'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."

Comments

It's just like...

[Nick Fury]

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? :)

So Long and Thanks

[Marillion]

Well, if you're going to go out, go out on top.

By the way, if anyone from the staff, crew or cast reads this: Thanks for ten wonderful years.

Re:So Long and Thanks

[FrYGuY101]

Personally, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I don't like where the show's been heading. The Ori aren't good villains. I don't like the concept, and the execution has been even worse. They're fighting gods, for all intents and purposes. It's the same problem as Superman: you're constantly getting stronger because instead of writing within the same levels of powers, writers take the easy out and make a challenge that is overcome by making the protagonist(s) stronger, instead of writing for the same strengths, but dealing with choices they make and the consequences they face. On the other hand, the characters are well fleshed out, well written, and the show is still good in SPITE of these crappy villains. The relationships are among the best written on TV right now, in my mind only second to Battlestar Galactica, maybe tying with House. I only hope that they can end the series as well as it would have ended had it not been renewed after Season 7 like they thought.

Re:So Long and Thanks

[toad3k]

You nailed it. This is my biggest problem with science fiction today. They give too much power to the good guys, and then they have to scale up the bad guys to compensate. Eventually the battle reaches a point where you can't even relate to it anymore. The matrix committed this error along with nearly every anime I've ever seen.

My other problem is that eventually you end up at a point where some genius with access to the script decides to, for example, destroy a sun in an easily repeatable way, and then for the rest of the series, blowing up a sun is a solution for every problem but has to be ignored. It is short sighted and every writer should read their script and look for these obvious and completely avoidable future plot holes.

Better to burn out or fade away?

[Digitus1337]

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.

Sci-Fi Does Dumb Again

[Cpt_Kirks]

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'"...

Re:nudity

[kalirion]

Oh, I thought they were talking about the Asgard (shameless bastards).

Viewer Req.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

surprised that I'm sad to see it go

[sammy baby]

Okay, let me say it up front: Stargate SG-1 isn't a great show. In fact, most of the time I'd be hard-pressed to say it's even a good show. But I'm sad to see it go, and in retrospect here are a couple of notes:

1. Did anyone else pick this part up?

"Stargate SG-1," based on the 1994 movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader, spent its first five years on Showtime -- which annoyed the show's producers by demanding full-frontal nudity -- before migrating to Sci Fi.

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:Contract costs or ???

[Anonymous Coward]

It could also be there simply isn't much more story to tell. A lot of fans will agree that there wasn't much point to the last two seasons. The main story threads were cleaned up at the end of season 8 (in an episode entitled "Threads" no less). Introducing the new Ori really took away from the series, as there wasn't much originality in how they were used. I am looking forward to seeing Morena Baccarin on Friday, but in my mind that has been the only highlight of the last two seasons (and the few good laughs I got from 200).

In general, all good things should come to an end (especially with an episode entitled "All Good Things...") and it actually isn't that uncommon to end a series at its height.

Everytime you threaten to cancel SG-1...

[saboola]

.. Teal'c kills a kitten

Just a thought

it was inevitable

[Yonder Way]

I mean, how could the SGC continue to operate if Cheyenne Mountain was closed down?

The show will go on

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/08/cooper_isg-1 i_will_go_on.shtml
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 ... or the big screen? Stay with GateWorld for the latest developments.

Re:nudity

[Zenaku]

Well, the Asgaard were originally much more human-like in appearance, and came to look as they do now because of millenia of genetic deterioration as a side-effect of the cloning process they use to maintain their numbers. My hypothesis, therefore, is that they have developed a painful hereditary skin condition that chaffes them terribly.

Re:We heard this before

[TCQuad]

In SciFi headquarters, not too long ago...

Exec 1: "Now that we have Atlantis, we can cancel SG1!"
Exec 2: "Oh, I couldn't bear to do that! I don't want to make Richard Dean Anderson cry again."
Exec 1: "Well, we could wait until he leaves and then cancel SG1."
Exec 2: "No, then he'd get all smug about how SG1 was really 'his' show."
Exec 1: "How about replacing him and then canceling the show after a season or two?"
Exec 2: "Brilliant! But where could we possibly find an actor willing to work on a loved but inevitably and obviously doomed series?"
Exec 1: "That guy from Farscape?"
Exec 2: "Perfect!"

Re:Atlantis

[Lord Apathy]

You know you can have a life on friday night and still watch your geek shows. There are two devices that let you do this by recording the shows so you can watch them later.

One of them is called a V-C-R and you can pick one up at a flea market for a few bucks. They first got popular back in the '70 when people relized they could watch porn at home. Or if they had a camera they could make their own porn. (I wouldn't recommend the home made to anyone though. Its usually just 5 mins of some dude poorly focues bare ass bouncing.) It works by letting you record the show you want to watch on a very fragle tape like substance in pour quality.

The other is called a D-V-R. It works pretty much the same way as a VCR but instead of tape, it uses an expensive and fragle highly spinning disk of death. One of the best things about a dvr is after a while it will start suggesting shows for you to watch. You might find that it has better taste in TV than you do. I know mine does.