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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 601678" data-attributes="member: 307">And your experience is an indicator of what works for you. It is not necessarily a good indicator of what works overall. I found Stargate harder to jump into than Farscape, and I jumped into both when they were already ongoing series.No one is comparing Farscape to Friends. ER, on the other hand, has a lot of compexity. Sure, it is still a drama set in a hospital emergency room, but Farscape is still a space opera set on Moya. ER has long term character development, cast changes (look back at how many cast members have been changed from just two seasons ago), long term storylines and so on. It is pretty heavily serialized.Plus, almost all currently successful shows are heavily serialized to a great degree. Even reality crapfests like Survivor are basically serialized drama.And this is evidence that you are just making stuff up. In the season with, with Farscape in the earlier time slot, and Stargate immediately following, Farscape had ratings very similar to Stargate's when Stargate was moved to the earlier time slot. Airing in the later time slot, Stargate posted numbers similar to those that Farscape had when it was moved to the later time slot. Effectively, when the shows flipped placed in the lineup, they also appear to have flipped ratings.This is not evidence that Stargate has a "far larger fanbase". It is evidence that they have similar fanbases. Unless you have secret data not captured by the ratings numbers, you are just engaging in wishful thinking when you say that Stargate has a larger fanbase.Xena generally posted ratings higher than either farscape or Stargate ever have when it was on. You may not like Xena, but your tastes do not determine what is popular.And I did the same and had the reverse problem. I have since gone back and gotten into Stargate because I watched the earlier episodes, but I found Farscape far easier to get into. Does my experience mean that there is lots of evidence that Stargate is too serialized?No, I think it is evidence that Farscape and Stargate are both serialized. And for a Sci-Fi executive to point to serialization as the reason for cancelling Farscape is just being disingenuous. I suppose this works on Crossing Over fans, they are used to being lied to and accept crap. It does work as well on people who bother to look at the numbers.And why would that be? No one has said that Stargate was a bad show. The most that has been said is that if Farscape is "serialized" and difficult to watch because of that, the same arguments apply to Stargate.No, just the stuff that is refuted by ratings numbers, and a discounting of the stuff that is based purely on your opinion with nothing else backing it up.</blockquote>

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