Because when you really think about it, all their stories have similar plots. Shadowy government agency creates CGI monster which proceeds to reek havoc.
The plot line of this one begins in 1966, where a firefighter is making out with his girlfriend after putting out a forest fire. Forget that women didn't dress like that or wear their hair like that in 1966, or serve as firefighters, for that matter. No, we have to set up the plot here. She is possessed by the alien fire serpent and launches a sequence of really bad special effects.
Anyway, flash forward to the present, where we have another forest fire, and a bunch of fires starting in mysterious places, being investigated by the Government Babe. (Note, a Sci-Fi channel original always has a government Babe or Hunk who helps the good guys!) the 1966 guy mysteriously shows up to watch the alien fire blow up the lunch wagon and kill a firefighter who tries to put it out.
Well, along comes Robert Beltran of Star Trek Voyager fame. Yup, you can't have a Sci-Fi original film without a washed up Star Trek actor. Instead of playing his usual new-age Castrati, Beltran plays a shadowy government agent who happens to be a religious fanatic. The word "Miscast" comes to mind. He believes the fire serpent is here to start the Apocalypse, and just needs a little help. Like sneaking it onto the government's strategic oil reserve.
The movie concludes with the actors running around unconvincingly fighting an imaginary CGI monster that is filled in later.
The plot line of this one begins in 1966, where a firefighter is making out with his girlfriend after putting out a forest fire. Forget that women didn't dress like that or wear their hair like that in 1966, or serve as firefighters, for that matter. No, we have to set up the plot here. She is possessed by the alien fire serpent and launches a sequence of really bad special effects.
Anyway, flash forward to the present, where we have another forest fire, and a bunch of fires starting in mysterious places, being investigated by the Government Babe. (Note, a Sci-Fi channel original always has a government Babe or Hunk who helps the good guys!) the 1966 guy mysteriously shows up to watch the alien fire blow up the lunch wagon and kill a firefighter who tries to put it out.
Well, along comes Robert Beltran of Star Trek Voyager fame. Yup, you can't have a Sci-Fi original film without a washed up Star Trek actor. Instead of playing his usual new-age Castrati, Beltran plays a shadowy government agent who happens to be a religious fanatic. The word "Miscast" comes to mind. He believes the fire serpent is here to start the Apocalypse, and just needs a little help. Like sneaking it onto the government's strategic oil reserve.
The movie concludes with the actors running around unconvincingly fighting an imaginary CGI monster that is filled in later.