Stargate’s ratings up slightly for ‘Cloverdale’

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• That's all folks!

• Glad to see Stargate's ratings are doing just fine. It was a little ridiculous how many people didn't even read the article about the ratings for the previous episode.

• That's the third time I saw you post "That's all folks!". I get your point. Anyways, this is by no means amazing, but at least so far the average is over 1 million, which puts it in the middle ground between "could get a third season" and "could get canned like tuna". We shall see. Here's hoping it picks up more over the month of November.

• About time!

• Soap operish Caprica gets canned.

  For soap operish SGU the recent numbers are the lowest in SG history if I am not mistaking.

  If I was an SG producer, I'll do the math and accept what my viewers are telling me.

  At least according to SGU's producer Mallozzi though, the reasons for the bad ratings are 'internet downloads' and 'people forgetting that it's on Tuesday and not on Friday'.

  My point is not to mock anyone but to alert you to the fact that there's probably no one at the helm of SG production team that's willing to do what's needed to get the series back on track, and that's a shame.

• Just a tiny bit over a million isn't going to cut it. But I guess it's better for the show to get that instead of sinking even lower.
  BTW, Sanctuary is in it's 3rd season not 2nd. ;)

• Have people forgotten that Live+7-day ratings are 78% higher than the live ratings? Plenty of people are watching. Once the Live+7-day ratings are available for this episode we'll probably come to see that SGU is getting better ratings than Sanctuary.

• I can't believe I'm offering a suggesting for a bad show. Stop posting the synopsis of the episodes. People are clearly using it to judge whether to watch or not.

• SGU has been a bit of a puzzle for me. the first episodes I watched out of curiousity and out of respect for the stellar track record the franchise has had so far and in no small measure to try and grasp where the producers might be going with this idea of theirs. Before the series even started I couldnt help but remember the 200th ep of SG1 where ideas were being thrown about and one was of "Young SG1". Life imitates art and all that.

  Then I realized I missed the humor from SG1 and SGA both. That seemless mixing of humor and drama is one of the most basic elements of Stargate. I have some indications that the producers have heard that message again and again from fans.

  When I finished watching "colverdale" another insight came to me. The typical SG1 and often times SGA episode as well worked on multiple levels. There was the fun stuff like banter between the characters, there was some mystery or dilemma to be solved, there was intergalatic politics, and there was usually an assortment of unresolved plotlines that could come back at any moment to be suddenly and seemlessly reassert itself in the larger scheme of things.

  This cloverdale story. It had an interesting payoff I suppose. But it really felt like everything prior to those last five minutes or so was just filler. He had to get infected so that Chloe could cure him and that he could have a creepy vision of her alien nature and so that they could get locked up together for a while and maybe Lt Scott will undergo some changes too. Shades of Decker and Ilia from ST:TMP? Might Scott and Chloe do some kind of symbiotic thing? Who knows? But it wasnt the kind of payoff I was looking for after 40 minutes of filler. In any given SG1/SGA, any given moment could be referenced in a future episode. It felt like everything that happened mattered. Some might defend SGU's approach as "character study" but Stargate has always done a damn fine job of developing its characters without slowing down the action to a snail's pace.

  I mean, Rush is the Daniel Jackson of this piece right? So we do this whole scene of having (different ep now) of having Scott find a room full of Stargates and Rush doesn't care. Sure that works fine for selling Rush as an aloof ass who is incapable of getting excited about anything but what does it do for the story? The viewer sure as hell wants to get excited about this development but apparantly there's no room for that in the story. There couldn't have been a scene where someone less jaded like say Eli could have gone to look and just gush a bit about how cool they are. Maybe using a kino to record the symbols on the various gates since he's so obsessed with recording everything. I have occasionally wondered if certain characters serve as mouthpieces for certain behind the scenes people on the show. Could Rush with all his aloof indifference be the voice of one of the producers who is tired of this particular job and just can't get excited about any of it anymore? Just a thought...or three.

• I like it!