Stargate SG-1: SEASON 9 Premiere..

[Mistwell]

Ratings were also down for this episode. The episode earned a 2.1 average household rating, or approximately 2,610,000 viewers. This is down from the 2.4 rating earned by the Season Eight premiere one year ago. Season Eight averaged a 2.1 rating for new episodes (Stargate's season premieres typically draw higher ratings than the season's average). It was also less than what Atlantis earned for its season premiere (2.2), and well below Battlestar Galactica got this time around ( 2.6 , cable's most-watched program that night for men 18 to 49 and men 25 to 54).

 

[Elf Witch]

Ratings were also down for this episode. The episode earned a 2.1 average household rating, or approximately 2,610,000 viewers. This is down from the 2.4 rating earned by the Season Eight premiere one year ago. Season Eight averaged a 2.1 rating for new episodes (Stargate's season premieres typically draw higher ratings than the season's average). It was also less than what Atlantis earned for its season premiere (2.2), and well below Battlestar Galactica got this time around ( 2.6 , cable's most-watched program that night for men 18 to 49 and men 25 to 54).

Ratings slipped two points from last sesson premire but stayed the same as the rest of season 8. This does not really surprise me season 8 was very weak alot of people just gave up. And I think from what I have read that a lot of people had made their mind up that they were not going to watch because of the changes. I don't think you can judge the lost ratings on the one episode of the new season as proof the show has jumped the shark.

Also while I know that on SCI FI shows the male vote is more important than the female vote I do not think it is a valid number on who is watching the show. The most vocal fans and the authors of tons of fanfic and webmistresses of fansites are woman yet for some reason the number crunches never think about that.
It is a pity really that so many people made up there minds before the show even came on.

 

[satori01]

My reaction to the episode was very similiar to Mistwell's..... it did not feel like SG-1. The interactions between Daniel and Lt Col Mitchel felt way too slcoky and campy. Bowder's conversation with
Tilk ,( The one where Tilk and Bowder are standing at near parrell lines to each other), just emphasied to me how good RDA was at playing a quiet and subtle type of emotinal bond. This scene was trying to recreate something that was before so natural, and now pained and labored.

It also struck me that the show is focusing less on the gate, and terrestial politics and more on the interstellar galaxy hopping, ship based show, which I think is a bad way to go.

Jumping the shark was the exact thought that came to me several times while watching.

I wish they had given us a couple of transition episodes, instead of blam!! Whamo!!!! new cast with the same name.
It might be realistic to have sudden reassignments in the military, but not dramaticaly satisfying.

IF SG-1 gets cancelled do people thing SG-Atlantis can survive on its own?

 

[reveal]

I just remembered the only thing I didn't like from the premiere. They kept calling Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman "sergeant." The producers are usually really good at getting military matters right and while technically he is a sergeant, everyone I ever met when I was in the Air Force, and growing up in an Air Force family, always, always, always called Chief Master Sergeants "Chief" as a sign of respect.

 

[reveal]

Ratings were also down for this episode. The episode earned a 2.1 average household rating, or approximately 2,610,000 viewers. This is down from the 2.4 rating earned by the Season Eight premiere one year ago. Season Eight averaged a 2.1 rating for new episodes (Stargate's season premieres typically draw higher ratings than the season's average). It was also less than what Atlantis earned for its season premiere (2.2), and well below Battlestar Galactica got this time around ( 2.6 , cable's most-watched program that night for men 18 to 49 and men 25 to 54).

I thought I'd take a moment to point out the ratings for SG-1, Atlantis, and BSG from last Friday.

SG-1 - 2.1 - Same as the season premiere
Atlantis - 2.0 - A drop
BSG - 2.0 - A drop

http://gateworld.net/news/2005/07/isg-1iratingssteadywithava.shtml

SG-1 is going steady while the other two dropped. Jumped the shark? Doesn't look like it.

 

[Fast Learner]

I know this doesn't address anything above, really, but since I just saw this episode a few days ago...

DAMN Claudia Black is hot!

I haven't enjoyed SG-1 at all for several years, but these first two episodes are promising. It seemed so formulaic, kind of a Star Trek thing... don't know that this new season will be any different, but at least it has some different actors to try out.

So... jumped the shark for old timers, maybe. Intrigued me, instead.