Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! Really, pay no attention, he's a jerk.
Joe Mallozzi addresses "Opinion: Atlantis fans need to stop punishing Universe" and its comments on his blog.
http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/november-6-2010-stargate-ratings-fandom-and-my-picky-aunt
Gee, I wish my comment had gotten out of limbo in time for him to read it. If he did, indeed, bother to read the comments, which I have my doubts.
Mostly his blog entry is lots of hand-waving and "it's not our fault"ing. He comes up with a lot of reasons why the show isn't doing well like time-shifted viewing and Tuesday night being a bad move for the show. Certainly at no time does he admit that the writing on SGU is not quite what it should be.
He answers, point by point, the letter of a fan who folded to his usual "tone" argument and very *nicely* explains her (apparently very few and somewhat mild compared to the rest of us) problems with SGU. The closest she gets to an actual criticism: she writes that as a 30 year old woman, she was made to feel unwanted, and he answers, I can’t recall anyone ever dismissing a portion of our audience as unimportant. Then she writes, I want to make it clear my frustration here is based more around feeling ostracized from the Stargate brand at large, and NOT specific criticism towards the existence of SGU. That's when she lost me, because my criticism is all about SGU. I have absolutely no problem with the brand at large. Give me my Atlantis movie and I'll be a happy fan. Give me another SG-1 movie, I'll be almost as happy. I'll pre-buy them on Amazon so quick, Mallozzi's head will spin.
Eh, go read it. It reminded me of those phony town halls President Bush used to call, with it's carefully hand-picked ordinary citizens. It's a lot of passive-aggressive tap-dancing and I can't focus on it properly.
http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/november-6-2010-stargate-ratings-fandom-and-my-picky-aunt
Gee, I wish my comment had gotten out of limbo in time for him to read it. If he did, indeed, bother to read the comments, which I have my doubts.
Mostly his blog entry is lots of hand-waving and "it's not our fault"ing. He comes up with a lot of reasons why the show isn't doing well like time-shifted viewing and Tuesday night being a bad move for the show. Certainly at no time does he admit that the writing on SGU is not quite what it should be.
He answers, point by point, the letter of a fan who folded to his usual "tone" argument and very *nicely* explains her (apparently very few and somewhat mild compared to the rest of us) problems with SGU. The closest she gets to an actual criticism: she writes that as a 30 year old woman, she was made to feel unwanted, and he answers, I can’t recall anyone ever dismissing a portion of our audience as unimportant. Then she writes, I want to make it clear my frustration here is based more around feeling ostracized from the Stargate brand at large, and NOT specific criticism towards the existence of SGU. That's when she lost me, because my criticism is all about SGU. I have absolutely no problem with the brand at large. Give me my Atlantis movie and I'll be a happy fan. Give me another SG-1 movie, I'll be almost as happy. I'll pre-buy them on Amazon so quick, Mallozzi's head will spin.
Eh, go read it. It reminded me of those phony town halls President Bush used to call, with it's carefully hand-picked ordinary citizens. It's a lot of passive-aggressive tap-dancing and I can't focus on it properly.