'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled 605
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."
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.
Contract costs or ??? (Score:3, Interesting)
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'"...
Well it figures (Score:5, Interesting)
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)
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".
Viewer Req. (Score:5, Interesting)
surprised that I'm sad to see it go (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:nudity (Score:3, Interesting)
This is one thing I never understood. Why do advanced races no longer need clothing in out shows? Would that mean people in nudist camps are onto something?
were is the SciFi? (Score:5, Interesting)
Is there a movie in the works? (Score:4, Interesting)
Would this be the first TV series spinoff from a movie to spin off a movie?
Well on the brigther side..... (Score:3, Interesting)
One of the best sci-fi series I've ever known (Score:2, Interesting)
Stargate combines technology and mysticism in an 'everyday' and transparently 'acceptable' manner
('believable' is not an appropriate word to use because it requires that you 'check in' - "do i believe this?
mmm... yep! oh drat - missed an important plotline there...)
the storyline - and the background - are breathtaking in scope: on a par with Ian Bank's 'Culture' series
but more dynamic, gripping and immediate than Ian Bank's 'Culture' series (which is more violent, thoughtful,
and explorative of technology and aliens and the origins of both).
we get to see 'real' people making 'real' decisions - a lot of them fire-fighting - so it's realistic:
humans screw up, they get duped, they get dumped on. only by the skin of their teeth, through ingenuity,
and by not giving up do they pull through.
now - you could say that a lot of sci-fi series have the same characteristics: 'Star Trek' was the first
really pioneering series which brought the same level of commitment from its characters; others followed,
but even 'Star Trek' became old very quickly (even with 78 or so episodes).
In all, there really isn't (hasn't been) any other series which has all the characteristics that make a sci-fi
series truly fantastic and a real engaging pleasure to watch and to look forward to. My guess is that
the SCI FI channel will be absolutely kicking themselves once it sinks in what they have lost, because the
Stargate shows are _so_ good at what they do that I believe that the SCI FI channel has become complacent
(familiarity breeds contempt...) and simply takes it for granted.
Sorely missed (Score:1, Interesting)
However, I have to say that Stargate SG-1 has always been one of
the best. They have always had an attention to scientific detail
that was far and above other shows, with the possible exception
of the Star Trek series' (Gene Roddenbery was a master). However,
the real charm of SSG1 has been the clever dialog and witty inside
jokes. I knew I was going to love the series from the first episode
when, upon finding the first ancient dialing device on another
planet, Samantha Carter sez to Jack O'Neill:
> "Amazing. This is what was missing from the dig at Giza. It took
> us 15 years and 3 supercomputers to MacGyver a system for the
> gate on Earth."
Now I shouldn't have to explain why this is clever and funny, but I
often have to clue people in. I appologize to the 99% of you who already
get it, but for that 1% who need a little help;
Jack O'Neil is played by actor Richard Dean Anderson.
Richard Dean Anderson also played a character named MacGyver on a TV show of the same name.
MacGyver's claim-to-fame was using combinations of everyday items to "engineer" solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems...
Re:nudity (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Killing the Goose that lays the golden egg (Score:3, Interesting)
IMHO, the series hasn't been the same.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Save SG-1 (Score:1, Interesting)
Please sign, it may help them change their mind.
Re:It's just like... (Score:2, Interesting)
For me this mental twitch of forgetting they were different characters was particularly bad because I never watched Farscape when it was on the air, I watched it on DVD, consuming the entire series in order over the course of a few months. When Ben Browder showed up on SG-1 as Mitchell, and Vala became a frequent character, I was still in the beginning of the last season of Farscape on DVD.
So from my perspective if felt like both shows were still "going on" at the same time with the same actors in different roles. That was disconcerting.
End it right. (Score:3, Interesting)
They can put Daniel over on SGA if he needs a job, but for the fan's sake marry of Carter and O'Neil.
Re:More like going out on the bottom.... (Score:3, Interesting)
McKay is funny, and even better, the character got to grow, too bad that in one of the last episodes he reverted back to the old McKay (I think that one was written by the SG-1 writers, and McKay was whiny and bitchy again, though the joke with the lemon was good).
As for Ford, yeah, what happened? Personally the Atlantis team is pretty much a copy cat of SG-1 now, Ford was clearly an interesting (albeit "weak") character. Weir is at times a bit bitchy I'd say.
Still, I find them enjoyable and at least SG-1 doesn't take itself too seriously unlike TNG and Voyager did.
Re:Killing the Goose that lays the golden egg (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:GAH! (Score:3, Interesting)
The Asurans (Pegasus Replicators) were of the "human form" variety, which the Replicators Reese created eventually evolved into in the Milky Way.
The Atlantis team were unable to find record of the Replicators in the ancient database. Its possible the Asurans lied about being a creation of the Ancients. The Asurans could be Replicators who escaped from the Milky Way prior to being destroyed, or the original Replicators encountered by SG-1 might've began life in the Pegasus Galaxy. Hell, maybe the plague that wiped out all life in the galaxy way back when was the virus Weir was infected with.
Tons of possibilities
Re:Well on the brigther side... (Score:4, Interesting)