SGU CANCELLED!
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Sounds familiar. But how are we supposed to explain that the later seasons of Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda actually had viewers?
I'm just happy I'm not that desperate!
There's gotta be some little thing that makes me stick around. I liked a lot of the Heroes actors, and the premise. That was enough.
But Blood & Chrome may have frakked up fatally - they just cast an emo twerp as Bill Adama!
He's not even Hispanic, good gort, how insulting is that, to recast the characters race? If I watch, it'll be only to root for the Cylons. 
I don't know about Fringe but Supernatural is almost exactly the opposite. It was supposed to end after Season 5 but the ratings were so good that the CW forced it to continue over the objections of its creator. And the only reason why they were able to get away with it was because the actors were locked into 6 year contracts.
I think Joss Whedon shows also have a really good ability to do this. The characters always have continuing, growing lives even if the individual episodes are stand-alones. Even at its most serialized (SEE Angel Season 4) there was still a reward at the end for sticking through each hour. Most of the shows that I abandon quickly are the ones that have no such reward at the end of the episode, like Heroes or Lost.
The only reason why I've stuck with SGU for so long is because I got the complete 1st season on DVD. I suspect that's the only way in which this show is at all digestible. I can't imagine dragging this out over several weeks. A mere one week gap between any of the first five episodes would probably be enough to lose me. I'd likely forget that the show existed at all.
From Comedy Central after they canceled it. And actually, many of that show's best episodes came from its last three seasons on Sci-Fi: "Space Mutiny," "Time Chasers," "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank," "Hobgoblins," "Girl in Gold Boots," "Hamlet," "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders," etc.
It wasn't a surprise midseason cancellation but the WB seemed pretty clear that Season 10 would be the final season of 7th Heaven. But since it was heavily promoted as "the end," it drew a lot of new interest, particularly from old fans who had wandered away a while ago. This increased the ratings to the point where the CW suddenly decided to bring it back for Season 11.
And it seems like the CW is currently hedging their bets on Life Unexpected. (Note that they recently changed the DVD release title from "the complete series" to "Seasons 1 & 2.")
Sounds familiar. But how are we supposed to explain that the later seasons of Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda actually had viewers?
I'm just happy I'm not that desperate!
There's gotta be some little thing that makes me stick around. I liked a lot of the Heroes actors, and the premise. That was enough.
But Blood & Chrome may have frakked up fatally - they just cast an emo twerp as Bill Adama!
Hispanic isn't a race.
The "scientific" racist/crypto-Nazi view of "race" as a biological reality is still incredibly popular in the US. Which is why people could whip themselves up into a lather of fake indignation over, say, a UN resolution condemning Zionism as racist. In other cultures, "race" is more a cultural category, although it implies many of the members are born into the "race." That said, Hispanic or Latino as some people use it sometimes means Spanish-speaking Indian, i.e., non-white.
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Sounds familiar. But how are we supposed to explain that the later seasons of Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda actually had viewers?
I'm just happy I'm not that desperate!
There's gotta be some little thing that makes me stick around. I liked a lot of the Heroes actors, and the premise. That was enough.
But Blood & Chrome may have frakked up fatally - they just cast an emo twerp as Bill Adama!
Hispanic isn't a race.
what about la raza? they're a group dedicated to the idea and preservation of that people
Or Black and back when it mattered by law you were Black and not Latino/Hispanic you just spoke with a different accent the the Southern Rural Blacks or the Northern Urban Blacks
SGU is identical to BSG, so therefore making news about BSG relevant to discussion about SGU's cancellation.
That's how I'm interpreting it anyway. But you're right, back to Stargate.
So, ah, SGU's gone and Stargate is likely finished. Umm, you know I'm white?
Wow, that didn't last long.
Identical? They might share some common traits but they're hardly identical.
Louis Ferreira is Portuguese, so is he hispanic? Doesn't this term apply only to spanish descendent whites? He looks pretty white to me.
Anyway, back on topic, so SGU is cancelled, MGM has money spared for continuing the franchise, and it looks like from various other posts around here that Wright and Co. are intent on finishing SGU before they ever do another SG-1 movie, the SGA movie, or another series. Finishing SGU's story is top priority as far as they are concerned. I, for one, am glad that this is the case as I don't want SGU's legacy to be an unresolved cliffhanger season finale.
Anyway, back on topic, so SGU is cancelled, MGM has money spared for continuing the franchise, and it looks like from various other posts around here that Wright and Co. are intent on finishing SGU before they ever do another SG-1 movie, the SGA movie, or another series. Finishing SGU's story is top priority as far as they are concerned. I, for one, am glad that this is the case as I don't want SGU's legacy to be an unresolved cliffhanger season finale.
It's not irrelevant to the fact that Hollywood seems to have an awful hard time finding nonwhite actors to cast in lead roles.
And I know quite a few Hispanics who would be rather amazed to learn that "Hispanic isn't a race." I guess the poor souls are delusional.
Nothing. I'm bored of talking about Stargate.
I'm not sure about the others, but Brad, Joe and Rob have pretty much stated that they're not interested in doing another series. I don't see them ever doing one. I just hope that if one is made at some point then it stays true to the established mythology, rather than a reboot.
