You had to THINK and watch this show. Not get your boxers in a wad about things that you couldn't change with a show that was 13 episodes into the series and the air rights sold. People needed to sit back and let the information sink in. The depth of the show was completely lost to many, the gutsy move for the writers to project future society issues and environmental problems were cutting edge. The problem with the US viewers is obvious, a hard core group of around 3 millions were hooked, the rest wanted something that required no chance of brain cells becoming involved.

I won't blame it all on the downward spiral of TV offerings in general. The obvious attempt and downright smoking gun that ABC holds with Defying Gravity as the victim is apalling. To spell it out, ABC bought this show to kill it, quickly. You do not have to be an advertising executive to understand this: if you do not show a single TV ad for a show 7 days after you air the first episode, then you are killing it. ABC bought this show as a filler, and with full knowledge that they wanted the two garbage shows Flash-crap and V=laughable, to not be upstaged with something that actually was deeper than a 5th grader's thought pattern.

It television politics at its worst and shown in detail. ABC has just shown millions of viewers that they will cut the throat of competeition even if they have to buy it and bleed it death themselves. I may be just one person, but I dare say that there are several million viewers who are more than fed-up with ABC- and word travels fast amongst loyal fans.

You had to THINK and watch this show. Not get your boxers in a wad about things that you couldn’t change with a show that was 13 episodes into the series and the air rights sold. People needed to sit back and let the information sink in. The depth of the show was completely lost to many, the gutsy move for the writers to project future society issues and environmental problems were cutting edge. The problem with the US viewers is obvious, a hard core group of around 3 millions were hooked, the rest wanted something that required no chance of brain cells becoming involved.

I won’t blame it all on the downward spiral of TV offerings in general. The obvious attempt and downright smoking gun that ABC holds with Defying Gravity as the victim is apalling. To spell it out, ABC bought this show to kill it, quickly. You do not have to be an advertising executive to understand this: if you do not show a single TV ad for a show 7 days after you air the first episode, then you are killing it. ABC bought this show as a filler, and with full knowledge that they wanted the two garbage shows Flash-crap and V=laughable, to not be upstaged with something that actually was deeper than a 5th grader’s thought pattern.

It television politics at its worst and shown in detail. ABC has just shown millions of viewers that they will cut the throat of competeition even if they have to buy it and bleed it death themselves. I may be just one person, but I dare say that there are several million viewers who are more than fed-up with ABC- and word travels fast amongst loyal fans.

ABC didn't get it right with DG (the buyers from ABC called it "Grey's Anatomy in Space"- dear lord) and they will fail with V by putting it into hiatus with four episodes under its belt.

ABC didn’t get it right with DG (the buyers from ABC called it “Grey’s Anatomy in Space”- dear lord) and they will fail with V by putting it into hiatus with four episodes under its belt.

If that was the mission statement of the show it sucked at it. Yes it was focused more on the characters than anything else and that can lead to a very good show when the characters are interesting. That wasn't the case here. With it's cliched carboard cutout characters the show had no chance. And advertising for the show was no issue since I don't pay any attention to them. I hadn't even realised 24 was on until after the first season was finished. So I started watching this without hearing the 'Grey's Anatomy in space' description. After the first episode was finished I was 100% sure that it would get cancelled. So I will not blame ABC for cancelling DG. I'll blame them for funding it in the first place.

If that was the mission statement of the show it sucked at it. Yes it was focused more on the characters than anything else and that can lead to a very good show when the characters are interesting. That wasn’t the case here. With it’s cliched carboard cutout characters the show had no chance. And advertising for the show was no issue since I don’t pay any attention to them. I hadn’t even realised 24 was on until after the first season was finished. So I started watching this without hearing the ‘Grey’s Anatomy in space’ description. After the first episode was finished I was 100% sure that it would get cancelled. So I will not blame ABC for cancelling DG. I’ll blame them for funding it in the first place.