More Ratings Info

[catsmeow]

Seems like the 1.97 million from October 30th translates into a 1.3HH rating. (Sanctuary's 1.6 million is a 1.1 HH) More numbers for Friday shows. It does bother me that the writer titled the article in that same "slam SGA fans as haters" way that implies that the only possible reason viewers don't like it is that they are wankers with a grudge. Hmph.

SGU's November 6th ep placed fourth in the top ten Syfy shows that week. It had 1.63 million viewers. That's quite a way down from the "around 2.5 million" series high for the second episode. (Sanctuary had 1.42 on November 6th and placed sixth in the top ten.)

Comments

[kaballa]

TPTB miss vital points when they jump in whining: 'you're all meeeeeeaaaaannnnnn!!!' instead of considering criticism.

I don't even live in the US. Admittedly my episodes fall off the internet truck, but I go to considerable trouble to track down each episode every week and have watched them all. Why would I do that just to hate on a show??

I'm not affecting the viewing figures....but I still think the show is thematically derivative, lacking in suspense or true threat and weirdly less adult than predecessors, despite the (no-nekkidness) sex scenes.

The show had decent viewing figures, now it doesn't have as many. That's not haters, that's people making up their minds based on their own eyes and ears. Suck on that, TPTB, what spin can you do on a crowded room thinning out that implies everyone else but you is to blame?

[catsmeow]

less adult than predecessors, despite the (no-nekkidness) sex scenes.

They don't seem to understand that there is more to intimacy than sex. That it is, in fact, possible to have sex without intimacy and intimacy without sex.

[kaballa]

What they try and spin as 'mature content' etc. ends up seeming ever more juvenile - Chloe whines, supposedly grieving, and spends episodes throwing herself into the arms (and bed) of the nearest chiseled type she can, then whines at her best friend for....oh, exactly the same thing? Is she FIVE?

In theory she can't come back, and a remarkable number of people seem to know this (since nowadays everyone - and their pets - knows about the project), why does she think that the people back home should agree to live like monks/nuns when she can't keep her knickers pulled up two episodes running?

We have tasteful nudity (TPTB chunter on about how it's there....but we wouldn't want to show it, cos it's gross and they're mentally pre-pubescent...)and characters who (apparently) cheerfully agree to their bodies being used for anything by anybody. For that alone, I'd like Telford and Young to REALLY fall out in a few episodes, so that Young takes his body out on a multi-day booze and heroin bender and then caps it off with a bit of 'harmless, non-consequence, he agreed to it' bum-fun from a sore-encrusted male gigolo...