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Open the Iris: Stargate SG1 Confirms Season 7
Nefrayu writes "After false rumors having been posted on the /. forum lately about the 7th season of SG-1, Gateworld.net and the SciFi Channel have now confirmed that the show will be carried on SciFi through the 7th season. Along with this announcement is the "surprise" that Dr. Daniel Jackson (portrayed by Michael Shanks) will be returning full time for the said 7th season. Excerpts from an online chat with supervising producer Joseph Mallozzi at SG1Fans can be found here. "
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tis getting a bit old
the kids are fed up of it
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extrapolation is good, if i'm remembering the weak character development of the movie right...
It's good that Daniel Jackson is to return to Stargate, but what happens to Jonas (the one who replaced him for season 6)?
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Are you insinuating there is strong character development on that B quality soap-opera of a junk TV series?
Please.
- Toby
They travel to a world where they are attacked, the scientists screw up dramatically and the military has to go in and save the day, all the while the alien companions know absolutely nothing about the world, have nothing of value to input, and in general get underfoot throughout the entire episode.
We can call this season: Journey to the not-so-parallel universe.
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Aaaah.... I've been Lone Gunmenned.
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In the country where I live, SG1 hasn't gone that far yet
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whats even worse is 9/10 people who read your post will understand it...
I live in a giant bucket.
I liked the movie, but the series is the only one I watch at the moment, with the exception of the surprisingly excellent Odyssey 5. Both of the above, IMO, are up there with the greats (B5, Farscape, Misfits of Science, early McGyver, etc).
And what does 'extrapolates too far' mean, anyway? It's a science fiction series. If they didn't extrapolate as much as they did, it'd be a shit series. Everyone'd spend every week staring at the iris, wondering what those occasional 'thuds' were.
I gave up on the SciFi Channel with the cancelation first of the I-Man then FarScape.
We use to spend at least two nights watching it. Now maybe an hour per month and that is for a 2 AM old TLZone.
Why you ask? They can not place a single show of quiality on.
Their sister channel USA, was movies and first run of MONK. So they are spending money. But not on the SciFi but should be renamed the B-Movie Horrir Channel.
No, no, no, you got it all wrong! It gives Richard Dean Anderson a career beyond MacGuyver!
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Brad Wright will take the year off to develop the hopeful spin-off series Stargate Atlantis, though he will still write for SG-1.
Anyone know what this is about ?
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I'm not sure where the heck we are locally (Los Angeles, broadcast only -- no cable here); we just got an episode about a pyramid, I mean ziggurat [g] followed by one that was unmemorably Star Trekish in plot. What season is this anyway?? I've only been able to get a channel that carries SG-1 for a few months, so it's *all* new to me.
Daniel Jackson is the character who hooked me in the first place, and is still my favourite. So I'll be sorry to see him go, and glad to get him back!
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I really really hope that they don't pull the whole, Season 6 was just a dream thing. It kind of soured the entire Bob Newhart show when they did that.
What I'd like to know is how much the new season will be like the original story line was supposed to. While not having every detail planned out I'm sure the writters have the story hashed out for the most part, and I wonder how much the viewers loose/gain by the hiatus of one of the pivotal characters.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Did I miss somethink, or didn't Daniel DIE?(or move on to a better place, or whatever) Last time I checked, he was gone, and resurecting him would have been too much for anyone...
Esth
How come this guy gets labelled as flamebait? Did you actually read his comment - it's entirely valid.
SG-1 now is weak and anaemic compared to how it first began, and farscape was just getting good. As for the screening time dictating audience figures, his comment is right on the ball.
I just hope someone metamoderates your ass to the junkpile.
-Nano.
Seriously!
SG-1 is fine for filler and did its job keeping me awake until Farscape aired, but there's not enough there to keep me tuning every episode. I just don't understand how shows like "Farscape" and the "Invisible Man" can get cancelled in their prime, while SG-1 and worse (i.e. "Crossing Over") seem to thrive.
Sci-Fi shouldn't let itself be run totally by ratings, otherwise we'll end up with Sci-Fi meets Jerry Springer!
You are mistaken e are talking about SG1 not Farscape (aka muppets in space!)
Stargate came to the Sci-Fi channel w/ a large "installed base" of viewers. That number was probably some significant percentage of SF's total viewship (I have no idea how large, but let's say 20%?) They want to keep that group of people happy and not lose them. Any original show that the SF channel has tried out hasn't worked out in the long run.
If a television network doesn't go by ratings, then they'll have no one watching what you think of as "quality" television. They need to attract advertisers somehow, and if their own creations aren't cutting it, then they get the boot.
It's too bad we can't start our own cable network....can you imagine the /. channel? What would you (yeah you! the one reading this right now!) put on it.
Todd
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I don't watch this but wasn't the previous /. entry a rumor that it was being continued? And now it is being further confirmed? Where's the false rumor?
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New Twilight Zone is UPN, not SciFi. Maybe you're thinking of the new Outer Limits... which originally was made by Showtime, then after about 4 years Sci-Fi bought it.
SG-1 was also oiginally made by Showtime... and bought by Sci-Fi after about 5 years.
I think Lexx was originally an HBO series, bought by Sci-Fi.
I never watched Lexx, but I watched Outer Limits and SG-1 before and after Sci-Fi. Anyone notice that after Sci-Fi buys something that's still in production (not something in reruns like Lost in Space or Forever Knight), the quality of the show decreases dramatically?
Another example: Sliders. Was orignally a FOX show. It was a good show in it's 1st season, then Fox's execs demanded it be turned to crap, which of course got it cancelled. Sci-Fi bought it, and REALLY screwed it up.
I think the quality of Sci-Fi's writers also hinges on the fact that:
1) they're not a premium network. They make money off commercials and a few product placements, not off monthly subscriptions and product placements.
2) they're owned by USA, which is also known for tons of crap.
I think it's about 70% number 2, 20% number 1, and the rest just general faults of these shows (certain premises last longer than others, and you can only do so many plots on the same general building blocks.)
Obligatory:
3)?????
4)Profit!!!
(which goes right in line with what I just wrote...)
Seriously I wonder if Shanks/Jackson will be doing a ghost routine. After all he's sort of dead. He showed up once in season 6 as a 'spirit guide'. Did anyone else get serious vibes that the plot was spinning out of control?
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Sure I'll agree that this last season was disjointed and disappointing but I have (or had) a feeling that the writters were setting up for something big for the next season.
Farscape was really good, at least for the first couple seasons. This last one was kinda crap. I know I'll be flamed for that, but, seriously, it seemed like the characters could not keep the same personality from episode to episode.
The invisible man gave me some good chuckles, again, mainly in the first couple seasons. When they brought in that person from Black Scorpion and actually started getting serious about the plot, they lost focus. It was a comedy, not a drama! Ugh.
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...has anyone heard who shot JR? I missed that episode.
I didn't mind him gone. I never really liked his character that much, especially throughout season 6. He was dead weight as far as I'm concerned.
My big concern is how they will bring him back without making the plot totally absurd!
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She is in a mutch better place.
Wait, she is holding up an oscar... Something about acting? faking?
But didn't she love me?
Ok, now she is holding up two oscars.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I mean, I like that Shanks will return as Dr. Daniel Jackson, but what we really need is for this girlfriend Lexa Doig to come on board, she is waste on that other crappy show :o)
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Doesn't really matter what the /. crowd wants. The channel would run out of money in a year anyway.
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the important thing is ... WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO RELEASE THE NEXT FERSHLUGGINER BOXED SET?!??!!!?
AARRGGHH!!
(I don't EVEN want to hear about how they're already out in the UK. I KNOW they're out in the UK. I want them out in AMERICA!)
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Farscape is cancelled, but SG-1 gets another season? Were we all really bad in a past life or something?
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But look how many of us there are. Plus, I doubt most software companies would normally consider selling ads. If they believe a group of 400000+ nerds were watching it, they might just consider it a viable market.
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Another example: Sliders. Was orignally a FOX show. It was a good show in it's 1st season, then Fox's execs demanded it be turned to crap, which of course got it cancelled. Sci-Fi bought it, and REALLY screwed it up.
:)
Why I'm holding fears for Firefly at the moment. It's *so* good (IMO of course) that I'm scared that the network is going to have to dumb it down, or cancel it outright.
Please leave it as it is !!
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How are they going to bring Daniel Jackson's character back? I mean, he fscking died/ascended! Do they have reoccur as a sort of extra-dimensional guide to the SG-1 nyuknyuks? Have him "descend" or "un-ascend"?
Although, you know what would be interesting. The scifi/soap opera solution: Daniel's dead, but they just happen to find his long lost twin brother, a reknowed neurosurgeon raised by temporally displaced landsharks.
Sniff...I miss Farscape...
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Shanks left the series at the end of season five, and his character gave up human life and ascended to a higher plane of existence.
Well you know I find it suspicious that the Cordelia character in Angel has also just returned from some higher plane of something-or-other. Maybe her and Daniel Jackson (ascended) were getting it on in some weird posthuman sense?
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just for the record, SG-1 is not on every day. X-Files is on ALOT now, and between SCIFi, TNT, and FX that show may actually be on every day. SCIfi airs SG-1 re-runs on Mondays with 4 1-hour episodes. It airs the new 1 hour episodes twice on Friday. But that is only when they are not playing stupid B-Movies like Route 666.
I personally love SG-1 and I was never able to watch it because it was sydicated on a channel that ran it at 2am every other Saturday or something like that.
So now with all the re-runs I can catch up on what I missed. Even though you get a similar plot for every episode, I still enjoy the different content. Anyways, when you look at any TV show, is the plot extremely different from week to week? Not usually.
Who's a friend of mine, confirmed that they would be doing another series a couple of weeks ago.. but he said that sci-fi wasn't really that anxious to do it, they would rather just drop it.
I don't see there being a season after this one unless they have a change of heart, he never went into why.. but he said that it was the same thing with sci-fi and what happened with farscape.. which, I have never seen.. (don't attack me)
Anyway, it's good to see that SG1 will be around for another season!
OK, Daniel coming back I guess I sorta understand. I mean they'll find some way to write him back in without too much trouble.
But Michael Shanks coming back? What's with that? I thought he left because he didn't like the X-Files'ish direction the show was going, with all the government conspiracies.
So what happened? Did he change his mind?
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I think the problem is SI FI trys to run things as is and expects the shows momentum to keep it good while they learn what makes it good.
The flaw is I've noticed when a show switches networks the show is losing or lost momentum and needs some work to stay alive. Additionally the last few epps on the old network are ment to hurt the show on the new network.
Example when UPN took over Buffy from WB the last thing WB did was kill the main character.
Had UPN just let momentum carry it the UPN Buffy would suck.
I don't think it has the same appeal but UPN did a good job using the death of Buffy like a dramatic plot twist.
But Sifi is an old show warehouse when they need to repair them.
Thats why IMAO Sifi shows don't work.
Saint Sinner... I want to see that. Originally a Marval Comic if I remember correctly.
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I tried watching Firefly, but just couldn't get into it. Perhaps it's the cowboy stuff. But, in general, it seems that on shows that are like the following, "a bunch of people flying around on a space ship, but it's not like Star Trek, because the characters DON'T GET ALONG!", the not getting along part seems way too forced, and totally lacks subtlety. That was my main beef with Andromeda and Farscape. Firefly seems to take that tack as well.
I don't necessarily pine for shows where everyone gets along, but it if there was that much friction between shipmates, is it that likely they'd stay together and not kill each other? (or something like that...)
Todd
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Just a quick correction. SG-1 re-runs air on Monday (4 1-hour episodes back-to-back) and then each of those four episodes are shown again throughout the week. One on Tuesday, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, and one on Friday. Then, the Season 6 re-runs are also on Friday (at least until January when we're supposed to get to see the rest of Season 6).
Anyone know when Season 7 will start? Please don't tell me they plan to show the last half of Season 6 and then re-run the whole thing AGAIN (they've already been through the first half of Season 6 at least twice).
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