sweet bippy?!?
I don't know if there are any Fandoms That Shall Not Be Wanked...but I haven't seen this one around here. I don't know if there's a reason for that - if so, let me know and I shall bow out gracefully. Well...at least try to. ;P



Stargate SG-1 - there's a blog entry from a production team member, which seems to boil down to "Why aren't you all watching? If the episodes keep rating as badly as the last, we might just take our show and leave, thankyouverymuch. *wangst*".

I was pointed to this by a friend - I'm not part of the fandom at all, and don't really know what's going on in it, so I just picked the wankiest bits of this kerfuffle I could find.

Why were the ratings on the last episode low? Everyone weighs in with theories:

It's because you've alienated all the OneTrueFans in America!!!

"You mean that *Big TVGuide article* that pretty much said European fans are more responsible for the popularity of the show than the American fans who have watched the show since day one and spent their hard earned money getting and keeping Showtime just to continue to support SG-1 in those early years? Americans who were back then and even now continue to be the frontline first run audience for this show?

Why would that make the fans turn away from the show in droves and figure why watch if they really aren't making any important contribution to the show's popularity and success and that first line of viewership loyality isn't going to get one bit of mention or recognition in an American publication for an article abou the show. But what do I know, after all I'm not one of those European fans..I'm just one of those *loyal since day one* American viewers."

It's because the show makes me nauseous!

"You mentioned, wistfully, that some show got to use a handheld camera for a lot of shots, and that you'd like to go for more of it. Er.. just to say that viewers with an inner ear problem --like myself -- HATE the handheld stuff. It tends to make us very nauseous. Something of a ratings loser ..."

It's because you're before your time!

"Remember, the Original Star Trek series didn't do well in the ratings either."

Someone made too many fart jokes on the DVD!

"OTOH, I am now so pissed off with Peter De Luis' commentaries that I can't listen to them. To clarify -- I love his acting, I love his writing, I love his directing, and I am very impressed with him as a person after having the luck to meet and talk with him at some length -- do I care about toilets and colons and farts and so forth? In the context of wanting to listen to a commentary on the making of a Stargate episode, you can bet your sweet bippy I don't."

It's because of an act of God!

"I don't know about the rest of the country, but we were having some severe thunderstorms at the time of the first viewing."

It's teh eval video games (well, they're responsible for everything these days)!

"and you know, when you get a good game of Warcraft 3 going while you're waiting for Stargate, sometimes you forget."

Then the different segments of the fandom start going at each other:

"My, we have a lot of SamJack Horsewomen feeding back to Mr. Tichenor this evening."

"My, we had a lot of people from OurStargate who are pushing their agenda on JT post here today..."

"Welcome to the fandom war, Mr. Tichenor."

And lastly, perhaps it's better to leave all fans in the dark.

"Keep it really subtle and don't gratouisly annoy any segment of the fandom -- or please have your production people attend marketing 100 -- keep the customer at least confused and maybe they'll tune in next week."