But my curiosity is piqued... which polls are these?
I was overstating the numbers a little (*g*), but this one (http://dragonladyk.livejournal.com/136890.html) was posted in the newsletter. I found it biased (the 'like' option was *not* part of the poll), but the results (http://dragonladyk.livejournal.com/138276.html) were interpreted and posted anyway, and you know how it goes, once it is out there, people don't dismiss it out of hand.
Then, according to Jewel Staite herself (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=147037658&blogID=421479063&Mytoken=9B2A5486-46E4-4287-86DC8436D9B9FFDB48378429), there is a "world of anti-Keller threads" out there and even Joe M. addressed the anti Keller feelings on his blog.
Of course a show doesn't go from a 2.0 rating to 0.9/1.3 without something causing that, so maybe the termination of Beckett and Weir had more impact than the network expected and Keller and Carter couldn't counter that. I'm just not sure if a new show aimed at an entirely different demographic is the way to go. If I were C&W I would have hung on to SGA for one more season to see how SGU will pan out, but maybe they don't have the budget to produce two shows (which is worrisome in itself).
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I was overstating the numbers a little (*g*), but this one (http://dragonladyk.livejournal.com/136890.html) was posted in the newsletter. I found it biased (the 'like' option was *not* part of the poll), but the results (http://dragonladyk.livejournal.com/138276.html) were interpreted and posted anyway, and you know how it goes, once it is out there, people don't dismiss it out of hand.
Then, according to Jewel Staite herself (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=147037658&blogID=421479063&Mytoken=9B2A5486-46E4-4287-86DC8436D9B9FFDB48378429), there is a "world of anti-Keller threads" out there and even Joe M. addressed the anti Keller feelings on his blog.
Of course a show doesn't go from a 2.0 rating to 0.9/1.3 without something causing that, so maybe the termination of Beckett and Weir had more impact than the network expected and Keller and Carter couldn't counter that. I'm just not sure if a new show aimed at an entirely different demographic is the way to go. If I were C&W I would have hung on to SGA for one more season to see how SGU will pan out, but maybe they don't have the budget to produce two shows (which is worrisome in itself).