Science Fiction and Germans

If you sit around as an American and watch German TV.....you come to this one topic.....science fiction, and you kinda shake your head.

Public-run TV (the twenty-odd networks)....do absolutely zero on science fiction.  They might run a full-blown science fiction movie once a month (E.T, Harry Potter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Lord of the Rings, etc).  It's not their genre, and the intellectural guys who control state-run TV just have no interest in going beyond that.  Go and suggest a zombie flick and watch the reaction....garbage TV would be the comeback.

Commercially-run TV?  X-Files, Arrow, Shaun of the Dead, and soon to be shown Flash.  The general problem for some science fiction movies is that once you get into the violent nature of a movie.....it has to be after 10PM, and potential viewers are less.

The odd thing?  When you sit back and examine German-written science fiction.....there's some historical stuff out there.  Perry Rhodan?  Since 1961, there's been well over 2,000 installments of the fictional science and space series.

Two Worlds?  Written in 1897.....it was a fairly well respected science fiction book.  Most critics write over the bogus way it was handled in translation and made for a marginal book in English.....feeling it was better in German, and no one has yet to do a four-star translation with it.

The Blue Boy?  Written in 1991....considered a great science fiction piece.

Last Day of Creation?  From the early 90's and considered a good science book.

So I come to this personal criticism.....no motivation on any German production team's agenda to make German science fiction series or movies.  There's simply no interest.

With the exception of the 1927 production of Metropolis (a four-star classic) and the recently produced Traumschieff Surprise....there's been almost nothing produced by German film producers.

For TV production, there's the 1966 short series of Raumpatrouille.  That's virtually it.

Now, I realize.....Germans are awful realistic and zombies, vampires, and space aliens just don't get much credit. If you bring up Bigfoot, Nessie, or aliens building the pyramids......this would be the last crowd with any belief.  But surely, there's some room for time travelers, space colonization, or space opera.

Anyway, my two cents.