{"id":11501,"date":"2010-11-04T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=11501"},"modified":"2010-11-04T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:02:56","slug":"brad-wright-sg-1-atlantis-fans-hurt-stargate-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/brad-wright-sg-1-atlantis-fans-hurt-stargate-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Wright: SG-1, Atlantis Fans Hurt Stargate Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SGU-1.5-DVD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9065\" title=\"SGU 1.5 DVD Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SGU-1.5-DVD-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"SGU 1.5 DVD Cover\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SGU-1.5-DVD-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SGU-1.5-DVD.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/opinion-atlantis-fans-need-to-stop-punishing-universe\/\">this opinion piece<\/a>, SciFi Now author James Rundle notes that Universe needs fan support now more than ever, pointing out that its ratings have plummeted for Season 2. He also asks<em> <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate_Atlantis\">Stargate Atlantis<\/a><\/em> fans to stop punishing <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate_Universe\"><em>Stargate Universe<\/em><\/a> for not being <em>Atlantis<\/em>, quoting the actors&#8217; disappointment over some lack of fan acceptance. He also quotes Brad Wright on the topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t think if we for any reason go away, it is an issue necessarily of the quality of the product that we\u2019ve been making,\u201d said executive producer and co-creator Brad Wright. \u201cI think getting moved on the schedule has hurt us. And the fact that some of the fans that liked SG-1 and Atlantis were so angry that they have deliberately hurt us, which is unfortunate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think? Has whatever negative fan reaction that exists been fueled primarily by <em>Universe<\/em> being new and not <em>SG-1<\/em> or <em>Atlantis<\/em>? Has fandom negativity in turn affected Nielsen ratings? Feel free to sound off in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this opinion piece, SciFi Now author James Rundle notes that Universe needs fan support now more than ever, pointing out that its ratings have plummeted for Season 2. He also asks Stargate Atlantis fans to stop punishing Stargate Universe for not being Atlantis, quoting the actors&#8217; disappointment over some lack of fan acceptance. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/brad-wright-sg-1-atlantis-fans-hurt-stargate-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brad Wright: SG-1, Atlantis Fans Hurt Stargate Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantis","category-news","category-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11502,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11501\/revisions\/11502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}