I could see the rationale for including Simpsons and Lost -- they're probably, in a technical sense, too "big" to be "cult," but they draw to themselves that wonky cult-hit behavior, in-jokes and call-backs and rewarding obsessive stocking away of minute details. They're kind of like cult hits writ large.
SGA is, I think, more of a tiny blip on the cultural landscape than we like to think it is; I probably wouldn't have listed it, either. Roswell is probably worth considering. I think part of the mark of a cult hit is that even people who don't watch it go, "Oh, yeah, that show" when it's mentioned -- If I say Twin Peaks or Xena: Warrior Princess or The Avengers, it doesn't matter if you've never seen an episode, you probably have a certain image or impression of what it was, the premise and the style of it. I'm not sure Roswell means anything to a lot of people, much like Sentinel and Due South mean nothing to most people, much to my disappointment.
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SGA is, I think, more of a tiny blip on the cultural landscape than we like to think it is; I probably wouldn't have listed it, either. Roswell is probably worth considering. I think part of the mark of a cult hit is that even people who don't watch it go, "Oh, yeah, that show" when it's mentioned -- If I say Twin Peaks or Xena: Warrior Princess or The Avengers, it doesn't matter if you've never seen an episode, you probably have a certain image or impression of what it was, the premise and the style of it. I'm not sure Roswell means anything to a lot of people, much like Sentinel and Due South mean nothing to most people, much to my disappointment.
No Highlander, though? That I don't get.