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Likers Of The Last 3 Seasons....

posted 9 years ago by Jetfire1959
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Let's hear it, guys. I keep reading thread after thread declaring the last three season so awful (especially 5). Additionally, it seems a lot of fans hate Ronan or at least think he was an unnecessary character. Upon seeing season 1 the first time, I said to my wife, "This is okay, but they need a "T'ealc". The producers apparently came to the same conclusion and added Ronan. I LIKE Ronan and Jennifer Keller (who is also declared an awful character). We get so few episodes with her and Carson Beckett. i love them together. (professionally not romantically)

As for fifth season and the finale being not so great, I will agree about the finale. It could have been so much better if they had put more money and effort into it instead of making the unwatchable SGU. For starters, it should have been a two hour movie. They originally wanted to have T'ealc bring in a fleet of Hatak (sp) ships to battle the souped up hive ship as it reached Earth. Alas, no budget to do it.

Anyway, fellow lovers of the last 3 seasons and Ronan, sound off.

I don't even know enough to know how much I don't know. Ya know?

[–] mihaicosmin2007 9 years ago

Syfy axed it. SGU was less expensive than a 6th season SGA, so they went ahead with SGU.

Which was also axed prematurely by Syfy just as it founds its footing in s2.

[–] Xaeden 9 years ago

Actually, they supposedly invested more money into SGU. Yes, they were indeed concerned about rising costs going into season 6 (particularly as it pertained to actor salaries) but their concern was that those costs weren't worth it for a show that they didn't believe had any growth potential, as is often the case for established shows. What they wanted out of SGU was something that could attract and maintain a big audience so they put more money into production costs (in order to present it as a higher quality show) and pushed for a BSG type tone since they thought it would do better (and attract the same critical attention that BSG did). The idea was that this would translate into better ratings and thus higher ad revenue that would better offset the increased costs than the costs of a season 6 of Atlantis versus the lower ad revenue that they expected out of it.

However, when you put it in the same fall slot that two other shows died in it's kind of absurd to expect different results just because you combined aspects of both of those shows that you killed with such a move. It didn't even have a proper programming block. Their big move to correct that was to pair it with the always horribly rated Caprica and there was a period of time there when they had reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation as its lead-in. I'm not saying the show would have been a massive hit if it was programmed better, but it certainly didn't help that they followed the same formula with it that saw two of their biggest hits fall to the same ratings level that SGU ended up in.