well thats the thing they did have a reality show "Who whants to be a super hero" but it did not do so well

A big WTF, let the people who own Scifi screw it up until they have no fans.

Alright, calm down folks, this wasn't all Sci-Fi's fault, the people making the show wanted to close it down so they could move on to a third StarGate series, StarGate Universe.  They didn't want to make two series at once and have been waiting for Atlantis to finish up so they could move on.  This is all part of their plan.

Prove it.  I don't believe that the writers/producers/directors chose to end Atlantis.  I think Sci-Fi ended it because the ratings have dropped in the last couple years and haven't gone back up.  Atlantis started out with a 2.0 in the Nielson ratings, now its lucky to get 1.2

Eureka, that steaming pile of bantha fodder, regularly gets a 2.0 and higher.

I see the reasoning behind cancelling SG1, it was costing more than it was bringing in and the whole dynamic had changed due to the cast changes.  Maybe they should have done what they were originaly thinking and ended it with season 8, then starting it again as Stargate : Command.

Atlantis has been a pile of rubbish since it started, so the fact it lasted this long has surprised me. Every time they came up with a decent idea that would have been a great recurring theme or ongoing story, it lasted a single episode with a major cop out ending.

As for the new spin off, Why didn't they call it Stargate : Voyager, and have done with it.

That all comes across as overly negative, but it's not meant to, i'm just sick of series that have an amazing amount of potential being treated like jokes.

I'm hoping we're just seeing the death throes of the mega-audience as the overall goal of a show. It's kind of a hangover from the days of broadcasting as the dominant distribution system. I'd trade a bit of production value (show budget) for greater attention to quality and a focus on a smaller, more interested audience.

Basically, I'd like to see the "lowest common denominator" raised. Let folks who think shots fired per hour is a major criterion have their shows and do some SF for the others of us who want to *think* about big ideas. Right now, too many SF shows try too hard to please the action audience at the expense of doing really good, long story arcs.