a fine actor, it just seemed to me like he really isn't the sort that can carry a film as a lead.

On the languatron stuff, I just searched and found his board and read a little. I am totally baffled as to why somebody would do this - it just seems so pointless, no matter how you feel. I have to say the first image that came to mind to me was somebody who was very lonely and every night just went home and masterbated until they were raw.

[Callipygian]

bluegreenturtle said:

I have to say the first image that came to mind to me was somebody who was very lonely and every night just went home and masterbated until they were raw.

;D ;D ;D That's actually a great analogy for Lang. He won't allow anyone else to post on his board, so it could be considered a form of virtual masturbation. Very nice.