Stargate episode 200!!!

[Atrocities]

I really didn't like it that much say for the last 30 seconds. I got the whole show but just felt that it was a jump the shark spoof and really would have liked to have seen what they could have done with the show if they had been a bit more serious and had more time. While it had a lot of shots and scenes that just set the hair up on the back of your neck, over all it was kinda disappointing. But still, we got to see Jack again and that was well worth it.

[Renegade 13]

Wow...hadn't read the SciFi Wire report before writing my last post.

I sure hope Stargate gets picked up by another station/company. It's been, bar none, my favorite show on TV for almost as long as I've been watching TV. Hell, Stargate has been airing for over half my life!

It is entirely possibe that someone else will pick it up, even if that company isn't American. For example, it's possible that a channel up here in Canada, Space, who I think are owned by Bell Globemedia, will pick it up. It'd be right up their alley after all.

I guess all I can do is hope!

[Atrocities]

Sci-fi cannot afford Stargate and often only runs a series for only a couple of years. This might be the end of Stargate as we know it. NBC could aford to pick up SG and run it prime time but we all know how other scifi shows on NBC have been treated. Sindication is another option but lets face it, the sindication market isn't what it used to be back in the day of STNG.

MGM has a very marketable franchise, under marketed IMHO, no games, no collectables, no toys, just a show that could have made them a lot of money over the years under utitlized and now too expensive to produce.

Sallaries go up, cost go up, and series eventually become too expensive too make. This normally happens when their market share starts too fall, but in SG1's case their market share hasn't erroded over time, however the cost of producing the show, namily salaries, has increased to the point where it now takes more money per episode thus lowering profits for Sci-Fi network.

They are slating a feature film and will most likely make it so don't worry too much about it. If the film is successful, the will most likely make a return to tv. This according to a long Gate World report that I read a few months back.

[Renegade 13]

Alright...so rather than give in to the temptation to hunt down the morons who run the Sci Fi Channel and beat them to a bloody pulp with my handy, trusty tire iron, I think it's better to take a less violent, more results-oriented approach. So, if you want to see Stargate for a few more seasons, heres a few links for you:

Pretty much a "Keep Stargate Going!" petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Stargate/index.html

To contact MGM, the company that owns the rights to Stargate, and encourage them to find a new station to pick up Stargate, follow this link:

http://www.mgm.com/help.do

To email a TV station up here in Canada, analogous the the Sci-Fi Channel in the States, to encourage them to look at taking over where Sci-Fi left off, send an email to:

space@spacecast.com




As evidenced by the above, I'm a massive fan...and I don't want it to die

It's a sad day when intelligent programming, such as Stargate, can be cancelled, when a plethora of "reality" TV shows, wrestling shows, etc etc ad nauseum can spring up and succeed. It just goes to show that the average television viewing person is not prepared to use their mind even slightly when they turn on their TV. It seems they'd rather just empty their minds and drool senselessly as they're spoonfed worthless trash over and over again.

[Black_Knyght]

Renegade 13 said:
"...give in to the temptation to hunt down the morons who run the Sci Fi Channel and beat them to a bloody pulp with my handy, trusty tire iron..."

Oh, I think this IS a perfectly good idea when considering how to respond to anyone who cancels the series.

It's been one of the very few fun, entertaining, interesting, and - occasionally - even educational Sci-Fi shows to comw around for quite some time.

[Caduceus]

"All good things must come to an end."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

"Why?"

[Atrocities]

Caduceus said:
"All good things must come to an end."

Its not that they must, its that they just do.

[geoschmo]

My recollection, and perhaps it's flawed, is that MGM never intended to continue SG-1 past season 8. They only wanted the one series, Atlantis. They were going to have the big whopping battle over the arctic, kill off Anubis, Hammond and O'niell would retire to do some fly fishing, Daniel would stay ascended and Carter would head off to run the Atlantis expedition. SciFi channel was apparently the one that cajoled them into doing another couple seasons of both shows.

To be honest there have been times when the two shows have been a little akward. It might have been better if they had just commited to one. If it meant we wouldn't have had to slog throgh this Ori storyline, I almost wouldn't have minded.