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'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled
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on Tue Aug 22, 2006 08:23 AM
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from the gate-closed dept.
Ant writes "The Sci-Fi channel has announced that it will not be renewing its (very popular) original series Stargate SG-1 for another season.The spinoff series Stargate: Atlantis will get the nod, though, airing for a fourth year. SG-1 aired its 200th episode on August 18th, and the SF series is the longest-running SF show on American television." Gateworld has further details: "New episodes of both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis continue Fridays this summer starting at 9 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, leading up to the mid-season finale on September 22. The second half of the season will begin in March, leading to SG-1's final bow on SCI FI in June."
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It's just like... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's just like... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's just like... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://somethingstirring.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 01, @05:09PM)
Re:Soylent Running (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.forsberg.pp.se/)
...and for all who didn't get the joke:
Soylent SG-1 is made out of canceled shows!!
(Other) canceled shows I tell you!!
Re:It's just like... (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Monday February 04 2002, @03:31PM)
Re:Well on the brigther side... (Score:4, Interesting)
So Long and Thanks (Score:5, Interesting)
By the way, if anyone from the staff, crew or cast reads this: Thanks for ten wonderful years.
Re:Atlantis (Score:5, Funny)
You know you can have a life on friday night and still watch your geek shows. There are two devices that let you do this by recording the shows so you can watch them later.
One of them is called a V-C-R and you can pick one up at a flea market for a few bucks. They first got popular back in the '70 when people relized they could watch porn at home. Or if they had a camera they could make their own porn. (I wouldn't recommend the home made to anyone though. Its usually just 5 mins of some dude poorly focues bare ass bouncing.) It works by letting you record the show you want to watch on a very fragle tape like substance in pour quality.
The other is called a D-V-R. It works pretty much the same way as a VCR but instead of tape, it uses an expensive and fragle highly spinning disk of death. One of the best things about a dvr is after a while it will start suggesting shows for you to watch. You might find that it has better taste in TV than you do. I know mine does.
Re:So Long and Thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday October 20 2004, @05:23AM)
Re:So Long and Thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
My other problem is that eventually you end up at a point where some genius with access to the script decides to, for example, destroy a sun in an easily repeatable way, and then for the rest of the series, blowing up a sun is a solution for every problem but has to be ignored. It is short sighted and every writer should read their script and look for these obvious and completely avoidable future plot holes.
Re:So Long and Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Great idea! Let's rally the troops! Online petitions to save cancelled sci-fi TV shows have worked so well in the past.
BTW, anyone have torrents for last week's episodes of Farscape and Enterprise?
nudity (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.gilfether.com/)
Re:nudity (Score:5, Informative)
Re:nudity (Score:5, Funny)
Re:nudity (Score:5, Funny)
Re:nudity (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.unity08.com/)
Re:nudity (Score:5, Insightful)
Pockets.
Contract costs or ??? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Contract costs or ??? (Score:5, Insightful)
In general, all good things should come to an end (especially with an episode entitled "All Good Things...") and it actually isn't that uncommon to end a series at its height.
Better to burn out or fade away? (Score:5, Interesting)
Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again (Score:5, Interesting)
At least MGM is planning on continuing the series, somewhere else.
I guess Sci-Fi needs more space for shitty B monster movies, fantasty crap and "wrasslin'"...
Re:Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again (Score:4, Insightful)
At any rate, they've faired far better than the Simpsons, which didn't even have the good sense to step aside when it spawned a truely great comedy.
Re:Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.terminalcore.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 06 2005, @10:52AM)
Explain that one to me please? They cancel things like Farscape and SG-1 but put the ECW on there??
We should probably start calling it the B-Channel. B for Bad.
Oh well. If they keep canceling shows I'll be able to lower my DirecTV bill by going to the basic package that doesn't have them on it. If one of their shows turns out to be good enough to escape their massive suckage it'll show up on some other channel or DVDs.
Re:Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.popularculturegaming.com/)
Well it figures (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.tanningbeds4less.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday November 05 2006, @07:23AM)
I had thought the last year.5 had introduced some new blood and ideas into the show, after I quit watching it in Season 7. Surely I can't be the only one who thinks the show had taken a turn for the better, fresher, while still being true to the original concept.
It was time. (Score:5, Interesting)
GAH! (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://blog.mzzt.net/)
Ah well. I suppose this is a blessing in disguise though as it means:
1) We'll get to see the Ori beaten (hopefully, according to gateworld.net the last few episodes aren't set in stone yet).
2) At the end of Episode 200 Martin Lloyd announces to the 10-season cast of Wormhole X-treme that "the movie's back on!". I like to think this extends back to that Stargate SG-1 movie [gateworld.net], but I guess we'll have to wait and see. Now that the series is over there's more hope for it, at least according to gateworld...
I wonder how long the SG-1 writers/producers etc knew the 10th season would be the last. Episode 200 makes a BIT more sense if you realize "hey, they knew they would never have another chance to pull stuff like this again".
We heard this before (Score:5, Funny)
SG-1 was to be killed after Jack left
Now Again.
But true they now have Farscape people, so the death should be quick!
Re:We heard this before (Score:5, Funny)
Exec 1: "Now that we have Atlantis, we can cancel SG1!"
Exec 2: "Oh, I couldn't bear to do that! I don't want to make Richard Dean Anderson cry again."
Exec 1: "Well, we could wait until he leaves and then cancel SG1."
Exec 2: "No, then he'd get all smug about how SG1 was really 'his' show."
Exec 1: "How about replacing him and then canceling the show after a season or two?"
Exec 2: "Brilliant! But where could we possibly find an actor willing to work on a loved but inevitably and obviously doomed series?"
Exec 1: "That guy from Farscape?"
Exec 2: "Perfect!"
Viewer Req. (Score:5, Interesting)
surprised that I'm sad to see it go (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday February 04 2002, @03:31PM)
1. Did anyone else pick this part up?
I mean, don't get me wrong, Amanda Tapping is cute as a button, and Claudia Black (who hasn't been with the cast that long), rrowl. But I was really shocked to hear this. There are so many producers and directors out there who want to push the boundaries - is it too much to ask that those who want to make a more conventional show not be forced to throw in some gratuitous nude scenes? There wasn't even anything like that in the original movie.
2. SG-1 is probably at its best when the cast & crew isn't taking itself too seriously. And with that in mind, let me tell you that if you missed the 200th episode... well, it's a shame. It was a bit uneven, but it was packed with in-jokes for the kind of people who like not only the show, but sci-fi in general, and even things "vaguely related" to sci-fi. (Veiled Firefly/Serenity references? Check. Not so veiled Star Trek, Farscape, and Team America: World Police references? Check.)
Anyhoo, if you have the chance, catch the 200th episode as a rerun. You'll be glad you did.