GateWorld Podcast: SGU’s Cancellation

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• Funny how the podcast starts with the great music that made Stargate so enjoyable. Soundtrack — Reason 7 right there for you.

• Good podcast Darren, David, and Diana. I agree with many comments made. I think this kind of show is very niche and it did have some cards stacked against it. But I still can't help but feel that shows like this can be a success if they're done the right way. It just has to be really good. As was mentioned the new Star Trek reboot did very well. I'm just thinking this show wasn't the right one for the current market. I'm not knocking the show itself but it was in a tough position given the tone of the show, it's time slot, the slow start to season 1, lack of good promotion, the list goes on.

  I hope the producers of the show can find a way to continue on with the SG1 and SGA movies despite this setback. Although it's doubtful those will ever be made. Perhaps they can do something creative and do a mini-series wrap of SGU straight to DVD/Blu-ray. I don't know how many folks feel this way but I'd be happy to shell out a few bucks to see the show come to a proper conclusion.

• The Pop up podcase and RSS feed dont seem to want to play through IE.

• Never mind, seems that it took longer than ussual to load.

• Move Stargate back home to Showtime!

• I think the franchise is dead, no more stargate SG:1, SG:A or SG:U. In any form.

• Honestly I think that the only place that Stargate can go from this point forward, especially after seeing how a purely arc driven show was received, is to go with full public disclosure of the Stargate program to the people of Earth. Not only would this allow for the continuation of all three ongoing arcs (Lucian Alliance War, Wraith War, and Destiny's Mission) but it would allow for more of the "close to home" type episodes like SG-1 was filled with.

  I think that the distance, both literal and figurative, that Universe had with our Earth and our galaxy was a major "why should I care" factor in the show. The mission being introduced so late was also a hurting factor.

  I fully believe that a series based around the actions that Homeworld Command takes during and following the Lucian Alliance attack on Earth (which should be the catalyst for full disclosure) in regards to both ongoing wars, public reaction to the Program, and whatever Destiny finds would be much more successful than either Universe or Atlantis ever was. This would entail a more episodic layout with a slightly thicker overall arc than what SG-1 and Atlantis had, yet nowhere near the arc driven nature of Universe.

• SGU's failure wasn't about the market. It was slow and boring, dark and depressing. Why are the masses over analyzing the debacle. The very concept and characters empathetic relation with the audience. We had a lot of talk about more realistic characters but is pettiness what we want see out of everyone?

• SG-17 - I completely agree. The Stargate becoming public knowledge would have been a defining moment of the series, opening up huge possibilities. To me this would have been a far more natural progression of the Stargate story than what Stargate Universe was.

• From what I have read, SGU had a significantly higher skweing male to female viewer ratio than the previous incarnations. You need to figure out why the women didn't show up for this one.

  One reason might be shallow, but SGU didn't have quite the same eye candy for the lady viewers like SG1 and SGA did. Could be a partial reason for the 80/20 split in the M/F demographics.

  I think female viewers really like "bromances" in their shows too.