Fans have organized a number of campaigns and petitions to show their support of the show. “Save SGU“ on Facebook and Twitter has emerged in recent weeks as the most organized, though no Web site has appeared yet at the registered domain SaveSGU.com. A Twitter account and website for SG:Unite have begun more recently.
One petition has 3,500 digital signatures so far. Another hopes to “spread the love” for Stargate Universe with — amongst other actions — a Valentine’s Day card campaign.
Just what can fans who participate in such a campaign hope for its effectiveness? Of course there are success stories, including Firefly (which got a moderate budget film, Serenity) and Jericho (which got a 7-episode second season). But for every success, there are far more disappointments.
Fans fought for a sixth year of the Joss Whedon’s Buffy spinoff Angel after the now-defunct WB Network cancelled it in 2004. But even when fans united by organizing letter-writing campaigns, online petitions, blood and food drives, advertisements in trade magazines and via mobile billboards, the network never budged. Pushing Daisies on ABC. Wonderfalls on FOX. The syndicated Legend of the Seeker. The list of quality genre series that were denied a stay of execution goes on and on.
Will the fan outpouring and support have any effect in the case of SGU? It’s difficult to say at this point. Even executive producer Joseph Mallozzi has been quoted as calling the prospects of a third season of the series as “the longest of longshots.” But the producer also remains both positive and coy in terms of some sort of continuation of the story. An update on Mallozzi’s blog last week states there is reason to keep hope alive.
“Nothing definite as of yet to report but a minor hurdle was cleared,” Mallozzi states in the blog. “Quite a few hurdles still lie ahead and there’s always the chance it might all be for naught – but right now, things are looking positive.”
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(Additional reporting by Darren Sumner)
(Special thanks to Marjorie Roden for the tip)
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I've still got hope for a third season. Even if it's a shorter season, as long as it wraps up the main points, I'll be happy.
-Chris
I don't that there's gonna be a third season. The fanbase is so rifted and SyFy is more in to wrestling, disappointing fans, and getting their shows cancelled these days. I just hope that another channel(preferably one that lives up to its name) takes over broadcasting the show. What we need is a miracle. Nothing less will do.
And I don't think that SyFy(isn't it combined with NBC or something?) will listen to anything else but $w€€£ old currency. What we need is a gazillion billion dollars.
Jauh0, it may only require $15 million as Brian J. Smith pointed out, but I'm not sure if he made that number up or if that's the actual amount that is needed. Still, that's a lot.
Source: http://twitter.com/BrianJacobSmith/status/28753238966673408
I cannot see a 3 season it not putting the rating and it not even a great show, it has got better in season 2 but the damage was already done and with the "we not making SG:A movies because u did not watch SG:U (i have watch all SGU)" I've lost all respect for these people
No offense, but why did you need a tip from the organiser of the Spread The Stargate Love campaign for you to report on all these efforts? Even the most casual of fan couldn't have missed all the twitter and facebook activity, as the various websites that have sprung up.
Shocking then that a site promoting itself as the "complete" Stargate resource either didn't notice, or couldn't be bothered to report on it.
What we really need is a cable network dedicated to airing science-fiction programs.
Craig Engler (@Syfy on twitter) a senior executive at Syfy has stated many times that such petitions and campaigns simply do not work anymore because every show that gets canceled does this. And in the end, it really doesn't work as Firefly and Jericho have unfortunately shown. On top of that, for every show that gets canceled people go to Syfy and ask if they are going to pick it up, which they don't do anymore.
All the people signing these are the same people who already watch the show and therefor they don't matter, if you want this show to come back you have to somehow show Syfy that there are a bunch of new people that started watching the show not just the same group of the already to few, that did watch.
I hate Syfy they are just wrong I think people should just defect from them not use them at all
While I'm not 100% convinced we'll not see SGU in SOME form next season yet, I'm also not holding my breath that these campaigns will do any good, because the only times I've ever seen them work in modern times in any form is with Firefly and Farscape.
I'm starting to resign myself to the fact that not only will there not be any Stargate on TV next season but that in general there might not be much genre programming on networks at all next season, except for The Walking Dead and Dr. Who and maybe a few shows on SyFy, as my favorite shows continue to perform poorly since they've returned from their breaks.
Lets face is, genre fans look towards other means to watch their favorite SF shows these days, its showing in the ratings and networks are ignoring that fact.