Comments | tavabean: A little bit of honesty re SGU

tavabean

A little bit of honesty re SGU

Jun 08, 2011 20:26

From Brian J Smith, who was asked about SGU's demise:

The economics fell through and the ratings sucked big time. You can point fingers and you can blame whoever you want, but the ratings were not there. Stargate Universe was one of the most expensive TV series to shoot on television, period. There are shows out there that get 20 million viewers ( Read more... )

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esteefee August 9 2011, 15:54:36 UTC

I have to say: the ratings would have been there (there sure was enough hype about the show that enough people were exposed to it) if they'd made the show compelling. But they didn't. They didn't make the magic. It was that simple.

The qualities that made SG-1 and SGA so attractive to fans were the very qualities they strove hard to strip from SGU *intentionally* because they thought they had to go in a 'different direction' to go after a younger fan base. Well, I guess we know now that younger fans like sympathetic characters and camaraderie and humor, too.