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Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced
Presence2 noted that MGM announced that the Stargate franchise will migrate to the big screen, carrying with it the ending of the last two season's Ori plot-line. The plot summaries listed in the article don't seem like anything surprising... one even has a wacky time-line slip-up plot. Very original for scifi ;) I'll still watch it.
As stupid as that may sound, it seems to be the only way in which SG1 can continue. Due to their contract with SciFi, they can't resume the show on another network / channel after they got axed.
One of the problems they have, is that Stargate still has an impressive fanbase, which really can't just be told "No more for you", so rather than finishing the SG1 storyline, they have opted to move it to TV (or Direct to DVD) Movies.
I personally think it's a shame it ended up this way, although it wont stop me watching, It's a great show with a great cast.
The "SG1 movie" was the pilot episode (originally aired on Showtime), thrown onto a DVD.
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The thing is, they have a plot device (the stargate), that makes just about any other plot feasible. While the longer story arcs are interesting, I've often more enjoyed the occasional one-off episodes that have no bearing on the continuity of the series.
Instead of epic battles between good and evil with the fate of the whole galaxy in the balance, how about just a group of explorers traveling to a planet that they know nothing about. Maybe it takes an episode or two to tell the whole story, but whatever happens doesn't have to fit into some larger arc. The long-term development happens more within the characters themselves than within the plot-line of the fictional universe. I know that serial episodes with lots of twists and cliffhangers are all the rage right now, but that's not the only way to run a show.
If I want to watch a show about fancy new technologies being invented at the last minute to save the day, there are years of star trek I can go through. Stargate is much more interesting when they don't try to copy that, and instead when they show a group of people from our time and culture exploring weird things, and interacting with stuff they don't understand.
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