That because all of the good shows on SyFy are Canadian show. Killjoys and Dark Matter are a Space productions. Same with 12 Monkeys. Orphan Black is a Space and BBC Canada production. Lost Girl and Continuum are a Showcase production.

Syfy has switched to less Sci Fi and more "Geek World" with many shows no where near Sci Fi like that Quantum Cooking show or those magic contest shows.

Of course the funniest part of the "Anniversary Show" was watching guest celebs trying to explain why WWE wrestling was on Sy Fy channel.

No, because it carried a better plot than current SyFy programming.

1) We leave Earth because it can no longer support Humans and the theme song sort of implies destroying the land & water, the hippies would like that but the folks who think the tree huggers are wrong would not. Also bound to piss off some religious folks too (not sure why but it would).

2) English not the only language, shock horror the other major language was Chinese & though American Cultural Elements are present the future people have combined elements American & Chinese Culture along with the show also showing the survival of other cultural elements from many cultures in the background... this global scale melting pot into something new I think really offended some people.

3) One of the main characters was a high end prostitute... you can murder people left and right on tv, have rapists, mass murders, sexual infidelity/fornication for free being shown, implied or discussed, torture, drug dealing and tons of other vile human activities... but acknowledge that people do pay for it & make a living that way & are not unlikeable people & it's legal, well we can't have that!  I know that offended people.

4) Religion: Even though Christianity is clearly present & even with a preacher on board... there are clearly other religions, it is doubtful all the crew was Christian. Okay once again this offends people

5) Forced Centralized Government VS Local Freedom of Self Government theme and how the little guys (citizens with no power) have a nay near impossible chance to live lives without doing crime to survive, get abused, and generally are neglected... okay that whole theme is offensive to people who believe centralized government works, just is. Also the whole North vs South theme being explored in it's real roots of power distribution is offensive, as some folks still want to teach/believe that war was about slavery & not a disagreement over who should have more power the Feds or the States. Ignorance + Political Agendas = Offensive.

6)Possible Capitalism vs Socialism or Communism theme was also present, as there where several times comments where made that the Government did not like people (little people) making a profit. Okay you got to understand there are a lot of die hard Socialists & Communists in the media so showing the flaws of such systems is offensive to them, honestly the show did show the flaws of both systems... all economic systems are flawed BTW, but to true believers they can't see that, and if you read both idealistic Capitalist works or Commie stuff the idea is presented in all idealists works on economy systems, that if the children are raised right by the society then it will be all rainbows & blue birds singing... the idea that you can socially engineer people through education to behave & think your way the "right way", even if it goes against human nature & drives is in all idealist works, the idea you can make people better it is in everyone's writings. It is also an idea that predates the modern industrial economic system writers and can be found in religious texts from around the world... you would think someone by now would have figured out social engineering as it has been applied does not work... but no. So every smarty pants who thinks you can brainwash the populace to think 100% the right way, their way, would find the idea of people rebelling against blindly doing as told for their own good & societies good offensive too... especially offensive to people who like to manipulate others and profit from it, as the show explorers what the powerful do including sacrificing their own children to maintain status and safety. 

This show just offended everyone... right or left, by shooting sacred cows all over the place. So the people in charge of Fox got offended and canned the show... even though the viewing sci-fi public liked it, kept the 2 lame shows no one was watching instead. So I think it offended Fox big wigs on some level. 

 

1> I'm not politically correct, so I enjoyed this aspect of the series.

2> I'm not politically correct, so I enjoyed this aspect of the series also.

Hhhmmmm just in case your life was not complete without 3 of them. 

You just never know what the public will find interesting.