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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [qb]I think it's the right decision. The show was aimless and meandering. It really *was* Melrose Place in space.[/qb][/QUOTE]It's funny; my parents, who also enjoy the show, commented around the end of the first season that they actually didn't like a lot of the main cast. The only likable ones for them were Eli and TJ. (They've since come to really like Greer, too.) I can understand disliking the whole "Melrose Place" drama; it got a bit tiring at points, but that was kind of the whole purpose of the show: instead of your classic swashbuckling sci-fi heroes, we saw the wrong people having to face up to an extraordinary situation. Perhaps a flawed concept for a TV show, but I liked the premise enough to stick with it. And I don't agree at all with the "aimless" part of it. Look back at the first season, especially the first half. They were very deliberate in setting up the show, establishing the ship, the survival problems, how to take control of parts of the ship, and that was before setting up any outside villains at all. You may not agree with the pacing or the execution of that setup, but they most definitely had a plot planned out. I saw a lot of unusual ideas in Universe that had potential. And the show was plenty entertaining enough in the mean time that I was interested in keeping up with it. I'm still firmly convinced that the main problem is the miscalculations of viewers and ratings in the 21st century television market. The kinds of viewers that Nielsen tracks are admittedly not the type of people who would keep up with Universe. And so the ratings tanked, even though there's a ton of fans out there watching the show on iTunes, Hulu, etc. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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