Why Stargate Universe failed

So...unlikely to be a popular post due to the fact that nobody watched the show and few, I imagine, really care that it is gone...however...we wade ahead anyway.

Stargate Universe closed this week...canceled after two seasons...two seasons which paled in comparison to the 10 seasons SG-1 got...and the 5 Atlantis got...

Frankly, and let me shock you with some bluntness, the reality is that each series got 50% crappier than the last and, gasp, lasted half as long (what a coincidence).

SG-1 was great...Atlantis was watchable and Universe was shit...I wonder, seriously, what they expected when they rolled this turd out?

40 episodes of grim, grim and more grim...compared to ten seasons of actual humor on SG-1.

What I find most interesting is that the creators/writers so obviously decided that what had worked for TEN SEASONS somehow didn't work anymore and that the world wanted a grim and unpleasant series. How many murders, murder trials (not actually related to the murder), love interests dying, blindings and other horribleness did the creators think audiences yearned for?

Not to mention a complete absence of anything resembling a plot or direction...at least Voyager had the goal of getting home...the goal of Universe? To stay on a ship that had been on a journey for MILLIONS of years to prove the existence of God? I think?

Anyway...good riddance...it was clear from the end of the 4th episode that the show was doomed and audiences abandoned it in droves.