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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1243428" data-attributes="member: 115">Actually, there's a long and drawn out story of what exactly happened with the show, which was confirmed by a couple of the actors on from show. Sci-Fi didn't feel the show's ratings were good enough for the amount of moeny spent on it.  After all, those effects were expensive.  Instead of cutting down I-Man's budget and letting the show deal on it's own, some executive at SFC decided to step in.  Cue Alex Monroe. Alex Monroe's only purpose was to bring in the young male demographic.  Now, the 18-35 male demographic has been shrinking steadily across the board, but this executive decided to try.  The writers simply couldn't handle the forced addition of her character, and in fact many people on the staff resented it, according to one actor.  The show suffered badly, losing ratings because of poor writing (especially in regards to working Alex Monroe in) as well as natural trends. Now, I don't think anyone knows where Bonnie Hammer fits into all of this, but it appears she wasn't a big fan of the show.  And I don't mean the fanboy meaning of "she wasn't a big fan", I mean the "she didn't like it" meaning.  This part is personal conjecture, but I think she probably helped to force the executive's ideas through, and then cancelled it because the executive's grand idea (who some believe to be Bonnie Hammer herself) didn't work, and because there was bad blood between the crew and the network. So really, I think it was a combination of pride, cost, and an inability to adapt.  Basically, there wasn't one specific person to blame.</blockquote>

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