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'Stargate: SG-1' Cancelled
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."
It's just like that show with the guy who went through a space warp portal thing and landed on that living space ship thing with those little yellow robots and those damn crackers... what was the name of that show again? :)
By the way, if anyone from the staff, crew or cast reads this: Thanks for ten wonderful years.
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I wonder if the original cast members wanted too much money, or if they simply got tired of doing the show and told the network they wouldn't do it any more. Those are the only two reasons I can think for cancelling one of your most profitable shows.
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I'm a long time SG-1 fan, but I've had my fingres crossed that they'd end the show for the past few seasons now, ever since Don Davis (General Hammond) left and they started up atlantis. Recent episodes haven't been up to par, and have weakened the canon of the series overall. We all love Firefly, as it was short and sweet. Six or seven seasons of SG-1 were gold, but it is time to hang up the hat.
Poor Ben Browder. Screwed by Sci-Fi again!
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'"...
They add more the show, bring in three new exceptional talents (Ben, Beau and Claudia), and I finally get my wife to enjoy SciFi so it is something we can watch together, and they cancel the show.
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.
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This has been one of my favorite shows for years. I had hoped for a couple more seasons, but all good things must come to an end. It is good that they are keeping Atlantis going.
It's kind of strange how last week, I had thought that season ten had been going a bit down hill, but now after watching '200' yesterday, and reading the headline this morning, I want nothing more than to have the show go on another ten years...
Holy Crap, now what am I going to do? Go outside and enjoy the sunshine?
Great series, but clearly showing its age and suffering from 'we need to keep inventing more überenemies' syndrome. I shall look forward to seeing how they bow out. Personally, I think it is about time that they found an enemy capable of destroying the earth which actually does it. Might not please some fans, but would make great television.
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, 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".
SG-1 was to be killed just after Atlanis
SG-1 was to be killed after Jack left
Now Again.
But true they now have Farscape people, so the death should be quick!
Please send Claudia "Vala" Black to Atlantis in the last scene, then make her NOT all comic relief (since you already have McKay, m'kay?), but more kick'ass, like we remember her from her introduction into the galaxy.
. . . But I think more shows should end before they get stagnant anyway. I'm not saying that studios should just drop their show entirely, I think they should just make room for new series once they get their point across. I'm happy that SG1 is getting retired as long as they're giving space for atlantis to breathe. The same should have been done for Futurama when The Simpson's got old.
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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.
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The tenth season will more than likely end up redoing time
in order to kill off the vampirish humans in the Pegasus
galaxy, who interbred with monster life-sucking spiders.
Send a team back in time to right before this happens and
nuke the spider planet - bad guys gone. Back in the Present,
just a happy, peaceful galaxy.
Do the same with the ORI, those ascended soul-sucking
beings invading our own Milky Way galaxy. Sic Daniel
Jackson on them, right before they all ascend, to straighten
out their greedy tendencies.
So the final season of SG-1 is about time. And its about
time they did this - I mean, how many times you want to
climb through that ORIFACE?
The only fun we have any more with Stargate, or Atlantis,
for that matter, is their self-parody 200th episode.
I guess I gave up watching SG-1 after they killed off all
the Gou'alds. The ORI just stink as bad guys. Reminds
me of some old teacher I had growing up, trying to bind all
those semi-moral rules on all of us already decent kids....
No fun there any more.
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
"Ten seasons and 215 episodes is an astounding, Guinness World Record-setting accomplishment."
At least the Star Trek producers had the decency to stop running the same old plots into the ground after seven seasons of their shows. SG-1 has been running the same story into the ground, over and over, for far too long. Here's hoping that they're clearing the way for something better - or at least another Galatica, which had the decency to reuse old ideas that had been on the shelf for a couple decades.
...couldn't they have cancelled Atlantis, too?!!
" landed on that living space ship thing with those little yellow robots and those damn crackers.."
The living ( = has biodome) spaceship with little yellow robots? Must be "Silent Running". But this classic film was not known for crackers. I think you confused it with another classic science fiction film known for its people-crackers.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Sci Fi Channel is doing a 7th Heaven and they, as far as I can see, don't have a good show to replace it with.
All they have left to hold dedicated viewers is Battlestar Galactica.
What else is there to watch on that network now?
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Stargate has jumped the shark a number of time. Whats your personal favoriate. Personally the Artic Battle was it for me. Don't get me wrong, it was cool, but it definatly spelled the beginning of the end.
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Just a thought
I mean, how could the SGC continue to operate if Cheyenne Mountain was closed down?
The wife and I enjoy a good sci-fi series (she absolutely loved Firefly!). Is SG-1 and/or Atlantis worth getting on DVD? I guess we could watch reruns on sci-fi, but I'm spoiled - I can't stand watching these things out of order anymore.
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Maybe the DVDs they released were sanitized?
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml
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Cooper: SG-1 will go on
Monday - August 21, 2006 | by Darren Sumner
Don't count Stargate SG-1 out just yet. Though SCI FI Channel has cancelled the long-running series (story), the show's producers are hard at work looking for a new outlet for the story to continue, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.
"As far as the future I can't comment yet because nothing has been confirmed," Cooper said. "What we want to emphasize is that the franchise is not dying. SG-1 will go on in some way. We're just not ready to announce how."
A formal announcement from the studio and the network is expected later this week.
Cooper also emphasizes that, though emotions are running high among Stargate fans who have just learned the news, it is important to keep the show's ratings strong throughout the remainder of its run on SCI FI. "What's most important is that fans don't take out their frustration with SCI FI by not watching," he said. "In fact, what they need to do is watch both SG-1 and Atlantis LIVE and make sure the ratings stay strong.
"That helps prove to other outlets that might be interested in SG-1 that the show is still as strong as we think it is."
Could Stargate SG-1 find its way to yet another network in 2007? Or might the SG-1 team be headed for a TV movie, mini-series, direct-to-video feature
Starting in Season 8, SG-1 really started to go downhill, but I really felt like they were starting to put it back together this season and I was really starting to enjoy it again. When Browder first came onboard, I really felt like that was the end, but I've started liking him and I think the show has really returned to the kind of stories that make it great.
Whether it continues or not, it has been an excellent series and will, for a while at least, have its place as, I believe, the second longest consecutive running sci-fi series in history. It's going to be hard for anyone to beat the original Dr. Who's 26 consecutive seasons, and obviously that isn't going to happen soon. I was kind of hoping SG-1 might give it a run for its money, though.
The creators, writers, and actors who have been involved, old and new, all deserve congratulations for really fine work.
Sci-fi is now going to get a ton and ton of hatemail. I oppose this, I don't like. It takes away the few reasons I have to actually watch a Tv. They are getting fewer and fewer by the years.
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml
It should be noted, as in the above article, that this is not the first time that Stargate SG-1 has had the network cancel. While it may be just blind fanboyism, I trust that there's a good chance that these fairly talented and motivated people may be able to sell Stargate SG-1, in some form, to another media outlet, be it another network or as a movie.
Like most science fiction, I thought this show and the movie which spawned it should have been great-- but weren't. Not nearly. Battlestar Galactica: excellent. Serenity: excellent. Startrek NG, excellent. ...but Stargate? Well, ok, I'll give it another try. There is such a dearth of good sci-fi out there that the thought of 10 seasons of a good show out there for me to watch is kind of thrilling. Netflix, here I come.
But if you are filling me with false hope, I will never forgive you.
Too many similarities to name, but they will suffer the same fate. Voyager was disconnected from the normal species fans wanted to know about. Atlantis is the same. Fans want to follow what is happening here on earth and the surrounding systems not what is happening to some far off land. Some fans will come around just like Voyager fans did, but a major part of the Star Gate culture will die just like it did when TNG ended.
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Maybe they'll finally let the people of earth in on the whole Stargate thing. How the cat hasn't gotten out of the bag by this point is completely beyond my willingingness to suspend my disbelief.
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I'm no Stargate fan, but as a fan of the original "Sliders," classic "Doctor Who," "Mystery Science Theater 3000," and other things Scifi "rescued" with great fanfare before unceremoniously killing off, I feel your pain.
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Why dont they just get it over and done drop BSG and rename themselves SpikeTV2. For only being a short time after the media declared Science Fiction was going mainstream why is there so little of it? Now instead of SG1, Firefly and Farscape we get Wrestling and that who wants to dress up like a tard and pretend your a superhero show. Oh well only another year or so to wait until the new Star Wars series brings on a wealth of copycats, clones and wannabees but by that time I expect that the SciFi channel wont exist anyway.
"Voyager was disconnected from the normal species fans wanted to know about"
What species did fans like the most? Probably Vulcans, Klingons, and Borg would be my guess. "Voyager" was actually the first of the newer series to feature a Vulcan as a regular major character, so they had a connection to a "species fans wanted to know about" that the other shows did not have. They did have a half-Klingon, but no Klingon Empire, so there was a klingon element even if it was less than that in ST:TNG and ST:DS9. Borg? They ended up using them so much in "Voyager" that they outright wore them out.
Where were you when the voynix came?
Seems to me that a movie was hinted at in the 200th episode.
Would this be the first TV series spinoff from a movie to spin off a movie?
is that a troll? i dont watch sg-1 but i watch altantis regularly and it doesnt seem very girly to me. i also never watched dr quim medicine woman either so i might be missing your point.
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I've only been watching for two years or so. I've seen all the past episodes (thanks to Netflix and DVDs). I adored the 200th episode, I thought it was hilarious. I read this last night, and the blurb blamed the lack of Battlestar Galactica (as a lead in) and stiff compitition (Monk on USA, also fantastic). It's really too bad. They had just got a good new badguy (the Ori) too. Plus in the lead in retrospective thing before the 200th episode the actor who plays Daniel mentioned that he was supposed to have something happen to his character this season. Not dieing, not ascending, something inbetween.
Atlantis is good, but I'll miss SG1.
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Star Trek TNG excellent?
Did you actually watch it? Deanna turns into a frog (or immaculately conceives or turns into an old woman or senses hostility), Picard frets over moral issues, Riker is superfluous and Data (Spock Part II) and Wonder Boy Wesley save the day?
TNG had the advantage of being the only SF series on in the late 80s/early 90s. But it was by no means excellent. DS9 was a better Star Trek. B5 had acting that was just as bad, but a better storyline.
SG-1 is good. Not Battlestar Galactica good, but a good thing to watch.
The Canadian Government has helped SG-1 production in Vancouver with a whole whack of incentives. Maybe the govt can get the Space Network in Canada together with some federal funds to produce season 11.
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I'm dedicating it to the creators of Stargate SG-1.
I won't repeat people saying that it was time, etc, but they are right. Instead, I'd just like to say that it was great entertainment. The occasional technobabble part was perfectly balanced out by the show not taking itself too seriously.
So, thanks for the great show!
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They need to cancel both of them since the average Atlantis script is simply a crappy copy of a previous SG1 episode.
Battlestar Galactica isn't scifi. It's a soap opera.
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The good Doctor http//www.scifi.com/doctorwho/ is coming back in season 2 Sept 29. I guess the Doctor will be taking SG-1s time slot on fridays. Hopefully this will lead to the BBC making more than 13 eps per season now that they'll have American dollars lining their pockets
I really like the show. I'd watched it sporadically whenever I saw it was on for several years, but just before season 7, I started torrenting the previous episodes, and watched them all in sequence. The first two seasons were alright, and it started picking up new and interesting story arcs in seasons 3 through 5. Six felt a little rehashed, and seven picked up with Anubis. Eight is where it legitimately should have ended, with the destruction of Anubis and the ending of virtually every side plot.
With that said, season 9 actually surprised me with how well they managed to do, even with Richard Dean Anderson leaving, Don Davis being gone, and Amanda Tapping out of commission for a few months. Ben, Beau, and Claudia didn't feel right at first, but I gradually came to like the direction the show took; and at least there's always still Daniel and Teal'c. Plus, the Ori have been a pretty damned interesting new enemy. However, I'm glad they're cancelling the show. I'd rather them finish the Ori story reasonably quickly and end the show on a moderately high note (probably not as high as season 8, but high nonetheless) rather than dragging it on and on. While it's commendable how they've handled the transition to the new cast, it's not something that can be kept up indefinitely.
No comment.
Stargate is in the same league as 'The Matrix' and 'Dr Who', and is better than Firefly for scope.
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.
Notice the infobox on the right side of that article. The original series aired for only eighty episodes. The original Stargate television series just aired its 200th episode. I do believe 200 is greater than 80.
I thought the last episode made it obvious?
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Your handle is "ginger unicorn" and you watch SG-Atlantis? I think you just proved my point ;)
geez damn it this sucks.. ;(
i was having a good day then i saw this articles title and it felt like a friend had just died
they just put on their 200th episode and all this talk about how the show was still going strong and yadda yadda.. now they are cancelled? wtf..
stargate atlantis SUCKS i dont even watch that crap.. wtf how can stargate atlantis go on without SG-1..? is earth gonna get blown up in the series? then atlantis is on their own?
or will they have cameos from the SG-1 group every once in a while?
what will happen to siler?
I'm a pretty staunch critic when it comes to Sci-Fi.
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...
This may have been mentioned before, but there's been some talk in interviews and whatnot that Shanks might leave SG-1 anyway to join the Atlantis cast (where, logically, he belongs anyway). Jackson is my favorite, and this would at least give me some hope for Atlantis.
Star Trek only ran for a few seasons, IIRC. Seventy-some episodes or so? The only way Star Trek can be considered the longest running sci-fi show is if you chain all the shows in the Star Trek franchise together. Apples to Oranges.
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What ellse is there to watch on the network? Why, Atlantis, of course. But you are right, Friday nights are going to suck. I am either going to have to finally get a life, or start watching Most Haunted on TLC.
yet another sci-fi show canceled before its time
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Seeing a bunch of rednecks wrestling on SciFi the other night merely confirmed that it has sold out to the network morons.
Here's hoping some network moron is shown the door when this turns into just another 'Farscape/Firefly' SNAFU. Too bad the crew will have moved on to new things before SciFi realizes their ratings just tanked on Friday night.
After the crapfest that was season 9 and now season 10, I say good riddance. I used to be a huge Stargate fan, but after they brought in Mitchell as a replacement for O'Neill, and the 1-dimensional yawnfest that is the Ori, the show has just kept going downhill (and the ratings with it). Don't take me wrong, I think Ben Browder is a great actor, and I loved Farscape even more than I used to like Stargate, but the scriptwriters for SG-1 season 9&10 just plain suck. The way things are now I think it's better to let the series out of it's misery. IMO this is one case where the network actually made a good decision, because the only ones left watching SG-1 nowadays is the hardcore, borderline fundamentalist SG-1 fans, and those who want 'Brainless Action series XYZ' in space. I give Atlantis one more season, and only because Rodney Mckay is still occasionally funny.
Speaking as a Sci Fi femail - Battlestart galactica is fucking awesome, and Atlantis is painfully lame. If they didn't wedge it between SG1 and Battlestar Galactica, I'd probabaly never watch it. As it is, I skip over it in favor of dinner.
Ah.... thinking like this are why little fan boys like you don't get laid.
I suspect that the writers will bring in Rygel to replaces the Asgard as the Asgard clearly want too much money and the show will continue.
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The seeds of crappiness were already showing in Firefly: Heart of Gold, anyone?
If Serenity is any guide, I'm thrilled Firefly ended abruptly.
That's always been a strength of a lot of anime and a fair amount of BBC programming:
it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. They don't try and string it out for as long as
possible. The ones that do suffer the same fate as US shows.
I read an interview with the producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation season six,
and she said that they had the ep they were shooting, one they had pretty much written,
and some basic ideas for the next one and that was how they went through the whole
season. I don't like Start Trek anyways, but any show would have trouble being of high
quality under those circumstances.
Always leave 'em wanting more, right?
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Is any US Sci-Fi show (or any show whatsoever) ever going to beat Doctor Who (or Coronation Street)?
I have never watched an entire episode of 'Battlestar Galactica' myself. Watched a bit, didn't like it, so I stopped.
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Stargate really should have ended with the defeat of the Goa'uld. That would have been an awesome and worthy end to the series.
My wife and I are big fans of Stargate. I think they did an amazing job. They took an idea from a movie that was only so-so, and they ran with it and made it into something infinitely greater. In fact, we bought all the seasons that they produced on DVD so far.
But we're not going to buy last season's DVD set. It seems that either the creative well has run dry, or that the writers just aren't capable of coming up with original bad guys anymore. At any rate, this past season was a total dud and I doubt that I'll be waiting with bated breath for this last season.
I guess that's show business for you. Just keep churning out the same old stuff, not until you get the big dramatic ending, but until the grosses start to drop.
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Yes! Somebody besides me finally gets it...
...quicker, easier, more seductive the darkside is...but more powerful, it is not.
Could this mean that we could be getting season 28 of Doctor Who? There is going to be a gap in the schedule, and Doctor Who would be a perfect fit.
... because Cheyenne Mountain is going to be shut down. The oversite committee finally got their way. Of course, this is probably just some "Trust" plot to keep us in the dark... I hear though that there is a new series starting up, "Wormhole Xtreme!"
215 episodes of SG-1 yet firefly was killed off after just 1/2 a series....
Someone needs to go in and kick TV execs in the arse, let us for one divert funds from reality tv...
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Don't you guys watch the news? They are closing down Cheyenne Mountain and moving the stargate. I bet the Russians are taking it over.
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.... since Richard Dean Anderson left. One of the reasons why I started watching SG-1 is because of how he played the character of Jack O'Neill. He never took himself (or sometimes the situations that he found himself in) too seriously and always was good at breaking up the tension of some episodes with a good joke (eg: "That's between you and your god. Oh, wait a minute. You are your god. That's a problem."). I found it hard to get into the series after that and got addicted to the re-runs prior to 2005.
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Unlike some of the wniney phanbois who couldn't get over the fact that Richard Dean Anderson left the show of his own accord, I have enjoyed the show through all the seasons. I was *glad* they finally resolved the System Lords storyline. Those guys were getting old, and the Ori are a nice new uber-enemy. I guess it helps that I was a Farscape fan, and Browder and Black seem to be having fun with their current roles.
But it's good for them to end on their own terms. They can have a proper final episode and wrap up all the loose ends (unless they plan some movies down the road).
I agree with you on this point. I can't believe some of the things that get the green light for TV these days. There can never be enough Sci-fi.
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Sure SG-1 is very good. I still think it has gone past its "best before" date. Let this show rest and the resources and very good actors, directors and producers start new shows.
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Stargate isn't going to end. It's just ascending! It'll be back. Just ask Dr. Jackson...
It reminds me of the time when there used to be a show called Vengeance Unlimited on UPN-13. This show was on every Thursday night. It was pretty much the only show my family watched, and it always brought my family together on Thursday evenings. So what did the idiot execs at UPN-13 do? They cancelled it so they could replace it with America's Funniest Pets, a stupid, retarded, dumb, idiotic show that has no merit and is a waste of television airwaves.
So this is what they're doing now with SG1. They'll probably replace it with something really retarded.
You know the 'show within the show' that creates plausible deniability for the existence of the Stargate program? For some time I have been thinking that this might be very real... just like when Seinfeld did his 'show within the show' idea. Now we find out within weeks of each other that Cheyenne Mountain is shutting down, and Stargate is cancelled.
Coincidence?
I am an SG-1 fan, but the last 2 seasons have been poor. It isn't just that Richard Dean Anderson has left, but the show tied up nicely at the end of season 8 and should have ended there. Actors that wanted to stay, could have migrated to Atlantis, like Worf to DS-9.
My biggest beef, if there always has to be this epic war, and each time they win, they have to come up with a more powerful enemy. This has happened to the ridiculous extreme till they are literally fighting "gods". This is a bad sign, a sign that they are running out of ideas. This is the sort of thing DS-9, a very sub-par substitute for TNG, did to boost its ratings. They had a 3 year war between the federation and dominion.
A good sci-fi show should be able to sustain interesting plots without the constant backdrop of annihilation. And when you keep replacing old enemies with more powerful ones, it degrades the battle with the old and the new enemies become ridiculously powerful after a while.
I hope they wrap up this Ori crap soon and never return to the ascending being junk. However that seems unlikely, because they have just introduced a new antagonist into Atlantis. I guess the Wraith aren't enough to deal with.
I think some of us are a little too US-centric here: The Doctor has been around far longer ('63-'89, '05-present)
Sorry, but I never got into the show. It's too much action and not enough intellect for me. Give me the first two seasons of Sliders any day. At least there, the intellect was worshipped far more than fire power. Fire power is of little use when you're trapped inside a puzzle. And we are all trapped in that life IS a puzzle.
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Everyonce in a great great while I have some small hope of seeing good TV and justifying that stupid cable bill. Then the Scifi channel pulls this idiocy. So when is the BattleStar Galactica cancellation notice coming? Perhaps they will find somemore washed up or also ran wrestling leaugues to show. Well at least maybe they will find another channel for the show.
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And coming in the Spring the Harry Dresden tv show.
It's still out there, but anyone that thought it was really gonna be mainstream, is a dolt, I'd say.
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actually a girl called me that and it was the last thing i heard before having to come up with a slashdot handle, but now you mention it, it is rather effeminate and also quite ironic that someone with such a name would question your assessment of SG-Atlantis. :)
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Mostly because they let the producers of Stargate SG-1 at least complete the season now in production. One remembers the fiasco of Farscape and how they cancelled the show by leaving way too many storylines dangling from the completed Season 4.
Get a browser with a spell checker, don't ask slashdot for one.
gah, I hate that show.
BTW, rating are DOWN which is why it may be going away. It's not even on the top 15, so to say it's very popular would be wrong.
It is not 'going out on top' Sienfield went out on top(another show I loath, but for different reasons.)
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I didn't think Cheyenne Mountain was actually being permanently shut down.
This Denver Post article and this Washington Post article say Cheyenne Mountain is being put on a sort of standby status with minimal personnel until the U.S. government figures out how the facilty fits into the changing priorties of our national defense strategy. The main justification given was that a nuclear missile attack from Russia or China is very unlikely. This seems a bit short-sighted to me, as there are other potentially dangerous nuclear powers emerging right now.
I find this rather ironic, since in the pilot episode of SG-1, the whole Stargate program had been mothballed and the facility was only being manned by a skeleton crew - until the Goa'uld decided to pay us a little visit. Hmmm... Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Let's have some more Firefly.
I have no idea who owns the rights to the series (Does Fox still have them?), but Sci-Fi should gobble up Firefly and stick it in the gaping hole where SG-1 used to be. There'd be yet more fans, yet more of a convincing audience to make a sequel series, and if you're too damn cheap to buy the DVDs actually give people a chance to watch the series.
Perl, n. A language spoken by Eskimos.
Season 2 of Doctor Who aired a few months ago. Not in the US, I grant you.
They've already filmed the Christmas episode for this year, and are starting filming on Season 3 now, but I'm pretty certain that it will be a 13 episode season once again.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
AFIAK, the Asgard don't have any genders anymore since they reproduce through cloning. So they don't need to "cover up their shame". Also, the Asgard live in a temperature controlled environment (and don't seem to get out much), so there's little need to cover for warmth. They don't seem to do any hard labour themselves (e.g. mining) so they don't need much protective gear or clothing to prevent them from getting dirty. Finally, they don't have the need for "us versus them" military uniforms since they have one government.
Yes, when they came for MTV, I stood by and said nothing. Instead of music videos, MTV started airing game shows, reality shows, and many other things seemingly unrelated to music.
When they came for TechTV, assuring the public that they would keep all the great programming that made the station unique. Soon they had fired many of the people that made TechTV so great, and began showing Man Show repeats, evolving into "Bling Bling" TV.
So now they come for the Sci Fi Channel, bringing fake PG-13 rated wrestling with the ECW and cancelling the most beloved original programming on TV to reach for a more "Extreme" audience.
Bonnie Hammer should rot in hell.
I assume I'm looking at you stoically...
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
And thanks for all the snakes. Will be missing SG-1
It was inevitable. DOD is planning on shutting down Cheyenne Mountain and moving the (non-Stargate) operations to Peterson AFB. How can you film SG-1 episodes without access to the gate room?
Probably some alien virus got loose in there and they have to shut everything down.
(For the humor impaired: no, I'm not serious. If I were serious I'd have to explain how they're actually moving the Stargate to a formerly abandoned Titan missile silo complex on the plains out east of Denver, and how the scenery around there is way too boring to use as the locale for a TV series.)
-- Alastair
Good Vs Evil was a buddy-cop style show about, IIRC, a guy who died, and was then resurrected to work thwarting demons who tried to make deals for people's souls. Wasn't half bad, from what little I saw of it.
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Seems this is the trend, when a sequal is created, go kill the original series I wonder if the big descision makers might be stuck thinking in the box that says "When the golden goose lays two golden eggs, we gotta throw the first one away. * "Oh we can't have two shows about the same thing, it will compete and confuse the viewers." I credit viewers with more wit than that and these shows don't seem to compete, they complement each other. Sure, the Ori make great villains. Some folks who are villains are simply that because they themselves are trapped and don't realize the sheer malice of who they think are their benefactors. I agree, with the idea that the good guys win more, but its just a fact that people don't like to lose, and I don't like to lose the chance to watch BOTH series! I would urge the producers to rethink why they are dropping SG1. Is it for valid reasons such as the actors and other sg1 folk want to move on, or because they are running out of ideas or is it just because they have come to believe that two golden eggs can't exist at one time?
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The Sci-fi wire has confirmed that Doctor Who will be back on September 29th with a two hour version of the "Christmas Invasion", and i'm guess the rest of Series 2 in the following weeks
Don't worry about him. He has a spinoff series in the works as a detective.
I'd watch it...
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Marry off O'Neil and Carter.
They can put Daniel over on SGA if he needs a job, but for the fan's sake marry of Carter and O'Neil.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
...called life?
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Without the SG-1 lead-in, Atlantis is gonna die a horrible yet well-deserved death.
Eureka is fun, though. I like the new Dr Who quite a lot, but I'm not willing to wait a whole season just to see it on Sci-Fi. Fortunately, I've already watched the latest season via Bittorrent. Maybe they could show all 13 eps of the new season and be in time to play the new season in time with its appearance in the UK? And what's up with a measley 13 ep season? Lazy bastards.
I've been tempted to stop watching Eureka just to avoid the teaser ads for ECW following it, that's how much I hate wrestling. I can't even watch Kaiju Big Battel (which is what Sci-Fi Channel should be airing; let G4 have ECW).
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
While I pine softly for the departure of SG1, as others have said, it's time. Now... Move Eureka into it's timeslot. It's got the same vibe, fun, irreverent, dumbed down to some degree, but it's got a great vibe to it that I haven't felt since the X-Files.
Either that, or... oh. Duh. They're making room for the 2nd BSG series. nm.
What if it is just turtles all the way down?
nooooooooooooooo!!! NOTE: It wouldn't let me use caps, or a bigger "noooooooo". Way to stifle my feelings filters!
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...we could have one decent show instead of two medium to poor. Am I the only one that was truly disappointed with last weeks episodes? The entire 200th episode of SG-1 was no episode at all, and the Atlantis story I had figured out before the intro movie, and I wasn't in the least bit in doubt she'd survive it.
The whole 10th SG-1 season is bordering on ridiculous, they're chasing Merlin's weapon, but like the Ancient in SG:Atlantis said "When the fleet of wraith ships came, I reached out with my mind and with a single thought destroyed them all." or something to that effect. That's what the Ori would do to Earth/mankind too if threatened by such a weapon, Ancients or not.
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"I believe the title was 'Silent Running'. 'Soylent Green' was a different movie with Charton Heston "Soylent Green is People!".
Maybe you can help me out with another show I seem to remember. I can't find the exact title on Google. It had a family in a flying saucer crashed in a jungle they could not get out of. They had to deal with an angry green guy in a cave, and there was a traitor on the ship who always tried to sell the little boy and the blonde girl with pigtails to any passing weirdo that came along (Vikings, a tall caveman, the Flying Dutchman, a green lady who sang and drank fuel, a balloon guy, etc.)
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I live in Sweden and I dont think there are any channel that i can subscribe to in Sweden that are broadcasting Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Is there any way i can be able to watch the show without doing illegal downloading of the episodes? I find it very interesting since isn't the movie companies taking our culture for hostage when they say they own the right and don't want to sell it? Whats wrong with my Swedish money by the way?
I would prefer a better solution putting some pressure on the movie companies. If we say that they only own the right to the movie as long as they provide a flexible non monopolistic way for the customer to buy the stuff (no stupid DRM etc, plain divx, mpeg etc). Otherways anyone is free to upload the episodes/movies/soundtracks to any p2p network without risking legal issues. This is to ensure that people can get hold of the culture.
I find that a good tradeoff. What about u?
Guess they ran out of plot. Hey it was a great run.
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So... where's my Halibut? My brother-in-law, my sister and I started watching the seasons in order around a month ago - Netflick rocks! - and now they're canning it?! Bastards!
>Great series, but clearly showing its age and suffering from 'we need to keep
>inventing more überenemies' syndrome. I shall look forward to seeing how they
>bow out. Personally, I think it is about time that they found an enemy capable
>of destroying the earth which actually does it. Might not please some fans, but
>would make great television.
You mean like Battlestar Galactica?
Gee, seems to me that they STARTED that way. What a kicker. Of course, the ORIGINAL BG wasn't "great television" from my point of view, but I think the new series is pretty good.
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Well I suppose SG-1 was getting old. Although why would you introduce a new vilain if you are tiried of the show? Anyway, hope they are not counting on Galactica alone to boost their ratings.
they should be killing atlantis. what a fetid pile of poo that is...
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but no, they kill the good one and keep the crap. oh well, i think mansquito is on again
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unless it was on purpose, it's Crichton, or see-rich-ton, by your own link.
Longest running *NORTH AMERICAN* scifi show. The good doctor is British, no?
I think some of us are a little too US-centric here: The Doctor has been around far longer ('63-'89, '05-present)
They said "American Television". Just like when talking about Doctor Who one tends to say the longest airing sci-fi series. I don't know what the longest airing series is off the top of my head... the first thing that comes to mind is "Days of our lives" starting in 1965 and so far as i'm aware still in production. Apparently they have just done their 10,000th episode in feb 2005, which is hard to believe but I guess they produce 5 episodes a week for over 40 years. Soaps tend to be disqualified from such references, but 40+ years and 10,000+ episodes is worthy of note. Thanks to wiki I now know Guiding light beets even this going on 15,000 TV episodes not to speak of radio episodes. NBCs "Meet the press" has been airing since 1947, granted it's non-fiction but worthy of note. Also worthy of note is BBC's "Blue Beter", a children's program running between 1958 and 1995.
Doctor Who probally wins in the sci-fi catagory, and apparently Stargate sg-1 wins in the US sci-fi catagory.
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>The question is which has had more episodes....Dr. Who or SG-1. Also it should be taken into :)
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>consideration that SG-1 episodes are hour, vs 1/2 hour.
OK, Mr. Coward, you asked
SG-1 episodes are 41-43 minutes after commercials are removed. Doctor Who's last two seasons
were the same length, apart from one or two 55 minute episodes, counting the xmas special.
The last shown episode was part two of the 181st *story*. Stories in Doctor Who 2005-2006
have been 1-2 episodes, while the previous eras had 3-7 episodes per story. There are also some
minor spin-offs and vaguely related material.
The Wikipedia entry sums it up pretty well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Who_s
So SG-1 is the longest-running North-American sci-fi series, but the doctor beats them
on length, number of episodes and total playing time.
I guess we'll be seeing Pierre Bernard on Conan again... he's gonna be PISSED!
Given the latest story line, so does SG1
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Now that they're owned by NBC, maybe they'll bring back Misfits of Science. Now that was good sci-fi comedy killed too early!
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
Kill off Farscape, Kill off firefly, now kill off SG-1.. The reasons that many people even bother watching their channel..
What are these morons thinking?
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Back when I use to watch TV, they put "Crossing Over With John Edward" on the schedule. While it turned my stomach to watch that dreck, I realized the programming producers were making a thinly veiled statement placing it on the Sci[ence]Fi[ction] channel.
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remember the original sg-1 website? That was ultra cool! I was a major General - then they closed the sucker down. I even signed a petition to bring it back... *shakes fist* Dirty Commies!
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4400 (okay, not SciFi channel and not the smartest show but it can have its moments, like the messiah).
Eureka (funny premise, funny characters, funny story and it can even be interesting).
Battlestar Galactica. Thats period, as in a TV series that top just about anything anywhere.
Atlantis. Its getting better and better. Thats good.
Now the wrestling thing someone should get repeatedly kicked in the nuts for, preferably by one of their own wrestlers. But I digress.
Battlestar Galactica alone has created a franchise that justifies the SciFi channels existence.
And who knows, maybe they'll fill its spot with something really interesting? Because if they keep adding wrestling programs or other gay men in tights (*eye the super heros*) I'll just drop cable and torrent.
Quack, quack.
Due to the announcement of the shutting down of NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain in this Slashdot announcement on June 30th. It is plainly obvious, Stargate-SG1 cannot continue without Air Force facilities!
How's THAT for a conspiracy theory?
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And it's O'Neill with two l's. Unless you're talking about the boring suicidal one played by Kurt Russell.
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
They ask that we fans send a tissue box to SciFi channel!
Jack sent one through the Stargate in the first episode to see if Daniel was still alive!
My box is ready to go, it's a Kleenex Traveller!
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Here's the obligatory Paul Gadzikowsi cartoon about the cancellation.
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I'll see your Doctor Who and raise you a Blake's 7. All decent SF on TV has had to cope with a budget tighter than a gnat's chuff. Coincidentally, that means it was made by the BBC.
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