Gatefan1976
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post from GWSuperiority complex much???latvian_stargatefan View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Second Lieutenant --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Member SinceJul 2006 Posts260 Re: Season Two Ratings Predictions and Discussion thread I don't want to blame SyFy or anything else... Unfortunately, it's the world we're living in. Probably they would get 1.7 million who would tune in to see SGA season 7 of nex round of by-the-numbers episodes already done 5 times in Trek shows and 4 times in Stargate in the same fashion. Either it's ''aliens of the week invade the base and at the end of episode everything is normal again'' or ''teams runs into trouble off world, McKay technobabbles the way out of the problem" or guys find a world where people have one side of the face black and other white and Shep needs to teach them a lesson about racism citing US Constitution... wait, Trek TOS did that in 60s......It's a shame that HBO doesn't do sci-fi... Not really their fault since sci-fi, I guess, is a dying breed in media, surviving only in the form of independent small movies and mindless action bug-killing, Predator hunting features...At least we have season 2... Caprica is not having even that, being a better show than SGU is...... That's the way things are now. Even more conventional and more- of- the- same- old shows like "V'' struggle... I bet if they made a tv show about space marines battling giant alien bugs every week, it would be more successul....I once loved those mindless action flicks or shows like Trek or early Stargate but growing older I started to see that they don't appeal to me as they used to. I guess, by the time I reach 30, I'll have nothing to watch on tv from my genre... I still have novels, I guess... Yes, watching a show like SGA when episode ends you fell the catharsis, the great feeling that everything has ended well and with some great joke. But the thing is- the feeling doesn't last... After a movie like A Serious Man or recent British film Four Lions... or Caprica, even BSG episode you can spend at least some day or two thinking about what you saw and how that influenced you... Can you say the same about SGA? I doubt that... Unfortunately, majority of people treat tv as a thrill ride, not as a good novel...
He does raise some good points.......
However, he falls down in his comparison of books to TV. TV is (imho) designed as a thrill ride. Books are for when you want to have your imagination engaged by a good story and Movies are the bridge between the two. I'm sure on some level we have some sympathy for the SGU lovers because by now they must realise thier show will get the axe and they will be as pissed as the SGA fans were at seeing thier show get axed.