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http://twitter.com/Syfy just tweeted "Syfy will end its original action-adventure series Stargate Universe when the show returns with the final 10 episodes of its second season in the Spring of 2011."

So Syfy fulfilled it's original contractual obligation and nothing more, I'm utterly shocked.

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They probably would've killed it at the end of Season One if not for that contract. The ratings just kept sinking, and the bad reviews just kept coming.

The cast is also apparently receiving the news that they're out of a job via Twitter. Charming.

Wow, that's classy of Syfy.

The cast is also apparently receiving the news that they're out of a job via Twitter. Charming.

Stay Classy SyFy.

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!

*HUGS AND TWIRLS YOU*

Can't wait for the crap that will spill from the keyboards of TPTB.

I'm sure they'll find a way to blame the fans

Ya think?

I am so very happy! Went over to the brownnoser's announcement on Gateworld and read the comments. Mostly from braindamaged SGU fans shrieking about how now the h8rs have what we wanted and have DESTROYED STARGATE 4EVAH!!!

Well, no, dumplings. TPTB did that. And I'm charmed by the notion that the fanbase could have that much power. If that were true, surely *our* shows would be on, right?

Oh my god I *CANNOT WAIT* to hear the pity party pissing of Mallozzi and co.

I do feel sorry for the actors, though. Apparently they found out they were out of work from Twitter, too.

I feel slightly guilty over how happy the cancellation news makes me :)

*VBG*

I feel no guilt. Only, you know, *SCHADENFREUDE*...

And the fanboy haters got what they wanted.

i was reading where they had a 5 year plan for the show & people were taking this as the show would run for five years. i restrained myself from commenting that having a five plan doesn't mean that the show will run for five years.

Yeah, they *also* said they have completed scripts for the SGA movie and the next SG1 movie.

I kind of doubt they had any plan at all, really.

Tell me about it. *Bitter Dollhouse fan*

LOL! Ah, man, I do love seeing Wright get his just desserts, I'm just sorry the cast and crew got caught in the fall out.

And yeah, he and his pack of idiots will try to blame the fans instead of, y'know, blaming the fact that they produced a crappy show.

Also, since when is being able to tell the difference between crap and quality a *bad* thing? And why is hating crap considered some sort of character flaw? I would hope people would hate crap. I certainly don't think much of people who can't tell the difference or who like the crap (guilty pleasures being the exception - we all have them).

VERY good points here. It's really a pity how everything wound up turning out

Much as I'm pissed off about how they trashed the first two shows, I was still hoping they'd come up with something good for the third one.

I had high hopes for SGU myself. Pilots are always rocky but there was some potential there, it just got frittered away and bogged down by plotholes and plot devices that were painful to watch. It's really a damn shame

HELLO

I can't even feel sorry for the cast, because the crappy writing made me hate their characters so much that I can't disassociate the two. I do wish they'd been individually informed instead of having to hear about it online.

If they were paying attention to the ratings they should have seen it coming, though.

Well, yeah, but still. Very unprofessional (not to mention dickish) to not inform them officially.

Dickish in the extreme.

But then, look at who we're talking about. Dicks 'R Us.

(Teeny-tiny ones, I'm sure.)

Somebody interviewed in the current EW was doing the "Oh watch our show or there will never be SF/F on television again!" thing. IT IS OUR DUTY AS GENRE FANS TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING AND OUR FAULT IF SOMETHING FAILS.

*headdesk*

No. If you produce *good* SF, SF fans will march into hell for you.

If you produce *crap* SF, we'll build the atomic powered trebuchets out of the contents of our kitchens and personally rot the eggs we'll use as ammunition to put you our of our misery.

This is what happens when Mundanes try to do SF. They don't get *it* and they don't get *us*.

I want an atomic powered trebuchet.

*pouts*

LOL! I *know*! I've been wanting one for years. :-)

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