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That's what is so laughable about SGU's performance in its own home turf. Out of a population of 307 million, SGU can only snag around 1 million (worst case, around 0.8m). That's 1/307 of the entire U.S population at best - talk about embarrassment. The squeedrones can hype all they want and say, bigger budget, better stories. Not in this case, the stories are shit and the viewers have spoken.
That money they wasted could have so gone to better entertainment or used to save lives.
Although I'm all for saving lives I'll focus on the bolded part of your comment because it's pertinent. What you've said is the simple, obvious truth of the matter. With the kind of guaranteed budget SGU had the show should have been
much better than it was. There really is no excuse for such a gargantuan waste of money when you compare it to other shows with lesser budgets who do better numbers than SGU. "Sanctuary" is a great example of this.
Yes, out of a nation of 300 million "Sanctuary" gets around 1.5 million give or take (off the top of my head), which are just as low of numbers as SGU was getting at times (never quite as low though
). The key to remember here isn't so much the percentage of viewers compared to the size of the population but rather, does "Sanctuary" make money for its producers, distributors and investors? The answer is obvious as the show keeps getting renewed. The fact that they don't squander their budget on unneeded sets and cast members no doubt helps, but that simply means they know what they're doing because, unlike SGU, they don't have a guarantee of financial support for
2 entire seasons and they can't get lazy or they'll perish.
If one thinks about it, really
thinks about it, Mallozzi's comments regarding this matter simply are not credible for all the reasons listed. Without a guaranteed budget for 2 seasons TPTB wouldn't have had the luxury of going off on a soap opera tangent but rather they would have been
forced from the start to create a Stargate show that was based on the same successful
style and
formula of the two predecessors. That's lie #1 from Mallozzi. Lie #2 is the claim that SyFy execs were clamoring for a "darker and grittier" version of Stargate and essentially forced BW's and RC's hand into creating SGU. :roll: When BW and RC told the SyFy execs they wanted to do a new
STARGATE show the execs said yes. Who wouldn't. Any mention of it being "darker" or "grittier" would have little bearing on the decision to green light a
STARGATE show because there were two successful shows
of the same name to base that decision on. In short, the SyFy execs weren't clamoring for a different version of Stargate, they were eager for more of the same! Mallozzi is a tool for thinking anyone would believe otherwise.
) and poking pins in the Mallozzi and Wright Voodoo dolls (comes complete with minature destiny and pics of "the girls: that belong to Lt. James) and blaming the critics for not loving sgpoo! 
makes one wonder if they can do math at all?
),oh the list goes on and on. And if they me decide I will do it for 40% less than they did- I'm a bargain hunter! 
