I'm not sure at which points pro cycling hasn't been science fiction. I've always watched it, regardless, apart from the Indurain era where it stretched my disbelief to breaking point plus it was boring. For all the underlying truths of the Armstrong era, it was dramatic.
I suppose with Sky it is just embarrassing to be from the country with whom the team identifies and whose victories are used to burnish nationalistic credentials...you know it is founded on bullshit. And what bullshit. The pseudo science. The hagiography. The client journalists who might as well be Sky PR, but most of all the arrogance to think that we will just swallow the crap.