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Is the delay until Spring killing the show for you?

I wish they'd air them all in a row. You could pretty much get three shows airing on Friday night a year. SGU/Caprica/Some new shit.

I, too, long for the return of "SciFi Fridays." I guess they'd be "SyFy Fridays" now. Whatever. Breaking up the SG-1/SG:A/BSG block was one of the stupidest moves made by any cable network, ever. The ratings for all three shows suffered and got them canceled as a result. D'oh!!!!
 
Killing my interest? No. So far, SGU hasn't really made much of an impact on me. I'll watch it when it returns in April, of course.

However, I do not see the logic of these stupid extended hiatuses Sci-Fi or Syfy seems to insist in having for mid-season breaks in recent years. SGU will have a 5 month mid season hiatus, which seems unnecessary. I understand taking a break in December for Christmas, but the show should return at some point this month. There's no reason for five months.

This is not the first time something like this has been done. While I understand the seven month hiatus during BSG's fourth season was a result of the writer's strike, there's still the issue of the six month hiatus during SG-1's 10th season and Atlantis season 3, which had no logical reason either. Especially since in that case, other countries aired the second half of those seasons well before Sci-Fi did.

But, whatever. I'm just a working class-stiff who never attended university. Surely a television network has people with much more education than me making these kind of desicions.

Well as a person who did go to university, I agree with you.

I could understand taking a few weeks between a two parter, say over Christmas like most shows seem to do.

But five months? Way to lose any kind of audience you have, especially for a new show.

At least this isn't Lost, where it's almost a year between new episodes!
 
They've got 5 current scripted shows..SGU, Sanctuary, Eureka, Warehouse 13, and Caprica. With a reboot of Alienation, plus a Steven King show in the works. Whether they'll try keeping 7 originals hours going within a single year, is questionable. Probably will bring an existing show to an end, then order the next one into production. :shifty:

Yeah we shall see if Alien Nation and Steven King's show ever make it anywhere. There was talk of a sci-fi version of the American Revolution, and a few other shows were listed that all seemed to die.

They should have 3 hours on Fridays and three hours on Tuesdays, with that they need more than 7 shows for a full year.
 
It's not killing my interest in the show, as the episodes I watched in the first half of the season did that. However, in general, if I liked the show, I cant say a long-ish gap would kill my interest, mainly just make me frustrated at having to wait so long. The show, whatever it was, wouldnt gain any good will from me due to the gap.
 
It's not killing the interest for me. I liked the first half of this season much more than I liked any of SG:A, so I'm waiting for the second half.
 
Personally, I think that the delay is increasing my interest in the resumption of the show. It's long enough for the bad taste of most of the episodes so far to fade, and the last episode aired a most interesting cliffhanger ending--with the promise that something really different was about to happen. Talk of aliens to come is also whetting my appetite.

I haven't been much of a fan of this show so far, but I'm still hanging in with the "give it a chance to catch its stride" crowd--and I'm at least interested enough to want to see where it goes from here.
 
The delay doesn't bother me. I'm just suprised that all these shows that have such long delays (SG:U, Flashforward, V) can maintain their audience.

Sean
 
the last episode aired a most interesting cliffhanger ending--with the promise that something really different was about to happen.

Not really. It seems pretty obvious to me that Rush is going to find a way to fly the alien ship back to Destiny. Then there's likely to be some awkward moments between him and Young.
 
I actually forgot what the cliffhanger was until I just read the post above me and now I remember :o
 
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