Originally posted by anaberration
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Let's say you've got a show called "The Heterosexual Fundamentalist Pancake Hour" and it's popular with foodies, fundies (Of whatever religion you choose), and straights. Really popular. They do a spinoff that maybe drops the pancakes, and maybe adds, I dunno, goths. Well, you lose the foodies, but you pick up folks who like watching Abbie from NCIS. So you do another spinoff, and this one not only lacks pancakes, but it's also dropped the fundamentalist aspect, and is now in favor of secular humanism, evolution, and birth control. Oh my! They have, however, added Ally McBeal like montages of people walking along looking moody to adult contemporary songs.
Thus the Fundamentalists and the Foodies are gone because the stuff that attracted them to the show in the first place is gone, and the stuff that replaced it (Goths and boring music) isn't enough of a replacement to hold their attention.
Now, swap out "Political Conservatives" for any one of the three items above you like. There you go. That's my point: it's not that conservatives *KILLED* SGU, it's simply that Gate's popularity was built atop an unexpected interest from a group that generally doesn't like SF all that much, and when *That* group lost interest, the franchise couldn't survive.
So, thinking it through for a few days now, I don't think we *killed* it, we simply lost it and allowed it to die. Because there weren't enough pancakes, and way too much Celine Dion.
Does that make sense?
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