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Third Stargate TV Series Named
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on Sun Mar 25, 2007 08:14 AM
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GateWorld has a story about the new Stargate series. "The working title of the third 'Stargate' television series is 'Stargate Universe', executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld. The show currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters. Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright will start writing the pilot after shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June. Meanwhile, new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel. "
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Moo (Score:1)
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1) There are no details other than the name.
2) They spelled "series" incorrectly.
3) Everybody hates the name.
Moo (Score:5, Funny)
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On arrival they find an empty room where the 42 original member of the Multiversal Council met to populate the universe, but they won't talk to them because they don't know enough yet. They get ticked off and start blowing things up, and are sent back to their home universe which is now set to be destroyed.
The series focuses on how the erstwhile enemies must get together and fight the coomon enemy, all before Macgyver dies of old age.
There must be more SG than ST by now..... (Score:4, Interesting)
For such a successful series SG seems to have very little of the cultural impact or generate the extreme opinion that ST had. It's like SG has always been 'okay', but ST was 'great' but then simply wore out it's welcome.
Re:There must be more SG than ST by now..... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:There must be more SG than ST by now..... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:There must be more SG than ST by now..... (Score:5, Funny)
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Look, if God tells you to build a longer story ark, you build it.
-Space Noah
'Our' military? (Score:3, Informative)
(http://quadrocket.co.uk/)
I take it Cooper's talking in relative terms, given that he's Canadian (along with most of the cast and crew) and the US Air Force, well, isn't.
Learn from Star Trek (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Learn from Star Trek (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://roachetc.org/)
Long path from treatment to series. (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.mediapundit.net/)
The pilot script will probably go through at least that amount of haggling, and would need to be followed up with or maybe even proceeded by an entire series treatment which will probably take weeks if not months to do, before the studio would even consider shooting the pilot.
Not trying to rain on the parade or anything, I just want to put into perspective what this means, which isn't a whole lot right now. This is step one out of tens of dozens. Long way to go here.
"Third"? (Score:4, Informative)
- Stargate SG-1 (1997) [imdb.com]
- Stargate Infinity (2002) [imdb.com]
- Stargate Atlantis (2004) [imdb.com]
- Stargate Universe
They always forget/suppress the animated series, just like Star Trek (1973) [imdb.com].Season 8 of SG-1 was the end for me (Score:1)
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Add to that fact that Richard Dean Anderson was on his way out of the show, and to be honest, it was over at that point. His character added something to the whole thing, call it maybe the reality check. O'Neil just kind of refused to take things seriously 100% of the time, and added a great amount of quips, and humor.
Just let it die. It's over.
Gah (Score:2)
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It wouldn't bother me so much if it use cash and airtime that could be used for something more original.
sg-1 (Score:1)
SG-1's already available online (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.asmor.com/)
Not that I'm advocating piracy (hell, I own the first 9 seasons on DVD and will get the 10th whenever it comes out), but it's Sci-Fi's fault for dragging their ass and waiting so long to show it. In a globalized world, you don't get to screw people over just so you can get an extra half of a rating point.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover where to get them.
Just hope... (Score:2)
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Wrong series (Score:5, Insightful)
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(I loved the first few years of SG1, but then it got pretty random and bad, reminding me more and more of the "Forehead of the Week" clubhouse show: STtNG).
I like the 9th and 10th season (Score:2)
Thanks SciFi (Score:2)
I understand how the rest of the world feels with everything being broadcast late. SG-1 has been broadcast in UK for some time (Up to episode 20 currently) and Atlantis has been broadcast in Australia.
I can say I won't be catching these on SciFi since I have them all from BitTorrent.
Networks: Start broadcasting TV shows at the same time... because otherwise we're going to get them anyway.
The suits are getting greedy (Score:1, Interesting)
(Musings below will be most probably badly articulated, but I hope I can get the point across. But then, I have the excuse that english is not my native langage -- heh)
Typical 'murkan' TV executive excessive greed and stupidity. Press the lemon as much as you can, bleed the damn thing until dry... and even then, bleed it some more to make more $$$.
There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" (badly said): haven't "they" learned about the fact that something is made more precious if it is not too abundant? As long as a ressource is scarce it is more desirable? Don't these monkeys know about the concept of an _overdose_?
Not only that, but by running two series in parallel, they are stretching the writing staff a bit thin, because it has to come up with even more original and possibly not-overlapping ideas all the time. If Atlantis becomes the only SG series running, the writing should improve, because it would not have to share "originality" and the "unexpected" with SG1 -- no?
It's not as if the franchise will not be unsuccessful (sp?) if there is only Atlantis -- come on, SG1 lasted 10 years, which is a pretty respectable run in TV Land, AFAIK.
Further more, the idiocy of the suits meddling with the series has already resulted in the...
SPOILERS!!!!
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I hear from work colleagues that BS:G and Lost have become victim of very apparent executive meddling and are sucking big time this year (warning: GIGO principle applies here, I can only take their word for it). All of them, ~former big fans of these series are no longer watching them religiously. I'm assuming that they are not the only ones and that there has been a noticable drop in ratings.
Let's hope that someone with enough corporate power notices this and learns the appropriate lessons. Let's hope that that someone will then kill this 3rd SG series and let SG:A grow and become what it can/could be.
Since, what, the early '70s I've seen too many shows degrade because of idiotic suits dictating what a show should look like, applying tired and broken recipes to said shows when they didn't need "fixing". (It happened also in the '60s: think "Lost in space" that started wih a "serious" pilot and ended up with campy sillyness.) That or simply running a show past its prime and not ending it at the right time (think "Happy Days"). You do need to know when to stop, otherwhise you'll end up... "jumping the shark".
Sorry for the rant, but I've grown to like the SG franchise (those daily re-runs are good for something, after all...) and would like to see it stay healthy.
reveal the stargate (Score:1)
(http://hawking.mud.nu/zarn/)
The show will be about the 9th chevron (Score:1)
Huh? (Score:1)
Why is this news? (Score:2)
I'd like to take this opportunity... (Score:1)
From a plausibility angle this is a great idea as we get to see a different take on previous situations (i.e. when the plot was still slightly amusing) as well as letting the SG writers to break away from the SG-1 team (which sucked without Richard Dean Anderson).
God has a plan for you,.. (Score:1)
Big Deal... (Score:1)
I love my Stargate, but... (Score:1)
(http://www.filthynoises.com/)
Re:may (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
(http://asztal.net/)
Re:Why? (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://improbableuniverse.blogspot.com/)
That being said, I'm looking forward to the movies.
Re:Why? (Score:1, Funny)
This dosent look like it will be too interesting. (Score:1)
SG-1 movie -vs- Farscape movie (Score:5, Interesting)
shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June
Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].
I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.
I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox [gateworld.net], the Oannes [gateworld.net], Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.
And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra [imdb.com].
And it would be really neat if they could convince Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?
Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".
[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning [wikipedia.org].]
Re:SG-1 movie -vs- Farscape movie (Score:5, Informative)
SciFi had nothing to do with shooting the Farscape movie. I wish people would stop giving this channel credit for things like this. The show was canceled with no indication that anything would follow. Then the producers decided they wanted to tie it up and started shooting the mini-series. When they started shooting, they had no idea who would buy it or where it would be shown. SciFi picked it up.
SciFi has hardly any responsibility for the quality, or more often the lack of quality, in their shows. They are produced by other corporations and the shows are sold to SciFi. For instance, remember Stargate: SG1 was on Showtime for the first 5 years of the show. There's even one line in the last episode of the first season that referenced Showtime. When they see the transmitter and Teal'c tells them what it is, O'Neil said, "Does it get Showtime?" Later, in reruns on SciFi, the line was redubbed to remove a reference to Showtime. While SciFi claims the show as an original, it was created elsewhere.
Galactica is a slightly different story, since it involves the parent company of SciFi. Still, it is NOT SciFi that produces these shows.
Re:SG-1 movie -vs- Farscape movie (Score:5, Interesting)
And Farscape was cancelled after SFC had already renewed it for two seasons, both 4 and 5. SFC pulled the rug from under Farscape after the cliffhanger ending of season 4 was completed. The same thing happened to Forever Knight on USA: USA funded one-third of FK's third and final season, and then pulled the funding at the last minute, leading to the bottle episodes at the end of that show.
As near as I can figure, the common element is someone named Bonnie Hammer, who ran the channels in question at the right times and seems not to like genre shows, based on the Scare Tactics and John Edwards garbage that was the staple of SFC's line-up the last time I subscribed to it.
Oh, please (Score:1, Troll)
(Last Journal: Saturday April 01 2006, @09:51PM)
Yet when I turn off Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis and go watch any other show, including that one with the (now dead) alcoholic female space fighter pilot and the Farmers insurance agent turned starship captain, I keep seeing over and over again why I like Stargate.
Let it Go (Score:1)
Re:uhm, hasnt SG1 finished already?! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Umm SG1 new episodes? (Score:1)
Re:Please, Stop. (Score:3, Interesting)
SG-1 has run for 10 years. This is a long time for any series, especially one where you can't easily change the location and/or cast.
Maybe they'd do better to try something new instead of more Stargate. e.g. give Joss Whedon a call and then give his ideas full backing.
Filler episodes u.s.w. (Score:1)
Re:Umm SG1 new episodes? (Score:2)
IIRC the US is way ahead of the world in quite a few ways. Just that things like "the land of the free" having the worlds biggest prison population isn't much to be proud of.
typically fails to acknowledge the simple fact that everyone in the civilised world has already seen the series finale of SG-1 and the season 3 finale of Atlantis.
When it comes to TV series the US often gets the first few episodes first, but often the last few episodes get shown in the UK or Canada before the US. Where the US tends to really get stiffed is on DVD releases. With it possibly being quicker to row across the Atlantic and back than wait for the US DVD release. (With walking to and from Canada, from Florida, being a possible alternative in some cases.)
Re:Please, Stop. (Score:2)
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Bring back Red Dwarf or Babylon 5 instead, those haven't been milked enough :)
Re:Stargate? (Score:2)
Slashdot would have 334 fewer comments in its database if you had taken your own advice.
Re:MacGyver will be back... (Score:2)
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