So, the latest rumor has it...

... that SGU will be picked up for S3. Averaging 1.1 mil. and 0.4 demo. That's franchise low average. Twice this season, the show dipped below 1 mil. viewers, another franchise low. It's keeping steady around 1.05 mil. viewers. And SyFy wants to give it another season. As it was said by the person maintaining SyFy's forum. I don't even...

That made the cancellation of SGA smart again. And hard. When SGA was canceled, it was on the upswing in ratings. In its latest season, it averaged 500k viewers more than SGU, hitting 2 mil. viewers. And it was canceled. Brad Wright said it wasn't profitable. Joe Mallozzi said that the ratings weren't good enough to keep it on air. And now another SG show that averages 30% less ratings wise will get another season.

For Joe Mallozzi and Mark Savela, it's a done deal. They talk about S3 with confidence, they already have plans, they know what the next season will about. Even though SGA wasn't given even one movie to finish its story. SGU, that hasn't been able to match SGA's ratings since S1.5, will be given a whole new season.

I don't... It's... When SGA was canceled, the show was - together with SPN - my favorite series on air. And this, it makes it obvious that SGA was doomed no matter what, that TPTB simply wanted to drop it, get rid of it as soon as possible regardless of its viewers and fan support, to play with a new toy. The show received a People's Choice Award in the same year it was canceled...

Honestly, I'm... numb. I'm past anger or rage, disappointment or even shock. I'm simply... numb. They had a successful show and they dropped it for something that barely anyone watches, the show's ratings being well below the cable's primetime average. I'm... *shakes head*

Podfic rec: SGA

"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by auburn, read by fayjay | John/Rodney and others | AU of both SGA and SG-1 | Vala Mal Doran and her partners, renegades Jehan abd-Ba'al and Meredith McKay, hijack the Tau'ri ship Prometheus and leave the Milky Way behind in search of the Lost City of the Ancients, Atlantis.| ~181.000 words/19 hr. 16 min.

The wraith laughed and opened its hand. Jehan stumbled back, coughed, and fingered the tiny wound at his throat. He was barely bleeding. Something in the feel of the cell changed; sound grew sharper, colors clearer, and the others were suddenly surrounding him, aware of something happening and pulling him further away from the wraith. Jehan thought it must have released whatever telepathic voodoo it had been exerting against everyone else.

Mer lurched over and grabbed John's elbow. He pulled until John's hand, smeared with his own blood, came away from his neck and stared. "What the hell just happened?" Mer demanded.

"Allies," the wraith said. "Allies. Open the gates, let loose the dogs of war."

What an amazing fic! Wow, I'm smitten, peeps, smitten. The last SGA/SG-1 fic I enjoyed this much was "Retrograde" by Martha Wells. Wow, reading fics like that, you realize just what a potential the writers of SGA wasted...

Tite Kubo's "Bleach #3-11" (manga), #116-124

So, I read 9 manga this week. I thought I wouldn't bore anybody with my thoughts on them, seeing as most people on my flist have at least some idea of what "Bleach" is. But my favorite part in all the volumes? Ichigo and Ishida fighting the Menos Grande. Yup.

20 books to go to finish the "144 in 2010" challenge!